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SUMMARY:Intro to Ethics with Adi Kuntsman and Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem
DESCRIPTION:GE 2.06 and on Teams. \n\n\n\nWhat are Research Ethics and what do you need to know to complete your Ethos application? This session is designed for first year PhD researchers who are preparing to submit an Ethos application. It will cover the basics and beyond.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/intro-to-ethics-with-adi-kuntsman-and-abu-sadat-muhammad-sayem/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251119T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251119T143000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114234Z
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SUMMARY:Practice-based Conversation with Sara Davies: Mapping Methods and Methodologies
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Library (tbc) and on Teams. \n\n\n\nInformal staff-led conversation series\, organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon and hosted by the Poetry Library\, with a focus on practice-based research. In this session\, Sara Davies\, Lecturer in Art Theory and Practice at the Manchester School of Art will lead a discussion focused on methodologies in art and design practice-based research. This will be ideal for first years who are still thinking through their methodology\, but you also might find it useful if you are at a later stage in your PhD and are returning to write or edit methodology informed parts of your thesis. \n\n\n\nPlease come to this session prepared with ideas for interesting readings or reflection on art and design practice-based methodologies. Sara also wanted to encourage you to read this chapter before the session so that we could discuss it:Vear\, C. (2022) The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group. Available at: http://public.eblib.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=6818293 (Accessed: June 17\, 2025). \n\n\n\nChapter 3.1 Methods pp 468-492 \n\n\n\nEmail Nicola if you’d like to come in person\, as we usually provide refreshments.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/practice-based-conversation-with-sara-davies-mapping-methods-and-methodologies/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251114T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251114T170000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114017Z
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SUMMARY:Writers’ Retreat with Chad McDonald
DESCRIPTION:in-person only in GE 2.06. \n\n\n\nWriters’ Retreats give PhD students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet\, structured\, and supportive atmosphere. The retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald\, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. You will need to arrive ‘ready to write’ but may\, of course\, bring any materials (laptops\, books\, data\, etc.) with you for the whole-day session. There will be some short discussion around good writing practice and how to approach your writing as a professional task\, but much of the day will be devoted to writing without distraction. Whatever your writing project (e.g.\, annual report\, paper\, thesis)\, the retreat will provide a space away from your office or home in which to concentrate and reflect on the process of writing. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/writers-retreat-with-chad-mcdonald-2/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme,Writer's Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251105T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251105T173000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114029Z
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SUMMARY:Navigating your PhD as an International Student
DESCRIPTION:GE 2.06 and on Teams. \n\n\n\nStarting a PhD can be challenging for any new researcher\, but this event is an opportunity to reflect on what’s unique about the international and overseas experience. Chaired by Jea Na\, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art\, you will also hear from current PhD researchers who are a little further along in their research journey – Domenic Suntrapak and Sumi Sivapalan. They will share their experience of starting out and navigating the PhD from an international perspective\, and you will also be able to ask any questions you might have.  \n\n\n\nThere will also be tea\, coffee\, snacks\, and a chance to chat and get to know new and returning doctoral researchers. If you’re a returning student we encourage you to come along and meet some of the new starters.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/navigating-your-phd-as-an-international-student/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251104T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251104T120000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114041Z
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SUMMARY:Applying for DCAHF Funding
DESCRIPTION:Online only on Teams. \n\n\n\nThree times a year the Doctoral College Arts and Humanities Faculty invites applications to its Research Degree Fund. The Fund gives you the opportunity to apply for up to £200 to support your research\, whether by attending a conference\, visiting an archive\, attending courses\, residencies or workshops\, or organising an event that will benefit the wider PhD community. \n\n\n\nIn this online session Antony Rowland will cover the basics of how to apply to the Fund\, sharing some tips on what makes a good application. Feel free to come with any questions you might have.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/applying-for-dcahf-funding/
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251030T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251030T123000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114051Z
CREATED:20250913T124033Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Library exhibition meeting with Martin Kratz
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Library and on Teams. \n\n\n\nThis meeting is for PhD researchers who have applied to exhibit with the Poetry Library in the PhD exhibition in 2026 and have been selected to show their work. This will be an opportunity to talk about plans for the exhibition and discuss the curatorial aims and ambitions of the project.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/poetry-library-exhibition-meeting-with-martin-kratz/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251023T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251023T120000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114102Z
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SUMMARY:Ethics as Process with Adi Kuntsman and Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem
DESCRIPTION:Ethics training aimed at students from year two of the PhD onwards and staff members. This session dedicated to questions of research will discuss the role of ethics while preparing your approval application; when carrying out your research; and when writing up. We will also address practical questions about the application process\, and have room for discussion of any questions or issues that you may want to address or need support with.  \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be run by Dr Adi Kuntsman \, the Faculty Chair of Ethics\, and Dr Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem\, the PhD Liaison from the Faculty Ethics Committee.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/ethics-as-process-with-adi-kuntsman-and-abu-sadat-muhammad-sayem/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251015T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251015T130000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114112Z
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SUMMARY:Arts & Humanities Induction
DESCRIPTION:GE 2.06 and on Teams. \n\n\n\nThe induction will be run as a hybrid event which you can attend either in-person or online\, followed by an in-person lunch from 1.00pm – 2.00pm. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to meet academic staff\, fellow doctoral research students\, and to learn more about the interdisciplinary community in the Arts and Humanities. During the induction\, you’ll find out about your faculty and what support is available to you both academically and pastorally\, including the training programme that will run this academic year.  \n\n\n\nPlease send an email to Dr Derek Bousfield to let us know whether you can attend\, and if you would like to attend in-person\, please include your dietary requirements for the lunch.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/arts-humanities-induction/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251013T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251013T170000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114121Z
CREATED:20250913T122601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T114121Z
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SUMMARY:Writers’ Retreat with Chad McDonald
DESCRIPTION:In person only in GE 2.06. \n\n\n\nWriters’ Retreats give PhD students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet\, structured\, and supportive atmosphere. The retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald\, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. You will need to arrive ‘ready to write’ but may\, of course\, bring any materials (laptops\, books\, data\, etc.) with you for the whole-day session. There will be some short discussion around good writing practice and how to approach your writing as a professional task\, but much of the day will be devoted to writing without distraction. Whatever your writing project (e.g.\, annual report\, paper\, thesis)\, the retreat will provide a space away from your office or home in which to concentrate and reflect on the process of writing. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/writers-retreat-with-chad-mcdonald/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme,Writer's Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251008T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251008T143000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114130Z
CREATED:20250913T121610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T114130Z
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SUMMARY:Practice-based Conversation with Susannah Thompson: Writing About Creative Practice
DESCRIPTION:GE 2.06 and on Teams. \n\n\n\nInformal staff-led conversation series\, organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon and hosted by the Poetry Library\, with a focus on practice-based research. In this session\, ‘Writing about Creative Practice’\, Susannah Thompson (Professor of Art History and Criticism) will lead a discussion aimed at practitioners seeking to articulate their practice and the forms they might choose to work with to do that. \n\n\n\nThis session will be in GE 2.06\, not the Poetry Library. \n\n\n\nEmail Nicola if you’d like to come in person\, as we usually provide refreshments.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/practice-based-conversation-with-susannah-thompson-writing-about-creative-practice/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250916T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250916T143000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114140Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T114140Z
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SUMMARY:Practice-based Conversation with Helen McGhie
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Library roundtable and on Teams. \n\n\n\nInformal staff-led conversation series\, organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon and hosted by the Poetry Library\, with a focus on practice-based research. In this session Helen McGhie\, Senior Lecturer in Photography with SODA\, will lead a discussion on creative reflective practice as a methodology and initiate some discussion around the differences between arts-based research and art-world practice. \n\n\n\nEmail Nicola if you’d like to come in person\, as we usually provide refreshments.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/practice-based-conversation-with-helen-mcghie/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250916T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250916T173000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114150Z
CREATED:20250901T121616Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Kinship Studies - International Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Event Title: Queer Kinship Studies – International Perspectives. \n\n\n\nDate and time: Tuesday\, September 16 · 9:30am – 5:30pm GMT+1 \n\n\n\nLocation: BS G.36 – Lecture Theatre 3 (North Atrium)\, Business School\, Manchester Metropolitan University \n\n\n\nAbout this event: \n\n\n\nThis free one-day symposium will debate under-explored themes in Queer Kinship Research\, including reproductive technologies\, consensual non-monogamies (CNMs)\, bisexualities/plurisexualities\, transnational dynamics with regards to sexual and intimate citizenship\, and de/colonial politics. \n\n\n\nNext to panels on current research and international perspectives in the academic work on Consensual Non-monogamies (CNMs)\, the event will feature keynotes by the renowned international gender and sexuality scholars\, Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli (Deakin University\, Australia) and Dr Daniel Cardoso (Lusophone University and NOVA University\, Portugal). \n\n\n\nFor programme and registration details\, please\, visit the following hyper link: \n\n\n\nQueer Kinship Studies – International Perspectives | Eventbrite \n\n\n\nOrganisers: \n\n\n\nDr Antonio Cerdeira Pilão and Prof Christian Klesse (both Manchester Metropolitan University); presented in partnership by CISG and FAKIM-CNM. \n\n\n\nFor more information\, please\, contact\, Prof. Christian Klesse
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/queer-kinship-studies-international-perspectives/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250911T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250911T140000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114201Z
CREATED:20250515T103854Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.9: Wendy Allen
DESCRIPTION:Seminar 6.9: Barbara Hepworth and the self never sculpted: Can Hepworth’s use of the maquette in her sculptural practice inform a new creative practice in poetry? \n\n\n\nWhen and where: Thursday 11th September 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30pm for in-person attendees. Tea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nPresenter: Wendy Allen. Wendy is a poet and is in her 3rd year of full-time PhD research. Her creative-critical thesis considers Barbara Hepworth’s (1903-1975) use of the maquette to inform a re-making of poetic form. Focussing on the precariousness of the maquette\, Wendy suggests that by disrupting the idea of the final model as superior enables a new poetics to emerge\, one which gives equal placing to the inner workings and measuring of (a) form. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Wendy will begin the session by introducing the maquette: a small preliminary model created to test ideas and proportions. Maquettes are often overlooked\, lost or destroyed\, and yet\, when they are considered independently\, are crucial sites of thought\, experimentation and becoming. Through feminist theory and the Maquinette (a sequence of disrupted sonnets)\, Wendy suggests that the maquette enables a re-evaluation of how we see these unseen contributions. \n\n\n\nThere will be a discussion following the paper\, and it may be of interest to consider the inter-disciplinary aspect to the research (Creative Writing and Art History) in terms of a broader context and how this could work with other disciplines. \n\n\n\nPreparation: You do not need to read anything beforehand\, but it may be of interest to look at some images of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures and maquettes. \n\n\n\nTea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nEmail Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/seminar-6-8-wendy-allen/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250828T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250828T140000
DTSTAMP:20251113T114222Z
CREATED:20250515T103722Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.8: Manchester’s queer sonics
DESCRIPTION:When and where: Thursday 28th August 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30pm for in-person attendees. Tea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nPresenter: Markus Hetheier. Markus is a 5th year part-time practice-based PhD candidate at the School of Digital Arts (SODA). His artistic research project involves queer sonic mappings of Manchester (co-)produced by ten research participants and him. The project focuses on queer sonics as a transformative tool for community building. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Markus will begin the session by a brief introduction of his PhD project\, focusing on the intersection of methodological and theoretical concepts with practice as research as overall approach. He will then present and discuss the research participants’ individual queer sonic mappings of Manchester and the themes which have emerged from the practice. The session will be concluded with an open discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nPreparation: If you want to familiarise yourself with queer sonics\, you are welcome to read Truman\, S. E. and Shannon\, D. B. (2018) ‘Queer sonic cultures: an affective walking-composing project’\, Capacious: journal for emerging affect inquiry\, 3(1)\, pp. 58—77. \n\n\n\nFor the discussion and Q&A you may want to think about the following questions: How do we define co-production in artistic research projects? Which role does the researcher have when they are also an artist\, facilitator and curator in the project? What influence \n\n\n\nEmail Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/seminar-6-7-andrew-ghribi-king/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250821T084500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250821T170000
DTSTAMP:20251114T091635Z
CREATED:20250219T121145Z
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SUMMARY:August: Writer's Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Writers’ Retreats give postgraduate research students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet\, structured\, and supportive atmosphere. \n\n\n\nThe retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald\, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. Chad was awarded his PhD in History in 2019\, and he regularly took part in writers’ retreats during his postgraduate research. \n\n\n\nYou will need to arrive ‘ready to write’ but may\, of course\, bring any materials (laptops\, books\, data\, etc.) with you for the whole-day session. You may access data online\, but the retreat is a day free from active researching\, mobile phones\, or other internet access (emails\, Instagram\, online shopping\, etc.) that steals away focus and attention from writing! \n\n\n\nThere will be some short discussion around good writing practice and how to approach your writing as a professional task\, but much of the day will be devoted to writing without distraction. Whatever your writing project (e.g.\, annual report\, paper\, thesis)\, the retreat will provide a space away from your office or home in which to concentrate and reflect on the process of writing. \n\n\n\nWe hope the writers’ retreats will be a source of collegial support as you work alongside fellow PGRs who share similar goals—but also pressures and insecurities—in relation to academic writing. \n\n\n\nLunch and refreshments will be provided. Please notify us of any dietary requirements no later than 2 weeks before the date of the retreat you are attending. \n\n\n\nPlaces are limited so please email Fran Brooks if you wish to book a spot.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/august-writers-retreat/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250814T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250814T140000
DTSTAMP:20251114T091652Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.7: Sumithreyi Sivapalan
DESCRIPTION:A series of informal seminars led by and for Arts and Humanities doctoral students. Each seminar is presented by a different PhD researcher and involves plenty of interactive discussion. This is a friendly\, supportive space in which we develop critical research skills and build community. \n\n\n\nSeminar 6.7: Sites of Belonging and Unhomeliness: exploring ‘home’ through the persona poetry of Sri Lankan women \n\n\n\nWhen and where: Thursday 14th August 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30pm for in-person attendees. Tea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nPresenter: Sumithreyi Sivapalan. Sumi is in her 3rd year of PhD research. Her thesis links the concepts of home and belonging with persona poetry and the civil war and post-war context of Sri Lanka\, and the possibility that persona poetry might serve as a site of belonging for those who feel ‘unhomely’ in their homeland or in their host country. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Sumi will lead this session with a brief introduction to the question of belonging in Sri Lanka and the historical and present struggles related to it. She will then introduce her research on persona poems\, linking them to critical theories of home and belonging. Attendees will be encouraged to consider when and how one can truly feel at home. \n\n\n\nPreparation: There is no pre-reading for this session\, but attendees may wish to read a brief introduction to Sri Lanka and the civil war (e.g. Wiki\, BBC\, or HIR) and persona poetry. \n\n\n\nGrosvenor East room 2.06 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. \n\n\n\nTea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nEmail Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/seminar-6-6-sumithreyi-sivapalan/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.6: Shuwen Wang
DESCRIPTION:Grosvenor East room 2.06 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. \n\n\n\nTea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nEmail Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/seminar-6-5-shuwen-wang/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Gothic Crossroads Conference 2025
DESCRIPTION:A conference exploring and celebrating the multi and interdisciplinary crossings of Gothic and Horror Studies. \n\n\n\nManchester Centre for Gothic Studies\,Manchester Metropolitan University\, 25th-27th June\, 2025 \n\n\n\n\nConference Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event is free for all MMU students and includes creative workshops\, readings and reading groups – you’re welcome to attend as much or as little as you like. The Gothic and Heritage fair includes representatives from 10 different heritage organisations\, including Elizabeth Gaskell’s House\, the Portico library\, the Whitaker museum and gallery\, Hoghton Tower and Gladstone’s Library. \n\n\n\nFeel free to contact Emma Liggins ) or Ellie Beal  if you would like more information. \n\n\n\nPhysical crossroads have long been sites where the human\, divine and demonic were felt to converge and potent sites for magical\, religious encounters\, rituals of transformation\, binding of undesirable spirits\, siting of gallows and links to ancient cosmology. This conference also considers the crossroads as a space where the boundaries between differing spheres are negotiable\, asking what it means to walk in the interdisciplinary pathways and cross currents of the Gothic. \n\n\n\nThe crossroad is a geographical location and ancient symbol closely associated with folklore where two or more realms touch. It is historically and imaginatively connected with travellers and travelling\, strange encounters\, omens\, choice and indecision\, danger\, suicide\, criminality\, apocalypse and renewal\, guilt and judgement\, punishment\, ritual and ceremony\, lovers’ meetings\, hanging\, summoning\, access to Gods\, devil dealing\, casting out and death. The choice between paths can also lead to repercussions and consequences of “the wrong path”\, “the path not taken” and “straying from the path”. \n\n\n\nThis conference invites creative and scholarly consideration of any aspect of these areas or any other creative/critical spin on themes of crossing/crossover/cross currents\, travelling\, intersection\, interception\, (con)junction\, incursion\, deviation and transitioning in any/all aspects of cultural production as it relates to Gothic and horror. \n\n\n\nIt also proposes the crossing as a metaphor for presenting and thinking on the interdisciplinary work of the Gothic and the intersectional/transnational spaces where the gothic is engaged and approached. Thus\, we are particularly interested in “paths less travelled” and contributions from scholars and ECRs working in the intersections where the cultural work of Gothic and horror studies crosses boundaries and spheres\, engaging with fields and disciplines beyond the traditional\, and where new “crossings” can be discovered. This includes\, but is not limited to: Gothic and horror in gaming\, architecture and heritage\, creative writing and practice\, comics and graphic novels\, scriptwriting\, theatre\, music\, geography\, plant studies and environmentalism\, anthropology\, libraries and archives\, sociology and social studies\, broadcasting\, publishing\, media and graphic design. We are sure there are more\, so feel free to surprise us with your wanders\, crossings\, and encounters!
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/gothic-crossroads-conference-2025/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Two-Day Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Two-Day Writing Retreat at Didsbury Parsonage Trust with a focus on practice\, creative methods\, & communities \n\n\n\nThis two-day summer retreat is for researchers who work with creative methods and practice\, or who are engaged in research with communities and members of the public. This is an opportunity to come together and reflect on writing-in-progress and the particular challenges you might be facing in making the connection between practice\, data collection\, community work\, and your writing. The two days will involve a combination of free writing time (for which you should bring work in progress)\, and some structured exercises and open discussion that will see us thinking collaboratively about writing and research practice. \n\n\n\nPlease get in touch with Fran Brooks if you would like to reserve a space. In your email please include some details about what you would like to work on during the retreat\, and how it relates to the focus of your research more broadly. Please also indicate what stage/year of your PhD you are currently in. \n\n\n\nPriority will be given in the first instance to people who can attend both days\, but please do get in touch if you would like to come but can only make one of the days so that we can register your interest. \n\n\n\nA full programme is still being put together\, and we are looking for researchers who might be interested in leading an exercise as part of the retreat. If this appeals\, please indicate this in your email too. \n\n\n\nWe’ve booked out the ‘Red Room’ and the ‘Terracotta Room’ in the Parsonage Trust\, and you can find out more about the venue here. The building has beautiful public gardens\, it is close to Fletcher Moss park\, and is an easy bus or tram ride away from central Manchester.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/two-day-writing-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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SUMMARY:The Aftershock Review Launch
DESCRIPTION:THE AFTERSHOCK REVIEW LIVE AT JOHN RYLANDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND LIBRARY \n\n\n\nJoin us for the powerful live launch of The Aftershock Review Issue One — a groundbreaking new poetry magazine exploring trauma\, survival\, and literary transformation. \n\n\n\nSet in the iconic surrounds of the John Rylands Library\, this event brings together some of the most urgent voices in contemporary poetry for an evening of live readings\, conversation\, and creative disruption. Expect bold\, emotionally resonant work and a vital discussion on what it means to write — and edit — from the aftermath. \n\n\n\nFeaturing poets from Issue One – names to be announced ASAP. Hosted by Dr Anna Percy and Editor-in-Chief Max Wallis. \n\n\n\n\nLaunch Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree to attend | All welcome | Fully accessible \n\n\n\nDIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY TBC \n\n\n\nSupported by Arts Council England and the University of Manchester.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/the-aftershock-review-launch/
LOCATION:John Rylands Research Institute and Library\, 150 Deansgate\, Manchester\, M3 3EH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.5: Quen Took
DESCRIPTION:Grosvenor East room 2.06 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. \n\n\n\nTea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nEmail Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/seminar-6-4-quen-took/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:July: Writer's Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Writers’ Retreats give postgraduate research students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet\, structured\, and supportive atmosphere. \n\n\n\nThe retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald\, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. Chad was awarded his PhD in History in 2019\, and he regularly took part in writers’ retreats during his postgraduate research. \n\n\n\nYou will need to arrive ‘ready to write’ but may\, of course\, bring any materials (laptops\, books\, data\, etc.) with you for the whole-day session. You may access data online\, but the retreat is a day free from active researching\, mobile phones\, or other internet access (emails\, Instagram\, online shopping\, etc.) that steals away focus and attention from writing! \n\n\n\nThere will be some short discussion around good writing practice and how to approach your writing as a professional task\, but much of the day will be devoted to writing without distraction. Whatever your writing project (e.g.\, annual report\, paper\, thesis)\, the retreat will provide a space away from your office or home in which to concentrate and reflect on the process of writing. \n\n\n\nWe hope the writers’ retreats will be a source of collegial support as you work alongside fellow PGRs who share similar goals—but also pressures and insecurities—in relation to academic writing. \n\n\n\nLunch and refreshments will be provided. Please notify us of any dietary requirements no later than 2 weeks before the date of the retreat you are attending. \n\n\n\nPlaces are limited so please email Fran Brooks if you wish to book a spot.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/july-writers-retreat/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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SUMMARY:PhD Reading Group: Sound Methodologies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a peer-led session exploring Sound (or silence) in practice-based research. Open to all PhD researchers in Art\, Design\, and Humanities\, at any stage of study. \n\n\n\nPlease see below for a reading list from Markus Hetheier in advance of the reading group in July. \n\n\n\nFrom Markus: longlist and shortlist reading recommendations plus questions to use when reading and discussing these texts and some practical examples: \n\n\n\nReadings: \n\n\n\nAnderson\, I. (2015) ‘Soundmapping beyond the grid: alternative cartographies of sound’\, Journal of Sonic Studies\, 11\, pp. n.p. \n\n\n\nAnderson\, I. and Rennie\, T. (2016) ‘Thoughts in the Field: ‘Self-reflexive narrative’ in field recording’\, Organised sound : an international journal of music technology\, 21(3)\, pp. 222-232. \n\n\n\nGallagher\, M. (2015) ‘Sounding ruins: reflections on the production of an ‘audio drift”\, Cultural geographies\, 22(3)\, pp. 467-485. \n\n\n\nGallagher\, M. (2016) ‘Sound as affect: Difference\, power and spatiality’\, Emotion\, space and society\,20\, pp. 42-48. \n\n\n\nMcMurray\, P. (2018) ‘Ephemeral cartography: on mapping sound’\, Sound studies (2015)\, 4(2)\, pp. 110-142. \n\n\n\nMydlarz\, C. (2013) ‘Exploring soundscapes. Cutting-edge data collection by citizen scientists maps a world of sonic diversity’\, Perspectives\, (no. 1)\, pp. 16-21. \n\n\n\nOuzounian\, G. (2014) ‘Acoustic mapping’\, in Gandy\, M. and Nelson\, B. (eds.) The acoustic city. Berlin: JOVIS Verlag\, pp. 164-173. \n\n\n\nPaquette\, D. and McCartney\, A. (2012) ‘Soundwalking and the Bodily Exploration of Places’\, Canadian journal of communication\, 37(1)\, pp. 135. \n\n\n\nThulin\, S. (2018) ‘Sound maps matter: expanding cartophony’\, Social & cultural geography\, 19(2)\, pp. 192-210. \n\n\n\nTruman\, S. E. and Shannon\, D. B. 2018. Queer Sonic Cultures: An Affective Walking-Composing Project. Open Humanities Press. \n\n\n\nWaldock\, J. (2011) ‘Soundmapping: critiques and reflections on this new publicly engaging medium’\, The Journal of Sonic Studies\, 1\, pp. N.p. \n\n\n\nWaldock\, J. (2016) ‘Hearing urban regeneration: community composition as a tool for change’\, in Bull\, M. and Back\, L. (eds.) The auditory culture reader. Second ed. London:: Bloomsbury\, pp. 151-161. \n\n\n\nWells\, K. and Bailey\, A. (2020) ‘Sound art and the making of public space’\, Social & cultural geography\,21(8)\, pp. 1083-1102. \n\n\n\nWesterkamp\, H. (1994) ‘The soundscape on radio’\, in Augaitis\, D.\, Lander\, D.\, Walter Phillips\, G. and Banff Centre for the\, A. (eds.) Radio rethink : art\, sound and transmission. Banff\, Alta.\, Canada: Walter Phillips Gallery\, pp. 87-94. \n\n\n\nShortlist for the session: \n\n\n\nAnderson\, I. and Rennie\, T. (2016) ‘Thoughts in the Field: ‘Self-reflexive narrative’ in field recording’\, Organised sound : an international journal of music technology\, 21(3)\, pp. 222-232. \n\n\n\nGallagher\, M. (2016) ‘Sound as affect: Difference\, power and spatiality’\, Emotion\, space and society\,20\, pp. 42-48. \n\n\n\nPaquette\, D. and McCartney\, A. (2012) ‘Soundwalking and the Bodily Exploration of Places’\, Canadian journal of communication\, 37(1)\, pp. 135. \n\n\n\nWaldock\, J. (2016) ‘Hearing urban regeneration: community composition as a tool for change’\, in Bull\, M. and Back\, L. (eds.) The auditory culture reader. Second ed. London:: Bloomsbury\, pp. 151-161. \n\n\n\nThe articles cover field recordings\, sonic affect\, soundwalks and composition as key sonic methods and concepts. \n\n\n\nYou could think about the following questions: \n\n\n\n\nWhich sounds would you like record and document as field recordings for your research? What narrative emerges from these sounds?\n\n\n\nWhat sound are you affected by? Do they hold significance for your research?\n\n\n\nAre there any physical areas relevant to your research that you could examine through soundwalks?\n\n\n\nHow would you approach to composition of the gathered sounds and impressions? \n\n\n\nWould you develop a soundscape composition by yourself as researcher and artist or would you involve research participants or both?\n\n\n\n\nTwo practical examples of research projects based on some of these sonic methods: \n\n\n\nhttps://www.isobelanderson.com/post/sailortownhttps://www.mdmarchive.co.uk/map/the-lapsed-clubber-audio-maphttps://sickfestival.com/2022_event/soundpaths/ \n\n\n\nWith the first two examples there are audio samples which you can listen to and some context if you follow the links. \n\n\n\nOrganised by: Jan Connett
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/phd-reading-group-sound-methodologies/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.4: Louise Kenward
DESCRIPTION:Grosvenor East room 2.06 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. \n\n\n\nSeminar 6.4: Beachcombing as methodology: the stories of objects washed up by the sea \n\n\n\nWhen and where: Thursday 3rd July 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30pm for in-person attendees. Tea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nPresenter: Louise Kenward is a part-time doctoral student in her third year with the Centre for Place Writing. She is the editor of the anthology Moving Mountains: Writing Nature Through Illness and Disability (Footnote) which was released in paperback earlier this year. Louise is a writer and artist with a background working as a psychologist and psychotherapist in the NHS. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Louise will start this session with an overview of her current research\, which builds on her work creating Moving Mountains. Her current project is structured around beachcombing the coastline of the Romney Marshes\, a place on the southeast coast of England at particular risk of flooding. She is specifically investigating parallels between the body and landscape\, drawing on her own experiences of living with chronic illness. The session will open out to discuss and explore how we can use objects in creative practice\, inviting attendees to respond to creative writing prompts in considering found objects. You will be encouraged to play with ideas of the familiar and everyday in connecting with the unfamiliar and extraordinary. There’ll be time for a Q&A at the end. \n\n\n\nPreparation: You are invited to bring along an object that you can hold in your hand – for example something found on a walk\, one you keep on your desk or windowsill\, or one that you carry around with you in your pocket (or it could be something you find on your journey to the session). There’s no reading for this session but if you’d like to read more about beachcombing\, chronic illness\, and objects as starting points to stories\, I strongly recommend Sally Huband’s Wainwright Prize longlisted book\, Sea Bean. \n\n\n\nTea\, coffee\, juice and snacks provided. \n\n\n\nEmail Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/seminar-6-3-louise-kenward/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #152: Lena Šimić x James Marriott
DESCRIPTION:Dr Lena Šimić is Liverpool-based transnational performance maker\, local politician\, activist\, pedagogue and scholar researching contemporary performance and the maternal as well as arts responses to the climate crisis. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University. Lena was a co-organiser of the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home between 2008 and 2018. Together with Emily Underwood-Lee\, she ran the AHRC funded Performance and the Maternal project with a number of outputs including Manifesto for Maternal Performance (Art) 2016! (2017). Her short play\, Three Conversations in collaboration with her sons\, Neal and Sid\, was commissioned for Climate Change Theatre Action in 2019. She has recently collaborated with James Marriott\, Platform\, on an audio play Three Sisters: A Story from the Climate Future (Big Light\, 2023). \n\n\n\nJames Marriott works as part of Platform\, which since 1983 has combined art\, activism\, education and research. He is co-creator a wide range of projects from performance to download-opera\, from film to non-fiction books. These include And While London Burns (2007)\, The Oil Road (Verso 2012)\, Crude Britannia (Pluto 2021) and The Oil Machine (BBC 2021). \n\n\n\nBunker Talks \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art\, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical\, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters\, presentations\, provocation and dialogue. \n\n\n\nOriginally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists\, writers\, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work\, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020\, over 150 talks have been hosted by Art & Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded\, edited\, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue\, capturing how artists\, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here:  \n\n\n\n\nBunker Talks
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-152-lena-simic-x-james-marriott/
LOCATION:The Salutation Pub – Upstairs\, 12 Higher Chatham Streey\, Manchester\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Queer Stories of Belonging: Visual Art\, Songs and Medi
DESCRIPTION:This event will consist of an artist panel talk involving the display and discussion of digital artwork interspersed and framed by dance and music performances\, exploring queer diasporic experiences. \n\n\n\nThe event will feature Tahini Molasses from the Turkish and Middle Eastern drag collective Harem of No One\, and Natis\, a queer migrant painter based in Berlin\, and Dr Yener Bayramoğlu\, who conducted fieldwork for the project MEQDI (Media Practices of Belonging within Turkey’s Queer Diaspora in Europe) in Berlin and London. \n\n\n\nThis event marks the formal Closing of the MIGS One-Day Event ‘Moving Images: Audiovisual Representations of Migration and Migrants’. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/queer-stories-of-belonging-visual-art-songs-and-medi/
LOCATION:GF.11 Grosvenor East\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTAMP:20251114T091907Z
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SUMMARY:Moving Images: Audiovisual Representations of Migration and Migrants
DESCRIPTION:The Migration and Interdisciplinary Global Studies (MIGS) Research Network is pleased to announce a free\, one-day\, in-person event exploring migration and audiovisual representation\, to be held on campus on Thursday June 26th. \n\n\n\nBringing together academics\, artists\, practitioners\, activists\, and community members\, this event will showcase diverse audiovisual works created by and with migrants. Via a combination of screenings and panel discussions\, we will explore the ethics and aesthetics of creating and presenting audiovisual representations of migration and migrants. \n\n\n\nWe are particularly excited to be featuring the work of Arts and Humanities colleagues including Benedicte Brahic\, Carmen Herrero\, Bing Chi Wu\, and Audrey Albert. (See Eventbrite link below for the full programme.) \n\n\n\nThe day will conclude with a special event co-hosted by Christian Klesse\, Yener Bayramoğlu\, and the Contemporary Intimacies\, Sexualities and Genders Research Group: Queer Stories of Belonging. Visual Art\, Songs and Media in the Turkish Queer Diaspora. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/moving-images-audiovisual-representations-of-migration-and-migrants/
LOCATION:Geoffrey Manton Building\, 4 Rosamond Street West\, Manchester\, M15 6LL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Routledge Companion to Irish Art
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Routledge Companion to Irish Art (2025) edited by Dr Fionna Barber (Reader in Art History\, Dept of Art and Performance\, Manchester Metropolitan University) and Dr Fintan Cullen (Emeritus Professor of Art History\, University of Nottingham). The launch is hosted by the Visual Culture Research Group at MMU. \n\n\n\nThe event will take place in the First Floor Open Space\, Righton Building. Please register by 18th June if possible so we can have an idea of numbers for catering. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFollowing a short introduction by Susannah Thompson\, Professor of Fine Art\, MMU\, the book’s two editors Fionna Barber and Fintan Cullen will talk about the scope of the book\, and its significance for studies of Irish art from the beginnings of the 19th c to the present day\, in addition to reflecting on the process of commissioning\, and editing such a large volume. Dr Matt Retallick (Lecturer in Art History and Curating\, MMU) will also talk about his experience of contributing a chapter to the Companion. \n\n\n\nThere’ll also be time for more informal discussion with refreshments provided. \n\n\n\nThis is the first publication of a companion to Irish art and its history. Its forty-four commissioned essays comprise a sustained critical commentary on a range of topics across a period from c.1800-2020. This companion contains new and innovative writing that critically engages with Irish art in a period linked to key events in Irish history\, beginning with the Acts of Union between Britain and Ireland (1800–01)) and the significant social and cultural changes that resulted. The book also provides a precedent for a focus on the significance of art in relation to other subsequent key historical events such as the early twentieth‑century struggles for independence or the role of political conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s onwards and its aftermath. Key themes covered include tradition and innovation; upheavals of history; place\, location\, and artistic formations; Irish art and the wider world; and embodiment and identity. The book expands the critical discourse around Irish art over this period\, both within Ireland and beyond\, and encourages the potential for future scholarship in fields and periods not covered. \n\n\n\nThis book will be of interest to scholars and students working in art history\, Irish studies\, and colonial studies. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease register by 18th June if possible so we can have an idea of numbers for catering. \n\n\n\nContact: Fionna Barber or Matt Retallick for further details
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/book-launch-routledge-companion-to-irish-art/
LOCATION:1st Floor Open Space\, Righton Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lecture Series 2024-2025: Session 7
DESCRIPTION:Session 7: Co-Designing with Neurodiverse People: An Embodied Creativity Perspective \n\n\n\nWednesday 25 June 2025\, 3.30 -5pm\, Online session \n\n\n\nDr Laura Malinin\, Inaugural Director\, Nancy Richardson Design Center & Associate Professor of Interior Architecture + Design\, Colorado State University \n\n\n\nThis presentation describes two multi-year projects where an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students engaged neurodiverse people in co-design processes to improve inclusion and engagement in community programming. The first case involved older adults with dementia and their care partners to develop community performing arts programming. The second project engaged a group of autistic youth to improve visit-ability at a science museum. The projects will be discussed using the lens of embodied creativity as a framework to explain the design and methods used in the different cases as well as outcomes. \n\n\n\n\nEventbrite
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/dowell-co-design-workshop-and-lecture-series-2024-2025-session-7/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Postponed: Practice-based Conversations: Mapping Methods and Methodologies with Sara Davies
DESCRIPTION:Unfortunately this Practice-based Conversation has to be postponed. We’re sorry about this\, but Sara’s session on Mapping Methods and Methodologies will be back in the new academic year. \n\n\n\nThe Poetry Library (round table) and Online via Teams \n\n\n\nThis is a peer-led event organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon \n\n\n\nThinking about methods and methodologies in arts and design practice-based research can be challenging. There may be multiple methods involved\, making it hard to pinpoint a single methodology that fits the project. The project might draw from multiple disciplines\, each with its own set of methods and terminologies\, adding further complexity to the mix. Additionally\, the dynamic and evolving nature of this kind of research can call for sometimes unsettling shifts in approaches. \n\n\n\nHave you recently read something about methods and methodologies in arts and design practice-based research? What methods and methodologies do you use in your research? Let’s gather and share! You could bring in something you’ve read\, something you’ve written\, or some interesting thoughts. \n\n\n\nSara Davies is a lecturer in Art Theory and Practice in the Manchester School of Art
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/practice-based-conversations-mapping-methods-and-methodologies-with-sara-davies/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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