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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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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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SUMMARY:Entangled II: Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Poetry Library and online \n\n\n\n\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n\n\nJoin poets Mark Pajak\, Anita Slater\, and Domenic Suntrapak for a poetry reading and discussion as they untangle the threads that link their poetry and research at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nMark Pajak’s PhD research explores the question of what poetry does for young lives by working with children in schools\, Anita Slater’s practice-based research looks at the concept of guidance in the city\, and Domenic Suntrapak researches the relationship between poetry\, architecture and urban city planning. In this conversation Mark\, Anita and Domenic will reflect on their interest in the social function of poetry\, thinking about how poetry interacts with institutions\, communities\, civic spaces\, and even expansive urban cityscapes. As researchers working across the creative and the critical\, they will also talk about their play with form\, and how formal experiments are shaping their writing and thinking. \n\n\n\n\nFree Tickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nENTANGLED is a PhD showcase which unravels the themes and forms which connect each poet’s work to one another\, established by award winning poet and PhD researcher Charlotte Shevchenko Knight.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/entangled-ii-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Arts and Humanities Summer Party and Social
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce a date for our annual Arts and Humanities Summer Party and Social\, which will take place this year on Thursday 19th June from 4.30 to 6.30 pm in the Grosvenor East\, 3rd Floor Open Space and Roof Terrace. \n\n\n\nThis will be a great opportunity to catch up with everyone and to celebrate the successes of this academic year. It would be lovely to see as many of you there as possible. \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP to Fran Brooks as soon as possible\, and ideally by next Wednesday 11th June\, so that I can have a sense of numbers for drinks and snacks.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/arts-and-humanities-summer-party-and-social/
LOCATION:Business School Atrium\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6BH
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.3: Sophie Scott
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\nPresenter: Sophie Scott. Sophie is in her 2nd year of a practice-based PhD. The research is investigating how pre-consumer fabric waste solutions can be more aligned to real world challenges\, faced by fashion micro-businesses. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Sophie will lead this session with a brief overview of her research\, highlighting specific low waste pattern cutting methods that have informed her practice to date. Following this\, she would like to trial two short activities on garment lay planning\, before opening to discussion. The activities will be audio-recorded for the purpose of testing sound quality\, but participation is voluntary. \n\n\n\nPreparation: All equipment will be provided and if you’re joining online\, there will be a digital version of the task made available. There is no pre-reading for this session\, though if interested\, Carrico & Kim (2013) introduce and discuss four main zero waste garment methods. \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). \n\n\n\nPlease note: parts of this seminar will be recorded\, and we therefore have a Participant Information Sheet for review and Consent Form to complete\, in line with MMU ethics approval. Those who do not wish to participate in the recording are still very welcome to attend\, but advance booking is essential.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/seminar-6-3-sophie-scott/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Guest seminar: Responding to violent extremism
DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime seminar: Responding to violent extremism – resilience and rehabilitation.Wednesday June 18\, 12-1:30pm \n\n\n\nRoom BS 7.03This seminar provides an opportunity to hear from two leading Australian scholars\, Ramon Spaaij (Victoria University; Manchester Met Global Chair) and Vivian Gerrand\, PhD (Deakin University)\, exploring novel approaches to countering violent extremism.It will feature a 15-minute presentation from each speaker\, followed by a facilitated conversation and an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaper 1: Facilitating disengagement from violent extremism \n\n\n\nProfessor Ramon Spaaij \n\n\n\nThe rehabilitation of terrorist offenders continues to be viewed with suspicion\, which is not helped by the limited evidence base for the success of disengagement programs. This presentation aims to advance the knowledge base by sharing the findings of recent research on facilitating disengagement from violent extremism. Drawing on a three-year mixed-methods inquiry into Australia’s longest-running Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program\, I will present a focus on the experiences of terrorist offenders to chart their journeys through the program. By doing so\, I will identify key factors that affect meaningful engagement with CVE interventions and enhance the likelihood of successful disengagement from violent extremism. \n\n\n\nProfessor Ramon Spaaij is a sociologist at Victoria University\, Melbourne\, Australia\, and Global Chair at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-founder of the Applied Security Science Partnership (ASSP)\, a unique high-impact research program that brings together researchers\, embedded police\, defence and community members to develop novel responses to terrorism and violent extremism. \n\n\n\nPaper 2: Building resilience to (violent) misogyny? Alternative narratives to the manosphere \n\n\n\nDr Vivian Gerrand \n\n\n\nEfforts to mitigate the social influence of (violent) extremist movements through CVE counter-narrative campaigns or deplatforming initiatives have limited efficacy (Conway 2020; Hemmingsen and Castrob2017; Rogers 2020). Unlike counter-narratives\, alternative narratives can be more effective at challenging extremist narratives because they directly address real and perceived grievances as well as the psycho-social needs that may lead to engagement with extremist discourse. Alternative narratives meet people where they are and support critical-thinking and social capital resource allocation. Such narratives stand for rather than against something by conveying positive content\, centring on aspects of democracy and openness and promoting mutual understanding (Roose et al. 2021). Alternative narrative-based interventions can arguably be deployed to disarm the manosphere and support disengagement from violent extremist discourses. Drawing on interviews with manosphere adherents and an arts-based case study\, in this presentation I explore how alternative narratives might provide critically empathetic tools to support boys and men to build resilience and disengage from anti-women online movements.  \n\n\n\nDr Vivian Gerrand is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute\, Deakin University. Her current research addresses disinformation and (violent) extremism through alternative narratives. Vivian holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is the author of Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging (MUP\, 2016). She was a Max Weber Fellow in 2017-18. \n\n\n\nThis seminar is hosted by Manchester Met’s Migration and Interdisciplinary Global Studies Research Network\, and chaired by Dr Daniel Marshall. For enquiries\, email: migs@mmuac.uk \n\n\n\n\nRegistration
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/guest-seminar-responding-to-violent-extremism/
LOCATION:BS 7.03 Business School\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6BH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Manchester Writing School Summer Festival
DESCRIPTION:This four-day intensive course is designed to give participants a taste of life in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University\, one of the UK’s most successful literary centres\, and home to one of the country’s largest postgraduate English and Creative Writing communities. The course will introduce you to tutors and current students and offer opportunities to develop your own writing – and reading – in a lively and supportive environment. \n\n\n\nThe programme will include a choice of in-person or online masterclass workshops\, seminars and talks\, delivered by practising writers and critics\, with input from special guests. Sessions may include fiction\, poetry\, writing for children & young adults\, scriptwriting\, creative non-fiction\, how to present your work for publication\, performance skills\, and talks/Q&As with industry experts. \n\n\n\nThe programme for the Manchester Writing School Summer Festival has now been released. You can find details on the web page: \n\n\n\n\nWriting Festival\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s free to attend for current students and you can browse the programme and book a place / choose from the sessions via the links below. \n\n\n\n\nFestival Programme\n\n\n\nBooking Form
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-writing-school-summer-festival/
LOCATION:Grosvenor Theatre – Arts and Humanities Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Embedding Co-production in your research with Alix Moreleigh\, the Booth Centre
DESCRIPTION:In-person in GE 2.06 and online via Teams \n\n\n\nOrganised by Katie Chatburn. Please email Katie if you’d like to attend in person. \n\n\n\n2025 sees the 30th anniversary of our thriving Booth Centre community\, here in Manchester. We exist in partnership\, to raise the voices of all who have been impacted by homelessness and to celebrate their successes. At the Booth Centre we recognise the importance of working collaboratively with people who come to the centre to design\, deliver and evaluate our services\, this concept of partnership working is at the heart of what we do and forms one of our most important values. \n\n\n\nAlix\, Head of Service at the Booth Centre\, will be joining us for a session to discover how coproduction can be embedded into your practice. We hope this will guide you in creating an inclusive\, purposeful and achievable way of working that is truly collaborative and representative of your community.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/embedding-co-production-in-your-research-with-alix-moreleigh-the-booth-centre/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.2: Nerea Wachter Galindo
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-6-2-nerea-wachter-galindo/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250603T130000
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SUMMARY:PhD Reading Group\, Session on Decolonial Methodologies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a peer-led session exploring decolonial methodologies in research. Open to all PhD researchers in Art\, Design\, and Humanities\, at any stage of study. \n\n\n\nFormat: \n\n\n\n\nBring an article or chapter (printed or digital) on decolonial methodologies to read during the first 20 minutes.\n\n\n\nShare a key insight or reflection from your reading.\n\n\n\nConsider: What methods or approaches might inform your own research?\n\n\n\n\nThis is a supportive space for discussion\, learning\, and exchanging ideas.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/phd-reading-group-session-on-decolonial-methodologies/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250603T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250603T110000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101454Z
CREATED:20250515T091958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101454Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Ethics Workshop: How do we write about ethical complexities?
DESCRIPTION:Please note this event takes place online via Teams\, the link is available via Moodle. \n\n\n\nYou are cordially invited to the next event in our “writing ethics” series: a short on-line writing retreat. Although primarily aimed at PhD students\, the session would be beneficial for anyone who is reflecting on ethical complexities in their publications. The session will include a short presentation\, followed on by hands-on writing exercises and a discussion. \n\n\n\nProgramme  \n\n\n\n\n9.00   Introduction and welcome: Adi Kuntsman\, Faculty Chair of Ethics\, and Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem\, FREGC PhD Liaison\n\n\n\n9.15 Ethics of researching the far right: Katy Brown\, Research Fellow in Language and Social Justice\n\n\n\n9.45  Writing exercise (guided)\n\n\n\n10.00 Writing session\n\n\n\n10.40 Discussion and wrap up\n\n\n\n\nPlease send Dr Fran Brooks an email if you’d like to sign-up and be added to the calendar event.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/writing-ethics-workshop-how-do-we-write-about-ethical-complexities/
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250602T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250602T183000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101506Z
CREATED:20250515T102002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101506Z
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SUMMARY:Meet\, Greet\, Connect and Create
DESCRIPTION:PhD students from all disciplines are warmly invited to a new PhD student-led online initiative. If you are interested in joining please email Arlene Jackson \n\n\n\n\nHeld via Teams – afternoon and evening sessions available \n\n\n\nAn accessible\, flexible format to meet fellow PhD students in a supportive space to share aims\, goals & experiences
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/meet-greet-connect-and-create/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250602T084500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250602T170000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101517Z
CREATED:20250219T120748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101517Z
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SUMMARY:June: 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/june-writers-retreat/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250528T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250528T170000
DTSTAMP:20260120T104533Z
CREATED:20250403T083245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T104533Z
UID:924-1748440800-1748451600@dcahf.mmu.ac.uk
SUMMARY:History\, Politics & Philosophy postgrad research conference
DESCRIPTION:Showcasing recent studies by postgraduate researchers in the fields of History\, Politics and Philosophy\, the theme for this year’s conference is ‘Conflict and Cohesion’. \n\n\n\nPlease note this in person only and there will be no live stream. \n\n\n\nMore information and pre-recorded presentations will be available here: https://bit.ly/hpprcMMU \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nLocal historian Steve Roman has invited attendees on a free tour of the Manchester Peace Trail after the conference. The route is fully accessible in a wheelchair/with pushchairs. Booking unnecessary\, but Steve would appreciate a rough idea of numbers\, so please email suzanne.cloves@stu.mmu.ac.uk if you’d like to join the tour.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/history-politics-philosophy-postgrad-research-conference/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250528T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250528T170000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101536Z
CREATED:20250515T094153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101536Z
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Linguistics in Action
DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics is pleased to invite you to our inaugural research symposium Linguistics in Action on the 28th of May 2025. Staff and students will showcase the work we do in the centre\, guided by our aims of affecting change and addressing issues in social justice through linguistics research. Please sign up to this free event by 16th May. Refreshments and lunch will be provided for those registered. Places are limited so please register early. We cannot guarantee lunch for those who register later. \n\n\n\nThe event will take place face-to-face in G.26 at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business School located at Lyceum Pl\, Manchester M15 6BY. Registration and refreshments will be available from 9:00 am. The symposium will open at 9:20 and will close at 5pm.  \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease see programme below for symposium details.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/symposium-linguistics-in-action/
LOCATION:BS G.26 Business School\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6BH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250523T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250523T140000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101347Z
CREATED:20250515T085648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101347Z
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SUMMARY:Black Skins' Affective Politics: Black Decolonial Feminist Readings Into Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Prof Shirley Ann Tate will talk about Black Skin and Decolonial Black Feminism and her book  From Post-Intersectionality to Black Decolonial Feminism\, Black Skin Affections (Routledge\, 2023). Dr. Sascha Buchanan will give a response to facilitate a discussion with the audience.  \n\n\n\nThis event is free of charge. \n\n\n\nFor more information and registration\, please visit: \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisier:  CISG\, Department of Sociology\, Faculty of Arts and Humanities  \n\n\n\nFor more information please contact Dr Christian Klesse.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/black-skins-affective-politics-black-decolonial-feminist-readings-into-freedom/
LOCATION:GE 4.08 – Grosnvenor East Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250522T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250522T180000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101545Z
CREATED:20250515T094550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101545Z
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SUMMARY:Fiction Writers Respond to AI
DESCRIPTION:Please note this event takes place online\, the link is available via the Moodle Announcment. \n\n\n\nThe Centre for Fiction research group invites you to an online panel discussion on the implications of AI for writers and readers of fiction. Is this a threat or an opportunity? Can AI write our books\, or is there something humans can do that AI never can? There will be an opportunity for Q & A in the last 15 minutes. \n\n\n\nOur panel is made up members of the Centre for Fiction: \n\n\n\n\nOliver Harris (crime writer and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing)\n\n\n\nRachel Genn (novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing)\n\n\n\nLeone Betts (former PhD student writing YA fiction and AI characters)\n\n\n\nEmma Bradley (current PGR also specialising in YA fiction)
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/fiction-writers-respond-to-ai/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250522T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250522T140000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101557Z
CREATED:20250515T095816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101557Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar 6.1: Please Mind The Gap: Entanglement of poetry\, ceramics and textiles
DESCRIPTION:When & where: Thursday 22nd May 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: LOkesh Ghai. LOkesh is a 1st year Fashion\, practice-based PhD candidate. He is investigating the intersection of queerness\, craft and activism\, using shoes as a vehicle for research. His research is funded by the NWCDTP\, and he undertakes fieldwork in India and the UK. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Through a visual presentation LOkesh will reflect on a research-based artistic practice and the ability of things to become alive in the ‘flow’ of life. The project has layers of entanglement that include queer lens\, poetry\, ceramics\, dress\, clothing\, textiles\, maps and a childhood memory; while moving in and out of museums in London. Participants will be encouraged to ponder the combination of things that bring ‘flow’ to a thing they move with during their ongoing research. \n\n\n\nPreparation: There is no preparation necessary for this session. Interested attendees are highly encouraged to read Ingold\, T. (2010) Bringing things back to life: Creative entanglements in a world of materials. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to attend: Email Loretta at 21441661@stu.mmu.ac.uk 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-6-1-please-mind-the-gap-entanglement-of-poetry-ceramics-and-textiles/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:PhD Student Led Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250520T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250520T140000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101606Z
CREATED:20250515T100334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101606Z
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SUMMARY:Practice-based Conversations: Encounters with Archives with Hannah Singleton
DESCRIPTION:This event takes place at The Poetry Library (round table) and Online via Teams. \n\n\n\nThis session is peer-led\, and organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon – please email Nicola or Fran Brooks if you’d like to come in person so that we can order the right amount of coffee and snacks. \n\n\n\nThis session will explore some of the practicalities of how arts and humanities researchers might identify\, visit and use archives within their work\, alongside thinking about how these institutional spaces can pose challenges\, or where we might need to actively resist or question the stories (apparently) told. \n\n\n\nDr Hannah Singleton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art and Performance within Manchester School of Art\, teaching theory units with a particular emphasis on material cultures\, place and identity. Recent work explores séance in contemporary art practice and archives of mediumship; the legacy of the Pendle Witches through the analysis of material culture and artworks; writing in development connects folk horror\, objects\, and craft within filmic landscapes. Her PhD research explored the physical and immaterial traces of performance and temporal artworks through alternative and artistic archival approaches. Member of the Dark Arts Research Kollective (DVRK)\, and also The Stones Project\, a collaborative research project which examines how we represent and experience ancient and modern standing stones focusing on themes of affect\, materiality\, mythology and temporality. 
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/practice-based-conversations-encounters-with-archives-with-hannah-singleton/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250506T084500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250506T170000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101615Z
CREATED:20250219T120113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101615Z
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SUMMARY:May: Writers’ Retreats
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/may-writers-retreats/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250430T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250430T110000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101625Z
CREATED:20250307T085539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101625Z
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SUMMARY:Research for human users
DESCRIPTION:Please register your attendance if you would like to attend this online masterclass. \n\n\n\nMethods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff. \n\n\n\nConducting research with human stakeholders gives the opportunity for outcomes with impact and societal benefit. This session looks at how to include this in the planning process\, methodologies\, and through the research project from concept to dissemination and application. \n\n\n\nClick here to join the session and then follow the link from the intranet page. \n\n\n\nDr Kirstie Andrews: a Methods Masterclass
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/research-for-human-users/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250422T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250422T143000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101635Z
CREATED:20250326T084124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101635Z
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SUMMARY:Updated: Open Mic Afternoon - Online
DESCRIPTION:Meet\, Greet\, Connect and Create\, the online support group run by Arlene Jackson\, is branching out with an Open Mic Afternoon. Please see Arlene’s message below: \n\n\n\nYou are warmly invited to join this accessible online Open Mic event where we are so lucky to have a fabulous\, varied programme – Caroline Stancer\, Quen Took and Devjani Bodepudi will introduce and read their wonderful poetry\, Serena Slack-Robins will present and talk us through a series of her photographs representing lived experiences of young women and girls in late Nineties Goa\, and Louise Kenward will read and present her beautiful prose. \n\n\n\nFeel free to join via the Teams link sent via Moodle Announcement\, or to email arlene.jackson@stu.mmu.ac.uk for the link\, more info and to register your interest in performing at a future session. \n\n\n\nI am aiming to make these these the second Monday of each month\, but due to the Spring break I’m planning the first for Tuesday 22nd April to accommodate students with kids who will be back at school then.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/open-mic-afternoon-online/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250409T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250409T123000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101644Z
CREATED:20250219T114330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101644Z
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SUMMARY:Interpretation\, Curation and Engagement Workshop
DESCRIPTION:At Manchester Poetry Library\, our exhibitions have taken an increasingly formative role in research development. Rather than simply serving as a research output or an isolated engagement activity\, our exhibitions have intersected with staff and PGR’s research journeys at different stages. This session will begin with a preview of Manchester Poetry Library’s new summer exhibition curated by the Manchester Writing School’s Dr Malika Booker. We will consider practical curation skills as well as some theoretical underpinnings of a co-creative approach. \n\n\n\nThis event takes place in the Poetry Library with Martin Kratz or online\, the link for Teams is available via Moodle.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/interpretation-curation-and-engagement-workshop/
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:20250403T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250403T200000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101655Z
CREATED:20250403T085042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101655Z
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SUMMARY:Pigs in Chinatown: A Discussion on Fiction and Film with André Forget
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening presented by the Manchester Writing School and the Pop Screen Cultures Research Group – André Forget in conversation with Reuben Martens. \n\n\n\nCanadian novelist André Forget will be reading from and talking about his debut novel\, In the City of Pigs (2022\, Dundurn Press)\, which chronicles the story of a failed musician obsessed with avant-garde art who enters a shadowy world where bohemian excess meets the avaricious interests of a real estate cabal in Toronto\, ON. \n\n\n\nAndré and Reuben will also talk about the influence of the 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown (dir. Roman Polanski) on André’s writing\, and how the filmic medium can inspire the novel writing process. They will also discuss how art is used and abused under the neoliberal capitalist system\, its role in people’s lives\, and the way narrative gives structure and meaning to experience. \n\n\n\nThe event will open with a drinks reception and a small array of amuse-gueule (alcohol-free and vegetarian / vegan options will be available). Excerpts from the film Chinatown will be screened. If you have any questions ahead of the event or for the Q&A\, please email R.Martens@mmu.ac.uk. \n\n\n\nPlease use the Eventbrite link\, below\, to sign up (free admission). \n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the author: \n\n\n\nAndré Forget was born in Toronto and now lives in Sheffield. He is the author of In the City of Pigs (2022\, Dundurn Press) and the editor of After Realism: Twenty-four Stories for the Twenty-first Century\, an anthology of short fiction published by Véhicule Press in 2022. He has written journalism and literary criticism for a variety of publications in Canada and the United States\, including The Walrus\, Maisonneuve\, The Globe and Mail\, The Literary Review of Canada\, and Southwest Review\, and he is currently working on his second novel. \n\n\n\nAbout the moderator: \n\n\n\nReuben Martens is a poet\, sound artist\, screenwriter\, and Lecturer in Film & Media Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. With David Janzen\, Reuben forms part of the international sound art collective Local Haunts (currently located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta\, Canada). \n\n\n\nPlease use the Eventbrite link\, below\, to sign up (free admission). \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/pigs-in-chinatown-a-discussion-on-fiction-and-film-with-andre-forget/
LOCATION:Cinema GF12 SODA Building\, 14 Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250403T084500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250403T170000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101706Z
CREATED:20250219T115635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101706Z
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SUMMARY:April: 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/april-writers-retreat/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250402T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250402T143000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101714Z
CREATED:20250219T113338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101714Z
UID:591-1743598800-1743604200@dcahf.mmu.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Pitching to the Media
DESCRIPTION:With Professor Andrew McMillan and Lucy Zhou (Head of Publicity at Canongate). \n\n\n\nFrom both a writers and publicists point of view\, find out about getting your work out there beyond the academy\, how pitching to the media works and how to frame wider narratives around the narrow focus of your work. \n\n\n\nPlease email Fran Brooks to book a place. This event is in person and online\, the link for Teams is available via the Moodle area.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/pitching-to-the-media/
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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