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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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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:20250522T130000
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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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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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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
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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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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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