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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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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/
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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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