Research in Arts and Humanities at RAH! Manchester Met RAH! Events Programme April–June 2019

1 www.mmu.ac.uk/rah Contents Key Faculty Events 3 The Gothic 1980s: The Decade That Scared Us 23 The RAH! Podcast 4 The Gothic 1980s: The Lost Boys UnDoing Exhibition 5 Film Screening 23 2019 Rosamond Prize Concert 6 Detecting Pessimism: Professor Andrew Hunt – Thomas Ligotti and The Weird Midnight at the Museum 7 in an Age of Post-Truth – A Symposium 24 Games and VR 8 Detecting Pessimism: On the Interplay of Language, True Detective Monologues Hospitality and Social Justice: screening 25 Interdisciplinary Threads 9 Drugs: North West 26 Manchester G.R.E.A.T. Family and International Conference of Youth Crime Prevention Summit 9 Graphic Novels and Comics 26 Beyond Babel Multilingual Launch of ‘There’s No Bus Map for Film Festival 10 Dementia’ Mini-Comic and Call Me By Your Name 10 Workshop 27 Júlia Ist 10 Laydeez Do Comics Workshop: Double Screening: Your Life Stories as Comics 27 Unity and Community Paul Gravett Keynote: and No Cow on the Ice 11 The ‘Outside’ World: Isolationism La Fille de Keltoum 11 and Interconnectedness in Comics Cultures 28 Sonic Waves: Music and Laydeez do Comics Manchester Sound Beyond Borders 12 Pop-Up 28 MASS Assembly 13 Collaboration, Creativity and Her Majesty’s Prison and Complexities: Developing Probation Service Insights ‘19 14 Networks and Practices of The MANCHESTER CRIME AND Co-Production with Children JUSTICE Film Festival 15 and Young people 30 Mona Lisa 16 Absent Presences: Shifting the The Purge 16 Core and Peripheries of the The Harder They Come 17 Gothic Mode 32 Do The Right Thing 18 New Approaches to Transmedia and Language Pedagogy Games and Philosophy 19 International Conference 33 The Longer Read with Organising Queer Film Festivals Alan Hollinghurst 20 and Screenings – A Workshop on Ruskin’s Manchester: the Practical Challenges in ‘Devil’s Darkness’ to Beacon City Organising Queer Film Events 34 Exhibition 20 Ruskin in Manchester 2019 Multicultural Philosophy 35 Festival 21 Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, On the History of Being – Barriers and Belonging 35 after The Black Notebooks 22

2 Introduction Key Faculty

RAH! (Research in Arts and Events Humanities) is the public engagement programme The Arts and Humanities Faculty of the Faculty of Arts and at Manchester Met is home to Humanities at Manchester several areas of world-leading and Metropolitan University. internationally excellent research Launching in 2017/18, RAH! and we pride ourselves on our built on the enormous success innovation in teaching and learning. of our ‘Humanities in Public’ Our research areas include Architecture (HiP) Festival, which has (Manchester School of Architecture), run since 2013/14. RAH! will Art, Media and Design (Manchester present a rolling programme School of Art); Humanities, Languages of events on a range of topics, and Social Science; and Fashion disciplines and research (Manchester Fashion Institute). areas from across the faculty throughout the academic year. We are proud to present a series of key faculty events below. Instead of being split into thematic strands, the 2018/19 Manchester Fashion Show 2019 Final year student showcase program will showcase everything public-facing and Date: Thursday 16th May 2019 research-based within the Location: Manchester School of Art Faculty of Arts and Humanities For more details, please go to: at Manchester Met University. fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk Our research seeks to make a Postgraduate Arts & Humanities real difference to people’s lives. Centre Symposium This year’s program Symposium for postgraduate research will include: students in the faculty to meet and share their research. • Public lectures and seminars Date: Friday 17th May 2019 • Film screenings For more details, please go to: • Art exhibitions news.harts.online • Conferences • Readings and author events Manchester School of Art • And much more! Degree Show 2019 Date: Saturday 8th June – You can find tickets and further Wednesday 19th June 2019 details at our website: Location: Manchester School of Art www.mmu.ac.uk/rah For more details, please go to: Additional events will be added art.mmu.ac.uk/degreeshow after the publication of this Creative Writing Summer School brochure so please check the This two-day intensive course is website for more details! designed to give participants a taste of life in the Manchester Writing School Date: Thursday 20th June 2019 – Friday 21st June 2019 Research in Arts For more details, please go to: and Humanities at manchesterwritingschool.co.uk/events/ RAH! Manchester Met creative-writing-summer-school Key Faculty Events (continued) The RAH! Podcast

Workshops and Courses with the Manchester Writing School Date: Summer term of 2018/19 For more details, please go to: mmu.ac.uk/english/courses/short/ creative/ Modern and Contemporary Research to shout about! Gothic Reading Group We are thrilled to have launched Date: Summer term of 2018/19 The RAH! Podcast at Manchester Location: The Hub Café, Met. Business School Released on a monthly basis, each For more details, please go to: episode will cover a different topic mmu.ac.uk/english/gothic-studies/ inspired by research specialisms modern-and-contemporary-gothic- here within the Faculty of Arts reading-group/ and Humanities at Manchester Design Revolutions: Metropolitan University, from poetry, IASDR Conference to fashion, to architecture. Date: Monday 2nd September – Listen to the Podcast on SoundCloud Thursday 5th September 2019 here: https://soundcloud.com/ Location: Manchester School of Art mmu_rah_podcast For more details, please go to: iasdr2019.org/ Episode 1: Manchester School of Art Creative MA Show 2019 Encounters Date: Friday 20th September – with Death Monday 30th September 2019 Featuring: Private View: Thursday Rodica Arpasanu 19th September 2019 on Dark Tourism; Eleanor Beal and Location: Manchester School of Art Craig Young on the recent Death For more details, please go to: and the Sacred symposium and the art.mmu.ac.uk Encountering Corpses series events; Manchester Writing School and Graham Foster, Iris Feint and Martin Kratz on Anthony Burgess’ Many of our writers will be taking part Beard’s Roman Women. in panels and delivering workshops, although the exact programme is to be Episode 2: confirmed. For more details, please go to: LGBT and manchesterwritingschool.co.uk Religion Featuring: Catherine Fox on her Lindchester Image credit: sam sax. Chronicles, where Photo by Hollis Rafkin. she explored contemporary issues such as gay marriage;

4 The RAH! Podcast UnDoing Exhibition

An Exhibition of Architecture and Art: A collaboration between the Manchester School of Architecture, Tom Emery and Castlefield Gallery Kim McLelland on paganism and Date: Friday 22nd March – LGBT identities; and queer jewish Sunday 26th May 2019 writer and educator, sam sax at an Location: Castlefield Gallery, event by the Manchester Writing 2 Hewitt St, Manchester M15 4GB School. Tickets: Free – Just turn up! See the RAH! website for further details Episode 3: UnDoing is an exploration and celebration Modernist of lost meaning within the urban Architecture environment. It includes sculptural Featuring: works, two-dimensional representations, Richard Brook digital descriptions, urban interventions, and Janneke architectural propositions, informed Geene on their wanderings, and eclectic symposia within recent Special Image credit: Day and beyond the gallery, to celebrate Collections Sketch for a Bungalow authenticity, memory, place, and context. Gordon Hodkinson exhibition UnDoing is a collaboration between featuring the work of Gordon Manchester School of Architecture, Hodkinson; Hannah Neate and Steve independent curator Tom Emery, and Millington on modernist architecture Castlefield Gallery that explores how in Manchester and the Manchester buildings, places and artefacts are re- Modernists Society; and Johnathan used, reinterpreted and remembered. Djabarouti on intangible heritage Co-curated with Sally Stone, reader in and the significance we attach to Architecture, Laura Sanderson, senior buildings. lecturer in Architecture, both at the Manchester School of Architecture. The UnDoing exhibition builds on Coming up... their research into the often conflicted relationship between • Games Studies past and present in • Granadaland architecture. • The Lapsed Clubber Project • Place Writing • HAUNT Manchester

5 2019 Rosamond Prize Concert

Hosted by The Manchester Writing School RNCM Head of Composition Adam Gorb at Manchester Met and Manchester Met Professor of Poetry Michael Symmons Roberts. Date: Monday 29th April 2019 Time: 7.30pm – 9pm The writers and researchers at Location: Royal Northern College of Manchester Met, based in the Manchester Music, 124 Oxford Road, Writing School, are always exploring two Manchester M13 6RD distinct paths within their work; how Tickets: £7 – See the RAH! website creative writing might serve as a mode for further details of enquiry into the world and how such research might be disseminated outside Royal Northern College of Music of the academy in order for it to have the composers collaborate with Creative greatest impact. Our events allow us to Writing students from Manchester interrogate the very best contemporary Metropolitan University to create new writing and continue to explore new ways works in this prize which is now in its in which it might reach wider audiences. 11th year. The adjudication panel includes

6 Professor Andrew Hunt – Midnight at the Museum

Inaugural lecture by Professor Andrew Althoff, and Marc Camille Chaimowicz Hunt at the Manchester School of Art as well as designers such as Fraser Muggeridge, Jonathan Barnbrook, James Date: Monday 29th April 2019 Langdon, Abacke, Manuel Raeder, and Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm, wine reception Sara De Bondt on projects that range from 5.30pm – 6pm, lecture starts at 6pm from minor printed ephemera to major Location: LT1, Geoffrey Manton Building, publications, exhibition design and new Rosamond St West, Manchester Met branding for art institutions. In 2012 he Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website was a member of the Turner Prize jury. for further details Recent independent projects include Andrew Hunt is a curator ‘C. R. McBerny’ (2018) co-organized and writer based in London with the artist Veit Laurent Kurz, ‘The and Manchester. He is Critic as Artist’ (2017) co-curated with Professor of Fine Art and Michael Bracewell, ‘As You Change So Curating at Manchester Do I’ a series of public art commissions Metropolitan University. for Luton, UK (2016 to 2019) co-organized Between 2016 and 2017 he founded with artist Mark Titchner, ‘The Green and directed the contemporary art Ray’, Wilkinson Gallery, London and festival Reading International and was a ‘Concerning Concrete Poetry’, Badischer Research Fellow at Kingston University Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (both 2016). during the same period. He has contributed to magazines and From 2008 to 2014 he was Director of journals such as Artforum, Art Monthly, Focal Point Gallery (FPG) in Southend- The Burlington Magazine, Domus, frieze, on-Sea, where he was responsible for Mousse Magazine, Picpus and TATE developing the organisation’s acclaimed ETC., and is founding editor of the exhibitions programme and publishing Slimvolume imprint, which to date has activities. Hunt oversaw FPG’s move published editions and books by over into its new building (arch. Manalo 250 artists. Recent publications include and White, 2013), while his doctoral Jeffrey Dennis: Ringbinder (2017), thesis ‘Six Years in the Development of Scott King: Public Art, Paul Buck: a Contemporary Art Institution: Focal Disappearing Curtains and Cally Spooner: Point Gallery 2008 to 2014’ concentrated Scripts (all 2016). on strategies for the expansion of an He is currently working on three related independently-minded publicly-funded books: Relax: On Contemporary Art and UK visual art organisation in a period of Indolence, Interviews on Contemporary austerity after the financial crisis. Painting and Interviews on Critical Since the early 2000s, he has worked on Curating. intimate solo exhibitions with significant international artists such as Mike Nelson, Elizabeth Price, Tris Vonna-Michell, Kai

7 Games and VR

Hosted by The Manchester Games Studies Sociology from the University of Durham Network (MGSN) at Manchester Met and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. His research interests include Date: Wednesday 1st May 2019 social theory, digital culture and political Time: 4pm – 6pm protest. He has authored publications Location: GM 222, Geoffrey Manton on video game consumption, critical Building, Rosamond St West, pedagogy, student movements, and Manchester Met populism. Tom is the co-author of the Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website book Structure, Culture and Agency: for further details. Tickets for this event Selected Papers of Margaret Archer are very limited. (Routledge). He currently co-convenes the In this playful session, Dr Tom Brock BSA Realism and Social Research Group will showcase and invite participants and steers the BSA Theory Study Group. to experience virtual reality games, Tom is also an Associate at the Centre simulations and environments. Participants for Social Ontology at the University of have the opportunity to use a HTC Vive Warwick. – an immersive virtual reality experience The Manchester Games Studies Network that tracks body motion – and play (MGSN), established at Manchester popular VR titles, including Beat Sabre, Metropolitan University in 2016 by Superhot VR, Skyrim VR. This will also Sam Illingworth and Paul Wake, is be an occasion for participants to explore an interdisciplinary research group the globe (!) through Google Earth VR working on games and play. Our focus and have a taste of what the future of film is on both analogue and digital games, and TV entertainment may become. Tom and the MGSN team brings together will also provide a brief accompanying academics and practitioners from a range talk about the teaching and research of disciplines, including Computing, possibilities that VR opens up. Education, English, History, Tom Brock is a lecturer in the department Media Studies, Psychology, of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan Science Communication, and University. He holds a doctorate in Sociology.

8 On the Interplay of Language, Hospitality and Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Threads

Interdisciplinary two-day workshop co-organised by Dr Khawla Badwan, Dr Samantha Wilkinson and Dr John Bellamy from Manchester Met Dates and Times: Thursday 2nd May 2019, 10am – 5pm. Friday 3rd May 2019, 9.30am – 5pm Location: BS 1.23 and BS 1.22, we mean by ‘community’, ‘belonging’, Business School, Manchester Met ‘integration’ and ‘home’ in geographical Tickets: £80 – See the RAH! website spaces/places characterised by increasing for further details heterogeneity and difference. As such, This two-day seminar aims to bring we encourage participants to consider about interdisciplinary discussions and the understanding of ‘place as meaning’ debates about how globalisation and (Entrikin, 1991) which views place as cosmopolitanism, on the one hand, and subjective and socially constructed with nationalism, on the other, have reproduced emphasis on individuals’ experiences contradictory and sometimes conflicting and emotions. We want to unpack the ideologies about language, hospitality and complexities surrounding notions such as integration. At the heart of this discussion ‘hospitality’, ‘community’ and ‘belonging’, lies the notion of ‘place’, which has with emphasis on how these perceptions been conceptualised differently in many are reflected in attitudes towards diversity disciplines leading us to question what and sharing. Manchester G.R.E.A.T. Family & Youth Crime Prevention Summit

Hosted by Manchester GREAT in short vocational courses for parents with partnership with Dr Rob Ralphs from children that are, or have been excluded. Manchester Met Robert Ralphs will be giving a keynote. Dates: Saturday 4th May – Dr Rob Ralphs is a Senior Lecturer in Monday 6th May 2019 Criminology and co-convenor of the Time: 9am – 5pm on both days interdisciplinary Substance Use and Location and Tickets: See the RAH! Addictive Behaviours (SUAB) research website for further details group at Manchester Metropolitan University. His 20 years of research and This event is organised by Manchester expertise spans both substance use and G.R.E.A.T. in partnership with drug markets including school surveys of Manchester Metropolitan University. drug use, research exploring the barriers Manchester G.R.E.A.T. is the Grass Roots to employment for ex-problematic drug Educational Academy for Transformation. users funded by the UK Drug Policy Manchester G.R.E.A.T. provides Commission, and the largest in-situ study information, guidance, mentoring, and of clubbers in the UK.

9 Call Me By Your Name Introduced by Dr Nicoletta DiCiolla (Manchester Metropolitan University) English and Italian Date: Tuesday 7th May 2019 Time: 6pm – 8.30pm Hosted by the Film, Languages and Media in Education (FLAME) Research Group Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met Tickets: See the RAH! website for Date: Tuesday 7th May – further details Tuesday 14th May 2019 Time: 6pm – 8.30pm Beyond Babel 2019 starts on Tuesday 7th Location: Check for each event below May with Call Me by Your Name, directed Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website by Luca Guadagnino and written by for further details James Ivory, based on the novel by André Alluding to the Bible story of The Tower Aciman. Set in the north of Italy in 1983, of Babel and the curse of diversity of the film portrays a coming-of-age story tongues, Beyond Babel is a film festival protagonized by a 17-year-old American – that aims to celebrate multilingual life, Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) – who showcase a wide range of films, share falls in love with a 24-year-old graduate, discussions on film aesthetics, and Oliver (Armie Hammer), who is helping broaden the visibility of multilingual Elio’s father. communities on screen. Planned by the Júlia Ist FLAME research group at Manchester Introduced by Marta Metropolitan University, the 5th edition F. Suarez (Manchester of Beyond Babel remains true to its Metropolitan University) core values: embrace the beauty of Spanish, Catalan, multilingualism; showcase transnational German and English film productions from different regions of the world; curate multilingual films which Date: Wednesday connect with the personal, the local, and 8th May 2019 the global and can open conversation Time: 6pm – 8.30pm across cultures. This year’s programme Location: will bring together four afternoons of Cervantes Institute, screenings, with film introductions 326-330 Deansgate, Campfield Avenue and Q&A sessions. It explores a wide Arcade, Manchester range of themes: cultural differences, Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website multilingualism, homeland, education, for further details gender and sexuality, global citizenship, On Wednesday 8th May, Júlia Ist (directed mobility, immigration, integration and by Elena Martín) tells the story of Júlia identity. The festival aims to engage, (Elena Martin), an architecture student inspire, connect and celebrate the from Barcelona, who experiments with culturally diverse communities the challenges of a new life in Berlin as an of Manchester. Erasmus student: mastering the language, setting up in a new environment, being separate from her family and long-term boyfriend.

10 Double Screening: a short film made with and by women Unity and from the Sudanese community in Community and Bradford. The film forms part of a wider No Cow on the Ice project called the Neighbourhood Film Introduced by Simona Project which has been developed by Manni (University of Bradford UNESCO City of Film and a York) and Dr Carmen range of partners and community groups Herrero (Manchester across Bradford. It was filmed by Simona Metropolitan University) Manni with the support of children from Swedish, Galician, the Sudanese Centre. English, and Spanish The second Date: Monday 13th May 2019 film, No Cow Time: 6pm – 8.30pm on the Ice, was Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met directed by Eloy Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website Domínguez Serén for further details in 2015. It is the self-portrayal of On Monday 13th May, there are two the filmmaker’s screenings. Unity and Community is experience as a migrant worker. With a skilful editing process, Eloy Domínguez Eloy Domínguez Serén Serén records and reflects on his two-year experience working in different part-time jobs in Sweden and captures his language learning journey and his adaptation to a new country and its cultural traditions. The documentary also exposes the poetic nature of the filmmaker’s connection with Simona Manni the Swedish landscape.

La Fille de Keltoum On Tuesday 14th May, La Fille de Introduced by Dr Isabelle Keltoum (The Daughter of Keltoum), Vanderschleden (Manchester directed by Mehdi Charef in 2001, tells Metropolitan University) the story of Rallia, a young girl raised in French, Arabic and English Switzerland, who travels to Algeria to find her biological mother. Date: Tuesday 14th May 2019 Time: 6pm – 8.30pm The film captures the capture harsh Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester environment and the resilience of the Metropolitan University Berber women. It explores ideas about Tickets: Free – See the RAH! identity, traditional culture, modernity website for further details versus strict religious code of conduct.

11 Sonic Waves: Music and Sound Beyond Borders

Hosted by Music and Sonic Studies, Keynote Speaker – Dr Linda O’Keeffe Manchester Met (MASSmcr) in association We are delighted to confirm Dr Linda with Sonic Cultures, University of O’Keeffe as our keynote speaker. Dr Manchester Linda O’Keeffe is Head of the School of Art at Edinburgh College of Art. She is Date: Wednesday 8th May 2019 both an artist and social scientist and Time: 10am – 5:30pm many of her projects, which include Location: Geoffrey Manton Building, solo exhibitions, performances and Rosamond St West, Manchester Met public installations, have had a multi- Tickets: See the RAH! website for disciplinary aspect to them. Her most further details recent body of work focused on the impact We are a group of multidisciplinary of renewable technology soundscapes researchers exploring the musical beats on rural environments and subsequently and sonic streets of Manchester and the further impact on local community beyond. For this symposium, we will to soundscapes. bring together academics, researchers, This has involved working with ecologists, practitioners, students and community environmentalists and technologists as organisations interested in exploring how well as engaging with communities, music, sound and the sonic can be used activists and artists. She has a body of to transcend boundaries and move beyond that work is currently touring, Hybrid borders. At a time of global uncertainties Soundscapes I-IV, as part of the Sounds from climate change and conflict zones, Like Her exhibition. Past works have to national and international political focused on sound through the theories of upheaval, we question if music and phenomenology and perception, examining the sonic can narrate and negate these the connections between communities changes and shift our understanding of and their urban spaces. This practice core and peripheral preoccupations. has involved deep investigations of the

12 social construction of sound alongside an interrogation of urban planning and MASS Assembly sensory management projects. O’Keeffe is founder of the feminist research group, Women in Sound Women Hosted by Music and Sonic Studies, on Sound, an international collective Manchester Met (MASSmcr) focused on making visible women in the field of sonic arts and sound studies Date: Wednesday 8th May 2019 research. Time: 7.30pm – 11pm Location: The Castle Hotel, About MASSmcr Oldham St, Manchester Established in 2018, Music and Sonic Tickets: See the RAH! website for Studies Manchester (MASSmcr), based further details at Manchester Metropolitan University, After a day discussing how music and conducts innovative research into the sonic transcends boundaries and music and sonic phenomena. We aim to is able to move beyond borders, these produce new ways of understanding and ideas are explored further through experiencing the production, reception practice and performance in Manchester’s and aesthetics of music, sound and other Northern Quarter. For this special evening sonic encounters. We seek to understand performance event following the day’s how sonic and musical practices shape our Sonic Waves symposium, we will host an understanding of the world and how they evening of music and sonics incorporating inform diverse identities, communities and a range of styles and improvisation spaces. Our interdisciplinary research in in The Castle Hotel on Oldham St. Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met will connect with, engage, and inspire All are welcome! public audiences of all ages across Greater Manchester and beyond. We endeavour to enrich Manchester’s internationally renowned music culture, which forms an important part of the city’s night time economy, and that is central to its post- industrial identity.

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Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service Insights ‘19

Manchester Met’s PERU is delighted to be hosting a series of events as part of Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service Insights ’19 Festival Date: Thursday 9th May – Thursday 30th May 2019 Tickets: See the RAH! website for further details

About PERU To mark the launch of the Reducing The Policy Evaluation and Research Reoffending website, the Policy Evaluation Unit at Manchester Metropolitan and Research Unit at Manchester University is a multi-disciplinary team of Metropolitan University is holding this evaluators, economists, sociologists and free seminar to discuss the state of the criminologists based in Manchester evidence on reducing re-offending. Met’s Sociology Department. Speakers include: Professor Chris Fox, Identity Psychology in Probation: Director of the Policy Evaluation and Implications for Working with Research Unit; Professor Stephen Morris, Personality Disorder Professor of Evaluation and member of the UK Government Trials Advisory An Academy for Social Justice Panel; and Daniella Sinagoga, Head of Commissioning Seminar hosted by Performance and Research, Interserve. PERU at Manchester Met The discussion will cover the state of Date: Tuesday 14th May 2019 the evidence on reducing re-offending, Time: 5pm – 7pm the challenges of evaluation and how to Location: See the RAH! website for overcome them, and an introduction to further details. the Reducing Reoffending website. Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website for further details Virtual Seminar – “How do I get Join Professor Shadd Maruna and published in an Academic Journal?” Emma Cluley (Managing Editor of the Hosted by Kevin Wong from PERU Probation Journal) for an enlightening at Manchester Met, co-editor of the BJCJ talk about ‘Identity Psychology in Probation: Implications for Working Date: Friday 17th May 2019 with Personality Disorder’. Time: 11am – 12.30pm Location: National conference call What Works in Reducing (details will be provided to attendees) Reoffending: Evidence and Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website Evaluation for further details Seminar hosted by PERU The British Journal of Community at Manchester Met Justice (BJCJ) is a peer reviewed Date: Thursday 16th May 2019 open access online journal which Time: 12pm – 5pm articulates, interrogates and debates Location: All Saints Building, research, theory, policy and practice Manchester Met on community justice from the United Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website Kingdom and internationally in other for further details jurisdictions.

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It is published by the Policy Evaluation Ever thought about doing a Masters in and Research Unit at Manchester Met. Criminology? Interested in hearing from colleagues and academics who have The Co-Editor of the British Journal of experience as both student and tutor. Community Justice (Kevin Wong) will be hosting a conference call with Criminal Want to explore the impact of a Masters Justice colleagues from across England in Criminology on careers both inside and Wales, to provide a learning and HMPPS, and more widely across other development opportunity to anyone who sectors? is interested in securing publication for their research, or in writing articles This virtual seminar will provide an for publication in academic journals, excellent networking opportunity to talk including the BJCJ. to colleagues and share experiences, in addition to receiving guidance from an Virtual Seminar – Undertaking expert on how to engage with academia a Masters in Criminology and enhance your career and learning opportunities. Co-hosted by Manchester Met and a recent Masters graduate from HMPPS Date: Friday 17th May 2019 Time: 12.30pm – 2pm Location: National conference call (details will be provided to attendees) Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website for further details

Also in the Insights ‘19 series is... The MANCHESTER CRIME AND JUSTICE Film Festival Hosted by crime experts from Manchester Met’s Department of Sociology Date: Consecutive Thursdays in May 2019 Time: 6pm – 8.30pm Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met This month-long festival brings together Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website crime fiction to illuminate crime fact. for further details During May 2019 crime experts from Manchester Met’s Department of Crime fact: Crime fiction Sociology will draw on their love of film A festival of crime films chosen by crime and their passion for crime research to experts to give an alternative take on the get behind the headlines and give an contemporary problem of crime, justice alternative view of crime, justice and and punishment in the 21st Century. punishment in the 21st century.

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Mona Lisa afterwards Manchester Met’s Kevin Introduced by Kevin Wong Wong will expose the obstacles faced by (Manchester Metropolitan University) prisoners leaving prison, why two out of three short term prisoners reoffend and Date: Thursday 9th May 2019 what could be done to help prisoners go Time: 6pm – 8.30pm straight. Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website ABOUT THE SPEAKER for further details Kevin Wong is Associate Director of the Policy Evaluation and Eighties neo-noir crime classic starring Research Unit (PERU) in Manchester Bob Hoskins Cathy Tyson and Michael Met’s Department of Sociology. Caine written and directed by Neil Jordan He has over twenty years’ experience as a practitioner, policy George is a small-time crook just out advisor and researcher in the of prison who discovers his tough- rehabilitation and resettlement of guy image is out of date. Reduced to prisoners and people on probation. working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree As a scriptwriter Kevin has written when she asks him to find a young dramas for Radio 4, the BBC World colleague from her King’s Cross days. Service, the Canadian Broadcasting That’s when George’s troubles just start. Corporation, BBC Film, the Unity Theatre Liverpool and Les Deux Going straight…it aint easy – In an Mondes Montreal. introduction to the film and Q and A

The Purge Introduced by Dr Deborah Jump (Manchester Metropolitan University) Date: Thursday 16th May 2019 Time: 6pm – 8.30pm Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website for further details Modern horror classic created by James DeMonaco and starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey. The first in the franchise. In a dystopian America, for one day a year, the populace are allowed to commit crime without fear of penalty. A family are targeted by a gang when they give shelter to a wounded stranger. Will they survive the day? If you could commit crime and get away with it, would you? – Introducing the

16 This 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and starring Jimmy Cliff is said to have “brought reggae to the world” and features songs by Cliff, Desmond Dekker and The Maytals. A struggling reggae singer falls foul of a manipulative producer and resorts to petty crime to make ends meet. He deals marijuana and becomes a local folk hero after killing some abusive cops. Death in paradise? – Ian MacDonald will draw on his experience as a policing advisor to the Jamaican Government to shed light on petty crime, police film and in the Q and A afterwards corruption and police legitimacy in the Manchester Met’s Deb Jump will share Caribbean. insights into what stops most of us from committing crime; why these controls might breakdown; and what happens ABOUT THE SPEAKER when they do. Ian MacDonald served with the police in Liverpool for most of his ABOUT THE SPEAKER career and was an Assistant Chief Deborah ‘Deb’ Jump is a Senior Constable at the National Police Lecturer in Manchester Met’s Staff College. Department of Sociology and Head He was an officer during the Toxteth of Youth Justice at the Manchester riots in 1981 and was a policing Centre for Youth Studies. A former advisor to the Jamaican Government youth justice practitioner and from 1987 to ‘91. manager of fifteen years’ experience, Deb’s research interests are youth He monitored the South African justice, sport, and desistance from policing of KwaZulu-Natal during the crime, and she has a particular election of Nelson Mandela. interest in the impact of boxing on young offender’s attitudes towards He worked for the Foreign Office in violent crime. Venezuela on community policing and in Uruguay in combatting police corruption, and was an assistant The Harder They Come director in Immigration Enforcement This is the festival’s guest pick is by and Intelligence in the North of Ian MacDonald, a former Assistant England. Chief Constable of Police He has guest lectured at Date: Thursday 23rd May 2019 Manchester Met and now teaches Time: 6pm – 8.30pm at the University of Bolton and is a Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met playwright. Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website for further details

17 Do The Right Thing ‘Tempers flare over trifles’ – Introduced by Dr Gavin Bailey (Manchester In an introduction and Q&A, Metropolitan University) and Dr Martin Dr Gavin Bailey from Manchester Met Flanagan (University of Salford) will reflect on questions of identities, Date: Thursday 30th May 2019 social cohesion, and race-based Time: 6pm – 8.30pm animosities. Location: 70 Oxford St, He will be joined by Dr Martin Flanagan Manchester Met from the University of Salford. Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website for further details Spike Lee’s landmark film as writer ABOUT THE SPEAKERS and director features Lee, Danny Aiello, Dr Gavin Bailey is a Research Rosie Perez, John Turturro, and Associate with PERU in Manchester Samuel L. Jackson. Met’s Department of Sociology. Described as “smart, vibrant, and urgent After a few years of running second- without being didactic”, Lee’s film hand record shops, he moved charts the tragic consequences which into research for government and ensue when racial tension builds up in a community organisations, eventually Brooklyn neighbourhood on the hottest transitioning into academia. day of the summer. His work has examined communal This showing of Do the Right Thing will conflict, racisms, extremisms and celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the hate crime, and young people, youth film’s release in the UK. culture and politics. Dr Martin Flanagan co-authored The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe (2016, Bloomsbury), the first full-length scholarly study of the production entity, with Mike McKenny and Andy Livingstone. His doctoral thesis (Sheffield) was concerned with the cinematic relevance of Bakhtinian theories, and was published as Bakhtin and the Movies in 2009 with Palgrave Macmillan. Publishing regularly on comic book, superheroic and general contemporary Hollywood themes (Authorship, New Review of Film and Television Studies, IXQUIC, Reconstruction, and Closure journals), Flanagan leads the Film Studies BA at University of Salford, UK

18 Games and Philosophy

Hosted by the Manchester Game Studies requires a willingness to “play the fool”, Network (MSGN) and the Manchester that chastens the destructive human will Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Met to mastery. In this seminar, Dr Germaine Buckley will challenge accounts of play Date: Wednesday 15th May 2019 that characterise it as a humanist mode, Time: 4pm – 6pm that place human agency front and centre: Location: Room 302, Geoffrey Manton humans construct and deconstruct the Building, Rosamond St West, world through play. In contrast, this Manchester Met seminar will suggest that LARP asks its Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website players to account for the unhuman nature for further details of reality, to consider that fact that it is the In this seminar, Dr Chloé Germaine world that makes us. Buckley will explore the philosophy of Dr Chloé Germaine Buckley is Senior games and the potential of play to disrupt Lecturer in English and Film at players’ common-sense perspective of Manchester Metropolitan University, where the world. Various “turns” in modern she teaches courses on Gothic Cinema, philosophy, including materialist and Children’s and Young Adult literature speculative philosophies, suggest and supervises PhD research projects in that humans need to think beyond an various aspects of Gothic literature, film anthropocentric perspective. Instead and popular culture. Chloé has diverse of seeing matter and nature as passive research interests within Gothic Studies. resources for human conception, we Her first book explores 21st century need to recognise nonhuman vitality and children’s Gothic literature and film, but agency. she has also written on Zombies, Weird Various analogue forms of gaming, Fiction, Postcolonial Gothic, and Witches. especially live-action roleplaying games, Chloé is a member of the produce experiences for players that Manchester Centre for Gothic accord with this ethical task. LARP Studies and the Manchester might be a form of training, one which Game Studies Network.

19 The Longer Ruskin’s Read with Alan Hollinghurst Manchester: Hosted by The Manchester Writing School ‘Devil’s at Manchester Met Date: Thursday 16th May 2019 Darkness’ to Time: 7pm – 9pm Location: International Beacon City Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY Exhibition Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website for further details What does it take to be a successful Co-curated by Dr Rachel Dickinson novelist? Just what does it mean to lead and hosted by Special Collections at a life in writing? Manchester Met The Longer Read takes a career-wide Date: Monday 20th May – look at the lives of authors, unpicking Friday 9th August 2019 the techniques and habits that writers Time: Monday – Friday 10am – 4pm, use in their everyday work. These in- conversation events are brought to you by Saturday 12noon – 4pm the Manchester Writing School and the (until 15th June) International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Location: Special Collections Gallery, with a signing and bookstall by Blackwell’s 3rd Floor, All Saints Library, Bookshop. Manchester Met Alan Hollinghurst is a Gloucestershire Tickets: Free – Just turn up! novelist, poet and short story writer with numerous awards to his name, including This year marks the 200th anniversary the Somerset Maugham Award, the James of the birth of John Ruskin (1819- Tait Black Memorial Prize and, in 2004, the 1900), the prominent and influential Man Booker Prize. He initially set out to be Victorian writer, art critic, artist and a short story writer, but quickly found his social thinker. Ruskin gave some feet as with longer-form fiction. of his most important lectures in His first novel was The Swimming-Pool Manchester and was enthusiastically Library in 1988, which paints a picture received by Mancunians who formed of London gay aristocratic life. His 2004 the first Ruskin Society and the first novel The Line of Beauty won the Man exhibition dedicated to him in 1904. Booker Prize for Fiction and was adapted This exhibition celebrates Ruskin’s for BBC Television. His sixth and latest novel The Sparsholt Affair explores intimate relationship with Manchester and the relationships across three generations and city’s response to him. was described by The Guardian as “the Ruskin spoke out against the social, novel that other novelists were all talking about this year”. political and environmental injustices of his day. He criticised the worst “Hollinghurst is a master storyteller … aspects of industrialisation which thrilling in the rather awful way that the best Victorian novels are, so that one finds caused pollution to flow from the city’s oneself galloping somewhat shamefacedly factories, leading him to describe the through the pages in order to discover what smog that settled over Manchester as happens next.” (John Banville) the ‘Devil’s Darkness’.

20 Ruskin in Manchester 2019

Festival celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birthday of John Ruskin, co-hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University

The Ruskin’s Manchester: ‘Devil’s Darkness’ to Beacon City Exhibition is a part of Ruskin in Manchester 2019, which will take part over the summer in 2019.

Other festival highlights held at or co- Image credit: Interlocking Floral textile Pattern by hosted by Manchester Metropolitan Ruskin Linen Industry, c. 1890 © Collection of the University include: Guild of St George/Museums Sheffield The John Ruskin Prize for Art 2019: He promoted access to museums and Agent of Change award ceremony art education for the working classes. (11th July) and exhibition (12th July – During his lecture ‘The Unity of Art’, at 24th August) at the Holden Gallery, the Manchester School of Art, he spoke organised by The Big Draw; about education, manufacture, craft and art, declaring that, ‘FINE ART is that A talk about Work by Financial Times in which the hand, the head, and journalist and author of Ruskinland the heart of man go together’. This Andrew Hill; lecture is at the heart of this exhibition, which uses architecture, books, drawings, Performances by actor Paul O’Keefe, paintings, studio pottery and textiles to re-enacting lectures Ruskin gave in introduce Ruskin and demonstrate his Manchester; importance and influence on art, craft A Sketchcrawl of The People’s Palaces and design education. of Manchester led by architectural The exhibition has been curated by historian, broadcaster and artist Dr Rachel Dickinson, Principal Lecturer Dr Jonathan Foyle. (Interdisciplinary Studies/English) at Manchester Metropolitan University and See the RAH! website for further details Director of Education at Ruskin’s Guild as they are announced or visit the Ruskin of St. George, with in Manchester Festival and Global Ruskin contributions from 200 Celebrations website at other partners. www.ruskin200.com.

Image accreditation: Ruskin Linen Industry Textile Pattern © Collection of the Guild of St George / Museums Sheffield

21 On the History of Being – after The Black Notebooks

Conference hosted by the Department of ‘Black Notebooks’ offer new views and Philosophy at Manchester Met perspectives on Heidegger’s writings from the 1930s and 1940s, and beyond. Date: Friday 31st May – They do so from various angles, including Sunday 2nd June 2019 reflections on metaphysics, on politics Time: See full schedule for details as much as on the political situation Location: International Anthony Burgess of the time, on the main authors that Foundation, 3 Cambridge St, Heidegger worked on during these years, Manchester M1 5BY on aesthetics, on his personal position in Tickets: Conference fee applies – Germany, as well as on the works he had See the RAH! website for further details already published. In celebration of Volume 50 of the JBSP, In other words, for anyone trying to the British Society for Phenomenology understand, evaluate and transform is running a three-day conference, Heidegger’s later thinking, to see where examining the contribution of Heidegger’s and how he moves beyond the parameters Schwarze Hefte (Black Notebooks) to an of the historico-transcendental tradition understanding of the question of the of the 19th century, these volumes offer history of being. immeasurable wealth and it is this wealth Following the publication of the that this conference aims to uncover. Contributions to Philosophy, the Besinnung and the History of Being, the question of the significance of Heidegger’s later work has been widely discussed. However, the manifold difficulties raised by this Turning from the Question of the Meaning of Being to the Question of the History of Being, has led many philosophers to condemn the obscurity of these later works, particularly in contrast to the clarity of Being and Time. And yet, insofar as Heidegger’s later philosophy attempts to make our contemporary world question-worthy in an essential sense, it belongs with the most significant thought philosophy currently has to offer. The aim of this conference is to explore the importance of the Schwarze Hefte (GA 94, 95, 96 & 97) beyond their contribution to Heidegger’s political biography. While attention has up to now focused almost exclusively on other matters, the

22 The Gothic 1980s: The Decade That Scared Us

Symposium organised by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn from the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Met Date: Saturday 8th June 2019 Time: 9am – 7pm, followed by a screening of The Lost Boys Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met Tickets: £10, £5 concessions – See the RAH! website for further details The Gothic 1980s: This symposium seeks to re-evaluate The Lost Boys the Gothic mood and culture of the Screening 1980s and the legacy of this decade In partnership in contemporary Gothic studies. with Pilot Light While many disparage the decade as TV Festival a period of soulless commercialism, avid consumerism and the decade that Date: Saturday fashion forgot, the 1980s introduced 8th June 2019 new modes of communication, new Time: 7pm – 9pm commercial appreciation for Gothic Location: 70 Oxford St and horror texts, and is now, in Manchester Met contemporary times, suffused with Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website a sense of nostalgia. The seeds of for further details discontent in our contentious and The Lost Boys (dir. Joel Schumacher / fractured present were sown in the Year: 1987 / Runtime: 97 minutes / 1980s, making it an important if Certificate: 15) divisive (and richly Gothic) decade. It is the decade of Threads, The Teenage brothers Michael (Jason Terminator, and Ghostbusters (all Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move 1984); ‘stranger danger campaigns’, with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to milk carton kids, and child abductions a small town in northern California. (Adam Walsh etc); media spectacle, While the younger Sam meets a pair 24 hour news cycles, and numerous of kindred spirits in geeky comic-book ‘shocking’ TV specials; increased and nerds Edward (Corey Feldman) and explicit special FX in film and the Alan (Jamison Newlander), the angst- popularity of ‘plastic reality’; the rise ridden Michael soon falls for Star (Jami of censorship, the PG13 certificate, Gertz) – who turns out to be in thrall the Parental Advisory sticker, to David (Kiefer Sutherland), leader of ‘video nasties’ and the 1984 Video a local gang of vampires. Recordings Act. It is the last decade Sam and his new friends of the analogue era before the global must save Michael and advent of the internet. Star from the undead.

23 Detecting Pessimism: Thomas Ligotti and The Weird in an Age of Post-Truth – A Symposium

Symposium hosted by Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rachid M’Rabty from the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University Date: Wednesday 12th June 2019 Time: 2pm – 7.30pm, followed by a screening of the True Detective monologues, see below Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website for further details This free symposium centres on the fiction, theory and impact of the acclaimed American horror fiction writer Thomas Ligotti. Ligotti is increasingly seen as one of the key literary horror and weird fiction writers of recent decades whose works present a unique, bleak and controversial portrayal of both human existence and society. This symposium follows the republication by Penguin of Ligotti’s An afternoon of thought-provoking and award-winning non-fiction work The genre-challenging papers will be followed Conspiracy Against the Human Race in by a wine reception and the launch of the 2018 and the recent re-release of his first new edition of The Conspiracy Against the two volumes of short stories, Songs of a Human Race. The day will culminate with Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe. an open floor discussion of a selection of Ligotti-influenced, weird and pessimistic Making the most of the expertise at monologues from the first season of Manchester Metropolitan University, the True Detective (2014), a screening run in symposium will comprise of two panels collaboration with Pilot Light TV Festival with papers delivered by our staff and and Morag Rose (University of Liverpool). students on Ligotti and the weird mode, and will include a keynote delivered by Do please join us for what promises weird expert Professor Roger Luckhurst. to be a vibrant day of events that aim We will explore the works, philosophy and to shed light (and an equal measure influence of Ligotti within a diverse range of darkness) on how the weird engages of contexts, from philosophical nihilism with contemporary politics and the and pessimism, weird fiction and horror to human condition in an increasingly his impact on film and television. pessimistic age.

24 Detecting Pessimism: True Detective Monologues screening

In partnership with Pilot Light TV Festival Date: Wednesday 12th June 2019 With talks and discussion Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm by Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and Location: 70 Oxford St, Manchester Met Dr Morag Rose on how the Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website True Detective monologues draw for further details on Gothic influence. They will also examine how the stylistic Upon airing in 2014, True Detective blew rendering of these monologues audiences away with its bleak, stylised play with star convention, the telling of a southern gothic detective story. Southern Gothic style of the series, One of the biggest draws of the show was and the bleak outlook conveyed main character Rust Cohle’s sprawling, in the series as a whole. These dark philosophical monologues throughout elements in turn are perfectly in the 8 episodes. Whilst there is still a tune with Ligotti’s philosophy and debate simmering about whether creator pessimism. Nic Pizzolatto was simply paying homage or plagiarising horror writer Thomas Sorcha Ní Fhlainn is Senior Ligotti, there is absolutely no doubt that Lecturer in English Literature and the neo-lovecrafitan writer’s DNA is Film at Manchester Metropolitan across the show. In this event we will be and a founder member of the screening the monologues that are highly Manchester Centre for Gothic influenced by Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Studies. She is the author of Against the Human Race, which lives in Postmodern Vampires in Film, the spirit of Rust Cohle, through his ideals Fiction and Popular Culture (2019) of philosophical pessimism, speculation, and the editor of Our Monstrous scepticism, and nihilism. (S)kin (2010) and Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer (2017). Morag Rose is Lecturer in Geography and Planning at the University of Liverpool. Morag is the founder of The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement), a Manchester based collective of artists, activists and wanderers interested in psychogeography and the hidden stories of the city, a member of The Walking Artists Network and winner of the 2017 Living Streets Charles Mayer award.

25 Drugs: International North West Graphic Novels and Comics Conference Inaugural conference for the new network, Drugs: North West, of which the SUAB Date: Monday 24th – Friday 28th June 2019, Research Centre at Manchester with free events on Wednesday as part of our Metropolitan University is a part public and practitioner day Time: All day Date: Monday 24th June 2019 Location: Geoffrey Manton Building, Time: Full schedule to be Rosamond St West, Manchester Met announced Tickets: Conference fee applies, Wednesday Location: Business School, is open to all and mostly free – See the RAH! Manchester Met website for further details Tickets: See the RAH! website for further details Storyworlds and Drugs: North West is a new network of drugs researchers Transmedia Universes working in North West The notion of a storyworld, that is to say a England. It aims to bring shared universe within which the settings, together North West drugs characters, objects, events, and actions of researchers – those researching one or more narrative are present, existed any form of substance use, long before the present day media. Examples legal or illegal, drugs markets, include myths and legends of antiquity, or drug policy – to raise folktales and Arthurian romances. Today’s awareness of the diverse and storyworlds, described by Mark Wolf (2012) as, innovative research in our “transnarrative, transmedia, and transauthorial region, and to foster multi- in nature”, open up fresh opportunities. disciplinary collaborations. Storyworlds have found a fertile terrain in comic We are delighted to announce strips and graphic novels. After all, the text/ our inaugural conference images form provides narratives dedicated to will be held on Monday 24th specific characters, times and places; these June 2019 at Manchester narratives are often used as source material for Metropolitan University’s adaptations in film, games and broadcast media. Business School. Consequently creators, fans and corporations The conference will showcase can interact with other forms beyond comics, current research, support thereby developing characters and narratives, networking opportunities and as well as exploring new storytelling methods. bring together academic and non-academic researchers from Public and Practitioner Day a variety of disciplines. The Wednesday will be a public and practitioner day, which all are welcome to attend. See our full day schedule on the pages to follow:

26 Launch of ‘There’s No Bus Map an opportunity to find out more about for Dementia’ Mini-Comic the creation of the comic and to discuss Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 ways it might be used when working Time: 1pm – 1.45pm with people with dementia and their Location: GM335, Geoffrey Manton families and carers. The workshop Building, Rosamond St West, will be co-facilitated by researchers, Manchester Met artists, people living with dementia Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website and dementia advocates who were for further details involved in the project and there will be opportunities to find out more about all Join us for the launch of ‘There’s No Bus aspects of the project. Map for Dementia’, a new mini-comic about the experience of living well with Laydeez Do Comics Workshop: dementia and the condition’s social and Your Life Stories as Comics emotional impacts. The comic was created Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 through a series of arts workshops in which Time: 2pm – 4pm artists and people living with dementia Location: Geoffrey Manton Building, have worked together to find ways to Rosamond St West, Manchester Met represent and depict the condition in a Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website comics format. The finished comic aims to for further details improve understanding around what it is Rachael Ball, Lou Crosby, like to have dementia and how people with Dr Nicola Streeten dementia would prefer to be treated. This session will begin with a brief At the launch event, you can meet the illustrated presentation of the possibilities artists involved and also participants of the comics form. This will be followed from the Beth Johnson Foundation by some fun practical exercises to who co-created the comic. There will introduce you to drawing comics. be an opportunity to hear about their No drawing experience or knowledge experiences and ask questions, as well of comics is required to as collect your free copy of the comic. participate. Please bring something to draw with. ‘There’s No Bus Map for Dementia’: Workshop for health/social care practitioners and carers Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 Time: 2pm – 3.30pm Location: GM335, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond St West, Manchester Met Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website for further details Following the launch of ‘There’s No Bus Map for Dementia’, we’ll be holding a workshop for practitioners and carers who support people living with dementia. The workshop will be

27 Paul Gravett Keynote: Laydeez do Comics The ‘Outside’ World: Isolationism Manchester Pop-Up and Interconnectedness in Comics Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 Cultures Time: 6.30pm – 8.45pm Date: Wednesday 26th June 2019 Location: Room G34, Business School, Time: 4.30pm – 5.30pm Manchester Met Location: Geoffrey Manton Building, Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website Rosamond St West, Manchester Met for further details Tickets: £5 – See the RAH! website ALL WELCOME (mixed event) for further details Join us for our first Laydeez do Comics In our high-speed, highly connected, event in Manchester in conjunction ‘borderless’ world, it’s easy to forget that with the International Graphics Novel export, exchange and trade have always and Comics Conference at Manchester been part of the global industries of Metropolitan University. The night comics. promises an LDC special. Since its early newspaper strips began Dr Nicola Streeten: An Overview to be syndicated abroad over a century of Laydeez do Comics ago, America has long been the most Laydeez do Comics is a women-led enterprising, if not aggressive exporter of international forum with a focus on the its cartoon properties worldwide. However autobiographical and the domestic in Britain, France and other centres of comics and graphic novels established comics’ production were also proactive in in 2009. Celebrating a decade of activity, seeking fresh markets for their products. co-founder and director Nicola Streeten Even a nation as largely self-isolating for will talk about some of the achievements several centuries as Japan owes much during this time as well as future in the modern forms of manga to crucial aspirations and the rationale for the work connections with the West. Manga has to continue. evolved in response to its eventual huge Rachael Ball discusses ‘Wolf’ success abroad in translation, adjusting (Selfmadehero, 2018) from a medium targeted mainly at its ‘Wolf’ explores parent loss and grief own local readership to one increasingly from a child’s point of view. It combines aware of appealing, at least in part, to fantasy with real experience and is set international audiences. in Rachael’s home town, Blackpool in Paul Gravett explores how the big three – the 70’s. Her first graphic novel, ‘The American comics, Franco-Belgian bande Inflatable Woman’ was a Guardian best dessinée and Japanese manga – as well GN 2015. She started her cartoon career as other players have been determined as a cartoonist for Manchester’s City to spread their sales abroad and also Life in the 1980’s. Rachael also teaches receptive, in the end, to enriching workshops in writing graphic novels external content and influences. The more and children’s books and is one of the interconnected comics cultures become, is coordinators for the London branch of it more likely that specific national styles, Laydeez Do Comics. ‘Wolf’ has been themes and schools are set to vanish described as a ‘timeless classic.’ and for a stateless, internationalist ‘world comics’ style to emerge?

28 Sarah Lightman discusses ‘The Book of Sarah’ (Myriad Editions, 2019) The ‘Book of Sarah’ (Myriad Editions) is a deeply subversive autobiography set in the Jewish heartlands of north west London, that questions religion, family, motherhood and what it takes to be an artist. Sarah has a PhD in women’s autobiographical comics and is co-founder of Laydeez Do Comics. Shromona Das discusses #MeToo in India Artist and researcher currently pursuing an MPhil thesis on feminist and queer graphic narratives at, JNU, India. Shromona Das will be talking about her work including #MeToo in India a call out to her abusers in her powerful first graphic narrative.

29 Collaboration, Creativity and Complexities: Developing Networks and Practices of Co-production with Children and Young people

Conference hosted by The Date: Wednesday 26th – Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, Thursday 27th June 2019 The Education and Social Research Time: All day Institute and The Health, Location: 4th floor, Brooks Building, Psychology and Communities 53 Bonsall St, Manchester Met Centre at Manchester Tickets: Conference fee applies – See Metropolitan University the RAH! website for further details

30 This is one of the first international Confirmed Speakers include Michelle multidisciplinary conferences to be held Fine, Distinguished Professor of in the UK with a focus on co-production Critical Psychology, Women’s Studies, and creative methods that welcomes American Studies and Urban Education academics and community partners from The Graduate Centre, CUNY; into a shared space. Co-production Margaret Somerville, Professor of has become more mainstream recently Education from Western Sydney within a number of disciplines and University; and Julie McCarthy, contexts across the social sciences and Great Place Project Manager, Greater arts and humanities. This conference Manchester Combined Authority. will address methods and ideas in the broad area of co-production with a focus on making change happen. Our interest is on sharing ideas, inspiration and experiences around co-production with children and young people.

31 Absent Presences: Shifting the Core and Peripheries of the Gothic Mode

Two day conference organised by MA produced by Gothic researchers both with and PhD students studying the Gothic Manchester Metropolitan University and at Manchester Met beyond. The conference focuses on the neglected aspects of Gothic studies, from Date: Thursday 27th – representation of marginalised groups Friday 28th June 2019 both in text and in authorship, to under- Time: 9am – 6pm both days explored media types such as new media Location: See the RAH! website for and online video. further details Tickets: See RAH! website for The conference aims to expand the further details ‘Gothic canon’ beyond the traditional texts Absent Presences is a two day conference and perspectives, and aims to establish taking place on the 27th and 28th of a new, wider definition of what can be June, inspired by current research being considered Gothic.

32 New Approaches to Transmedia and Language Pedagogy International Conference

Convened by Manchester Met and language teaching, MFL languages and supported by the OWRI and the AHRC media, transmedia storytelling, creativity in the language classroom, transmediality Date: Thursday 27th – and conflict, educational platforms, Friday 28th June 2019 augmented reality, and translingual art, Time: All day among others. Location: Business School, Manchester Met The selection of papers cover research Tickets: Conference fee applies – from Brazil, Spain, Canada, Portugal, See the RAH! website for further details Argentina, Estonia, China, India, Germany and the UK. There are currently Manchester Metropolitan University over 20 confirmed papers and two keynote announces its New Approaches to speakers. We aim to publish a selection of Transmedia and Language Pedagogy papers in an edited volume. International Conference, which will bring together international researchers in all areas of Modern Languages, Pedagogy and Transmedia. This conference is being convened by Manchester Metropolitan University and supported by the Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) project entitled ‘Cross-language dynamics: reshaping community’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). This is an inter-disciplinary conference and papers have been accepted from the following areas: audio-visual translation (AVT), social media as transmedia tool, interlingual competence, film literacy and

33 Organising Queer Film Festivals and Screenings – A Workshop on the Practical Challenges in Organising Queer Film Events

Hosted by Dr Christian Klesse and to examine the practical challenges Dr Jon Binnie from Manchester Met in organising queer film festivals and Date: Saturday 29th June 2019 related events screening films with LGBT Time: 9.30am – 3.30pm and queer themes. The idea is to bring Location: Business School, together people from Manchester, the UK Manchester Met and Europe to share their experiences Tickets: Free – See the RAH! website of organising and participating in these for further details events. What underpins decisions about programming? How to obtain funding to LGBT and queer film festivals are key run such events? How to build audiences? sites for the screening of films with LGBT What about volunteers? How important or queer themes that may be otherwise are issues such as food and drink in difficult to access in mainstream cinema. making festivals welcoming and fun? The number of such festivals has grown Can queer film festivals be done better? exponentially since the establishment of How can such festivals address and the Frameline Film Festival in 1977. It has not reproduce social injustice in their been estimated that there are now almost organisational practices and decision- 400 LGBT/queer film festivals across the making? What lessons can be learned globe. These events provide a distinctive from listening to the experiences of platform for the discussions of issues and others? This workshop does not seek themes that may otherwise be ignored to discover all the answers to these in both mainstream cinema and other questions but provides a chance for spaces of the LGBTQ community such as participants to discuss and share their racism in the LGBTQ community. Talks knowledge and experience. and discussions that accompany such screenings provide a unique opportunity for audiences to engage within LGBT and queer themes in cinema. Accordingly, such festivals are increasingly recognised as important spaces for the production of queer community. At the same time, such festivals are not immune to broader criticisms of the exclusive nature of some LGBT and queer spaces. Building on the success of an the international symposium, Queer Film Festivals as Activism, which took place at Manchester Metropolitan University in February 2016, this workshop seeks

34 Multicultural Philosophy

Conference organised by Professor Lloyd of this, in recent years there have many Strickland (Manchester Metropolitan calls for western Philosophy departments University) and Crispen Sachikonye to diversify their curricula and introduce (University of Manchester) non-western thinkers and ideas into their courses. Date: Monday 15th – Tuesday 16th July 2019 The case for doing so is compelling but Time: 9am – 5pm a practical problem remains: as most Location: Manchester Hall, academics in such departments have 36 Bridge St, Manchester M3 3BT been trained exclusively in the western Tickets: £15.50 – See the RAH! website philosophical tradition and are specialists for further details in some aspect thereof, how might those Philosophy, understood as the attempt who wish to include non-western ideas to understand our world and our place in and voices in their courses best go about it, is not a uniquely western or European doing so in a non-tokenistic way? Which phenomenon, with longstanding and ideas and/or which thinkers from the many esteemed philosophical traditions in longstanding non-western philosophical China, Japan, India, and the Muslim traditions should western philosophers world, and sophisticated philosophies seek to include in their courses? And what throughout Africa. context do they need to be able to teach these ideas and thinkers effectively? Yet ideas and figures from these traditions are absent from all but a tiny minority of The aim of this conference is to consider western philosophy departments. Because different answers to these questions.

Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging

14th ESA Conference to be held in Every other year since 1992, the European Manchester, Professor Gary Pollock Sociological Association has organised (Manchester Metropolitan University) is a big conference in different European chair of the local organising committee countries. From 20th to 23rd August 2019, we are expecting up to 3000 Date: Tuesday 20th – participants from all over the world to Friday 23rd August 2019 come to Manchester, UK for the 14th ESA Time: All day – Conference dealing with “Europe and see website for full schedules Beyond”. We hope you will join us, too! Location: Various locations The conference will include an evening event on Wednesday 21st August 2019, Tickets: Conference fee applies – which is open to all. The local organising See the RAH! website for further details committee is preparing a special event around the 200th anniversary of Peterloo.

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