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RAH! Manchester Met Research in Arts and Humanities at RAH! Manchester Met RAH! Events Programme Sept–Dec 2018 www.mmu.ac.uk/rah Contents Key Faculty Events 3 Spiritualism and the Supernatural 20 Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness 5 National Creative Writing Industry Day 2018 20 Drawing the Modern: The Work of Gordon Hodkinson and Post-war More than 100 Stories: Architectural Education in Manchester 6 A Collaboration 21 Suffrage Symposium: A Convivial The Lapsed Clubber Project: Discussion in Words and Music 7 Rave on! 22 Can the University Survive? 7 Encountering Corpses IV 23 Asia Triennial Manchester 2018: The ESRC Festival of Social Science 24 Opening Night 8 Carol Ann Duffy & Friends: Asia Triennial Festival: Owen Lowery 24 The Last Known Pose 9 Jamie Johnson – War and the Robert Beckford: Is God a White Politics of Outrage 25 Racist? ‘Woking’ Gospel Music in Britain 10 The Rural: Commons 26 Asia Triennial Festival 2018: Apocalyptic Ashton: John Wroe, Who Do You Think You Are? Tameside’s Prophet 27 Symposium 11 Professor Ola Uduku Inaugural Jules Townshend – Why All Radicals Lecture 27 Should Be Post Marxists 12 Reading the Country House Professor A.W Moore ‘Immortality Conference 28 and Infinity’ 13 Writers at Manchester Met: sam sax 29 An Education in Concrete Tour: Poetry Emergency: A Northwest The Built Works of Gordon Radical Poetry Festival 30 Hodkinson 14 Donna Jackson – A Better Future for the Special Collections Arts and Crafts World: The Horn of Africa and the Discovery Day 14 Establishment of the United Nations 31 Tim Brennan Inaugural Lecture 15 Ghostly Stories in the Great Chamber 32 Radosc Pisania: Manchester Polish Professor Bryan Cheyette – Poetry Festival 16 The Ghetto and Antisemitism 33 Brexit Wounds: A One-Day Over Here: US Presidents in Britain 34 Symposium on Cultural Responses to Leaving the EU 16 Carol Ann Duffy & Friends: Zaffar Kunial 35 Haunted Heritage and Literature 17 The Life of Buildings 18 Olga Khrushcheva – Critical evaluation of the RES support mechanism in Russia 19 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 is home to several areas of Humanities at Manchester Met. Launching in 2017/18, world-leading and internationally RAH! built on the enormous excellent research and we pride success of our ‘Humanities ourselves on our innovation in Public’ (HiP) Festival, which has run since 2013/14. in teaching and learning. Our RAH! will present a rolling research areas include Art, Media programme of events and Design (Manchester School throughout the academic of Art); Humanities, Languages year. and Social Science; and Fashion Instead of being split into (Manchester Fashion Institute). thematic strands, the 2018/19 program will showcase We are proud to present a series of key everything public-facing and faculty events below. research-based within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met University. Manchester School Our research seeks to make a of Art MA Show 2018 real difference to people’s lives. An exhibition of work by art, design and media postgraduate students This year’s program will include: Date: Friday 21st September – • Public lectures and seminars Monday 1st October 2018 • Film screenings Private View: Thursday 20 September • Art exhibitions 2018, 5pm – 8.30pm • Conferences Location: Manchester School of Art • Readings and author events For more details, please go to: • And much more! art.mmu.ac.uk/mashow/ You can find tickets and further details at our website: Arts Festival 2018 www.mmu.ac.uk/rah A film and arts festival, which will explore hate crime and inclusivity as Additional events will be two opposing constructs added after the publication of Date: Friday 12th October – this brochure so please check Sunday 14th October 2018 the website for more details! Location: The Union Tickets: Free – available at theunionmmu.org/arts-festival 2-3 RAH! EVENTS PROGRAMME Home Festival Manchester Fashion Institute A series of themed events, Presentation activities and talks focusing on Date: Thursday 16th May 2019 how Manchester is a dynamic and Location: Benzie building diverse city with a rich social, For more details, please go to: cultural and radical past. fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk Date: Autumn and spring term Location: Geoffrey Manton Tickets: Limited tickets available to the Manchester School of Art public on Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/o/ Degree Show 2019 faculty-of-arts-amp-humanities-outreach- Date: Friday 7th June – and-enrichment-team-7774079273 Wednesday 19th June 2019 Location: Manchester School of Art For more details, please go to: art.mmu.ac.uk Faculty of Arts and Humanities 2019 Undergraduate Showcase Date: Monday 18th March 2019 MFI Undergraduate Degree Closing ceremony: Show 2019 Friday 22nd March 2019 Date: Friday 7th June – Times: 9am-6pm daily Wednesday 19th June 2019 Location: Geoffrey Manton Atrium Location: Manchester School of Art For more details, please go to: For more details, please go to: art.mmu.ac.uk mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/students/ student-showcase/ Manchester School of Art MA Show 2019 Faculty of Arts and Humanities Date: Friday 20th September – Student Conference Monday 30th September 2019 Date: Wednesday 20th March 2019 Private View: Time: Afternoon Thursday 19th September 2019 Location: Geoffrey Manton Location: Manchester School of Art For more details, please go to: For more details, please go to: art.mmu.ac.uk mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/students/ student-conference Manchester Writing School Many of our writers will be taking part Manchester Fashion Show 2019 in panels and delivering workshops, Date: Thursday 16th May 2019 although the exact programme is Location: Manchester School of Art TBC. For more details, please go to: For more details, please go to: manchesterwritingschool.co.uk fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness Date: Saturday 1st September 2018 migrants and their creativity within the – Sunday 24th February 2019 wider context of the global refugee crisis. Time: The Whitworth Art Gallery Core to Thread Bearing Witness are opening times GROUND, SEA and SKY, three new Location: The Whitworth Art Gallery monumental works which form an Tickets: Free – Just turn up! immersive installation in the gallery. Alice Kettle is Professor in Textile Arts Kettle’s textiles act as temporary walls in MIRIAD Manchester School of Art at and campsites, requiring the viewer Manchester Metropolitan University. Her to negotiate them, challenging simply stitched works, many the size of huge ‘decorative’ readings. The works embrace figurative tapestries, exploit the textures both the personal testimonies of the and effects made possible through the refugees Kettle has met and textiles’ role, harnessing of a mechanical process to from the domestic to the spectacular, intuitive and creative ends. to encourage understanding in this chronicle of shared making. From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles Kettle sees her role as a pattern maker, in the form of large-scale narrative raising awareness of the issue of embroideries, weaving and tapestries migration and raising money for refugee have been used to illustrate contemporary causes through ultimately selling the events to become enduring material textile works. Kettle has worked directly chronicles. Thread Bearing Witness with talented asylum seekers from is a major new series of large textiles, Afghanistan, Uganda and Syria to make and other works, to be shown at the works for the exhibition including a Whitworth, that considers cultural tapestry and a large beaded artwork – heritage, refugee displacement and these showcase the talents of asylum movement, while engaging with individual seekers and refugee communities. GROUND (detail), Alice Kettle, with residents at Pipka/Lesvos Solidarity, Saamiullah Kahir, residents at Calais refugee camp working with Suzanne Partridge, Nahomie Bukasa, Sahira Khan and Ai Ling with Linda Leroy at the Helen Bamber Foundation, members of English Chat Winchester, Farhia Ahmed Ali, Nawad Hersi Duale, Amran Mohamud Ismail the participants from Refugee Action and artists Jenny Eden and Richard Harris, Susan Kamara and Shahireh Sharif. Cotton, rayon and metallic thread, life jacket material on printed canvas, 3m x 8m, 2018, courtesy the artist and Candida Stevens Gallery, photography Joe Low 4-5 RAH! EVENTS PROGRAMME Day Sketch for a Bungalow, Gordon Hodkinson Drawing the Modern: The Work of Gordon Hodkinson and Post-war Architectural Education in Manchester Date: Monday 10th September 2018 School of Art. At the Municipal – Friday 5th April 2019 School, under the direction of Head of Times: Monday – Friday 10.00am-4.00pm Architecture Douglas Jones, modernism Saturday – 12noon-4.00pm (term time) was central to teaching and design in Sunday – Closed architecture. It was in this modern school Location: Special Collections Gallery, of architecture that Gordon Hodkinson All Saints Library studied between 1944 and 1951. He Tickets: Free – Just turn up! was sponsored by H.T. Seward of the architectural firm Cruickshank & Seward Drawing the Modern draws on the archive and went on to spend his whole career of Gordon Hodkinson (1928 – 2018), a with the firm. He was involved with the student of architecture at Manchester Ferranti factory in Wythenshawe and Municipal School of Art in the 1940s the nearby headquarters for the Renold – 1950s. The exhibition explores post- Chain Company. Gordon was also project war architectural education through architect for the Renold Building on the a selection of Hodkinson’s drawings former UMIST campus, the city’s best including sketches, gouache rendered group of twentieth century buildings. plans and construction details, as well as project briefs and lecture notes. This is the first public exhibition of work from Hodkinson’s archive and In Manchester in the mid twentieth that of Cruikshank & Seward. It has century, there were two schools of been curated by Dr Richard Brook, architecture. One was based at Owens Reader in Architecture at Manchester College (The University of Manchester) School of Architecture, Manchester and the other at Manchester Municipal Metropolitan University.
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