Research in Arts and Humanities at RAH! Manchester Met RAH! Events Programme September–December 2019 www.mmu.ac.uk/rah1 Contents Key Faculty Events 4 INTERRUPTIONS: Foreign Exchange 21 The RAH! Podcast 5 Refugee Tales: Viewing the Belgian Refugee Crisis of WW1 through the ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING Lens of Contemporary Experience 22 “My Dear Mr Ruskin….” Friendship, Inspiration and Scandal 6 SOCIOLOGY AND CRIMINOLOGY Day Course: Introduction East Asian Perspectives: to the Female Gothic 7 Prison, Probation and Criminal Justice Policy in Indonesia 23 Gothic Manchester Festival 8 Forward Prizes Northern Preview 9 THE MANCHESTER GAME STUDIES NETWORK The People’s Poetry Lectures: Make Board Games Great Again Sean Borodale on Sylvia Plath 10 24 Manchester Literature Festival Performance and Play for the presents: Guy Garvey & Simon End of the World 25 Armitage in Conversation 11 POLITICS AND AMBIT 1959-2019 Exhibition INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & Launch 12 Why has a state of crisis become Light Falls 12 the EU norm? 26 The People’s Poetry Lectures: Jean The limits of ‘Choice’? The Sprackland on Elizabeth Bishop 13 utility of the reproductive justice framework in the Northern Ireland The People’s Poetry Lectures: context 27 Moira Egan on Marianne Moore 14 Emotions, protest, democracy: HISTORY Collective identities in The Nineteenth-Century Motorist contemporary Spain 28 in the North West 15 THE ESRC FESTIVAL Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Cities 2050: Play Carbon City Zero! 29 Scots on film – allies or enemies? 16 High Streets and Town Centres: Stonewall 50 years on: Proposals for 2030 and Beyond 30 Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European Context 17 Relationships in Recovery – How ‘you being you’ and me YOUTH STUDIES being me’ colours our connection 31 Manchester Centre for Youth Reimagining LGBTQI+ Wellbeing Studies Guest Lecture: Professor and Mental Health 32 Michelle Fine 18 Music as an Agent of Change Europe and the Child: Crisis, at The Fall of the Berlin Wall 33 Activism, Culture 19 PROFESSORIAL INAUGURATION MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART LECTURE SERIES Curious Things: A Glimpse into Professor David Tyler 35 the International Mail Art Archive of Michael Leigh and Hazel Jones 20 2 Introduction RAH! (Research in Arts and Humanities) is the public engagement programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Metropolitan University. Launching in 2017/18, RAH! built on the enormous success of our ‘Humanities in Public’ (HiP) Festival, which ran from 2013 – 2017. RAH! 2019/20 will present a rolling programme of events on a range of topics, disciplines and research areas from across the faculty throughout the academic year. The 2019/20 programme will showcase everything public-facing and research-based within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met University. Our research seeks to make a real difference to people’s lives. This year, we have organised our events by subject matter, so everybody can find something they are interested in. The programme includes: • Public lectures and seminars • Film screenings • Art exhibitions • Conferences • Readings and author events • And much more! You can find tickets and further details at our website: www.mmu.ac.uk/rah Additional events will be added after the publication of this brochure, and some details may change, so please please check the website for more information! Research in Arts and Humanities at RAH! Manchester Met Key Faculty Events The Arts and Humanities Faculty Manchester School of Art at Manchester Met is home to MA Fine Art Show several areas of world-leading and Showcasing the work of Manchester internationally excellent research School of Art’s postgraduate and we pride ourselves on our students in fine art innovation in teaching and learning. Date: 12th — 27th October 2019 Our research areas include Architecture Private View: Friday 11th October (Manchester School of Architecture), 2019 Art, Media and Design (Manchester Location: HOMEMcr School of Art); Humanities, Languages For more details, visit and Social Science; and Fashion art.mmu.ac.uk/mashow/ (Manchester Fashion Institute). We are proud to present a series of National Creative Writing key faculty events below. Industry Day Now returning for its fifth year, 10th International Conference this conference is dedicated to new on: The Image writers aspiring to publication 2019 Special Focus – Techno- Date: Friday 1st November storytelling: Past, Present, Future Location: Geoffrey Manton Building Date: 5th – 6th September 2019 For more details, visit Location: Manchester School of Art manchesterwritingschool.co.uk/events For more details, visit ontheimage.com/2019-conference/ GLAD Research and PhD Symposium Manchester School of Thursday 5th December 2019 Art MA Show Date: Location: Manchester Metropolitan Showcasing the work of Manchester University School of Art’s postgraduate students For more details, visit gladhe.com Date: 27th September – 6th October 2019 Private View: Thursday 26th September 2019, 5.30pm – 9pm GLAD 22nd Annual Conference Location: Manchester School of Art Art & Design Education – where do For more details, visit we go from here? art.mmu.ac.uk/mashow/ Date: Friday 6th December 2019 Time: 10am – 4pm Gothic Manchester Festival Location: Benzie Building The 7th annual Gothic Manchester For more details, visit gladhe.com Festival will be themed on ‘Gothic Times’ English: Shared Futures 2020 Date: October 2019 Location: Greater Manchester Celebrating and exploring the For more details, visit intellectual strength, diversity, mmu.ac.uk/gothicmanchesterfestival and creativity of English language, 4 The RAH! literature, and creative writing Podcast in the UK and across the world Date: 26th – 28th June 2020 Location: Manchester/Salford For more details, please visit englishsharedfutures.uk Professorial Inauguration Lecture Series The inaugural lectures provide an opportunity for our most prolific and successful researchers to update us on Research to their current projects and future research plans, and to share their research shout about! insights with the wider public. All In April 2019, we launched The lectures are free and open to all. RAH! Podcast at Manchester Met. For more details, please go to pages Released on a monthly basis, each 34-35 or visit mmu.ac.uk/artshumanities/ episode covers a different topic rah/inaugural-lectures inspired by research specialisms here within the Faculty of Arts Manchester Writing School and Humanities at Manchester Many of our writers will be taking Metropolitan University. Episode part in panels and delivering workshops topics will cover the entirety throughout the year. of the faculty so there really is For more details, please visit something for everyone! manchesterwritingschool.co.uk Current episodes include: Manchester Game Studies Network • Creative Encounters with the Dead The Manchester Game Studies Network • LGBTQ+ Politics and Religion (MSGN) have a range of events • The Manchester Game Studies throughout the year. Network For more details, please visit manchestergamestudies.org • The HAUNT Network • Place Writing • And more! Listen to the Podcast on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/mmu_ rah_podcast Or find us on Spotify by searching “RAH! Podcast at Manchester Met” 5 EVENTS IN English and Creative Writing “My Dear Mr Ruskin….” Friendship, Inspiration and Scandal Supported by the Guild of St George sides when Ruskin’s wife, Effie, left him, and Manchester Metropolitan University commenting in a letter that “…She really is very close to a charming character; if she Date: From now until until Monday had had the small pox she would have 1st June 2020 been so.” Time: Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, 11am – 4pm This new exhibition takes us from the studios of the Pre-Raphaelites and the Location: Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, Italian grand tour to legacies in education Manchester M13 9LW and social reform, showing us that the Tickets: Included in House admission lives of the often-overlooked contributions (£5 /£4) of Ruskin and the Gaskells’, continue to From July 2019 Elizabeth Gaskell’s House the present day. Running from 17 July will be exploring the friendship between 2019 until June 2020. the Gaskell family and John Ruskin in a Dr Rachel Dickinson is Principal Lecturer new year-long exhibition as part of The in the Department of Interdisciplinary Ruskin Bicentenary. Studies at Manchester Met and Director Often at odds with their contemporaries, for Education & Master-Elect of Ruskin’s John Ruskin and Elizabeth Gaskell were Guild of St George (the education charity controversial writers, often sharing founded by Ruskin in 1871). the same ideals. Elizabeth openly took Supplied and owned by The Ruskin Museum, Coniston 6 Day Course: Introduction to the Female Gothic Led by the Manchester Centre for Gothic This beginners’ level course includes Studies at Manchester Met a screening of Thorold Dickinson’s Gaslight. Date: Saturday 14th September 2019 Time: 10.30am – 5pm Gaslight (PG) Location: HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Dir Thorold Dickinson/US 1940/84 mins Manchester, M15 4FN Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Tickets: £25 full / £20 concessions – Frank Pettingell See the RAH! website for further details Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. What is the Female Gothic? This day course will explore how Gothic novels However, the husband of the couple who from the 1790s and mid-Victorian period have moved in has a secret which he will travelled to the screen to address women’s do anything to keep hidden. isolation and the possibilities for resistance The day is led by teaching staff from the in patriarchal spaces. It will focus on the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at old dark house mysteries and women films from the 1910s to the late 1940s, with a Manchester Metropolitan University: special emphasis on new cinematic roles • Emma Liggins, Senior Lecturer in for women and changing audiences. It will English Literature also turn to more modern films to explore the significance of both progressive and • Xavier Aldana Reyes, Reader in regressive figures like that of the ‘final English Literature and Film girl’ and the many abject female monsters that populated the 1970s and 1980s.