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.