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Thursday, 4 October 2012
Long Essay information
http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/studentintranet/undergraduate/subjectareas/englishandamericanstudies/longessay/
In particular, you should note that there will be two key meetings regarding the Long Essay:
Long Essay information lecture/Q&A with Prof. Patricia Duncker
Wednesday 10th October 2012, 1pm-2pm, University Place, Theatre A
*Attendance at this meeting is compulsory*
Library information lecture
Wednesday 17th October 2012, 1pm-2pm, University Place, Theatre A
If you have further queries about the Long Essay - queries not answered by the material online - then please contact Prof Duncker at patricia.duncker@manchester.ac.uk
Manchester Literature Festival
Authors appearing at the festival include Michael Chabon (7 Oct), Patrick Gale (8 Oct), Carol-Ann Duffy (9 Oct), Penelope Lively (10 Oct), Iain M. Banks (11 Oct), Richard Ford (12 Oct), Inua Ellams (12 Oct), James Kelman (13 Oct), Pat Barker (14 Oct), Simon Armitage (16 Oct), and Ali Smith (18 Oct).
For more information, including details of how to book for events, go to: http://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/
Research Seminars
All seminars take place in room A113 (Samuel Alexander Building) at 5pm, unless otherwise stated:
4th October: [Critical Mass] Howard Winant (California-Santa Barbara), 'The Dark Matter: Towards a New Racial Studies' - in Roscoe Building, Lecture Theatre A.
10th October: [Critical Mass] Constance B. Schultz (South Carolina), 'More than Illustrations: The Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Photographic Archive (1935-1943) and Historical Research Opportunities'
17th October: Benjamin Ware (Manchester), 'Seeing the World Otherwise: Vision, Ethics and Utopia in the Later Wittgenstein'
7th November: Natalie Pollard (Reading), 'Some Versions of Rudeness in Contemporary Poetry'
14th November: Richard Hornsey (UWE), 'The Cybernetic Choreographies of Interwar London'
21st November: JT Welsch (York St. John), title tbc. Followed by evening poetry reading by Michael Farrell and JT Welsch.
28th November: [Critical Mass] Lee Grieveson (UCL), 'The State of Extension'
5th December: Tom Day (UCLAN), 'Insider Dealings in Geoffrey Hill'
12th December: Jeremy Tambling (Manchester), title tbc.
Careers Event - 10th October
Monday, 1 October 2012
Anthony Burgess event - all invited!
As part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures launch programme, English, American Studies and Creative Writing warmly invite you to the following event:
Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange and beyond
· Date: 10 October 2012
Time: 4pm
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building
Anthony Burgess is perhaps the most famous past student of English Literature at the University. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of A Clockwork Orange, Dr Howard Booth discusses this influential work with his colleague, Dr Kaye Mitchell, and Dr Andrew Biswell, Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, biographer of Burgess and editor of a new edition of A Clockwork Orange. After the talk, at 5pm, a commemorative plaque to Burgess will be unveiled at the front of the Samuel Alexander Building, followed by a drinks reception.
More information: Dr Howard Booth, h.booth@manchester.ac.uk
Related exhibition: ‘Fifty Years of A Clockwork Orange’, The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, 20 August 2012 – 27 January 2013. http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/deansgate/
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
EAC Research Seminar
Hello to all EAC postgraduates, new and returning.
This is a note to tell you that the department’s Research Seminar will begin again this Wednesday 26th September. It begins at 5pm, and will be held in Samuel Alexander A113.
The purpose of the seminar is to give academic staff from within the department and from elsewhere to present new research among colleagues: to showcase work and crash test ideas. All postgraduate students, MA and PhD, are warmly invited. It’s generally a social occasion as well as an important part of the department’s research; we take the speaker for drinks as a thank you, and encourage people to come and meet and chat.
This week: Howard Booth (Manchester), ‘John Addington Symonds, Venice and the gaze’ | Samuel Alexander A113 | 5pm
'Exploring John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) – the cultural critic, poet and early writer on homosexuality - as a transitional figure between late Victorian writing and the Modern, this paper focuses on Symonds’s response to Venice. (HB will discuss a number of poems and images – in short, you don’t have to have read any Symonds!)'
Look forward to seeing you there!
Iain Bailey
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Student Reps needed!
Why is being a student representative important? Well, you get to be a mediator, a point of contact between your fellow students and the staff who teach you. You can communicate the vital viewpoints and express the concerns of your year group directly to a member of staff (me) and, by extension, to the whole department. Matters arising from the Staff Student Liaison Committee are reported and discussed at our regular staff meeting, and student reps are entitled to attend part of this meeting and participate in these important discussions. In addition, as a rep, you can contribute to the continuing development of the degree programme, helping us to assess the needs of students at a crucial moment in the history of higher education in general (and the humanities in particular), and a very interesting moment in the development of our discipline. You can also, of course, add to and embellish your CV (which is surely a good thing?), meet other students, and get your voice heard.
What is required of a student rep? Only that you make a genuine and concerted effort to solicit and represent the views of your fellow students and that you attend two Staff Student Liaison Committee meetings per semester. The dates of this year's meetings are as follows:
Wednesday 3rd October, 1.30pm
Wednesday 16th January, 1.30pm
Wednesday 13th March, 1.30pm
Wednesday 1st May, 1.30pm
So, whether you are a first, second or third year student, please consider volunteering to be a rep and drop me an email at kaye.mitchell@manchester.ac.uk to add your name to the list.
Monday, 17 September 2012
Graduate School - first event, this Friday, all welcome
What can the Graduate School do for you?
An opening event about the possibilities that graduate study in the Arts and Languages at Manchester opens up
6.30
Arrival, networking
Wine and bacon/ egg sandwiches
Welcome, introduction
Jerome de Groot (Head of Graduate School)
6.45-7.30
Recent PG students discuss their experiences and current positions
6.45
Keynote: Kristin Hussey (Collections Information Officer, The Science Museum, London)
7.00-7.30
Round-table discussion/ Q&A chaired by Jim Randall (The Big Art People)
Jenny Oakenfell (Charity manager at Nexus Art Café)
Kate Ash (Currently Undergraduate Recruitment & Widening Participation Co-Ordinator, Directorate for Student Experience, University of Manchester)
Hannah Priest (currently Honorary Research Fellow and Research Assistant (University of Manchester); Researcher (Liverpool John Moores University); Editor/Project Leader (Hic Dragones)
7.30-7.45
Recent PG students perform their work
David Onac (Music, a recording will be played)
JT Welsch (Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature, York St. John, reading)
8.00 close
CIDRAL events this year
Annual Theme: Public Intellectuals
All lectures 5-7pm in John Casken Lecture Theatre (unless stated otherwise).
Martin Harris Arts Centre, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road M13 9PL.
2012
Tuesday 13 November Professor Thomas Elsaesser
(University of Amsterdam/IKKM Weimar)
“How to Create a Public Intellectual, Posthumously”
SALC Launch: Closing Event
Thursday 15 November Dr Katherine O’Donnell (University College Dublin)
in conversation with Dr Eleanor Casella (Arch., SALC)
“Ireland's Magdalene Laundry System
1922-1996: Sin and the Public Sphere”
Event starts at 6pm
Tuesday 27 November Dr Michael Mack (University of Durham)
“Revisiting the Two Cultures Debate:
Affect, Economics and Science”
2013
Tuesday 5 February Professor Ranjana Khanna (Duke University)
and Professor Carol Mavor (AHVS)
In conversation on Franz Fanon
Tuesday 12 February Professor Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)
“The New Language of Politics?”
CIDRAL with LEL
Wednesday 20 February Professor Vijay Mishra
(Oxford University and Murdoch University, Australia)
"In the Salman Rushdie Archive"
CIDRAL with EAS and Drama
This event starts at 6pm
Monday 25 February Susie Orbach in conversation (tbc)
Tuesday 5 March Professor Susan Bassnett FRSL
(University of Warwick)
“Translating Today’s World”
Thursday 14 March Symposium: The History of the Public Intellectual
Organised by Professor Stuart Jones (History)
Monday 18 March Professor Michael Lambek (University of Toronto)
“Continuous and Discontinuous Persons:
Reflections on Ethical Life”
CIDRAL with Anthropology
Friday 22 March Music and Public Engagement in Manchester
CIDRAL with ICP
Tuesday 23 April Dr Margaret Reynolds (Queen Mary)
“Poetry and People: The Real Language
of Men (and Woman and Children)”
Monday 10 June Professor Lauren Berlant (University of Chicago)
in conversation with David Alderson (EAS) and others,
on Cruel Optimism (2011) and Public Feelings Project
Masterclasses will normally be held with speakers on the day after these events (see website for details). In addition, we are pleased to announce a new initiative on theory for all postgraduates and academic staff:
CIDRAL Theory Intensives 2012-13
Wednesday 21 Nov: 2-4pm Dr David Alderson (EAS)
On Herbert Marcuse
Wednesday 28 Nov: 10-12pm Dr Michael Mack
(University of Durham)
On Hannah Arendt
Wednesday 5 Dec: 4-6pm Professor Vicki Kirby (UNSW, Australia)
and Professor Joanna Hodge (MMU)
On Derrida and Technicity
Tuesday 5 Feb: 5-7pm Professor Ranjana Khanna (Duke University)
and Professor Carol Mavor (AHVS)
On Franz Fanon
Wednesday 6 March: 2-4pm Professor Jeremy Tambling (EAS)
On Melanie Klein
The next CIDRAL Book launch will take place on Tuesday 11 December at 5.30pm at Blackwell Bookshop.
For more information contact:andrew.hardman@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/
Follow us on twitter: @cidral_uom
Thursday, 23 August 2012
The artsmethods@manchester Showcase
“Promoting and facilitating methodological excellence in the arts, languages & cultures”
Friday 21st September 2012 from 09.30 to 13.00 in the Alan Turing Building G107.
Keynote: Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research, AHRC
Call for Poster Contributions – we are looking for current Postgraduate Researchers working within the arts, languages & cultures to participate in a poster showcase (please see the attached flyer). Posters should outline the research project, highlighting the methodological approaches and modes of enquiry. artsmethods@manchester will cover the cost of producing your poster and provide guidelines and consultation – this is an excellent opportunity to raise your profile, gain exposure for your research and engage in discussion with academic colleagues across Manchester and beyond. Those who already have research posters ready to present are also very welcome to apply. If you are interested please email artsmethods@manchester.ac.uk with a brief research outline (250 words max) by Friday 31st August 2012.
Best wishes,
The artsmethods@manchester Team
www.artsmethods.manchester.ac.uk
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
AHRC RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP - Children's Media in the Arab World
The University of Westminster invites applications for a full-time
three-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship exploring ODefinitions of Childhood
in the Arab World and their Implications for Screen-Based Media’, starting
in January 2013 within the University’s Arab Media Centre.
Three years, full time £16,000 annual stipend plus fee waiver
The PhD is linked to a three year AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research
Council) study on OOrientations in the Development of Pan-Arab Television by
Children’, led by Professor Naomi Sakr, Professor Jeanette Steemers and Dr
Tarik Sabry, which starts in January 2013. As part of their studies the
doctoral student will be expected to provide some assistance to the research
team on tasks that relate directly to the student’s research topic
(including literature reviews, document summaries, television programme
analysis and the transcription and analysis of research data).
Successful candidates must be able to read and speak Arabic to a competent
level. We particularly welcome candidates with a strong interest in
children’s media or media industries more generally, but are also interested
in candidates who are knowledgeable about Arab history, politics and
culture.
The PhD will be suitable for candidates with a good first degree in the
social sciences or arts and humanities (2.1 or better). Candidates would
normally be expected to have a Masters degree in a related area, with
experience in research methods at that level, but we will also consider
candidates with an excellent first degree.
To be eligible candidates must have a relevant connection with the UK,
normally consisting of a minimum of three years UK residence for purposes
other than education.
The studentship will be located within the Communication and Media Research
Institute (CAMRI) at the University of Westminster - the UK’s number one
research group in media and communication as rated by the UK Government’s
2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
The Studentship consists of a fee waiver and a stipend of £16,000 per annum.
Successful candidates will be expected to undertake some teaching duties.
Prospective candidates wishing to informally discuss an application should
contact Professor Naomi Sakr, N.Sakr01@westminster.ac.uk.
For application details go to http://tinyurl.com/bskp9cx
This studentship is funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research
Council). For further information, please
visitwww.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/bgpcb.aspx
<http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Pages/bgpcb.aspx>
The closing date for applications is 5pm Friday 5 October 2012