Suffragette event and exhibition

The Pankhurst Centre are putting on a photography exhibition (sponsored by Helen Pankhurst) which is of women at the Centre individually countering dominant images of women in the media in different ways. The exhibition is showing at The People's History Museum on International Women's Day - Saturday 8 March - as part of the Suffragette Legacy Conference.

Here is an Eventbrite link to tickets and programme: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/suffragette-legacy-conference-tickets-9877297262

Here's the People's History Museum page with programme info etc:
http://www.phm.org.uk/whatson/suffragette-legacy-conference/

The poster can be found here:
http://wonderwomenmcr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/suffragette-legacy-conference-now.html

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture tomorrow

The John Stachniewski Memorial Lecture will take place this year on Tuesday 18 Feb, 5-6.30, in A101, Samuel Alexander Building. The lecture is given to commemorate our late colleague in EAC and is organised jointly with UoM UCU. 

This year's talk will be given by James Loxley from the University of Edinburgh, and is entitled 'Ben Jonson's Great North Road'. All welcome. There will be a drinks reception afterwards in the foyer. 

As part of the day there is also a mini-conference involving PG students giving papers on 'Literature and/ as War', 1-4.30 in SALC Graduate School seminar room 1. Programme is here: http://easmanchester.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/stachniewski-lecture-and-postgraduate.html 

best,


Jerome de Groot
Mareile Pfannebecker

Stachniewski lecture and postgraduate conference on WAR

STUDENT CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER  18 FEBRUARY 2014

LITERATURE AND/AS WAR

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

1 – 2 pm                                

Seminar Room 1, Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson Bldg

Panel 1: War on women's bodies

Harriet Hill-Payne

Doubling, Duplicity and Doubt in Middleton's The Lady's Tragedy and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale

Isabelle Dann

Lady Macbeth: Escape to the Real

Katie Miller

"Why Don't Her Eyes Close?": Unstable Borders in Pat Barker's Working-Class Trilogy

2- 2.20 pm

COFFEE BREAK

2.20- 3.20 pm

Seminar Room 2, Graduate School

Panel 2: War, class and the other

Sophie Handler

The East in Frankish Eyes: The Crusades of Huon de Bordeaux

Ruari Patton

Class Conflict and Social Mobility in Tamburlaine

Joseph Armstrong

Brutal Nature: Constructions of the Human in Gulliver's Travels

3.25-4.25

Seminar Room 2, Graduate School

Panel 3: Modernist war: death and the self

Zoe Gosling

The Psychology of War in D.H. Lawrence 'England, My England'

Thomas Short

Calculating the Death Penalty in Billy Budd

Elizabeth Harper

Wastelands

5-6.30 pm

Samuel Alexander Building

A101

The John Stachniewski Memorial Lecture

(jointly organized by UoM and UCU)

 James Loxley

Ben Jonson's Great North Road

6.30 pm

Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building

DRINKS RECEPTION

Alumni event for students and staff

 

 

Your Manchester Insights Lecture at The University of Manchester

Thursday 6^th March 2014, 6pm for 6:30pm lecture start

 

We are delighted to invite you to register for the next Your Manchester Insights Lecture at The University of Manchester.  The lecture will be delivered by Dr Amy Hughes who is Lecturer in Emergency Response at the University's Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). Chairing the lecture and joining the Q&A session will be Professor Tony Redmond OBE, Professor of International Emergency Medicine, Director of HCRI and Director of the UK International Emergency Trauma Register (UKIETR).

 

Dr Hughes and Professor Redmond will speak about their recent experience of providing medical humanitarian assistance to those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines with a team of surgeons, doctors and nurses of the UK International Emergency Trauma Register (UKIETR).

The lecture will start at 6:30pm and will be held in University Place, Oxford Road, M13 9PL. Following the lecture, please join us for a drinks reception and an opportunity to meet Dr Hughes and Professor Redmond in the foyer of University Place.

 

Please RSVP to alumnievents@manchester.ac.uk to confirm your acceptance. Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis, so early booking is recommended.

 

We do hope you will be able to join us on 6^th March and we look forward to hearing from you.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Claire Kilner                                       

Head of Alumni and Donor Communications and Engagement

Division of Development and Alumni Relations

The University of Manchester

 

 

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The Afterlife of Revolution in Art/Theory/Praxis:

The Afterlife of Revolution in Art/Theory/Praxis:

A Critical Conversation with visual artist Declan Clarke and Prof. Scott McCracken 

 

25 February 2014

Sam Alex A112 | 5:00 p.m.

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Declan Clarke co-curated last year's "Anguish and Enthusiasm: What to Do with Your Revolution Once You've Got It" exhibition at the Cornerhouse. He studied at NCAD and Chelsea College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include We'll Be This Way Until the End of the World, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin 2011; Loneliness in West Germany, Goethe Institut, Dublin; and Declan Clarke & Derek Jarman Serpentine Cinema, Serpentine Gallery at The Gate Cinema, London 2009. Recent group exhibitions include We Are Grammar, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York; Der Menchen Klee, KIT Kunstverein, Dsseldorf; Auto-Kino! Curated by Phil Collins, Temporare Kunshalle, Berlin, 2010; Through the Lens, Beijing Art Museum of Imperial City, Beijing, China, both 2008; Left Pop, Second Moscow Biennial, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2007; Duncan Cambell, Declan Clarke & Emily Wardill, Art Now, Tate Britain, London. 

 

Scott McCracken is Professor of English at Keele University and a member of the editorial board of New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics. His research interests include literature and culture 1880-1920, modernism, gender, critical theory popular fiction, and radical aspirations. He is PI for the Richardson Editions Project, which is funded by an AHRC major standard grant. 

 

For more information on Cornerhouse's "Anguish and Enthusiasm" exhibit, see: http://www.cornerhouse.org/art/art-media/anguish-and-enthusiasm-hear-from-curator-declan-clarke

 

Suffragette Legacy Conference

Suffragette Legacy Conference

 

To celebrate International Women's Day 2014

 

8 March 2014

 

Time 10:00 - 16:00

 

Duration 6 hours

 

Cost £25 / £15 concessions, students or unwaged – proof required

 

From BBC One's The Village and David Bowie's Suffragette City to Femen activists and Pussy Riot, the suffragette legacy is everywhere in modern culture. As part of the Manchester Wonder Women events celebrating International Women's Day 2014, this one day conference seeks to bring together academics, artists, politicians and activists to present and speak about how their work is affected by the suffragette legacy of feminism.

 

Welcoming academic papers, feminist theory, dance, music or other, this one day conference wishes to bring together different people to reflect on the important, but often complex, legacy of the suffragettes. Within an interdisciplinary context we wish to explore if, how and why the movement still matters in politics, academia, the arts and other aspects of modern Manchester.

 

For more info and to book:

 

http://www.phm.org.uk/whatson/suffragette-legacy-conference/

 

http://wonderwomenmcr.blogspot.co.uk/

 

Tuesday lunchtime career drop-in sessions – south reception, Samuel Alexander

A careers consultant who specialises in advising SALC students will be in the south reception of the Samuel Alexander Buidling every Tuesday lunchtime, 12.45-2.15pm.  This is an easy way to have a quick and informal chat about any career queries you may have.  We’ll be sitting behind a table with lots of careers publications for you to browse through or take away.  Why not pop along?

 

 

 

MyFutureFest (17^th – 21^st February)

 

MyFutureFest is a week long festival starting on the 17 February. Get support to help you begin thinking about your future and get advice on the things you need to do to get your dream job.

 

The MyFutureFest teepee will be open on Tuesday 18^th, Wednesday 19^th and Thursday 20^th and you’ll find it outside University Place. The services inside will include the International Programmes Office, the Students’ Union, and the Careers Service. All of these services allow you to make the most of your time in Manchester and help you stand out to future employers.

 

Sign up to the Facebook event and visit the website for more information and find out how you could win an iPad and lots of other great prizes.

 

As part of FutureFest we are running:

 

Be Positive…and Keep Positive!  How to build confidence and maintain a positive and proactive approach to making career decisions

Wed 19 Feb, 1.15-2.45pm, Roscoe 3.5

We all know the ‘rabbit in headlights’ feeling when the task seems too big to even start. Exploring Career options and making job applications can be like that, and seem overwhelming. This workshop offers practical advice on how to be positive and maintain momentum, whether you are exploring options or are out there making numerous applications. Please go to the www.manchester.ac.uk/careerslink  to reserve a place.

 

Universal Music

Wed 12 Feb, 2-4pm, Mansfield Cooper, G20

Keen to know more about the music industry?  Universal Music, the UK’s leading music company, are sending a team of people to share their experience of working on the front line of music.  Universal Music’s Utalks give students interested in working in and around music the chance to throw questions – any questions – at people working on the front line of music and hopefully dispel some of the myths around the industry along the way.

This is a great opportunity to gain some valuable insights and put your questions to the panel who represent a range of different roles.  There will be light refreshments.

 

Register on: www.manchester.ac.uk/careerslink  

Stachniewski Memorial lecture and postgraduate conference

The John Stachniewski Memorial Lecture will take place this year on Tuesday 18 Feb, 5-6.30, in A101, Samuel Alexander Building. The lecture is given to commemorate our late colleague and is organised jointly with UoM UCU. 

This year's talk will be given by James Loxley from the University of Edinburgh, and is entitled 'Ben Jonson's Great North Road'. All welcome. There will be a drinks reception afterwards in the foyer. 

As part of the day there is also a mini-conference involving PG students giving papers on 'Literature and/ as War', 1-4.30 in SALC Graduate School seminar room 2. For details please contact us. 

best,


Jerome de Groot
Mareile Pfannebecker