Happening tomorrow! @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social Research Café: Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation 🌍✨ Explore how art, research & movement respond to environmental challenges. 📅 22 April, 12–2pm, Contact Theatre.
Still time to sign up 👉 buff.ly/Pyb8SVn
Reminder: Don’t miss this special visit from EAC Taylor Fellow Anne Anlin Cheng, a leading voice in critical race and gender studies. 'Ordinary Disasters' - 📅 5–6:30pm, Sam Alex Lecture Theatre. A rare chance to hear her groundbreaking work live. buff.ly/0ZPPyc8
Happening today! Join us online for a dynamic discussion with the Black Health & Humanities Network @durhamimh.bsky.social, on how Black feminist theory shapes research & practice. Case studies, panel & Q&A. Register here: buff.ly/qDxYJCb
Upcoming Research Café: 'Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation'. Explore how art, research & movement tackle environmental challenges. 📅 22 April, 12–2pm, Contact Theatre. Talks, discussion & community - join the conversation! buff.ly/Pyb8SVn
May highlight! public lecture by EAC Taylor Fellow Prof. Anne Anlin Cheng - ‘Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority’ 📅 5–6:30pm, Sam Alex Lecture Theatre. A reflection on race, gende and contemporary Asian American identity drawn from Prof. Cheng’s latest book! buff.ly/0ZPPyc8
In two weeks: Communities of Environmental Knowledge
📅 29 April, 12 – 2pm
📍Contact Theatre, Space 0
🎟️https://ow.ly/xbT850YCaRn
Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways community support and involvement connect to environmental action.
Monday 20th April: Hosting members of the Black Health & Humanities Network for a dynamic discussion on how Black feminist theory shapes research & practice! Featuring case studies, panel & Q&A. Hybrid event + refreshments. buff.ly/qDxYJCb
📣Manchester-based (& adjacent) folks!
I’m delighted to announce that @uomenglish.bsky.social will be welcoming Prof. Anne Anlin Cheng (Princeton) to @manchester.ac.uk in May as our 2025-6 Taylor Fellow.
Join us for her public lecture on 13 May, 5-6:30 pm, in the Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre.
Another fantastic event at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social with the inimitable Inua Ellams and Gurnaik Johal ✨
Don't miss this one!
Responses to Ecological Crises through Creative and Civic Participation
📅 Wed 22 Apr
⏰ 12-2pm
📍 @contactmcr.bsky.social, Space 0
🎟️ ow.ly/YYUS50Yq1EB
MAY 18TH - @lauren-j-joseph.bsky.social will be discussing her razor sharp new novel Lean Cat, Savage Cat @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social - plus a book signing!
Doors 6:30pm / Start 6:45pm.
Organised by @newwritingmcr.bsky.social Tickets £4 or free with book purchase. buff.ly/hDoLY8Y
Happening tomorrow in Manchester - join us!
Basking in the glow of brilliant talks by @allisoncarruth.bsky.social & our own Dr Robert Spencer at yesterday’s @uomenglish.bsky.social research seminar on “Alternative Ecological Futures” celebrating the publication of her new book, Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech.
Another exciting EACW research seminar this week: join us for "Limit Cases: Partition Fiction and Epistemic (In)Justice" with Dr. Tricia Malone (Seamus Heaney Center, QUB). Happening Thursday, 19 March, 4-5 pm, Sam Alex SG.16 + reception with wine and nibbles after! 🍷📚
This Wednesday: "Alternative Ecological Futures,” ft. papers from Prof. Allison Carruth (Princeton) & EACW's Dr. Robert Spencer, 4:15pm in Sam Alex A113. Celebrating the publication of Prof. Carruth's new book, Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
Book now for our @mcrlitfest.bsky.social events in partnership with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social and @newwritingmcr.bsky.social – featuring Douglas Stuart and Tayari Jones 📚
Join @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social for a research café discussing an exhibition of artist Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Domestic and Menstrual Hystery series.
📅 Mon 16 Mar
⏰ 4.30-6.30pm
📍SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building
🎟️ Free – Booking required
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/encounteri...
A quick reminder that we'll be joined by Joe Davidson tomorrow for a special talk hosted by the EACW Radical Formations and Cultural Materialisms research group. We'd love to see you there!
Another @newwritingmcr.bsky.social event on Tue 24 March @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social - Neil Rollinson & Jon Doyle discuss their powerful new novels The Dead Don’t Bleed and Communion.
Doors 6:30pm / Start 6:45pm.
Tickets £4 or free with book purchase. 📚✨https://buff.ly/N9bIDBC
In Cambridge later this month? Exciting Critical-Creative work showcase from EACW's @jamespaz.bsky.social 🎉🔽
A fitting pick for International Women's Day also! #IWD
It’s #worldbookday and so here’s a book I wrote! It introduces a dozen radical 17th women who have been ignored by history books for far too long ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #newbook
Tonight! Come immerse yourself in all things Seamus Heaney with @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social before the rugby starts! Tickets here or on the door: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-heane...
Can’t wait for Joe P. L. Davidson's upcoming talk at Manchester next week!
‘After the Burning Age: Green utopianism, climate catastrophe, and retooling the apocalypse’
📍 Ellen Wilkinson C1.18, 11 March 4-6 pm
In the meantime, worth revisiting Joe’s blog for the Sociological Review:
Manifestly worth making time to visit the Glass Corridor Gallery on UoM campus for this exhibition over the next few weeks ✨ Really excellent!
Wednesday, 4th March, 5-7pm
CSSC PhD Roundtable and Q & A
Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester
All welcome!
Today - Join us! 🔆
Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social
Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social