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WorldHumanities in Public Festival 15/16

Summer Season April – June 2016

Contents

Introduction 2

The Great British Breadwinner 4

Cervantes Meets Shakespeare 6

The Battle of Chile 7

Austerity: Local and Global 8

Beyond Babel Film Festival 9

Global Girls 11

Dolly Birds and Swinging Cities 12

Animals in the Classroom 15

Faith in The World 16

Digital Re-enchantment 20

Inspired by Ruskin 21

At a glance 22

Save the date (Northern Identity events) 23

Cover Illustration: Global Girl by Naomi Morris (watercolour 21 x 29.7cm) www.cargocollective.co.uk/naomimorrisillustration

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Welcome

In response to your feedback from last year, we’ve decided to change things round a bit. The events are now no longer confined to Monday evenings. We’ve decided to stick to our thematic strands, but instead of five there are now just three, each stretching across one of the University’s teaching terms.

This year’s themes signal a return back to basics. We asked ourselves: what are the aspects of human society that seem unavoidable but which challenge us to think more deeply and ask more probing questions? We decided that three central aspects of humanity that need this focus right now are WAR, SEX and WORLD.

Our third grand challenge is WORLD.

WORLD is where we live. It is our home, but it can often also seem to be a strange, foreign and even alien place. Whether we find ourselves ensconced in our immediate surroundings, or exposed to the world at large, a great part of our lives is spent mapping and navigating the supposedly ‘real’ world, as well as the worlds of our imagination and

virtual reality. Wherever we find ourselves, we are also always busy orienting and positioning our lives in an effort to find a viable way between the local, the familiar and the well-trodden, on the one hand, and the international, global and fundamentally unknown, on the other.

The intention of this HiP strand is to examine just a few of the pressing questions that our existence in the WORLD confronts us with, such as:How to live our lives as cosmopolitan citizens in a world that is as much riven by sectarianism, conflict and strife as it is held together by community and common human fellowship? How can we reconcile the invasive sprawl of the man-made worlds of both country and city with what remains of the shrinking wildernesses of nature? How might we reflect critically on political ideology and religious faith in an era of increasing multiculturalism and global connectivity? How best can we continue to champion human rights, cosmopolitan hospitality and planetary sustainability whilst struggling to eke out a living in a world that appears increasingly market-driven?

‘Humanities in Public’ (HiP) Festival returns for its third annual run!

If you’re new to HiP, then we greatly look forward to meeting you. If you’re one of our 7,000+ regulars, then welcome back.

‘Humanities in Public’ is the research showcase of the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Manchester Metropolitan University. Our aim is to introduce you to the research we do via a programme of topical events and activities that make you want to come join us and participate. The programme is open to absolutely everyone.

We hope that you will join us in our discursive explorations, and that we can collectively sketch new maps of this fascinating terrain.

Helen Darby Humanities in Public Festival Co-ordinator

Professor Berthold Schoene Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science

Keep up to date on all HiP events, including next year’s Festival on the theme of Northern Identity, via our Twitter and website:

Twitter @mmu_hssrWebsite mmu.ac.uk/hip

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The Great British Breadwinner: Shared parental leave one year on

Wednesday 20 April12.30pm – 2.30pmNo 70 Oxford St, Manchester M1 5NHFree - See HiP website for tickets

Shared Parental Leave (SPL) was introduced by the Coalition Government in April 2015 with the dual purpose of encouraging both parents to take an active role in caring for their child in the first year and enabling parents ‘to retain their attachment to the workplace’ (Consultation on Modern Workplaces, 2011). Will having access to paid leave encourage fathers to take it up? The prospect of parents being able to share a period of leave seems to have been enthusiastically received, but concerns remain about whether issues of pay and perceived threat to career prospects will put fathers off taking up SPL. There are also wider issues around gender and the division of caring roles in the family that are equally potent barriers to change.

Why shared parental leave one year on?

April 2016 seems an appropriate time to assess the impact of SPL so far. We would encourage anyone with an interest in human resources and the relationship between gender and the workplace to attend. The event aims to provide a refresher on the rules around SPL and facilitate discussion on the following issues:

• The level of take up so far and what can be done to encourage more fathers to take up SPL;

• The barriers still facing fathers who do want to take up SPL;

• Key decisions businesses have taken (or need to take) in order to fully engage with SPL.

Convened by Dr Gemma Yarwood (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Care and Social Work at Manchester Metropolitan University) and Dr Jamie Atkinson (Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University).

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One Two One Film Club presents

Legacy of a struggle: Patricio Guzman’s The Battle of Chile/Chile Obstinate Memory

Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 April6.00pm – 10.00pmNo 70 Oxford St, Manchester M1 5NHFree - See HiP website for tickets

In November 1970, Chile became the first South American nation to democratically elect a Marxist government. In Salvador Allende, they had a president whose policies of land collectivisation and nationalisation of industry inspired widespread optimism among the Chilean working-class. His socialist agenda provoked a similarly impassioned, defiant response from the right-wing opposition, factory owners and industrial leaders, in a standoff that would cripple the country economically for much of Allende’s term in office.

A group of young filmmakers sought to document the ‘people’s revolution’ at ground level, but what began as an attempt to capture the revolutionary spirit on the streets soon turned into an unprecedented account of the incendiary socio-political climate of general strikes and violent uprisings that came to define Allende’s presidency. This tumultuous 3-year period culminated in a violent coup, in which Allende was killed and that saw General Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship rule over the country well into the 1980s.

The Battle of Chile is breath-taking documentary filmmaking on a truly epic scale: a portrait of a country falling apart, in real time. By turn poetic, disturbing, heart-breaking and inspiring, filmmaker Thom Andersen called it ‘history written in lightning’.

Screening details:

Monday 25 April Part 1: Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (1975) & Part 2: The Coup D’Etat (1976)

With an introduction by Dr Francisca Sanchez Ortiz (Department of Languages, Information and Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University)

Tuesday 26 April Part 3: Power of the People (1979) & Chile, Obstinate Memory (1996)

With an accompanying talk by Dr Thomas Rudman (Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University)

Tilting at Windmills: Cervantes ‘meets’ Shakespeare 400 years on

Friday 22 April5.00pm – 8.00pmNo 70 Oxford St, Manchester M1 5NHFree - See HiP website for tickets

This event brings together two of the world’s most famous authors who not only share worldwide literary prestige, but also a curious coincidence in their personal lives: they both died on 23 April 1616. The day was subsequently chosen by UNESCO as World Book Day.

To mark the historic anniversary, this event brings together the two famed literary figures as Theatre and Language students will depict and reimagine their characters. They will perform extracts of their best-known works and provide an overview of their respective contributions to world literature. Our modern-day Cervantes and Shakespeare will also engage in a dialogue with a difference, as they reflect on the modern world that they could not have known, but that is not dissimilar to their own in terms of its pressing issues.

Convened by Department of Languages, Information and Communications, the School of Theatre at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Sponsored by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence

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Beyond Babel

Saturday 7 May 1.00pm – 6.30pmNo 70 Oxford St, Manchester M1 5NHFree - See HiP website for tickets

Nowadays multilinguism is part of our everyday life. Cinema can help to open a space for a wider cultural dialogue on the richness and complexities that lie in the multilingual experience of our age. Now in its second year, Beyond Babel aims to showcase transnational productions from different regions of the world; multilingual films which connect with the personal, the local, and the global and will open conversation across cultures.

This year we will be screening:

Amreeka (2009). Dir Cherien Dabis/USA-Canada-Kuwait/96 mins/Nisreen Faour/Melkar Muallem/Hiam Abbass

Introduced by Hanan Ben Nafa (Manchester Metropolitan University).

Amreeka tells the story of a Palestinian American family living in both the West Bank and Post 9/11 suburban Chicago. The drama focuses on the trials and tribulations of Muna Farah, a divorced Palestinian Christian mother raising her teenage son Fadi.

Samba (2014). Dirs Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano/119 mins/Omar Sy/Charlotte Gainsbourg/Tahar Rahim

Introduced by Dr Isabelle Vanderschelden (Manchester Metropolitan University).

A recent migrant to France, Samba (Omar Sy) fights to stay in his adopted country with the help of a rookie immigration worker Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg), in this winning drama from the directors of the breakout hit Untouchable, one of France’s biggest breakout hits.

Convened by the FLAME Research Group (Department of Languages, Information and Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University).

Austerity: Local and Global

Wednesday 27 April2pm – 4.30pm: Daytime panel sessions - £5 (catering included)5.45pm – 8.00pm: Evening presentations and discussion - FreeNo 70 Oxford St, Manchester, M1 5NHSee HiP website for tickets

As poverty, inequality and precarious employment spread across the globe, the word ‘austerity’ has been transformed in academic and political discourse from a description of temporary hardship, into a political and economic neoliberal agenda. Is austerity really the only long-term future? Is it merely a temporary hiccup in global/local policies? How can we bring into being, another and more equal world? Austerity: Local and Global brings together a panel of scholars from a diverse range of disciplines to explore the origins, local and international formats, and potential trajectories of the austerity agenda. The daytime event will feature a postgraduate and activist panel, including a guest speaker from the Manchester People’s Assembly.

Evening session papers include:

• Professor Raymond Tallis (University of Manchester) The Dismantling of the NHS: from Lord Howe’s Wicked Dream to George Osborne’s Austerity

• Professor Sylvia Chant (Geography, the LSE) Questioning the ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ in the Global South, and the Wisdom of Feminised Anti-poverty Policy Approaches

•Professor Guy Standing (SOAS) The Precariat: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work does not Pay

Convened by Dr Susie Jacobs (Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University).

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Global Girls

Friday 13 May1.00pm – 4.00pm No 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NHFree - See HiP website for tickets

This event offers critical reflections on gender and girlhood in a global context. It will explore how research on global experiences of girlhood, and the fuzzy distinctions between sex, bodies and gender, can translate into practice. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading researchers, activists and community organisers who share an interest in how being a girl and a woman is constructed across spaces, places and cultures. There will be discussions on shared experiences of girlhood in a global context, on growing up, conformity, state policies and social practices. The day will consist of a series of brief talks, short film screenings and discussions, plus posters from local schools, students and other organisations.

Film Screenings: Two short films Light Moves and Graphic Moves – made by young people from an ex-mining town in South Wales.

Speakers and Themes:

• Dr Ofra Koffman; social researcher with the Essex HealthWatch with expertise in the fields of gender, digital media and health policy. Her talk is on ‘Girl power: a global revolution’, and focuses on the girl empowerment policy agenda promoted by a wide range of leading organisations involved in global health and development work.

• Dr Navtej Purewal; Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Indian Studies, and Deputy Director of the South Asia Institute at SOAS, the University of London.

• Dr Victoria Cann; Lecturer in the Humanities in the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities at the University of East Anglia. Co-Founder of the community group ‘Day of the Girl Norwich’ and one of the founding members of the International Girls’ Studies Association.

Convened by the Sylvia Pankhurst Research Centre, Dr Shoba Arun (Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University) and Dr Kate Cook (School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University).

Illustration: Occupying the City by Naomi Morris (watercolour and pen 21x29.7cm) www.cargocollective.co.uk/naomimorrisillustration

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Dolly Birds and Swinging Cities

Thursday 19 May 10.00am – 3.00pmNo 70 Oxford St, Manchester, M1 5NH£10/Free for concessions (catering included) - See HiP website for tickets

This one-day symposium brings together experts of media and popular culture to discuss the impact of alleged newfound freedoms for women in Europe and the United States, during the 1960s. Increased affluence, cosmopolitanism, advancements in technology, the loosening of traditional gender roles and explosions in terms of popular culture all arguably contributed to the opening up of new spaces and opportunities for women. Presentations will focus on a diverse range of perspectives including new female cultural icons in film, music and fashion, girls’ comics, clubbing and dancing, widowhood in the 1960s and girls and cinema.

Speakers and contributors include:

• Pamela Church Gibson; London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London

• Mel Gibson; University of Northumbria

• Georgina Gregory; University of Central Lancashire

• Ewa Mazierska; University of Central Lancashire

• Gary Needham; Nottingham Trent University

Convened by Dr Katie Milestone (Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University) and Dr Joan Ormrod (School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University)

Followed by:Women and pop culture in sixties Manchester

Guided walk led by Jean Bailo 3.30pm – 5.30pm£3.00 – See HiP website for tickets

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Animals in the Classroom

Saturday 28 May 10.00am – 5.30pmNo 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH£20 (catering included) - See HiP website for tickets

Care for the environment and for animals, both in ‘the wild’ and in urban settings, is now, more than ever, an issue at the heart of contemporary reflections on the nature of education. This event will explore different educational approaches to enhancing the understanding and appreciation of animals and the environment, in three parts:

• Reflections on the work of the charity, The Palestinian Animal League (PAL), and the particular challenges they face in formulating and delivering educational programmes that focus on animal advocacy.

• Drawing on the history of the Philosophy of Education, the second session will be devoted to issues in contemporary educational practice.

• The final session will explore key themes in Critical Animal Studies. How might research in this area inform future projects in animal welfare and environmental education?

Illustration: Animal Rights and Education by Naomi Morris (watercolour and pen 29.7x 42cm) www.cargocollective.co.uk/naomimorrisillustration

Speakers and Contributors include:

• Professor Claire Molloy, Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media, Edge Hill University

• Dr Richie Nimmo, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester

• Dr Matthew Cole, Honorary and Associate Lecturer in Sociology, Open University

Convened by Dr Wahida Khandker and Dr Keith Crome (Department of Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University).

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Faith in the World: ‘Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with god’

Tuesday 7 June6:30pm - 9:30pm Manchester Cathedral, Victoria Street, Manchester, M3 1SXFree - See HiP website for tickets

Join us at Manchester Cathedral for an evening of exploring what it means to have Faith in the World. We begin with a panel presentation by a variety of speakers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds—ministers of religion, creative writers—who have found heaven crammed into some surprising places. This will be followed by a time of discussion.

Speakers and Contributors include:

• Dr Bex Lewis is passionate about helping people engage with the digital world in a positive way, where she has 18+ years of experience. She is Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing at Manchester Metropolitan University, with a particular interest in digital culture and how this affects the third sector, especially voluntary and faith organisations.

• Canon Richard White is one of the members of clergy at Liverpool Cathedral and the Director of the Joshua Centre, which focuses on starting new congregations across the region. He also oversees two new congregations at the cathedral including ‘Sepas’, a Persian speaking congregation with over a hundred asylum seekers and refugees.

• Dr Catherine Wilcox is a novelist and lecturer in the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she teaches Creative Writing. Her latest novels are a 21st Century take on the Victorian serialised novel. Blogged in weekly instalments, they seek to chronicle the Church of England and its contentious debates through the medium of the fictional Diocese of Lindchester.

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Digital Re-enchantment: Place, Writing & Technology

Saturday 11 June 10.30am – 5.00pmNightingale Centre, Great Hucklow, SK17 8RH£20 (catering and some transport included) Free - See HiP website for tickets

In Landmarks (2015) the celebrated landscape writer, Robert Macfarlane, expresses his anxiety for the way that technology “has bequeathed to us an inadequate and unsatisfying relationship with the natural world, and with ourselves too”. In what ways, though, might digital technologies enhance and enrich our relationships with the places in which we live and the spaces through which we move? How have landscape writers drawn upon digital technologies in their own exploratory creative practices?

This informal symposium will bring together a diverse range of speakers – including writers, literary critics, a leading publisher, and a creative entrepreneur – to explore the imaginative possibilities and problems presented by different digital technologies. The symposium will begin with an introduction to the British Library’s Poetic Places app; the following panels will then focus on the experimental use of Twitter as a literary space and explore the creative ways digital technologies have been used to reimagine the Peak District.

The symposium will be followed by a special evening of poetic performance - organised in partnership with the Sheffield-based Longbarrow Press - at the Old Hall, Buxton (see the following page for more details). Together, these

events will explore whether digital technologies can, for writers and readers, facilitate a re-enchantment with the world.

Speakers and contributors include:

• Clare Archibald (Writer) @archieislander

• David Borthwick (University of Glasgow) @BorthwickDave

• Sarah Cole (TIME/IMAGE & Creative Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the British Library) @iRNY @time_image @poetic_places

• David Cooper (Manchester Metropolitan University) @DrDavidCooper

• Brian Lewis (Longbarrow Press) @LongBarrowPress

• Emma Bolland (Writer and Artist) @emmaZbolland

This event will include a live Twitter-based creative writing project via #enchantthepeaks. Everyone (whether attending or not) is invited to take part.

Convened by Dr David Cooper, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Illustration: Nature and Technology by Naomi Morris (watercolour and pen 21x29.7cm) www.cargocollective.co.uk/naomimorrisillustration

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Longbarrow Press presents

Digital Re-enchantment: Poetry Reading event

Saturday 11 June 6.00pm – 9.00pmOld Hall Hotel, Buxton, SK17 6BDFree - See HiP website for tickets

Working Towards a Sustainable World:Inspired by Ruskin

Saturday 25 June 10.00am – 4.00pm No 70 Oxford St, Manchester, M1 5NH£5 (catering included) - See HiP website for tickets

This full-day roundtable features six speakers who are making a difference. They will share their stories of working to make a better, more sustainable society. The Victorian thinker John Ruskin has inspired each one.

Ruskin looked to the medieval past for inspiration and had a real impact on British – and global – culture in the 19th and early 20th Centuries. He inspired ethical furnishing business Morris & Co; the early Labour Party named him a major influence; Gandhi changed his life after reading Unto This Last. He was an early proponent of environmental awareness and ethical consumerism.

The speakers represent six subject areas taught at Manchester Metropolitan University:

• Health, Psychology & Social Care: Julie McCarthy, Cultural Producer at 42nd Street, a local young people’s mental health charity.

• Education: Aonghus Gordon, founder of Ruskin Mill Trust, offering personalised programmes to people with complex learning and behavioral difficulties.

• Art & Design: Olivier Geoffroy, founder of Unto This Last, a furniture workshop in London fusing digitally- controlled cutting tools with Ruskinian craftsmanship.

• Food, Tourism & Events: John Iles, Director of the Wyre Community Land Trust, won a Future Farming award for ‘putting the farm back at the heart of the community’.

• Business: Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive of Share Action, the movement for responsible investment, was recognised by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2014.

• Sustainability: David Barrie is a former British diplomat, Chair of Make Justice Work and Director of the Art Fund and has served as a trustee of many organisations including Butterfly Conservation.

Convened by Dr Rachel Dickinson (Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Cheshire Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University).

Co-sponsored by the Guild of St George, the charity for arts, crafts and the rural economy founded by Ruskin in the 1870s.

Longbarrow Press was founded by Andrew Hirst and Brian Lewis in 2005, and was launched in Sheffield in April 2006 (with the publication of Hirst and Lewis’s The Frome Sampler and Matthew Clegg’s Nobody Sonnets). Hirst stepped down later that year, leaving Lewis as sole publisher/editor.

The ethos governing the output of the press is that the poem should dictate the format of publication. The resulting objects – matchboxes, acetates, maps – allow poet and publisher to explore alternatives to the book without resorting to gimmickry.

This evening poetry event will explore writing and its relationship to landscape in new and inspiring ways.

Performers include:

• Matthew Clegg (@betweenstation1)• Mark Goodwin (@kramawoodgin)

Cable Fence by Nikki Clayton, featuring Mark Goodwin

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Save the date

The next Humanities in Public Festival will take place between September 2016 and June 2017 and will be on the theme of ‘Greater Manchester and Northern Identity’. The Festival will be part of a programme of events from across the whole of Manchester Metropolitan University called D/Evolving Manchester.

Humanities in Public topics and events include:

• Ideas of the North: Northern Englishness and North Western Identity in 19th/20th Century Literature

• Manchester’s Undiscovered Musical Heritage: Youth culture and its role in building the Manchester brand • Queering the Region: Challenging metrocentrism

• Ireland, Manchester and Empire

• Cosmopolis: Manchester as a global city

• Housing, Employment and Social Value

• Annual Conference of the Public Administration Committee

• Manchester Voices: Perceived linguistic difference across Greater Manchester

• Manifesto for the Future of Young Learning Disabled People

• Data Saves Lives – Make Your Data Count

• A History of Manchester in 100 Shops

• City of Technology: Manchester and the motor car

• Student Conference #thisismymanchester

• Beyond Babel III – a multilingual film festival

• Gothic Manchester Festival IV: the Gothic North

• Radical Manchester Pub Quiz

• Manchester’s Twins: International City Partnerships

• UK Regional Planning History: a symposium

Dates and venues will be confirmed closer to the time. Keep in touch for updates!

At a glance

Date Event Location

20 April The Great British Breadwinner No 70

22 April Cervantes Meets Shakespeare No 70

25 April The Battle of Chile No 70

26 April The Battle of Chile No 70

27 April Austerity: Local and Global No 70

7 May Beyond Babel Film Festival No 70

13 May Global Girls No 70

19 May Dolly Birds and Swinging Cities No 70

28 May Animals in the Classroom No 70

7 June Faith in The World Manchester Cathedral

11 June Digital Re-enchantment Nightingale Centre

11 June Longbarrow Press Poetry event Old Hall Hotel

25 June Inspired by Ruskin No 70

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