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CANCELLED - HCRI Research Seminar - Creative Engagement

Dates:17 March 2020
Times:16:00 - 19:00
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public
Speaker:Dr Nat O'Grady, Professor Jenny Edkins
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Unfortunately, the research seminar has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year.

HCRI Research Seminar with Professor Jenny Edkins and Dr Nat O'Grady as Chair.

The seminar will discuss the possibilities of life-writing, poetry, textiles, installations and other forms of creative engagement in response to disaster and atrocity alongside what might be thought of as more traditional academic work or activism. Specific examples may include video, life-writing and other reactions to the Grenfell Tower fire and the use of embroidery, exhibitions and visualisations in challenging disappearances in Mexico.

This event is open to members of the public and no booking is required, so please simply turn up. There will be a networking session from 6-7pm, with free snacks and refreshments.

Price: Free

Speakers

Dr Nat O'Grady

Role: PGR Director and Lecturer in Human Geography and Disaster

Organisation: University of Manchester

  • https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/nathaniel.ogrady.html

Professor Jenny Edkins

Role: Professor of Politics

Organisation: University of Manchester

Biography: Jenny’s most recent monograph is Change and the Politics of Certainty (Manchester University Press, 2019). She is editor of the Routledge Handbook of Critical International Relations (2019) and co-editor of After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (Pluto Press, 2019) and the third edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction (Routledge, 2019). She has been exploring narrative and performance as research practices for a number of years, and is currently working on a poetry collection. A recent poem, ‘As it turned out’, appears in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, Autumn 2019, to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

  • https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/jenny.edkins.html

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