Congolese Women Speak
Blog post written by Siobhan Brownlie, March 2020Since February 2019 I had been doing volunteer work with three Congolese asylum seekers, encouraging them to write about their homeland. The culmination of the project was an evening at the Alliance Française where the...
Teaching creative writing in hospital
Blog post written by Horatio Clare.I have been working with staff and patients - known as 'service users' - on a secure ward in a psychiatric hospital in Wakefield in order to identify and develop ways in which creative writing may be used to aid recovery from mental...
Whose past is it, and who gets to tell it? Greenheys Community History Day (GPS foray)
This is a short report on a collaborative project started late last year. It is focused upon an area called Greenheys, which is situated behind the University of Manchester. Greenheys has an interesting recent history. It is currently a Science Park, but up until the...
Recreating an Early Modern Beer Recipe
This project will introduce a dedicated week of activities relating to key themes in the social responsibility agenda within the level two undergraduate module HIST21152: The Stuff of History: Objects Across Borders, by inviting a professional brewer, for a period of...
Centre for Jewish Studies public film screening ‘Wall’ (2017) with discussion
The public screening of the film Wall (2017; dir. Moran Ifergan) followed by a panel discussion with a UK-based feminist Jewish artist and SALC/Centre for Jewish Studies researchers. The event will be organised and marketed in collaboration with UK Jewish Film (UKJF)...
Capturing the Manchester Together Archive in Virtual Reality
The Manchester Together Archive (MTA) is a collection of about 10,000 items from the spontaneous memorials in St Ann’s Square and other places in Manchester after the Manchester Arena Attack (May 2017). The MTA is currently being digitised by volunteers (the...
Remembering Biafra: Public History for Community Empowerment
The event comprised four different sessions. In the first, Dr Matthew Lecznar and Dr Louisa Egbnunike offered two intellectually stimulating papers based on their research on the impact of the Biafra war on literature and visual arts. The second session saw the first...
PlaceHistory Hulme & Greenheys Community History Day
The PlaceHistory Hulme & Greenheys Community History Day is part of an ongoing project that aims to create a community-led archive of all the history projects in the Hulme and Greenheys neighbourhoods. This History Day took place on 23 November 2019 between 11am -...
Learning Together EAC/HMP Hindley pilot course
This project aims to promote social justice and equality through the joint teaching of English and American literature and creative writing to UoM students and selected prison students in Hindley Prison, a Category C men’s prison in Wigan. It builds on work already...
Loving Machines?
What does it mean to ‘love’ robots? Should we love them? Can they love us? A new wave of social robots are being designed to enter our homes and hospitals, to provide companionship for us, and to deliver care to us. As we brace ourselves for different types of...
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