We are delighted to report that the general public in Scotland and elsewhere are being asked to choose which three quotes from previous Scots Makars, including Salford’s own Professor Jackie Kay, should feature on the Scottish Parliament’s Canongate Wall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the building. Jackie’s work, alongside that of Liz Lochhead and Kathleen […]
We are delighted to report the release of the latest National College Podcast in collaboration with the English Research Centre and our colleagues in Media Production, an initiative that developed out of the South African Modernism project led by Jade Munslow Ong. The podcast was recorded at Wigan College and explores studying English and related degrees in […]
The distinguished improvising pianist Roger Dean will be performing a piano solo in response to a specially commissioned film of a kinepoetic (dance & poetry) solo by Scott Thurston. The film, directed and photographed by Maria Andrews, was facilitated by technician Charlie Cragg at the New Adelphi Studio on the University of Salford campus in […]
Scott Thurston is performing his distinctive kinepoetic practice, combining dance and poetry, at three different venues in February and March. On 19 February he appears at the CONTEMPO series hosted by the University of Aberystwyth (contact Scott for information on S.Thurston@salford.ac.uk). On 13 March he appears at the University of Plymouth’s Creative Talks series. See […]
The Arts for the Blues project recently announced new dates for its popular continuing professional development (CPD) days, starting on the 1 March with a day-long introduction to the Arts for the Blues model of creative group psychotherapy. For more details about the overall project please visit the Arts for the Blues website here. For […]
We are delighted to announce the details of Jade Munslow Ong’s inaugural professorial lecture on Wednesday 12th March 2025, between 5.30pm-8pm in the Chapman Building at the University of Salford. Jade’s lecture, entitled ‘Literature Unbound: Decolonising Modernism In and Beyond the Classroom,’ moves from a nineteenth-century South African farmhouse to the twenty-first-century classroom via a […]
Join us on 5th February 2.30-4.30pm for the next English Research Seminar, presented by guest speaker Stephen O’Neill (Trinity College Dublin). The talk will be livestreamed in Lady Hale 100 and on Teams. Please contact Prof Scott Thurston (s.thurston@salford.ac.uk) for the link to join online. The Partition of Ireland and the Festival of Britain Between […]
Emma Barnes has announced that she is participating in a virtual book launch on 24th Jan 2pm-4pm for the Palgrave edited collection Indigenous Storytelling and Connections to Land. Emma has contributed in a chapter to the book entitled ‘Aloha ‘Āina: Island-Wahine Relationality in Hawaiian Mo‘olelo‘. To book your ticket for the event, please follow the link below. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-indigenous-storytelling-and-connections-to-the-land-tickets-1116714907349?aff=erellivmlt To […]
We are delighted to report that Qudsia Akhtar will be presenting an amazing line-up of poets Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, Jamal Mehmood and Alycia Pirmohamed to read and discuss their poems, followed by a Q&A session at London’s Southbank Centre on Wednesday 15th January. The discussion focuses on the poetic concept of the […]
We are delighted to announce Lauren Pearl Holmes’ latest publication which has appeared as a post on the Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons (GEMMS) blog (reviewed by Dr Anne James of the University of Regina). The post is entitled ‘[T]o prevent [thei]r being guilty of like wickedness:” Proto-sentimentalism in Benjamin Wadsworth’s sermon on Judges 5, […]