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 […]
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, […]
“COVID-19 and the Slow Death of Interdisciplinarity in the Practice and Teaching of American Studies,” a roundtable panel formed of University of Salford postgraduate researcher Lauren Pearl Holmes, University of Manchester postgraduate researcher Heena Hussain, and University of Salford undergraduate student and qualified primary and secondary school teacher Charlotte Stevenson, has been awarded £5,000 from […]
Lauren Pearl Holmes (University of Salford) and guest speaker Heena Hussain (University of Manchester) presented the seminar “American Studies: Then and Now” on Wednesday 04 December 2024. The seminar considered American Studies’ long understanding that histories and historiographies of American society and culture represent an attempt to impose an ordered narrative on its national origin […]
Caroline will be talking about Harpy at The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast on 28th November at 6:30pm For more details and to register please use the link here.