Jade Munslow Ong has recently hosted a ‘New Thinking’ conversation as a part of a series of 5 episodes of the Arts and Ideas podcast marking the 75th anniversary of the NHS, focusing on new research in UK universities which explores links between the arts and health. Jade’s guests on the show were Kim Wiltshire […]
Why not visit the South African Modernism blog for the latest on key project events? See here for an article on the team’s latest visit to SA and their many adventures… And see here for an article about the Karoo Writers Festival Visual Text Workshop!
Alicia Rouverol has been touring her new novel Dry River with a series of in-person and online events. The next event will be on 6 August (8pm BST) International Book launch/Zoom event. Please register your interest using this Eventbrite link. To find out more about Alicia’s book you can find two recent interviews below. The […]
On Saturday 15 July, Scott Thurston held an event at The Tin Arts and Music venue in Coventry to celebrate the publication of Leanne Bridgewater’s (1989-2019) adDictionary – an experimental dictionary featuring 12,000 new words, each with their own definitions. This book started life as Leanne’s Masters thesis at Salford from where she graduated in […]
Readers of this blog are invited to attend the fourth seminar in the series, “Indigenous Writing: Reclaiming the Past, Imagining the Future”. Marama Salsano (Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Wairere) will be joining us (virtually!) from Aotearoa New Zealand to deliver a paper on her research on 31st July. “Haumi ē, hui ē, tāiki ē!”: […]
The South African Modernism team led by Jade Munslow Ong and featuring Hannah Helm, Emma Barnes, Katie Barnes and Sanja Nivesjö have continued their collaborative activities in introducing their research to students in local colleges in Greater Manchester. In recent months the team had the pleasure of collaborating with Burnley College in Lancashire to create […]
In June 2023, three members of our Creative Writing team delivered papers at the Narrative Matters conference in Tampere, Finland. This was the 11th Narrative Matters conference, attracting over 300 scholars of social sciences, literary studies, psychology, and any discipline interested in the study of narrative theory and its social applications. The conference focused on emergent […]
Judy Kendall and Ursula Hurley are running a Radical Creative Writing symposium, happening in person and online on 21st June. Judy and Ursula write: The symposium starts from the premise that radical creative writing is inherently diverse, challenging assumptions and dissolving boundaries in its making. Thus, we aim to give a platform to the voices of […]
Hannah Helm, who has just recently defended her doctoral thesis, has published her third peer-reviewed journal article. The article is called ‘”She was no taller than your thumb. So she was called Thumbelina”: Gender, Disability, and Visual Forms in Hans Christian Andersen’s “Thumbelina” (1835)”, appears in the Journal of Gender, Ethnic, and Cross-Cultural Studies, 2.1 (2023), […]
Scott Thurston and the team behind Arts for the Blues have premiered a new performance which will tour England’s North-west this Summer in collaboration with Liverpool Lighthouse. Together Un/Tethered is an immersive performance interweaving movement, spoken word, innovative soundscape, projection and live cellist exploring themes of separation, connection, new possibilities and understanding. Inspired by the […]