We are pleased to announce that the Northern School of Writing at the University of Salford is welcoming school teachers, educators, librarians, publishers, community organisers, academics and artists to a free, one day symposium on 30th June to explore challenges related to literacy and literary engagement in the City of Salford. Anyone interested or working in areas related to reading, […]
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 […]
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 […]