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Another @newwritingmcr.bsky.social event on Tue 24 March @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social - Neil Rollinson & Jon Doyle discuss their powerful new novels The Dead Don’t Bleed and Communion.
Doors 6:30pm / Start 6:45pm.
Tickets £4 or free with book purchase. 📚✨https://buff.ly/N9bIDBC
In Cambridge later this month? Exciting Critical-Creative work showcase from EACW's @jamespaz.bsky.social 🎉🔽
A fitting pick for International Women's Day also! #IWD
It’s #worldbookday and so here’s a book I wrote! It introduces a dozen radical 17th women who have been ignored by history books for far too long ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #newbook
Tonight! Come immerse yourself in all things Seamus Heaney with @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social before the rugby starts! Tickets here or on the door: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-heane...
Can’t wait for Joe P. L. Davidson's upcoming talk at Manchester next week!
‘After the Burning Age: Green utopianism, climate catastrophe, and retooling the apocalypse’
📍 Ellen Wilkinson C1.18, 11 March 4-6 pm
In the meantime, worth revisiting Joe’s blog for the Sociological Review:
Manifestly worth making time to visit the Glass Corridor Gallery on UoM campus for this exhibition over the next few weeks ✨ Really excellent!
Wednesday, 4th March, 5-7pm
CSSC PhD Roundtable and Q & A
Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester
All welcome!
Today - Join us! 🔆
Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social
Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social
Reminder! 👀
Next week - a Show & Tell seminar from EACW's Empire and After cluster - focused on colonial and #postcolonial writing and film. Researchers will be sharing exciting new and developing work.
📅 4 March
🕑 2pm
📍 University Place 2.217
We’re back @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social on 3 March to hear EACW’s Ian McGuire discuss White River Crossing, his gripping new novel set in the sub-Arctic wilderness.
Doors 6:30pm / Start 6:45pm.
Tickets £4 or free with book purchase. 📚❄️
A bumper week for events is coming up...will we see you at the shop?
Monday 2nd: @mackeza.bsky.social with Super Nintendo
Tuesday 3rd: @uomenglish.bsky.social's Ian McGuire with White River Crossing
Thursday 5th: Michael Stewart and Katherine Clements
Friday 6th: Nicholas Allen with Late Heaney
Hey Manchester! Join us Friday 20 March, at the @porticolibrary.bsky.social for the public launch of my book Queering Women, Peace and Security, with artist Sarah Joy Ford, followed by a reception.
🥂Free & open to all! Please RSVP here: bit.ly/4kDipk4
@uompols.bsky.social @oupprimary.bsky.social
TONIGHT - Join us @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social to celebrate Rebecca Perry’s debut novel May We Feed the King!
Doors 6:30pm / Start 6:45pm.
Tickets £4, or free with book purchase.
In partnership with UoM’s @newwritingmcr.bsky.social - don’t miss it! 📚✨
TALK: ‘Alternative Ecological Futures’ Weds 18 March, 4–5pm (Sam Alex A113) with Dr Robert Spencer and Prof. Allison Carruth author of Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025). 🌍📚 buff.ly/cJcXnbO
What else are we working on? 👀 Join us for a Show & Tell from the Empire and After cluster, showcasing new and developing work by our researchers. 4 March, 2pm, University Place 2.217. A great chance to see what’s brewing in the department!
Just 5 mins away from the desk each hour can reset body and mind. Visit Sam Alex for an immersion in 'Mossworlds' - emerging from research by Dr Aurora Fredriksen (@uomseed.bsky.social), EACW's Dr Anke Bernau & Dr Ingrid Hanson, with their wider team and collaborators.
Join us to celebrate the release of 'May We Feed the King', CNW graduate Rebecca Perry's debut novel.
📅 Tuesday 24 February
⏰ 6.30-8pm
📍 @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
🎟️ £4 (or free with a copy of the book)
Tickets and info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/may-we-fee...
Looking forward to hearing @naoisemurphy.bsky.social reading from this newly published gem! 25th March, 4pm, Sam Alex A115 - join us!
A copy of the book Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women's Writing: Uneasy Moderns by Naoise Murphy. An orange cover with a painting of Powerscourt Waterfall by Mainie Jellett.
The book is out, it exists in hardback, and I'll be talking about it in three different cities over the next few months! 🧵
What else are we working on? 👀 Join us for a Show & Tell from the Empire and After cluster, showcasing new and developing work by our researchers. 4 March, 2pm, University Place 2.217. A great chance to see what’s brewing in the department!
What a delight it was to get to hear the brilliant @profkfh.bsky.social speak about how her wonderful new book came to be at today’s @uomenglish.bsky.social research seminar, in conversation with my dear colleague Dr Fred Schurink.
Today’s the day! 🎉 We're in Sam Alex SG.16 4–5pm for an EACW research seminar 'The Sweet Taste of Empire' - @profkfh.bsky.social in conversation with @fredschurink.bsky.social on sugar, empire and race. Join us!
Thanks Liz! Hope you can join us next time 😀
Gabriel Clark delivered such a riveting performance in The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me tonight at the Hope Mill Theatre & it was capped off with an extraordinary post-show conversation on art, activism & queer history with @uomenglish.bsky.social Dr @mbpearl.bsky.social. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Lots of great EACW events happening this week - here's another date for the diary! ✍️ Visiting Fulbright Scholar @amylmontz.bsky.social sharing research on Elizabeth Gaskell and the Female Gothic - Weds 11 Feb, 4–5pm, Sam Alex A1.01 📚
Two fully funded studentships at Manchester to support research in queer and trans healthcare and creativity www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Tomorrow! 📢 bonus post-show 'In Conversation' event with @mbpearl.bsky.social and EACW alumnus Gabriel Clark, star of David Drake’s The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me - an urgent conversation on activism and art: