PGR-led events
PGR-led initiatives make a significant contribution to the research culture in the arts and humanities at Manchester.
PGR History Research Network - The Brown Bag Seminar
Coordinated by Camilla de Koning
Supported by artsmethods@manchester and the Department of History
The PGR History Network plays a vital role the professional formation of historians at the University of Manchester. As a peer-led initiative, it provides a space to explore research ideas, methodologies and skills in a supportive and inclusive environment.
The Network was established in 2014 and provides a monthly research seminar followed by a roundtable discussion of the approaches, methods and skills used in developing the work. During the pandemic, the Network moved online, hosting a hugely popular range of talks, including the ‘Covid-19: History in 20 Minutes’ flash talks which, for the first time, collaborated with history PGRs across the UK and further afield.
As we’ve returned to campus, the Network has become a popular monthly seminar and social series. The series enables students from across years, and crucially in different areas of the discipline, to meet and discuss work in progress. This is followed by a social event, in which more informal links and communities of practice can be established and developed. The Network is a vital component in the development of communities within SALC and it aims to be as interdisciplinary as possible, drawing upon the rich coalescing of subjects such as archaeology, anthropology, languages and religions.
The monthly Brown Bag Seminars start on Monday 14 November 2022, from 11:00 to 13:00, in Ellen Wilkinson CG.59. All welcome!
Benjamin Freud reading group
Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud are seminal figures in the humanities, exploring the shifting configurations of subjectivity and experience in the twentieth century. This reading group will facilitate nuanced discussion of Freud and Benjamin's complicated, often controversial, oeuvres in a lively, informal, critical setting.
Four meetings around four different themes are planned, from 16:00-17:00 on Thursdays, in C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building:
- 26 January 2023: Childhood
- 23 February 2023: Melancholy
- 30 March 2023: Reproduction
- 27 April 2024: Fascism/war
Readings will be provided via a mailing list. Please email Thomas.grocott-2@postgrad.Manchester.ac.uk to join the mailing list and register your interest in attending.
artsmethods has supported numerous events, including:
- East-European paratexts at home and abroad
- Russian culture after 2010
- Poetry emergency II - a North West radical poetry festival
- HIV humanities Manchester: Reza Abdoh: A documentary film screening
- Iron Age research students symposium
- Manchester forum in linguistics 2020
- Community curators: Inside the pharmacy collection
- EAC Work in Progress Seminars (EWiPS)
- Sexuality summer school
- M6 medieval reading group
- BAME speaker series
- Hegemony, system and power: Global order beyond international liberalism
- Riot, rebellion, resistance, repression: State of violence conference
- Gender and the state: Seminar with subsequent reading groups
- Jewish-Muslim research network
- State of violence research network
- The Society for the History of Women in the Americas conference
- History postgraduate seminar
- Colonial knowledges: Environment and logistics in the creation of knowledge in British colonies from 1750 to 1950
- Beauty, bioethics and the body
- Gender and Sexuality in/around Islam and Judaism
- HIV/AIDs in the 21st Century: Memorialisation, Representation and Temporality
- The Represented, the Aesthetic and the Human through Visual Creative Practice
- Social movements and policy outcomes: How right-wing grassroots groups influence foreign policy
- 12th annual sexuality summer school: Queer dialogues
- Making sense of social mobility in unequal societies seminar
- IPCITI 2018
- Identity in times of change
- History postgraduate seminar series 2019
- Transformations beyond borders: Chile and Latin America in the global context
- Symposium Brazil: Resistances to the far-right
- Ethics of using digital media in arts and humanities research conference
- Planetary urbanization and architectural research
- Constructing knowledges: public engagement, autumn 2018
- Rethinking (self) translation in (trans)national contexts
- Disaffiliation, dis-identification, disavowal: (ex-)Muslims and public apostasy from Islam in Francophone culture and politics
- Constructing knowledge
- Gender and discourse across disciplines and cultures
- Researching digital cultural heritage
- Digital heritage research training
- Changing the narrative: Older women and the cultural sector
- Strangeness and Estrangement in the City, 1300-1750
- The Russian revolution and contemporary Russian studies
- M6 Medieval Reading Group
- Sexuality summer school 2018
- Researching contemporary Japanese religions
- Intercultural communication through art
- Manchester forum in linguistics
- The place i call research: Localising sociological inquiry
- Japan seminar series: Gender perspectives in the Japanese society
- Socio-cultural historical theory: Agency and emotion
- Mathematics and modern literature
- Fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean workshop
- Researching migrations, identity and culture of borderlands
- Conducting fieldwork research and outreach abroad
- Lacan and the human sciences seminar series
- Critical perspective in Polish studies
- Manchester postcolonial studies group
- Sexuality summer school
- Women on the verge: Transformations in literature, gender and society
- Connecting 'medieval' worlds seminar series
- Archival afterlives: Postwar poetry in English
- Biblical studies PhD conference
- Female ex-combatants and rehabilitation in Nepal
- Russia's cultural policies in its neighbourhoods
- Russian and East European studies seminar
- Music for liturgy and devotion in Italy around 1600
- The subject of study – Collaboration in research and artistic practice
- Islamic psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic Islam
- Everyday revolutions
Events organised by postgraduates are expected to enhance the professional development of participants as career researchers.
They should have a methodological or theoretical focus and are expected to be interdisciplinary in nature, as well as bringing together research communities from across Manchester, the North West and beyond.
Examples are:
- research seminars and symposia
- reading groups
- researcher workshops
- atelier
- public engagement events
- bespoke research methods activities and training
