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Edge Hill University – Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018

Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018 Welcome Welcome to Edge Hill University’s Public Events programme featuring an eclectic range of exciting and stimulating events, from conferences and seminars to performances and film screenings.

This season, we continue our Wonder Women programme, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 which enabled some women to vote for the first time. Edge Hill University pays tribute to this anniversary with a series of public exhibitions, guest lectures and symposia celebrating women’s suffrage and feminism in all its forms.

September will see a highlight of the Wonder Women programme with Suffragette Tribute, an epic processional performance around campus, developed by acclaimed Liverpool band Stealing Sheep and featuring 15 percussionists and 12 dancers.

Also in September, we welcome two international conferences to campus, the first on television production the other on drugs and substances used in the Long Nineteenth Century, reflecting the diverse nature of the University’s research.

October marks the beginning of our Inaugural Lecture series, celebrating the appointment of new professors in post at Edge Hill University. The speakers include two new Heads of Departments – Head of Psychology, Professor Rod Nicolson, whose lecture reveals the secrets of human learning, and Head of Media and Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert, Professor Matthew Pateman, who discusses the complexities of this seminal US series and the importance of studying popular culture.

In this programme, there are events hosted by Edge Hill University’s Gender and Sexuality Research Group, GenSex, an inter-disciplinary group which promotes global research into gender and sexuality studies. We also welcome a host of high profile guests including Nicky Morgan MP talking about votes for 16-year-olds, and acclaimed screenwriter Heidi Thomas, an event programmed by the Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE).

The University is proud to have been recently awarded Gold status in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), for delivering consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for its students. Our Public Events programme reflects this accolade by offering opportunities for inspiration and knowledge sharing for staff members, academics, our local community and students alike.

We hope you can join us.

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Women in Film and TV

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A Masterclass with Heidi Thomas

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Capturing Locality in Television Production Wednesday 5th September Get in touch...

Events OfďŹ cer -Natalie McRae E: mcraen@edgehill.ac.uk T: 01695 657184

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At a glance

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Capturing Locality in Television Production

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Substance Use and Abuse in the Long Nineteenth Century

Knowledge Democracy and Educational Action Research Monday 22nd October

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Nice Women Don’t…

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Autoeroticism and Contemporary Women’s Writing

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Thursday 13th & Friday 14th September

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Stealing Sheep

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C.D. Rose

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Featuring 3rd Edge Dance Company

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Female Human Animal

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Scenes from the Revolution:

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Making Political Theatre (1968-2018)

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An Evening with Nicky Morgan Thursday 4th October

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Sounds Visions and Inward Significances

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Buffy Comes of Age

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Learning to Thrive in the 21st Century Thursday 1st November

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STATE OF PLAY: A Clown Gathering

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Bob Dylan, Literature and The Poetry of The Blues

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Solitary?

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Punk Suffrage

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Black Women in Britain and the Media Monday 12th November

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Parchment and Serendipity:

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A Journey through Medieval Accounting

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Are We Being Served?

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Women in Film and TV

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Capturing Locality in Television Production © Liverpool Film Office

Capturing Locality in Television Production Critical Studies in Television Conference There is a growing recognition of the importance for audiences to see speciďŹ c localities represented on television screens.

We might enjoy Scott & Bailey because of the crime stories or the relationship between the detectives, or because we recognise the landscape and want to look at it. Similarly, we might want to watch a documentary just because it is about a particular region. During this event, a panel of television makers will screen part of their work and discuss their techniques for capturing locality, as well as taking questions from the audience.

This session is part of the State of Play: Television Scholarship in TVIV conference on Wednesday 5th – Friday 7th September at Edge Hill University. The conference will explore the recent shifts in television, as new, online providers creating their own content and offering new forms of distribution has led to some scholars questioning if the next generation of TV watching (TVIV) has arrived. The conference is a collaboration between Edge Hill University, Critical Studies in Television and the Television Studies Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Keynote speakers include Derek Kompare, (Southern Methodist University), Karen Lury (University of Glasgow) and Ruchi Kher Jaggi (Symbiosis International University, India) For the full conference programme, please visit: edgehill.ac.uk/ice

In Conversation MEDIA

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Wednesday 5th September 8.00pm The Arts Centre Programme: 7.30pm Registration and Refreshments 8.00pm In Conversation 9.15pm Networking Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Substance Use and Abuse in the Long Nineteenth Century

Substance Use and Abuse in the Long Nineteenth Century Professor Susan Zieger, Dr Noelle Plack and Dr Douglas Small

From 1821, opium allowed writer Thomas de Quincey to explore ‘the palimpsest of the human mind’ and navigate the dream space of the human subconscious.

Ether and chloroform banished pain and facilitated new surgical innovations, and stimulants and sedatives regulated waking and sleeping, and the working day in between.

Reports of addiction and criminality appeared with increasing regularity in the periodical press throughout the Long Nineteenth Century to present day, featuring in the plots of new literary genres like the sensation novel and the detective story. This conference will examine how the perception of chemical substances as therapies, quack remedies, or dangerous addictive drugs changed during a century of rapid medical innovation.

This two-day interdisciplinary conference will examine the changing roles of drugs in the history, literature, and medical discourses of the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914). It will focus on the century prior to the government legislation under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (DORA), which criminalised the use of opium, cocaine and other substances in Britain. This conference will seek to produce a more complex and nuanced understanding of substances that have been framed as addiction or illegality since DORA was enforced. Highlights will include plenary papers from Professor Susan Zieger (University of California Riverside), Dr Noelle Plack (Newman University) and Dr Douglas Small (University of Glasgow).

A conference dinner will be hosted at Miyagi’s restaurant in Ormskirk, with the opportunity to try temperance mocktails in the Opium Lounge.

Interdisciplinary Conference

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Thursday 13th and Friday 14th September 10.00am - 5.00pm Across Campus Tickets: Free - £50 (depending on academic status) Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events For the full conference programme, please visit substance18.wordpress.com/ cfp

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Stealing Sheep – Suffragette Tribute © John Johnson

Stealing Sheep Suffragette Tribute Featuring 3rd Edge Dance Company Stealing Sheep’s Suffragette Tribute brings together 30 female musicians and dancers in a truly unique and powerful performance.

Garbed in colourful and abstract costumes, the ensemble will process around central campus performing live psychedelic sounds, percussion and dance. Co-commissioned by Edge Hill University and Brighter Sound – a creative music charity who are addressing gender equality in the music industry – the performance pays tribute to the Suffragette movement, celebrating the centenary of women’s suffrage and partial progress.

Fresh from a tour of festivals around the UK including Latitude, Festival No.6 and Head for the Hills, Stealing Sheep join forces with Edge Hill University’s all-female student dance troupe, 3rd Edge, for their final performance together. Their first appearance at Liverpool Sound City Festival 2018 saw the performance named as ‘one of the major highlights’ by Getintothis and ‘one of the most important’ by Bido Lito magazine, with the festival pledging to a 50/50 gender balance on their future line-ups.

This performance is a feature of Edge Hill’s Wonder Women programme, which celebrates the100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, allowing some women to vote in the UK for the first time.

Performance ARTS

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Thursday 20th September 8.00pm The Arts Centre Programme: 7.55pm Meet outside The Arts Centre 8.00pm Procession around campus Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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An Evening with Nicky Morgan © Parliamentary Copyright

An Evening with Nicky Morgan Votes at 16?

Nicky Morgan is the Member of Parliament for Loughborough and has served at the heart of Government as a Whip, Treasury Minister, Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities.

An outstanding and memorable speaker, Nicky played a fundamental role during one of the UK Government’s most important political and economic periods. She is also a regular contributor to programmes such as Question Time, The Andrew Marr Show, Daily Politics, Any Questions and other BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5live programmes.

As an outspoken current female MP and former Minister, Nicky will discuss why a woman’s place is in the House of Commons, why the 100th anniversary of women being able to vote and the election of the first female MP should be widely celebrated, and why questions about the next steps in the electoral franchise should never stop. Now is the time to consider if the right to vote should be extended to all 16 year olds across the UK. Nicky actively supports the Fair.Vote campaign to lower the legal voting age to 16, acknowledging the need to include young people in decisions that will directly affect them such as the Brexit referendum, economy and housing.

Nicky chairs the influential House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, having been elected by her fellow MP’s to the post in July 2017. Her book Taught not Caught: Educating for 21st Century Character, which was published in September 2017, discusses the necessity to build children’s positive personalities and characters on top of developing their skill sets and knowledge.

Guest Lecture POLITICS

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Thursday 4th October 6.30pm Creative Edge Programme: 6.00pm Registration and Refreshments 6.30pm Lecture 7.30pm Q&A Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Sounds, Visions and Inward Significances © Helen Newall

Sounds, Visions and Inward Significances Professor Helen Newall American writer Susan Sontag has said that “art is a form of consciousness”, and Hélène Cixous that we “annihilate the world with a book”.

Exploring the concept of art as a process which enables its makers and observers to approach the unapproachable, Professor Helen Newall will present an interactive performance, using Isadora Duncan’s ethos of ‘if I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it!’. Over the past 10 years, Professor Helen Newall has worked closely with Theatre in the Quarter, a unique production company who create theatre and performance art for all ages and aspirations.

The chorus from Theatre in the Quarter will feature as part of the lecture, performing songs composed by Professor Newall and the company’s Artistic Director, Matt Baker.

This performative inaugural lecture will culminate with the premiere of Professor Newall’s latest audio-visual installation; projected animations specially created for the event in collaboration with sound artist, Karen Lauke.

Helen Newall is Professor of Theatre Praxis in the Department of Performing Arts at Edge Hill University. She is a writer, director, and digital artist, and her research involves installations, performative documentation and immersivity with a specific interest in commemoration, the First World War and site-responsive community writing. Helen has written for a number of prestigious institutions including The Nuffield Theatre and The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Inaugural Lecture PERFORMING ARTS

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Thursday 11th October 6.00pm The Arts Centre Programme: 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture 7.00pm Q&A 7.15pm Wine and Canapés Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Buffy Comes of Age: Aesthetics, technologies and politics in the TV industry 21 years after she first slayed us

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Buffy Comes of Age: Aesthetics, technologies and politics in the TV industry 21 years after she first slayed us Professor Matthew Pateman Since Buffy the Vampire Slayer first aired 21 years ago, there have been huge changes in the ways that television dramas are made, distributed, consumed and analysed. In his inaugural lecture, Professor Matthew Pateman will identify the important aspects of Buffy’s emergence as an influential and groundbreaking popular cultural product in the late 20th century.

Charting the ongoing influence the series had on TV drama, Professor Pateman will explore the content and format decisions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the context of the structure of the media industry, the appearance of new forms of media, as well as globalised transmedial franchises and policy issues. The lecture will highlight the complex, serious and important work of studying popular culture.

Resisting the notion of the ‘TV auteur’ (not allowing all the discussion to be dominated by the intentions and ideas of the show’s Executive Producer, Joss Whedon) Professor Pateman will insist on Buffy’s status as mass-mediated public art. The inaugural seeks to challenge one of Whedon’s own creations, who once stated upon discovering a television in someone’s room “Woah, Giles has got a TV; he’s shallow like us.”

Professor Matthew Pateman joined Edge Hill University as the Head of Media in 2017. His eclectic research interests include 20th and 21st century fiction and poetry, avant-garde film and documentary, critical theory, and popular culture. His recent publication Joss Whedon (Manchester University Press, 2018), chronicling the life and work of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator, will be launched by the publishers at this event.

Inaugural Lecture MEDIA

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Thursday 18th October 6.00pm Creative Edge Programme: 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture 7.00pm Q&A 7.15pm Wine and Canapés Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Knowledge Democracy and Educational Action Research

Knowledge Democracy and Educational Action Research Professor Lonnie Rowell Knowledge democracy is a concept that has grown out of transformations in the politics of knowledge production (a source of reliable information that can be utilised and distributed).

The concept is rooted in resistance to the monopolisation of expert knowledge producers in relation to the global north-south divide from the mid-20th century to the present day. The democratisation of knowledge production and the expansion of challenges to all forms of elitist domination have been inseparable for at least the last 50 years, fuelled by a recognition of the transformative power of knowledge democratisation. Professor Rowell’s recent work has explored public education and educational research in the U.S. in relation to knowledge monopoly as well as the prospects of knowledge democracy as a pathway towards breaking through the barriers imposed by this control.

Professor Lonnie Rowell is the co-founder and lead organiser of the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) as well as lead editor of The Palgrave International Handbook of Action Research. Professor Rowell will speak on knowledge democracy and educational action research in troubled times.

His lecture will address critical issues in action research and participatory action research as they are taking shape within the current crisis of neo-liberalism and the growing authoritarian challenges of Trumpism (and other global authoritarian ďŹ gures) to democratic society.

Professor Rowell will discuss the state of the global educational action research community and the importance of building knowledge democracies as a strategic initiative for alternative knowledge mobilisation.

Guest Lecture EDUCATION

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Monday 22nd October 4.30pm Business School Programme: 4.00pm Registration and Refreshments 4.30pm Lecture 6.00pm Networking Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Nice Women Don’t…

Autoeroticism and contemporary women’s writing

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Autoeroticism and contemporary women’s writing Krystina Osborne As one of the last sexual taboos in modern culture, Krystina Osborne will examine the extent to which contemporary women’s writing perceives female masturbation.

She will explore the myth that it is rarely discussed, often demonised and very restricted. Conservative engagements with female masturbation, which masquerade as sites of feminist resistance, will be problematised.

The session will explore, in particular, the sustained pathologising, criminalising and infantilising of female literary characters who masturbate. Krystina will evaluate the ways in which their treatment exemplifies sustained patriarchal control.

She will conclude with the suggestion that the few privileged female authors who are permitted to engage with the autoerotic, often perpetuate this dominant narrative, however subversive their work initially appears to be.

Krystina Osborne is a PhD candidate from the Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. She teaches modules on gender, literary theory, and British literature of the 1950s and 1960s. Krystina is a member of the Postgraduate Contemporary Women’s Writing Network group and is currently Acting Secretary of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Association.

Guest lecture GENSEX

Nice Women Don’t…

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Monday 22nd October 5.15pm Main Building Programme: 5.00pm Registration 5.15pm Lecture 6.15pm Networking Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

Twitter: @KrystinaOsborne

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An Evening with C.D. Rose

An Evening with C.D. Rose

C.D. Rose was born in Manchester and has since lived and worked in half a dozen different countries and has written stories set in Paris, Naples, St. Petersburg, Lisbon and Manchester.

He is an award-winning short story writer, whose work has been published in Granta and previously listed for the EFG Bank Short Story prize. Rose also has a PhD in Short Fiction from Edge Hill University.

C.D. Rose will discuss and read from his latest novel Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else (Melville House, 2018), a humorous literary fiction about improbable books and the joys and sorrows of reading: “In an unnamed Middle European city, an unnamed writer — the author of The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure — has arrived to give a series of lectures at an unnamed university on the subject of ‘forgotten books’. He’s agreed to the lectureship because he wants to visit the grave of his favourite writer, and because he’s yearning for distraction from the fact that the love of his life has recently left him.

“But the professor who invited him — also unnamed — isn’t there. His location, and the reason he invited the writer, are a mystery.”

This event celebrates the return of one of Edge Hill's finest creative alumni and will also feature short readings from our future stars on the MA Creative Writing programme.

Alumni Event CREATIVE WRITING

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Monday 22nd October 7.00pm The Arts Centre Programme: 7.00pm Readings by MA Students 8.00pm C.D Rose Tickets: £5/ Free EHU students Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Female Human Animal

Female Human Animal 2018, UK, 74 mins Dir. Josh Appignanesi Shot in the real-life contemporary art world, Female Human Animal is a psycho-thriller about a creative woman disenchanted with what modern life – and modern men – have to offer her.

Filmed on a rare 1980s video camera with a uniquely lurid, nostalgic colour response, and deftly weaving fact and fiction, Female Human Animal is a darkly romantic fantasia of a woman who goes beyond societal norms, paying homage to its guiding feminist spirit, the striking Lancastrian/Mexican artist, Leonora Carrington.

The Tate Gallery recently staged a retrospective of the surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917- 2011), famously the lover of Max Ernst. Novelist Chloe Aridjis knew Carrington from her native Mexico, and was made guest curator of the exhibition as well as collaborating closely with the film’s director, Josh Appignanesi.

Female Human Animal sees Chloe increasingly disappointed by her milieu – and haunted by Carrington’s strange artworks.

When an elusive, brooding man seems to offer more, Chloe begins to pursue him, but is she hunter, or hunted? Enabled

by Carrington’s own defiantly mysterious mythology, she descends into a world of obsession.

Edge Hill University has supported the film since shooting began in 2015 during the sponsored Leonora Carrington exhibition at Tate Liverpool. Following the film screening, Josh will be in-conversation with Associate Director of ICE, Professor Roger Shannon.

Film Screening MEDIA

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Wednesday 24th October 6.00pm Creative Edge Programme: 6.00pm Registration and Refreshments 6.20pm Introductions 6.30pm Film Screening 7.45pm In Conversation Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Scenes from the Revolution: Making Political Theatre Protest - Gay Liberation Front - Harley Street, London © PA Extras/PA Archive/PA Images

Scenes from the Revolution: Making Political Theatre Edge Hill University Press Edge Hill University Press is proud to launch its third publication Scenes from the Revolution: Making Political Theatre (1968-2018), in partnership with Pluto Press, edited by Edge Hill’s Dr Kim Wiltshire and Billy Cowan.

The book is a collection of essays, interviews and extracts of lost or previously unpublished plays. Together they form an exploration of making political theatre over the past 50 years, since the Theatres Act 1968 ended censorship. It features some of the most radical scripts from playwrights from the 1960s and beyond.

The launch will include a script-in-hand performance of an extract from a lost gay play, Men by Noel Greig and Don Milligan, readings from the original essays and a discussion about the concept behind the book.

The Edge Hill University Press student intern team played an integral role in the production of the book, working directly with the editors and Pluto Press in all aspects of publishing, from collating content to running events.

Discounted copies of the book will be on sale, with the opportunity to network with Pluto Press, editors and student interns.

Book Launch PERFORMING ARTS

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Friday 26th October 7.00pm The Arts Centre Programme: 6.30pm Drinks reception 7.00pm Readings Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Learning to Thrive in the 21st Century

Learning to Thrive in the 21st Century Professor Rod Nicolson Why do we learn? Why don’t we learn? How do we learn better? Professor Rod Nicolson has spent the past 40 years researching the many facets of human learning, attempting to understand the bigger picture.

Dyslexia is a common learning disability that can cause difficulty with reading, writing and spelling. In this lecture, Professor Nicolson will explore this condition as a potential advantage for different types of learning. He will highlight a discovery that dyslexia may endow cognitive flexibility that can lead to innovation, teamwork, empathy and entrepreneurial abilities; skills that are key to success in the 21st century.

Professor Nicolson will discuss the role of adaptive learning to prosper in all aspects of life, from school and university, to career and personal life. Covering a wide range of topics from the four learning systems, positive psychology, the impact of stress and the brain, he will make speculative suggestions for how adults may regain the amazing learning ability of a child.

He will conclude with a challenging and motivating framework constructed around motives, strengths and passions.

Professor Rod Nicolson joined Edge Hill University as Head of Psychology in September 2017. His main research interests include accelerating human learning, creating positive organisational change, and the cognitive neuroscience of learning and emotion.

Inaugural Lecture PSYCHOLOGY

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Thursday 1st November 6.00pm Tech Hub Programme: 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture 7.00pm Q&A 7.15pm Wine and Canapés Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Op Art in Focus

Untitled [Fragment 3/11] 1965 © Bridget Riley

Op Art in Focus Darren Pih, Exhibition Curator Op art – short for optical art – is a style of art that uses optical illusions. It emerged in the 1960s and its leading figures included Bridget Riley, Jesus Rafael Soto and Victor Vasarely.

They combined lines, geometric shapes and eye-popping colour to create artworks that fool the eye. Images could be subtle or disorientating, giving the illusion of movement. Tate Liverpool’s latest exhibition Op Art in Focus, moves beyond the typical period of op art and includes works by more contemporary artists such as Angela Bulloch. The exhibition also includes a rare installation of Jim Lambie’s Zobop which floods the entire gallery floor with psychedelic patterning.

Join curator of Op Art in Focus Darren Pih (Tate Liverpool), for a discussion about the dazzling displays on show from pioneering artists of the 1960’s to the present day. Darren will be in conversation with Associate Director of ICE, Professor Roger Shannon.

The exhibition will run until 2nd June 2019, sponsored by Edge Hill University Edge Hill University students and staff members can visit Tate Liverpool paid for exhibitions for free with their Unicard.

In Conversation ARTS

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Wednesday 7th November 6.30pm Creative Edge Programme: 6.00pm Registration and Refreshments 6.30pm In Conversation 7.30pm Networking and Refreshments Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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Bob Dylan, Literature and the Poetry of the Blues

Bob Dylan, Literature and the Poetry of the Blues An evening with Michael Gray American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century with albums that span multiple genres, and songs chronicling a plethora of social and political issues.

He won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.’

Join the pioneer of ‘Dylan Studies’, Michael Gray, for an evening of lively conversation, audio tracks and rare footage.

Gray is the author of the first critical study of Bob Dylan’s work Song & Dance Man – currently in its third edition, and The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, a compendium of articles covering the life and work of Bob Dylan.

Michael will explore the Minnesota bard’s interaction with literature, and with the poetry of the blues. His talks are known for being spontaneous and acute, giving a thoroughly entertaining, fresh account of Dylan’s achievement.

Michael has appeared at the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame and at Dylan Conferences in Minnesota, Vienna and Bristol University.

His Canterbury Festival event was the best-attended that year; at the New School NYC the room was overflowing for his talk, as were the venues in Galway, Ireland, and at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Saturday 10th November 6.00pm The Arts Centre Programme: 6.00pm In Conversation and Q&A Tickets: £5 Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

Edge Hill University – Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018

Black Women in Britain and the Media

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Dr Francesca Sobande How are the lives of black women in Britain shaped by their media representation? In what ways are black women in Britain using the internet to represent themselves online?

How are the intersections of racism, sexism and capitalism implicated in this? Such questions are pertinent at a point in time when black women are increasingly regarded as ‘digital trendsetters’, yet are still under-represented amidst media and marketing industries.

This session will explore the media experiences of black women in Britain and their engagement in social media and online platforms. Dr Francesca Sobande will open up discussion on how black women seek themselves out as individuals from self-representation and self-education to solidarity in times where they are seemingly invisible in the mainstream.

Dr Sobande is a Lecturer in Marketing and Advertising at Edge Hill University, with a background in Sociology and Politics. Her work addresses issues regarding identity, ideology and intersecting inequalities in relation to digital media and markets. Her research particularly explores the online and media experiences of black women. Dr Sobande has published work in the European Journal of Cultural Studies and in books such as HBO’s Original Voices: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power. Francesca is co-editing the forthcoming collection To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe (Pluto Press), with Professor Akwugo Emejulu, University of Warwick.

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Monday 12th November 5.15pm Main Building Programme: 5.00pm Registration 5.15pm Seminar 6.15pm Networking Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

Edge Hill University – Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018

Parchment and Serendipity: A journey through medieval accounting

Parchment and Serendipity: A journey through medieval accounting Professor Alisdair Dobie Trading in the Middle Ages saw a huge transformation from ‘bartering’ for goods to the introduction of a monetary economy in 13th century Europe.

Merchants began relying on bookkeeping to record multiple transactions, cash and stock.

In this lecture, Professor Alisdair Dobie will look at the development, purpose and content of medieval accounting records. He will demonstrate how forms of medieval accounting foreshadowed modern financial statements, responding to challenges in similar ways.

Presenting visual representations of surviving records from Durham Cathedral Priory, Professor Dobie will offer a brief exposition of the potential pitfalls of interpreting Medieval Latin in accounting. He will discuss how accountability was also a form of spiritual reckoning as well as being integral to the management of the house’s incomes and expenditures.

Records include thousands of pounds of cash rents as well as the production and consumption of 220,000 individual loaves of bread baked for the monks, their household and guests each year, alongside a multiplicity of incomes such as livestock, grain and peats.

Alisdair Dobie is Professor of Accounting at Edge Hill University. He read History at Edinburgh University before working for a major Scottish investment trust and qualifying as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales with one of the big four accounting firms.

He completed his PhD at Durham University where he worked on one of the most significant collections of medieval accounting material found in Europe. He has published work in numerous journals for Accounting, Business and Financial History including journals in the Palgrave Macmillan’s History of Finance series.

Inaugural Lecture ACCOUNTANCY

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Tuesday 20th November 6.00pm Business School Programme: 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture 7.00pm Q&A 7.15pm Wine and Canapés Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

Edge Hill University – Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018

Are We Being Served?

A review of the effectiveness of customer engagement strategies of UK retailers

Are We Being Served?

A review of the effectiveness of customer engagement strategies of UK retailers Professor Kim Cassidy According to a survey of 3,000 female shoppers, the average woman spends more than eight years of her life shopping. In 2017, the retail sector contributed £194bn to UK economic output. Love it or hate it, retail is a significant economic and social activity affecting us all.

With advanced technologies and devices at our fingertips, retailers are in the midst of a consumer revolution. The collision of virtual and physical worlds is fundamentally changing shopping behaviours, with the expectation for retailers to deliver an integrated experience for consumers as well as communication across all channels, and academics have recognised that shoppers are increasingly developing relationships with brands.

In response, retailers have developed a range of shopper engagement initiatives, including self-service technologies, interactive online shopping channels, social media tracking and response tools, as well crowdsourcing initiatives to encourage customer participation; however, there is evidence to suggest that these tools may not be as effective as consumers would like.

In her inaugural lecture, Professor Kim Cassidy will review the effectiveness of customer engagement strategies of UK retailers.

By asking the question of how well consumers are being ‘served’ in this new era, she will propose areas for improvement.

Kim Cassidy is Professor of Services Marketing at Edge Hill University Business School. She is the External Director of the National Retail Research Knowledge Exchange Centre and her work on all aspects of customer engagement has been widely published. Before becoming an academic, she worked in retail for Marks & Spencer and Pedigree Petfoods.

Inaugural Lecture MARKETING

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Tuesday 27th November 6.00pm Business School Programme: 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture 7.00pm Q&A 7.15pm Wine and Canapés Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

Edge Hill University – Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018

Women in Film and TV Little Women, 2017 © BBC/Playground

Women in Film and TV A masterclass with Heidi Thomas Dubbed the ‘Queen of primetime TV drama’, Heidi Thomas is a multi-award winning screenwriter, producer and playwright. She is best known as the creator of the high-profile BBC TV series Call the Midwife and for her TV adaptation of the classic novel, Little Women.

Heidi’s writing reflects on matters of public and social discussion and her television work regularly achieves record-breaking audiences. Her creative ability to make strong connections with her audience, especially with themes that address issues such as community life, families, health and education, has made her one of the most in demand television screen writers.

During her 34-year career, Liverpool-born Heidi has received numerous awards for her work, including best writer at both the UK Royal Television Society and UK Broadcasting Press Guild awards. She was also nominated for two BAFTA television awards and received the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain award for best TV series for Cranford. In 2012, the annual UK Women in Film and Television Awards presented her with the Technicolor writing award in recognition of her contribution to the industry. In 2013, Edge Hill University awarded Heidi Thomas with an Honorary Doctorate in Literature.

Heidi will be in conversation with Edge Hill’s Professor Roger Shannon, discussing her writing and producing career in the context of women in film and TV, as well the centenary of women’s suffrage.

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Wednesday 28th November 3.00pm Creative Edge Programme: 2.30pm Registration and Refreshments 3.00pm In Conversation 4.30pm Refreshments and Networking Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

Edge Hill University – Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018

STATE OF PLAY: A clown gathering

STATE OF PLAY: A clown gathering

STATE OF PLAY takes the evolving relationship of clown and circus as a starting point to ask broader questions about the relevance of clowning in today’s society.

Where does clowning find meaning and resonance in contemporary culture? Where are clowns employed and for what purposes? What training exists and what more is needed? Are clowns able to be political or are they simply entertainers?

Such questions – and many more – will be explored over two days of workshops, performances and discussions. Guest artists and academics will be offering short taster workshops, stimulating the environment for sharing both practice and research amongst attendees.

The two-day symposium hosted at Edge Hill University is an opportunity for anyone interested in the art of the clown to meet, connect, play and ask crucial questions about the practise of clowning today.

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Edge Hill University – Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018

Solitary?

A showcase of new dramatic and poetic work on female solitude

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Solitary?

Sue MacLaine and Kieran Wyatt Discussing the practice of anchoritism – the fixed solitary confinement for God in both the medieval and the modern periods – this workshop will include readings and creative reactions from playwright Sue MacLaine’s play, vessel and Kieran Wyatt’s poetry collection, Pelican.

Introduced by GenSex Director, Dr Mari Hughes, the conversation will focus on – in MacLaine’s words – how we hold our history and how history holds us, where notions of radical togetherness and radical aloneness collide.

Sue MacLaine is a writer and director and Sue MacLaine Company, funded by Arts Council England, is the vehicle through which the play, vessel, is written and produced.

Her last work Can I Start Again Please, won the Total Theatre award for Innovation, Experimentation and Playing with Form at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.

Kieran Wyatt graduated from Edge Hill University with a first class honours degree in Creative Writing. His latest creative piece, Pelican, is a collection of poetry from the perspective of a medieval anchorite (a religious recluse), exploring the process of straining the body to gain spiritual enlightenment.

Dr Mari Hughes-Edwards is Reader in English Literature at Edge Hill University and Founder of GenSex. Her book, Reading Medieval Anchoritism (University of Chicago Press, 2012) evaluates the practice of fixed physical enclosure for God in the Middle Ages.

The workshop will be followed by the live performance of vessel at Edge Hill University’s Arts Centre. Discounted tickets for all GenSex attendees are available from the The Arts Centre Box Office.

Workshop GENSEX

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Tuesday 4th December 4.30pm The Wilson Centre Programme: 4.15pm Registration 4.30pm Workshop 7.30pm vessel (Play) Workshop: Free Tickets: £5 for vessel tickets / Free for EHU students Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

Edge Hill University – Public Events Autumn / Winter 2018

Punk Suffrage

Punk Suffrage Clare Chandler and Deborah Norris To mark the 100th anniversary of the day that women voted for the first time in a UK General Election, GenSex invites Angry Birds musical director Clare Chandler, and choreographer Deborah Norris, to discuss the interchange between punk, suffrage and musical theatre. What are the challenges of staging a piece of work that combines all three?

The session is in collaboration with the Pankhurst Trust, whose mission is ‘to ensure that the powerful story of the women who won the vote continues to inspire those who dare to challenge gender inequality.’

The discussion will be followed by the live performance of Angry Birds at the Edge Hill University’s Arts Centre.

Angry Birds by Dougal Irvine is a new ‘punk’ musical for the politically cynical. In a failing school, a class learn about a group of ‘posh birds’ who won the vote for women 100 years ago. As they grasp the story, they realise that the battle is still raging and they are on the front line.

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Friday 14th December 5.00pm The Wilson Centre

Suffragette? It’s not over yet…

Discounted tickets for Angry Birds are available for all GenSex attendees from the The Arts Centre Box Office.

Programme: 4.45pm Registration and Refreshments 5.00pm In Conversation 7.30pm Angry Birds (Play) Workshop: Free Tickets: £5 for vessel tickets / Free for EHU students Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events

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