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THE MYTH OF INNOVATION PROFESSOR SIMON BOLTON 05 APR 2018
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WELCOME Welcome to Edge Hill University’s Public Events programme. This season sees the launch of our Wonder Women programme, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918. This parliamentary bill enabled all men and some women over the age of 30 to vote for the first time. Throughout 2018, Edge Hill University will pay tribute to this anniversary by celebrating the suffragette movement and feminism in all its forms with a series of exhibitions, guest speakers and symposiums. In January, we have the privilege of welcoming Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow onto campus to deliver a public lecture as part of Parliament’s Vote 100 project. We are also welcome Baroness Lynne Featherstone, the political champion of same sex marriage, joining us during LGBT History month, as well as the redoubtable Caroline Lucas MP, leader of the Green Party. Our Inaugural Lecture programme continues in February, beginning with Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Working across Disciplines in Health Research by Professor Paola Dey. Following this will be Sounds, Visions, and Inward Significances… an interactive performance based lecture by Professor Helen Newall. Inaugural lectures celebrate the appointment of new professors and allow the University to showcase its academic talent to a wide audience. In this programme you’ll find 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. Along with the Institute for Creative Enterprise, they will present the Suffragette Symposium to reflect on the achievements of women from the suffragette movement, with keynote speaker Mary Talbot whose graphic novel Sally Heathcote: Suffragette was included in The Guardian’s ‘Top 10 Books about Revolutionaries’. This series of events hopes to offer inspiration and knowledge exchange for staff members, academics, our local community and students alike. All our events are free to attend, unless stated otherwise. We hope you can join us.
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PUBLIC EVENTS AT A GLANCE
24 JAN 2Ø18 LEONORA CARRINGTON: THE LOST SURREALIST JOANNA MOORHEAD 24 JAN 2Ø18 POST POST-PUNK GRAHAM MASSEY AND DR RICHARD WITTS 25 JAN 2Ø18 PAINTING THE NEW TOWN: EMBODIED EXPERIENCE, EMBODIED MEMORY ANDRE STITT 25 JAN 2Ø18 ORDER! ORDER! THE MAKING OF A MODERN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, RT HON JOHN BERCOW 31 JAN 2Ø18 WE ARE GHOSTS LAUREN BARNES, TATE CURATOR Ø1 FEB 2Ø18 THE CONFLICTED MIND PROFESSOR GEOFF BEATTIE
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Ø7 FEB 2Ø18 EQUAL EVER AFTER BARONESS LYNNE FEATHERSTONE 13 FEB 2Ø18 SHORT STORIES IN LIMINAL LANDSCAPES DAISY JOHNSON 27 FEB 2Ø18 BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED: WORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES IN HEALTH RESEARCH PROFESSOR PAOLA DEY 28 FEB 2Ø18 SUFFRAGETTE SYMPOSIUM MARY AND BRYAN TALBOT Ø5 MAR 2Ø18 59 PLACES TO F**K IN ARIZONA: EXPLORING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN MODERN FICTION DR RODGE GLASS
Ø8 MAR 2Ø18 SOUNDS, VISIONS, AND INWARD SIGNIFICANCES… PROFESSOR HELEN NEWALL 13 MAR 2Ø18 HEALTH AND WELLBEING NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE ANNE-MARIE DOUGLAS 15 MAR 2Ø18 SYMPHONIES OF TIME AND TIDE PROFESSOR STEPHEN PRATT 22 MAR 2Ø18 SOMETHING’S GOT TO CHANGE CAROLINE LUCAS MP Ø5 APR 2Ø18 THE MYTH OF INNOVATION PROFESSOR SIMON BOLTON 23 APR 2Ø18 OPENING THE GAMERGATE URSULA CURWEN
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Film Screening and In Conversation Date: Wednesday 24th January
LEONORA CARRINGTON: THE LOST SURREALIST JOANNA MOORHEAD
Time: 6.3Øpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events Directed by Teresa Griffith and produced by Erica Starling, The Lost Surrealist is a gripping tale of aristocracy, Bohemia and artistic revolution. The documentary explores the Lancashire born Leonora Carrington's remarkable life and work using archive, animation and specially shot footage from renowned photographer, Tim Walker. It celebrates a woman whose contribution to the art world was overlooked in her home country and her struggles against misogynistic pressures before eventually finding her spiritual kinship in Mexico City. From Clayton-Le-Woods, Chorley, Leonora Carrington worked alongside Max Ernst, Andre Breton and Pablo Picasso in Paris at the height of the surrealist movement in the thirties. Despite her connections, she ended up virtually unknown in Mexico City, when she arrived there in 1942, and where in 2011 she died, a veritable national treasure.
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Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with Leonora’s biographer, Joanna Moorhead. Joanna's book The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington was published in 2017 and was Radio 4's Book of the Week in the run up to Leonora Carrington's Centennial (April 6th 2017). Visit ICE's web site for more information about the University's engagement with the life and work of Leonora Carrington and the ambition to 'Re Lancastrianise Leonora’: edgehill.ac.uk/ice
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In Conversation Date: Wednesday 24th January
POST POST-PUNK GRAHAM MASSEY AND DR RICHARD WITTS
Time: 6.ØØpm Tickets: £5.ØØ Booking: ehu.ac.uk/artscentre Graham Massey is the path-finding champion of acid house and founder of 808 State. In this informal and wide-ranging talk he’ll consider the post-punk scene and what has followed it. Graham will be in conversation with Edge Hill University’s Dr Richard Witts, post-punk pioneer of The Passage, whose book of lyrics from the post-punk period, The Passage: Post-Punk Poets, is newly published by the poetry specialist, Eyewear Publishing. Massey’s achievements include producing Björk (Army of Me, The Modern Things) and his latest project, a tribute to the jazz legend Sun Ra. He is considered by The Wire magazine to be ‘chief arbiter of Techno cool’ with ‘a ‘restless, maverick imagination’. Witts’ group was defined by the post-punk press as bounded by ‘Steve Reich and The Sex Pistols’ (NME) and ‘a cross between early Joy Division and late Wire’ (Sounds).
24 JAN 2Ø18 ARTS CENTRE
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Guest Lecture Date: Thursday 25th January
PAINTING THE NEW TOWN: EMBODIED EXPERIENCE, EMBODIED MEMORY ANDRE STITT
Time: 1.ØØpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/artscentre Working almost exclusively as an action-based and interdisciplinary artist from 1976-2002, André Stitt gained an international reputation for cutting edge, provocative and politically challenging work. Although his reputation was founded on his career as a live artist, André trained as a painter. His works over the past ten years are the result of his re-focusing on the materials, processes and performance of painting. In this talk, André will discuss his artistic career, with a focus on his most recent work; a body of paintings that draw inspiration from architecture, new towns and urban environments, inspired in part by the artist’s visit to Skelmersdale in 2017.
25 JAN 2Ø18 ARTS CENTRE
André Stitt was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1958. He studied at Ulster Polytechnic and Belfast College of Art & Design, Ulster University 1976-1980. He is currently Professor of Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art. His live performance and installation works have been presented at major museums, galleries and sites throughout the world. Andre Stitt’s exhibition CIVICS is on display throughout the main building at Edge Hill University until 26th April 2018.
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Guest Lecture Date: Thursday 25th January
ORDER! ORDER! THE MAKING OF A MODERN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, RT HON JOHN BERCOW
25 JAN 2Ă˜18 FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Time: 6.3Ă˜pm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events Member of Parliament for Buckingham, John Bercow, was first elected 157th Speaker of the House of Commons in 2009, and was re-elected in the years 2010, 2015 and 2017. The General Election result and the run up to Brexit has made the modernisation of Parliament and the House of Commons more important than ever. Mr Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow, will talk about Speakership in the House of Commons and discuss why he believes that it is imperative to open up the democratic processes in the UK. As part of his commitment as Speaker to making Parliament more accessible, John has embarked on an extensive outreach programme, travelling across the country to visit schools, universities and community groups to talk about his role and that of Parliament. Since his election as Speaker, John has sought to champion the rights of backbenchers, and has ensured Parliamentary Business is dealt with in a timely manner to ensure as many MPs as possible can contribute. In addition, John has granted an unprecedented number of Urgent Questions to ensure that Parliament discusses the pressing issues of the day. John is the recipient of four Honorary Degrees, from the University of Buckingham, De Montfort University, City University London and his alma mater, the University of Essex. In 2016, John was awarded the Freedom of the City of London.
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In Conversation Date: Wednesday 31st January
WE ARE GHOSTS LAUREN BARNES, TATE LIVERPOOL CURATOR
31 JAN 2Ø18 CREATIVE EDGE
Time: 6.3Øpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events We Are Ghosts is a new and inspired commission by New York artists, Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, which re-imagines life on a US Navy Submarine at the end of the Second World War. Known for their stylised black-and-white videos, this exhibition features their new work In The Body of The Sturgeon, as well as the 2016 work, This Is Offal. As their first solo exhibition in the UK, the artists create video works that fuse classical drama, modern literature and contemporary pop culture into surreal observations on gender, class, and urban development. They draw on cultural references from Southern American church socials to women’s magazines; in an effort to pull women from the margins of historical records, they take influence from artist and poets from Borges to Baudelaire. Mary Reid Kelley's work often centres upon female protagonists such as nurses, prostitutes, and factory workers. The exhibition's curator Lauren Barnes, will discuss their work with ICE Associate Director, Professor Roger Shannon. The exhibition, sponsored by Edge Hill University, will run until 18th March 2018 at Tate Liverpool. Students and Staff members of Edge Hill University can enjoy free entry to all UK Tate galleries and 10 per cent discount in the café by collecting a pass from The Arts Centre.
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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Harry S. Truman 2017. Courtesy of the artists and Pilar Corrias, London
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Book Launch Date: Thursday 1st February
THE CONFLICTED MIND PROFESSOR GEOFF BEATTIE
Time: 6.ØØpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events “Human beings are paradoxical. We think of ourselves as positive and fair-minded, but our behaviour lets us down. We are health conscious, yet we continue to smoke. We love our family, but say terrible things to them.” The Conflicted Mind explores how the conflicting subsystems of the human mind, one slow, deliberate and conscious, one fast, automatic and unconscious, operate together to such telling effect. In his latest book, Professor Geoff Beattie deconstructs classical social psychological research areas such as cognitive dissonance, obedience experiments and conflicting memories to shed new light on how the individual can make themselves aware of such processes in the mind.
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Written in Professor Beattie’s distinct open and engaging style, The Conflicted Mind offers a ground breaking perspective on why we act in the way we do, and is a fascinating resource for researchers, specialists, and students in the field, as well as the general reader. Geoff appeared as the on-screen psychologist on 11 series of Big Brother in the UK. Well known for bringing analyses of behaviour and nonverbal communication, to a more general audience, Geoff’s talent of explaining how psychology can be used by people in their everyday lives has seen him present a number of television series including BBC1 shows Life’s Too Short and Family SOS. He has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, appeared as an expert commentator on global news programmes as well as contributing to Granta magazine over a number of years.
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Guest Lecture Date: Wednesday 7th February
EQUAL EVER AFTER BARONESS LYNNE FEATHERSTONE
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Time: 6.ØØpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events Elected to Parliament in 2005, Lynne Featherstone joined the coalition government as Minister for Equalities in the Home Office. In this role, she was instrumental in devising and promoting the Act of Parliament which legalised same sex marriages and was the first politician to take part in the Out4Marriage campaign. Lynne Featherstone was also a Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Youth and Equality issues and Chair of the Liberal Democrats technology board. She was awarded the Stonewall Politician of the Year award and the Pink News Ally of the Year award for her work on LGBT rights. Now, a Lib Dem member of the House of Lords, Baroness Featherstone tells the story of the struggle to get this new law passed in her 2016 publication, Equal Ever After (Biteback). As part of Edge Hill's Wonder Women initiative and in support of LGBT History Month, Baroness Featherstone will be speaking about her role in effecting change as well as about the place of women in politics. Baroness Featherstone will be interviewed by Paula Keaveney, Senior Lecturer in Public Relations at Edge Hill University. Paula is a former elected member and leader of the opposition on Liverpool City Council. She has considerable practical political experience including taking high profile campaign roles and being a parliamentary candidate.
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Reading and Q&A Date: Tuesday 13th February
SHORT STORIES IN LIMINAL LANDSCAPES DAISY JOHNSON
Time: 7.3Øpm Tickets: £5.ØØ Booking: ehu.ac.uk/artscentre Daisy Johnson was the 2017 winner of the Edge Hill Prize for Short Story, considered by the judges as one of the finest upcoming young writers in the country. Daisy will be reading from her short story collection Fen (Cape), with stories set in an uncanny and weirdly magical East Anglian landscape. The stories explore the commingling human and animal worlds and liminal spaces, wrestling with familiar instincts, sex and desire, with everyday routine. Curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. Daisy offers her contemporary eye to English folklore, sexual honesty and combustible invention. Fusing these elements, Fen creates a singular, startling piece of modern fiction in the short story form.
13 FEB 2Ø18 ARTS CENTRE
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Daisy was also the winner of the AM Heath Prize, the Harper’s Bazaar short story prize, and was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Prize. Her novel, Everything Under (Cape), is due to be released in 2018.
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Inaugural Lecture Date: Tuesday 27th February
BEWITCHED, BOTHERED AND BEWILDERED: WORKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES IN HEALTH RESEARCH PROFESSOR PAOLA DEY
27 FEB 2Ø18 FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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Time: 6.ØØpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events Analysing the patterns, causes and effects of ill health and disease, Professor of Public Health and Epidemiology Paola Dey, has spent her career forging close functional links with academics from various disciplines, health professionals and policymakers. In her Inaugural Lecture, Paola will reflect on the challenges, joys and benefits of working across disciplines in health research and consider what makes these collaborations a success. Drawing on her experiences, Paola will discuss her interest of the interface between individual and population perspectives, particularly in relation to healthcare intervention. Her research has centred upon cancer, stroke and musculoskeletal health, of which she has extensive experience of undertaking large-scale studies and interdisciplinary collaborations. Professor Paola Dey joined the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Edge Hill University in 2016. Initially trained as a doctor specialising in public health medicine, she was seconded to the Centre for Cancer Epidemiology at the University of Manchester, where she established the Prevention Trials Unit and became the Deputy Director. Paola decided to pursue an academic career and went on to found the Applied Public Health and Epidemiology Research Group and UCLAN Cancer Studies Centre as well as helping to set up the Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit. Paola is now a research leader within the Evidence-based Practice Research Centre (EPRC) at Edge Hill University.
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Symposium Date: Wednesday 28th February
SUFFRAGETTE – CELEBRATING 100 YEARS MARY AND BRYAN TALBOT
Time: 2.ØØpm - 9.ØØpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events Celebrating the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the UK, GenSex and the Institute for Creative Enterprise present the Suffragette Symposium which will examine the progress that has been made since the 1918 Representation of the People Act. Edge Hill University was the first nondenominational teacher training college for women, founded as an institution which broke traditional barriers for women and implicitly promoted women’s rights. Academics from an array of disciplines across the University along with external speakers will explore topics around the history of the women’s suffrage movement, the suffragette as a cultural icon and the 21st century representations of suffrage and its ideologies.
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The Symposium’s keynote speakers, Mary Talbot, an acclaimed author and scholar, and artist Bryan Talbot will deliver an illustrated presentation of their graphic novel Sally Heathcote: Suffragette (Cape, 2014). The Symposium will culminate in the screening of the 2015 film Suffragette. Inspired by true events, Suffragette is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote – their jobs, their homes, their children and even their lives.
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Reading and Discussion Date: Monday 5th March
59 PLACES TO F**K IN ARIZONA: EXPLORING GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN MODERN FICTION DR RODGE GLASS
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Time: 5.15pm Tickets: Free Booking: No booking required Reading from his collection LoveSexTravel Musik: Stories for the EasyJet Generation (Freight Books, 2013), Dr Rodge Glass will broach the topic of how to navigate issues of gender and sexuality in the modern short story. Rodge will discuss the creative process, the themes and concerns of the book. Rodge is an award-winning author and short story writer. He joined Edge Hill University in 2012 and is now a Reader in Literary Fiction. He is also Co-Director of Edge Hill University Press, and the editor of the first EHU Press publication, Head Land: 10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Rodge is currently writing a novel set in Latin America called Once a Great Leader. The Gender and Sexuality Research Group (GenSex), is an inter-disciplinary group which promotes global research into gender and sexuality studies
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Performance Date: Tuesday 6th March
THE MOIRA MONOLOGUES ALAN BISSETT
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Time: 7.3Øpm Tickets: £1Ø, £8 Concession Booking: ehu.ac.uk/artscentre Alan Bissett is an acclaimed playwright, novelist and performer from Falkirk in Scotland. He was the winner of the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Writer of the Year in 2011 and his novels Death of a Ladies' Man and Pack Men were both shortlisted for Scottish Arts Council Fiction of the Year Prizes. His plays Turbo Folk and Ban This Filth! were shortlisted for a Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland and Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Awards respectively, and the short film he wrote and narrated, The Shutdown, won numerous prizes at international festivals. In 2016 he was given an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stirling for his outstanding contribution to Scottish culture. For the first time ever in England, Alan Bissett presents a double-bill of his rip-roaring 'one woman shows' The Moira Monologues and its sequel (More) Moira Monologues, winner of a prestigious Fringe First award at Edinburgh in 2017. Alan plays Moira Bell, cleaner, single mum, the hardest woman in Falkirk and “the most charismatic character to appear on a Scottish stage in a decade” - The Scotsman. Hear Moira tell her best pal Babs a series of hilarious, tense and true-to-life tales about warring dogs, weedsmoking, dating, Brexit, her cleaning job, keep-fit and karaoke night at the Scotia bar. "Not a word is wasted." - The Independent
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Inaugural Lecture Date: Thursday 8th March
SOUNDS, VISIONS, AND INWARD SIGNIFICANCES… PROFESSOR HELEN NEWALL
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Time: 6.ØØpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events American writer Susan Sontag has said, “Art is a form of consciousness”, and Hélène Cixous that we “annihilate the world with a book”. Exploring the notion of art as a form which enables its makers and observers to approach the inapproachable, Professor Helen Newall will present a performance interactive Inaugural Lecture using Isadora Duncan’s ethos of “If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point dancing it!”. Helen Newall is Professor of Theatre Praxis in the Department of Performing Arts at Edge Hill University. As a playwright and digital artist, her research involves installations, performative documentation and immersivity. She is a director and fiction writer, with a specific interest in commemoration, the First World War and both site specific and site responsive community writing. Helen has written for a number of prestigious institutions including The Nuffield Theatre, ITV-West and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Public Lecture Date: Tuesday 13th March
HEALTH AND WELLBEING NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM ANNE-MARIE DOUGLAS FOUNDER & CEO, PEER POWER
13 MAR 2Ø18 FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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Time: 12.3Øpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events Peer Power is a social justice charity that is rooted in the promotion of empathy, whose work supports society’s most vulnerable children and young people. The founder of Peer Power, Anne-Marie Douglas, will discuss her organisation’s partnership work with the NHS, influencing the development of health and justice pathways for children and young people in the criminal justice system. The project is facilitating young people’s involvement in the commissioning, provision and evaluation of health and justice services, and young participants will present their experience of the project and the benefits of service user participation. Peer Power’s report Just Health – An Enquiry into the Emotional Health and Wellbeing of Young People in the Youth Justice System, in partnership with NHS London, was widely influential across the sectors. Commenting on Peer Power’s Just Health report Lord McNally, former Chair of the Youth Justice Board, said: “This report demonstrates again why it is important to seek the views of those whose needs the youth justice system was established to meet – namely children who offend. We already know that access to mental healthcare and emotional wellbeing services is poor for children in the youth justice system, and the findings of this report go some way to illustrating how this could be improved. As work is underway to reform youth justice, along the education, health and welfare principles Charlie Taylor’s review espoused, so I hope the children’s views expressed in this report are taken into account as part of that process.”
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Inaugural Lecture & Performance Date: Thursday 15th March
SYMPHONIES OF TIME AND TIDE PROFESSOR STEPHEN PRATT
15 MAR 2Ø18 FACULTY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
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Time: 6.ØØpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events An acclaimed composer, conductor and broadcaster, Professor Stephen Pratt will discuss his compositional techniques, with a focus on his most recent piece, Symphonies of Time and Tide for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO). His longstanding association with the RLPO and its musicians has seen him premier over a dozen works for the full orchestra and its ensembles. Stephen has written for The Guardian and Classical Music magazine and has presented shows on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Stephen Pratt holds Emeritus Professorships in Music from Gresham College, London, and Liverpool Hope University. He became Professor of Music at Edge Hill University in the spring of 2016. Professor Stephen Pratt’s Inaugural Lecture will be followed by a clarinet and piano recital of two of his pieces performed by renowned musicians, Mark Simpson and Ian Buckle. Mark Simpson is composer-in-association with the BBC Philharmonic and as a clarinettist won the 2006 BBC Young Musician competition. Mark will be accompanied by pianist and director of Pixels Ensemble, Ian Buckle in a recital which sets works by Professor Stephen Pratt within a programme of lyrical English music for clarinet and piano.
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Guest Lecture Date: Thursday 22nd March
SOMETHING'S GOT TO CHANGE CAROLINE LUCAS MP
Time: 6.3Øpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events Caroline Lucas is co-leader of the Green Party with Jonathan Bartley as well as its first MP, representing Brighton Pavilion. She served as an MEP from 1999 until 2010 and as an Oxfordshire councillor previously. A long time campaigner for Parliamentary Reform, Caroline has played a key role in initiatives around the ‘Progressive Alliance’, taking part in meetings with politicians from other parties to argue for more co-operative working. As the only Green Party MP in the House of Commons, Caroline has long experience of the difficulties faced by those who challenge the prevailing majority. She outlined some of her thinking in Honourable Friends: Parliament and the Fight for Change, published in 2015.
22 MAR 2Ø18 ARTS CENTRE
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As part of Edge Hill's Wonder Women initiative, Ms Lucas will be speaking about the role of women in politics and about how politics itself needs to change. Caroline continues to be an active campaigner on a range of issues and has been voted the UK's most ethical politician in 2007, 2009 and 2010 by readers of the Observer. She is Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fuel Poverty, as well as Vice Chair of the Animal Welfare, Public and Commercial Services, Sustainable Housing and CND All Party Parliamentary Groups. She is also in the Environment Agency’s Top 100 Eco-Heroes of all time.
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Inaugural Lecture Date: Thursday 5th April
THE MYTH OF INNOVATION PROFESSOR SIMON BOLTON
Time: 6.ØØpm Tickets: Free Booking: ehu.ac.uk/events Innovation has become the utopian dream for many organisations. Professor Simon Bolton’s Inaugural Lecture will discuss whether innovation actually exists or whether it has just become an interchangeable byword for creativity, growth and change. In doing so, Simon will examine the paradigm shift in innovation and entrepreneurial practices, the battle for methodological supremacy within the innovation and entrepreneurial landscape and the impact of the misuse of language on the successful adoption of innovation in organisations. Simon will contextualize the discussion by sharing a personal experience as a former industrial designer to an innovation specialist; from practitioner to an academic over a 30-year career.
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Professor Simon Bolton joined Edge Hill University in 2016 as Associate Dean of Enterprise and Employability and Professor of Innovation. He is an internationally acclaimed designer, practice-led researcher and innovation consultant specialising in helping organisations to improve and develop their innovation capabilities and business performance. Simon co-developed the ‘Pinch Pull Bag Dispensing Unit’ that is used in Tesco and Sainsbury’s by over 10 million people a week. In 2012 Procter and Gamble awarded him a Global Business Development Partnership Award for outstanding contribution to their global innovation practices. Simon is also Visiting Professor of Creative Consumer Insight at the Central University of Finance and Economics, China and at the Universidad Icesi, Columbia.
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Open discussion Date: Monday 23rd April
OPENING THE GAMERGATE URSULA CURWEN
Time: 5.15pm Tickets: Free Booking: No booking required Gender stereotypes and male domination are still reported to exist in digital gaming contexts, despite the fact that participation of females is relatively equal to that of males. This is typified by the male gaze within games, but also shaming of female game designers. In this context, the session led by Ursula Curwen, will explore ‘gamergate’ and its continuing effects. Ursula is a Senior Lecturer in Youth and Education in the Department of Social Sciences at Edge Hill University. She is a self-confessed gamer and feminist who is currently undertaking doctoral research on Augmented Reality Gaming.
23 APR 2Ø18 WILSON CENTRE
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A series of events celebrating the Representation of the People Act which was passed on 6th February 1918 January – December edgehill.ac.uk/wonderwomen
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18th May – 18th June 2018 PUBLIC EVENTS WINTER/SPRING 2018
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