June At a Glance Date Time
Event
Event Type Location
Wed 7th A Quiet Passion 6.00pm Dir. Terence Davies
Screening plus Q&A Studio Theatre
Identity as Best Interests? Thu 8th Jacqueline Williamson, 4.00pm CEO of Kinship Care, Northern Ireland
Roundtable discussion Business School
Thu 8th Exclaim! 6.00pm Student Showcase
Showcase Studio Theatre
Fri 9th 1.00pm & 6.30pm
Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Psycho-Trauma Caroline Galon
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Patient Choice, Expectation Wed 14th and Informed Consent in the 6.00pm Evolving World of Healthcare Professor Tim Woolford
Public Lecture Faculty of H&SC
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Public Thu 15th We Need to Belong Lecture 6.00pm Professor Colwyn Trevarthen Faculty of H&SC
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Thu 15th & Fri 16th Remember Me 9.00am - Professor Helen Newall 5.00pm
Immersive Installation Arts Centre
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Wed 14th Resonant Edge 6.00pm Launch & & 8.30pm Performance
Performance 21 Arts 23 Centre
Resonant Edge Thu 15th Hauntology 10.00am Symposium Session 1
Symposium 21 Performing 23 Arts
Resonant Edge Thu 15th Roberto Fabbriciani 1.00pm Roundtable
Roundtable discussion Studio Theatre
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Drop-in & Performance 09 Dance Studio
Eliciting Identities Through Workshop Fri 9th Creative Practice Faculty of 2.00pm Francesca Bernardi Education
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Event
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Mon 12th Publishing the North 6.00pm Professor Ailsa Cox
In Conversation 12 Rose Theatre
Resonant Edge Thu 15th Hauntology 2.00pm Symposium Session 2
Symposium 21 Performing 23 Arts
Writing the Self Mon 12th The Narrative Research 7.30pm Group of Edge Hill Writers
Literary Reading Rose Theatre
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Resonant Edge Thu 15th Piano Recital: 6.00pm Lauryna Sableviciute
Performance 21 Studio 23 Theatre
Mon 12th British Contemporary to Islamic Art Fri 30th Zahir Rafiq
Exhibition Creative Edge
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Thu 15th Resonant Edge 8.00pm Roberto Fabbriciani
Performance 21 Rose 23 Theatre
Tue 13th In Context to th Jigsaw Artist Collective Tue 27
Exhibition Arts Centre
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Resonant Edge Fri 16th Hauntology 10.00am Symposium Session 3
Symposium 21 Performing 23 Arts
Tue 13th The White Man’s Dog 5.00pm Dr Jenny Barrett
Illustrated Talk Studio Theatre
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Resonant Edge Fri 16th Hauntology 2.00pm Symposium Session 4
Symposium 21 Performing 23 Arts
Shifting the Curve: A Tue 13th Scottish Approach to 6.00pm Developing Anti-Poverty Work Naomi Eisenstadt CB
Public Lecture Faculty of H&SC
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Fri 16th Resonant Edge 7.00pm Tempo Reale
Performance 21 Studio 23 Theatre
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Event Type Location
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Fri 16th Resonant Edge 8.30pm Jan Kopinski
Performance 21 Rose 23 Theatre
In Flux: The Queering of Wed 21st Race and Gender 2.00pm Rosa Fong, Dr Jenny Barrett, Dr Eleni Boschi
Screening & roundtable 34 Creative Edge
The Mersey Sound at 50 Sat 17th Catherine Marcangeli 5.30pm and Paul Farley with
Conversation & Poetry 24 Studio Theatre
Wed 21st I Am Not Your Negro 6.00pm June Givanni
Screening Studio Theatre
Resonant Edge Sat 17th Summer with Monika 7.00pm Roger McGough with Ensemble 10/10
Poetry & Music Rose Theatre
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Wed 21st Cartref 7.00pm Theatr Gadair Ddu
Performance 36 Rose Theatre
Resonant Edge Sat 17th John Lowndes (Patchwork Rattlebag) 8.30pm DJ Steve Hellier
Closing Party Arts Centre
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Thu 22nd Identity Crisis 7.00pm Phina Oruche
Performance 37 Rose Theatre
Roundtable Changing Identities of Mon 19th discussion 26 Emergency Service Workers 2.00pm St James’, Professor Paresh Wankhade Manchester
The Psychology Fri 23rd of Language and 6.00pm Communication Professor Geoff Beattie
Public Lecture & Book Launch 38 Rose Theatre
Limits and Possibilities: Mon 19th Difference, Identity and the 6.00pm Public in Post-Liberal Britain Professor Victor Merriman
Public Lecture Rose Theatre
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Athena SWAN Mon 26th Annual Lecture 6.00pm Professor Janet Hemingway CBE
Public Lecture Tech Hub
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We’re Not English, Mon 19th We’re Cornish 7.30pm James Stock
Reading & Discussion Studio Theatre
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Tue 27th Wellbeing or Flourishing? 6.00pm Dr Andrew Edgar
Public Lecture Rose Theatre
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Tue 20th Shifting Identities 11.00am Postgraduate Medical - 3.30pm Institute (PGMI)
Installation Faculty of H&SC
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STUCK Wed 28th Julia Griffin, 5.00pm Professor Helen Newall, Professor Steve Davismoon
Performance Studio 41 Theatre
Driving Innovation Tue 20th in Healthcare 11.00am Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI)
Networking Event Faculty of H&SC
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Wed 28th Medea/Mother’s Clothes 6.00pm Dr Lena Simic
Performance 42 Rose Theatre
Tue 20th The Non-human in Care 2.00pm Nathan Jones
Demo & Discussion Faculty of H&SC
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What Do We Need to Thu 29th Create a Good Society? 4.00pm The Webb Memorial Trust
Seminar Business School
Sowing Seeds Screening & Tue 20th 32 Walk the Plank and Exhibition 6.00pm Burscough Community Farm Hale Hall
Fri 30th Leonora Carrington 8.30am Centenary Symposium - 9.00pm Tickets: £20/£10 concessions
Symposium 44 Rose Theatre
Creating a Social Identity Workshop Wed 21st for COPD Patients Attending Faculty of 10.00am Pulmonary Exercise Rehab H&SC Dr Andrew Levy
Public Technology and Fri 30th Lecture E-Solutions in Health Care 6.00pm Faculty of Dr Liz Mear H&SC
Professor Roger Shannon
DJ George Meikle
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Edge Hill University’s second Festival of Ideas explores themes of Identity and Belonging in a stimulating programme of debates, talks, films, exhibitions, round-tables and performances throughout the month of June 2017.
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The Festival is a response to public discussions about, and intellectual speculation on, what makes us who we are. The programme will look at Identity as incomplete, restless, open-ended, flexible, and versatile, existing in fluidity rather than fixed characteristics. The Festival of Ideas is a platform for communication, aiming to inspire innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration within and between people engaged in healthcare, policy-making, the arts, and the wider public audience. Knowledge exchange will be encouraged in a bid to develop deeper understandings of the themes.
During the Festival, ideas around patient identity will be explored, focusing on the importance of the patient voice, which can easily be overlooked in a metrics-driven health and social care system, and the individual needs, values, beliefs, preferences and social circumstances that underpin personalised treatment and care.
The Festival will open up debates on gender fluidity and non-binary sexualities, on the current momentum of political fluidity, as well as the contrasting ideas of identity shaped by class, age, gender, sexuality or disability. It will also look at the way in which place affects identity, examining the cultural identities of the North, the diasporic cultures of exile and displacement prompted by global migration, and the concept of regional, urban or rural identities.
It will examine how human beings respond to the impact of technological classification as we enter an era where our identity will be increasingly defined and decoded by the algorithms of artificial intelligence.
The Festival of Ideas draws on academic strands within the University’s three research institutes:
The Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice – Cross-disciplinary reasearch and knowledge exchange
The Institute for Creative Enterprise – Connecting the University to the creative industries
The Postgraduate Medical Institute – Driving improvements in health and social care
The Festival of Ideas will explore these issues and more, as we seek to answer the questions surrounding what makes us who we are, how we can shape our own identity and, ultimately, find somewhere to belong.
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Wednesday 7th June 6.00pm
Film Screening plus Q&A Studio Theatre
A Quiet Passion
Cert: 12A Running time: 125mins
Roy Boulter, Sol Papadopoulos, Professor Roger Shannon
The film judiciously deploys a curated selection of her verse as voiceover and details every facet of her character; her wit, humour and the intimate, close-knit relationship that she had with her family.
A Quiet Passion, directed by Terence Davies, traces the life of the acclaimed and notoriously reclusive American poet, Emily Dickinson, played by Cynthia Nixon. Now recognised as a genius who penned some of the most important verses in American Literature, Dickinson was virtually unknown in her lifetime, leaving behind a legacy of stunning, astute work that still resonates deeply today.
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“Emily Dickinson’s poetry and life is a perfect match for the signature style of director Terence Davies: rich in detail, deeply enigmatic, and weighed down with a kind of sparkling, joy-tinged sorrow. A Quiet Passion is a portrait (both visually and narratively) of the kind of saint most modern people can understand: one who is certain of her uncertainty, and longing to walk the right path.” - Vox
Producers of A Quiet Passion, Roy Boulter and Sol Papadopoulos (Hurricane Films) will introduce this special screening along with the Director of Edge Hill University’s Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE), Professor Roger Shannon.
Roundtable Discussion Business School
Thursday 8th June 4.00pm
Identity as Best Interests? Parentage, Protection and Kinship Ties: The need for legislative reform Jacqueline Williamson, CEO of Kinship Care, Northern Ireland
The right to a genetic identity is a complex issue and is relevant to a multitude of sectors including social workers, non-government organisations (NGOs) and family law. In 2016 it was calculated that 70,440 children were in the care of local authorities, and increasingly more children are born each year through donor schemes, which can create intricate issues around law and policy-making.
In this roundtable discussion, panellists will be drawn from the fields of law, social work and policing to explore the difficulties surrounding the protection of the right to identity. The conversation will seek to answer how identity may be best expressed in the often very difficult circumstances that surround family life.
This roundtable discussion will be led by Jacqueline Williamson, CEO of Kinship Care, Northern Ireland. Jacqueline has worked in the voluntary and community sectors for two decades and has extensive, firsthand knowledge of the social care system, having been brought up in care herself. She is a Northern Ireland Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, and Fellow of Clore Social Leadership Programme. In 2014 she was awarded ‘Woman of the Year’ by Derry City Council.
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Thursday 8th June 6.00pm
Showcase Studio Theatre
Exclaim!
Student Showcase
At this biennial event, guests will have the chance to view some of the most exciting work that our students have produced during their time on the music, dance, film and television, drama, advertising, musical theatre and computing degree programmes.
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Their work will reflect their individual identities as well as taking on a plethora of characters, storylines and issues. Exclaim! will entertain audiences with an assortment of media; everything from animation to physical theatre. There will also be a special contribution from the University’s clowning and circus performers, who will showcase at the end of Exclaim! inside a Big Top tent in the Arts Centre Rock Garden.
Friday 9th June 1.00pm & 6.30pm
Drop-in/Performance Dance Studio
Drop-in 1.00pm - 6.30pm Performance 6.30pm
Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Psycho-Trauma: Moving Through the Therapeutic Landscape Caroline Galon
Traumatic experiences can be just as harmful to the physical body as they are to the mind. In recent years, research into the effects of trauma has expanded to include the idea of traumas being lodged within the body, something which is often overlooked in standard therapy practices. Dance Movement Psychotherapy is a form of arts therapy which recognises body movement as an implicit and expressive instrument of communication and expression.
Moving Through the Therapeutic Landscape is a drop-in performance with the aim of communicating research findings through visual and body-based means. The performance will portray how Dance Movement Psychotherapy is currently being practiced with survivors of trauma, and how it can be used to connect with a person’s emotional, mental and physical identity, through verbal and non-verbal methods.
The performance will present the journey from research through to therapy practice, while questioning concepts of identity and recovery from a post-traumatic perspective.
Caroline Galon is a registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Performing Arts at Edge Hill University.
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Friday 9th June 2.00pm
Workshop Faculty of Education
Eliciting Identities through Creative Practice Francesca Bernardi
In this interactive workshop, children and adults are invited to explore their individuality through spontaneous artistic mark-making and movement. The participants’ unique experiences will lead to an understanding of emerging themes and creative capabilities.
Art is one of the most powerful modes of self-expression. Using art as a communicative tool can support participation in activities that are meaningful and expressive. This encourages children to develop a self-identifying language, particularly for those who struggle with conventional communication methods.
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Francesca Bernardi is a researcher in the Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University. She trained in Fine Art and Product Design in Italy, completed a Masters in Arts Education at Edge Hill University, and is currently conducting an international PhD research project on Childhood Identity and Autism, also at Edge Hill. Francesca is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and is a member of The Creative Exchange.
Monday 12th June 6.00pm
In Conversation Rose Theatre
Publishing the North Professor Ailsa Cox
Is there such a thing as ‘northern writing’? How do northern publishers cultivate an identity that is both local and international and what do small publishers have to offer that the big conglomerates don’t?
The conversation will explore some of the most exciting new voices in fiction that have emerged through the work of small publishers, driven by their passion for supporting literature in all its forms.
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Professor Ailsa Cox is the world’s first Professor of Short Fiction and the founder of The Edge Hill Prize for the Short Story. Ailsa will be in conversation with members of the Northern Fiction Alliance, Nathan Connolly, Publishing Director at Liverpool-based Dead Ink Books and S.J. Bradley, self-published fiction writer, Director of the Northern Short Story Festival and the organiser of Fictions of Every Kind, a literary evening in Leeds. The conversation will be followed by a reading from S.J. Bradley, whose novel Guest is newly released from Dead Ink.
The Northern Fiction Alliance is an Arts Council-funded consortium of independent publishers, including Comma Press, And Other Stories, Peepal Tree Press and Dead Ink Books, formed to showcase works at an international level. The discussion will converse the penetrative power of the united publishers and their imprint on the industry.
Literary Reading Rose Theatre
Monday 12th June 7.30pm
Writing The Self
The Narrative Research Group of Edge Hill Writers
The Narrative Research Group of Edge Hill Writers will enrapture audience members with lively fiction readings which celebrate the multiplicity of identities which we inhabit in writing. Exploring themes of identity, place and sexuality, the writers will lead a passageway of personas in contrasting settings.
Joining Professor Ailsa Cox to share their characters’ stories will be:
PhD graduate, Carol Fenlon, reading from her latest book, Plotlands, set in a decaying seaside shantytown, where people come to escape their former lives. Award-winning playwright Billy Cowan will deliver some of his favourite flash fiction – a wry and humorous account of growing up gay in Northern Ireland.
Dr Kim Wiltshire, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, scriptwriter and fiction writer whose main research interest includes gender representations, masculinity and feminism.
Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD student Philippa Holloway, a globally published short fiction writer. Philippa’s research looks at the cultural impact of landscape and digital technology on the act of writing.
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Monday 12th – Friday 30th June
Exhibition Creative Edge
British Contemporary Islamic Art Zahir Rafiq
Zahir Rafiq is an artist from Rotherham, South Yorkshire who explores the subject of Islam in Britain using a variety of media including: oil paint, sculpture and digital. His work seeks to express not only a new way of looking at Islamic art, but also his own identity as someone who was brought up as a Muslim in secular British society.
British Contemporary Islamic Art explores the theme of British Muslim identity by expressing traditional Islamic motifs through Western art styles in portraiture, calligraphy and sculpture. The calligraphy work is influenced by the works of Cubist sculptors, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Umberto Boccioni. The artists’ admiration for the way movement is expressed through shape and form has transferred into his own work, where he incorporates the flow of traditional Arabic calligraphy.
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Zahir’s work also explores the ambiguities of faith, he produces pieces which fragment Islamic text to reflect the fragility that can exist in religion. He describes his exhibition as bringing the components of his pieces to a stage where they are barely legible, their meaning obscured, in the hope that the viewer can reconstruct their own meaning and rediscover their own faith from the bare bones.
Exhibition The Arts Centre
Tuesday 13th – Tuesday 27th June
In Context
Jigsaw Artist Collective
In Context brings together Jigsaw, four artists from India and the UK who are described as “four humans living and constantly moving at quite a distance in time, space and life at large”.
Individually they produce art work in a jumble of genres; drawings, prints, archives, collages, poems and texts. The artists interpret the theme of ‘puzzle poems’ to create a new collective dialogue, a game of change and the unexpected. Kavitha Bakakrishnan Art critic, poet, contemporary art researcher, painter and art curator.
Kuzhur Wilson Poet and art curator who has created the Temple of Poetry in Kerala, India.
Collectively they have recently exhibited at the Merz Barn in Cumbria, Manchester Metropolitan University, Loafers Art Cafe in Fort Kochi in Kerala and at a Poetry Festival in Pattambi in Kerala.
Hilary Dehn Photographer and digital artist who works in a variety of media.
Charlie Holt Painter, printmaker and collage artist living and working in England and Portugal.
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Tuesday 13th June 5.00pm
Illustrated Talk Studio Theatre
The White Man’s Dog: Transatlantic Slavery and the Moving Image Dr Jenny Barrett
In partnership with The Bluecoat Liverpool’s 300th anniversary events, this illustrated talk will explore a collection of slave identities.
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Dr Jenny Barrett will ask what stories the movies tell us about the struggles of African American slaves. She will question what their role is in commenting upon national identity in the modern world and how slaves became labelled ‘the white man’s dog’. In these narratives, the slave’s identity is illustrated as property, animal and human. It is pertinent to explorations of ethnicity, ‘roots’ and national identity in the film’s production context.
Dr Jenny Barrett is a Reader in Film and Popular Culture at Edge Hill University and researches a range of subjects linked to film conventions and identities. Amongst other topics, she has published on representations of the American Civil War, African Americans in genre-filmmaking, and on portrayal of immigrants in Westerns.
Public Lecture Faculty of Health and Social Care
Tuesday 13th June 6.00pm
Shifting the Curve: A Scottish Approach to Developing Anti-Poverty Work Naomi Eisenstadt CB
A third of people in the UK have experienced poverty in recent years according to data from the Office for National Statistics. In 2014, the Scottish Government determined that 940,000 people were living in poverty, with no sign of improvement. In response, people across Scotland were asked to take part in Fairer Scotland, a national discussion about how the country could be a fairer and more equal place to live.
Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality, Naomi Eisenstadt CB, will detail the process of producing her recommendations for the First Minister of Scotland, which informed the Fairer Scotland Action Plan. Released in 2015, Fairer Scotland outlined 50 actions to help tackle poverty, reduce inequality and build a fairer and more inclusive Scotland. Naomi will discuss some of the difficulties in remaining impartial, maintaining independence, the tensions of working alongside civil servants and the results that emerged from her report.
Naomi spent much of her career within charities, before becoming the first Director of the Sure Start Unit. The Unit was responsible for the government’s commitment to free nursery education places, the national childcare strategy and responding to the needs of disadvantaged children. Naomi then spent three years as the Director of the Social Exclusion Task Force working across the government to address the needs of excluded groups. Naomi was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University in 2002 and became a CB in 2005.
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Wednesday 14th June 6.00pm
Public Lecture Faculty of Health and Social Care
Patient Choice, Expectation and Informed Consent in the Evolving World of Healthcare Professor Tim Woolford
As the world’s main source of information, the internet has had a profound impact on healthcare. Most patients now consult their web browser before their GP, particularly those seeking cosmetic surgery and in 2015 alone, 51,000 Britons went under the knife.
As a Consultant Surgeon for almost 20 years, Professor Tim Woolford has observed great changes taking place in the ways that patients are referred for treatment, with many opting to refer themselves to private practitioners.
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Much of the online information about cosmetic procedures is now provided by doctors with commercial interests. While patients are becoming more informed and have more choice than before, their expectations of surgery are greater. As a result of this, unhappy clients are resorting to legal action and medical negligence is a growth industry. In this lecture, Professor Woolford will explore these issues, using examples relating his experience as both an NHS Consultant and a private cosmetic surgeon.
Professor Tim Woolford was trained in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Surgery and went on to achieve a Doctorate in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Tim is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Laryngology and Otology, former President of the ENT Facial Plastic Surgery Society and is currently featured in Tatler's Cosmetic Surgery Guide as Best for Noses. Tim has taught on the Edge Hill University Otolaryngology Master of Surgery (MCh) Programme and now leads the MCh in Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery for Edge Hill University’s Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI).
Thursday 15th June 6.00pm
Public Lecture Faculty of Health and Social Care
We Need to Belong: Finding One's Personality, Sharing Life Stories in a Community Professor Colwyn Trevarthen
Humans are exceptionally artful beings, entering the world already with a sense of self and equipped for social interactions. The notion that a new-born baby is an intuitively skilled communicator – able to make discoveries through movement in a uniquely complex body and with intimate feelings for people – creates a natural science of culture. We are born wanting to communicate and wanting to form rich bonds with others.
Professor Colwyn Trevarthen’s lecture will ask whether or not our desire to communicate is merely affectionate attachment for protection reasons, or the basis for the creation of meaning and language.
Colwyn will discuss how all of our learned skills for practical life depend on second person awareness. He will assess how humans develop emotionally and will draw on his extensive experience amongst arts psychotherapists and applied arts practitioners to explore the concept of non-verbal dialogue.
Colwyn Trevarthen is Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology and Psychobiology at the University of Edinburgh. He is a leading child psychologist who focuses on the artfulness of our social self, and its importance for wellbeing and learning. His research reflects his belief that very young babies rapidly develop proto-cultural intelligence through interacting with other people. Colwyn is a Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, a learned society which supports scientific studies and aids their publication.
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Thursday 15th & Friday 16th June 9.00am - 5.00pm
Immersive Installation The Arts Centre
Remember Me Professor Helen Newall
Combining digital animation, physical memorabilia and soundtrack, Remember Me provides a powerful visual and sensory experience which brings the soldiers depicted in salvaged original photographs back to our attention in the present. The installation asks how we remember those without identity or direct memories, and how we can commemorate them. Remember Me is a multimedia art installation designed for an audience-of-one to explore the fragmentation of memory and identity in the context of the First World War.
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. The installation can be viewed in individual 20 minute sessions.
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Symposium, Performances, Roundtable, Poetry The Arts Centre
Resonant Edge is Edge Hill University’s newly founded contemporary music festival. Its mission is to present concerts that truly extend across traditional borders of genre and medium, as well as traversing geographic frontiers. It will seek to challenge and beguile while at the same time to surprise, delight and include its audience.
This June, an international array of musicians and sound-artists will present a diverse selection of music and sound art from the contemporary jazz, classical, electronic and indie music genres, with artists including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Roberto Fabbriciani and Jan Kopinski.
Wednesday 14th – Saturday 17th June
There will be a number of events presenting contemporary music, as it intersects with other art forms, while others will celebrate ways in which new technologies can transform our listening experience.
The theme of Identity will run throughout the programming of Resonant Edge this year, exploring notions of identity connected particularly to place, nationality and time. It will become apparent throughout many of the performances as to how multiple layers of identity can bring about an extraordinary richness to music. We look forward to welcoming you to Resonant Edge. @ResonantEdge
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Wednesday 14th – Saturday 17th June
Symposium, Performances, Roundtable, Poetry The Arts Centre
RESONANT EDGE (Symposium)
to what extent it is consciously or unconsciously haunted by other Blues works.
Resonant Edge, Edge Hill University’s annual contemporary music festival will hold an accompanying symposium for the presentation of current thinking on a variety of subjects in music theory and aesthetics. This year the theme of our Resonant Edge Symposium will focus on the nature of identity through a number of investigations situated around manifestations of Hauntology in music and sound. Hauntology – a term coined by Jacques Derrida – is a critical exploration of temporal and ontological disjunction in art – in short how historic, cultural ghosts can alter the perception or reading of a cultural artefact. For example, if one composes a Blues song, Hauntology would explore
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This mode of enquiry can also be seen to extend to soundscape composition where the sounds of specific physical locations are captured and, within a compositional structure, can be allowed to haunt one another even across the many histories of these locations. For example, a soundscape composition which explores the changing sound ecology of a local church that surrounded it over the last 50, 100 or 200 years. This could capture specific historic sounds, from the church’s bells and doors to the local natural sounds, and then gradually superpose these sounds across history, allowing a potentially fascinating sonic juxtaposition to unfold.
The call for papers and presentations for the symposium is presented as: Conjurations of Hauntology in Music and Sound. It has attracted the interest of a number of critical thinkers up and down the UK who will lead discussions on music and sound across all genres, as well as how the Hauntological transforms when film is brought into the equation for the audience.
Wednesday 14th – Saturday 17th June
Symposium, Performances, Roundtable, Poetry The Arts Centre
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Wednesday 14th June 6.00pm
Festival Reception - Launch Event
Red Bar
7.00pm
Mixed Media Performance 1
Studio Theatre
Mixed Media Performance 2: Hans Lindentorp
Studio Theatre
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Thursday 15 June 10.00am
Hauntology Symposium Session 1
Performing Arts
1.00pm
Roberto Fabbriciani Roundtable
Studio Theatre
2.00pm
Hauntology Symposium Session 2
Performing Arts
6.00pm
Piano Recital: Lauryna Sableviciute
Studio Theatre
8.00pm
Flute/Hyperbass Flute Rendition: Roberto Fabbriciani
Rose Theatre
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Friday 16 June 10.00am
Hauntology Symposium Session 3
Performing Arts
1.00pm
Jan Kopinski Roundtable
Studio Theatre
2.00pm
Hauntology Symposium Session 4
Performing Arts
7.00pm
Live Music: Tempo Reale
Studio Theatre
8.30pm
Tenor Saxophone Rendition: Jan Kopinski
Rose Theatre
Saturday 17th June 5.30pm
In Conversation: The Mersey Sound at 50
Studio Theatre
7.00pm
Summer with Monika Roger McGough and Ensemble 10/10
Rose Theatre
8.30pm
Psychedelic/Electronic Music: Patchwork Rattlebag
Red Bar
9.30pm
Closing Party: DJ Steve Hellier & DJ George Meikle
Red Bar
Roberto Fabbriciani
Lauryna Sableviciute
Jan Kopinski
Francesco Giomi
(Photo by Silvia Lelli)
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Saturday 17th June 5.30pm
Conversation & Poetry Studio Theatre
The Mersey Sound at 50
Catherine Marcangeli and Paul Farley In conversation with Professor Roger Shannon
The words and sounds of Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten will be recalled, discussed and read aloud in this special Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE) event, which brings together, in a unique rhyming couplet, Catherine Marcangeli and Paul Farley. Catherine and Paul will be in conversation with ICE's Director, Professor Roger Shannon.
Published in May 1967, The Mersey Sound celebrates its 50th anniversary.
One of the world's most influential anthologies, The Mersey Sound brought a fresh image to poetry and helped to fashion a new identity for the city of Liverpool and for poetry itself. It went on to sell over 500,000 copies, becoming one of the bestselling poetry anthologies of all time. The poems are characterised by witty language, liveliness and, at times, melancholy.
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Dr Catherine Marcangeli is a Parisbased art historian, and was Adrian Henri's partner. She is the curator of Tonight at Noon, a series of exhibitions and events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Mersey Sound.
Paul Farley is an award-winning Liverpool poet (with four books of poems for Picador), a Professor at Lancaster University and a frequent broadcaster about the arts and culture. He currently presents The Echo Chamber on BBC Radio 4, a series on contemporary poetry.
Poetry & Music Rose Theatre
Saturday 17th June 7.00pm
Summer with Monika Roger McGough with Ensemble 10/10
'I spent the summer with Monika and Monika spent the summer with me'.
Roger McGough’s magical, iconic tale of love was published in 1967 and subsequently scored and released on record with music by composer and guitarist Andy Roberts.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s new music group, Ensemble 10/10 will play Roberts’ original arrangements as McGough reads his epic poem, as well as featuring more of his classic poetry set alongside other music. This event will celebrate Liverpool’s role in the outpouring of cultural energy and creativity in the 60’s.
Roger McGough, ‘a trickster you can trust’, is one of Britain’s best-loved poets and has rightly been named ‘Liverpool’s own Poet Laureate’ He was awarded his OBE for services to poetry in 1997 and a CBE last year. He was recently honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool. Roger is an original member of the influential Mersey Poets.
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Monday 19th June 2.00pm
Roundtable St James, Oxford Street, Manchester
Changing Identities of Emergency Service Workers: The Need for a New Thinking Professor Paresh Wankhade
The issues around staff working in separate services brings into question the need for finding the new identity of an emergency services worker. It raises fundamental questions about individual and organisational identities when future work is likely to be more collaborative in new models of integrated service delivery.
Collaboration between emergency services is not new, many emergency services are already working with each other and with other public bodies to provide better, more efficient services.
However, some argue that the current levels of coordination and collaboration are uneven, localised and do not always offer the best value for money. As the Government moves to integrate the blue light services – a landscape shift that has been accelerated by the Policing and Crime Bill – a new perspective on the current working model is necessary.
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At this roundtable, the interactions between the speakers and the audience will generate meaningful discussions around staff and organisational identities. The discussion panel will be chaired by Paresh Wankhade, Professor of Leadership and Management at Edge Hill University, alongside experts and key individuals in the emergency services.
Speakers include: Peter O’Reilly Chief Fire Officer, Manchester Fire & Rescue Service
Chris Sykes Chief Superintendent, Greater Manchester Police
A speaker from North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Monday 19th June 6.00pm
Public Lecture Rose Theatre
Limits and Possibilities: Difference, Identity, and the Public in Post-Liberal Britain Professor Victor Merriman
It is undeniable that the British people were divided in 2016, with tensions around difference, identity and belonging brought into focus as the UK voted to leave the EU. The determination to ‘take back control’ was explosively expressed across the media, but what was caught up in the crossfire?
In the harsh light of the referendum, Professor Victor Merriman’s lecture asks whether or not longstanding ideas of ‘people as public’ have lost their capacity to bind society together. What consequences can we foresee for life in Britain after such a revolt against the status quo? Most importantly, what can be done to heal the wounds and reinvigorate public interest and public service?
Victor Merriman is Professor of Critical Performance Studies and leads the Performance and Civic Futures Research Group at Edge Hill University. Victor is the Founding Director of the One Hour Theatre Company and is currently working on a book on counter-revolution and dramaturgy in twentieth-century Ireland and researching for a second, Dramatic Worlds as Public Worlds: Performing lives-incommon. He has published widely on Irish theatre, post-colonialism, and the cultural politics of austerity Britain.
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Monday 19th June 7.30pm
Reading and Discussion Studio Theatre
We’re Not English, We’re Cornish Reading and discussion exploring James Stock’s Stargazy Pie and Sauerkraut
Through the rehearsed readings of scenes from the play followed by a discussion, the event will explore some of the ways in which the play seeks to dramatise the arithmetic of memory and the historical deformation of identity.
First staged at the Royal Court Theatre, James Stock’s Stargazy Pie and Sauerkraut is concerned with the nightmare of history weighing heavily on the formation and integrity of cultural identity. A Cornish fisherman, resentful of all that it means to be regarded as English, befriends an elderly German film actress in exile from her homeland. Through their relationship the audience is led to see how the past can infect the performance of true identity, like an incurable disease.
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James Stock is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Edge Hill University and a dramatist with over 30 years’ experience in professional theatre and radio drama. His plays have been produced across Europe and the USA. He is a past winner of The George Devine Award, having achieved this with his play Blue Night in the Heart of the West at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
Installation Faculty of Health and Social Care
Tuesday 20th June 11.00am – 3.30pm
Shifting Identities: Exploring the experiences of children with illness or disability and their parents Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI)
Presenting an arrangement of objects, artefacts, videos, photographs and soundtracks, the Shifting Identities installation will consider how the personalities of children with illnesses or disabilities change over time.
It will also explore the identities of the parents of children with illnesses or disabilities, and how they adapt and transform. The collection draws on a performance which was developed as part of the Tate Exchange programme, Concurrent#3.
The Children, Young People and Families Research Team is part of Edge Hill University’s Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) and aims to make a difference to the lives of children, young people and their families who are dealing with illness. They particularly focus on people with chronic illnesses, complex health care needs, those requiring palliative care, and people living with long-term conditions and learning disabilities. Their research explores issues of identity, agency and participation with the ultimate aim of improving the health experiences and outcomes for children and their families. Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/FOI
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Tuesday 20th June 11.00am
Networking Event Faculty of Health and Social Care
Driving Innovation in Healthcare Research Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI)
The aim of the Research Catalyst is to facilitate the cross-fertilisation of new research initiatives in health by bringing together researchers from diverse academic backgrounds to identify opportunities for collaboration. The session will introduce the concept of broad interdisciplinarity from the perspective of health research.
Professor Sally Spencer and colleagues from the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) will convene and facilitate the Research Catalyst which will provide opportunities for knowledge exchange, networking and new research collaborations in an informal and relaxed format.
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The facilitators welcome academics at all stages of their careers, including those from disciplines which are not traditionally associated with health research. The catalyst will aim to support research ideas for new PhD studentships, as well as projects aimed at both internal and external funding.
Demonstration and Discussion Faculty of Health and Social Care
Tuesday 20th June 2.00pm
The Non-human in Care Nathan Jones
Bringing together medical professionals, academics and artists, The Non-human in Care will discuss the potentials, pitfalls and strangeness of realism in medicine.
Taking the example of realistic humanoid technologies from medical training, the discussion event will ask: what is the basis for our emotional connections and how do people deal with the tensions between real and unreal practice?
The Non-human in Care will compare how practitioners react to signs of life in hospital theatres and emergency settings, compared with how audiences respond to a fictional life in theatre; chest movements, pulse, and physical reactions in contrast to noise, metaphor and flashback. Contributors will examine how both fiction and medical training deploy simulated situations with a particular level of realism in order to be effective, and affecting.
This discussion and laboratory demonstration is based on the posthuman play The Happy Jug, written and directed by Nathan Jones. The play narrates brain trauma and surgery using the figures of the 2015 general election and a broken jug.
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Tuesday 20th June 6.00pm
Screening, Exhibition and Q&A Hale Hall
Sowing Seeds
Walk the Plank and Burscough Community Farm
Sowing Seeds is the photographic documentation of an Arts Council funded performance which took place earlier this year.
Edge Hill University students, graduates and members of the West Lancashire community developed and delivered a live processional piece encompassing mass movement, music and puppetry at Burscough Community Farm. Collaborating with the Learning Division of acclaimed outdoor arts company Walk the Plank, the performance takes the audience on a journey to explore the elements, the natural world and sustainability. Book your FREE place at: 32
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The performance and exhibition asks spectators to consider an individual’s relationship with the land and with food: how we grow it, consume it and identify ourselves through it. In an ever-changing world, Sowing Seeds demonstrates the importance of nurturing our roots. It showcases the history of Burscough Community Farm with help from many magical creatures performed by students and the local community.
The photographs will be on display in Hale Hall from Monday 19th June – Friday 30th June and will then continue touring the local community. A screening of the performance, followed by a Q&A with researchers and participants, will take place on Tuesday 20th June.
Workshop Faculty of Health and Social Care
Wednesday 21st June 10.00am
Creating a Social Identity for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients Attending Pulmonary Exercise Rehabilitation Dr Andrew Levy
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a debilitating lung condition that affects many people’s lives in the UK.
Pulmonary rehabilitation aims to improve the quality of life among patients who have been diagnosed with COPD using a combination of methods of support such as education and exercise. However, the effectiveness of the rehabilitation programme depends on patients completing agreed exercise goals, which many do not. This is a challenge for practitioners, who are not often trained in methods of intervention.
This workshop will explore how the pulmonary exercise rehabilitation framework can be embraced by practitioners to develop a cohesive social identity among COPD patients. Creating a shared sense of social identity can provide a basis for effective coping, a source of social support and can promote positive social integration. This will enable COPD patients to have a better quality of life and fulfil their rehabilitation goals. During the
workshop, practitioners will be offered the opportunity to learn about the creation of social identity for COPD patients and how this can be implemented in practice.
Dr Andrew Levy is a Reader in Psychology at Edge Hill University and is a Health and Care Professions Council Registered Practitioner Psychologist. His research interests are in Applied Psychology, spanning Sport, Health and Exercise contexts.
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Wednesday 21st June 2.00pm
Screening and Roundtable Creative Edge
In Flux: The Queering of Race and Gender Rosa Fong, Dr Jenny Barrett, Dr Eleni Boschi
Following the screening, the roundtable session will use Scent of an Orchid as context to explore the fluidity of identity and the performativity of race. The conversations will consider racial identity in performance; conformity to racial stereotypes in contrast with characters that masquerade another ethnicity.
Scent of an Orchid is a documentary which depicts the social construction of gender, race and identity, seen through the life and times of transgender Chinese actor, Zoe. Zoe’s vivid and intimate account of self-discovery echoes the experience of many transgender people, who Zoe says, often live a twilight existence. Interviews are intertwined with performance from Zoe’s semiautobiographical play An Occasional Orchid, navigating through her multiple expressions of racial and gender identity. The documentary carries an important message, that gender and sexuality is not so easily defined or definitive. Book your FREE place at: 34
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Rosa Fong is an award-winning filmmaker, producer, director and Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill University. Her recent practice-led research focuses on memory, displacement, identity and performativity. Rosa will be joined at the roundtable by Dr Jenny Barrett, Reader in Film Studies and Popular Culture, and Dr Elena Boschi, Lecturer in Film and Television Studies. Jenny has published widely in the areas of racial representation, genre and gender, and Elena’s research and practice primarily focusses on the role of popular music in the representation of sexuality, gender, and class in Italian, Spanish, and British cinema.
Film Screening plus Q&A Studio Theatre
Wednesday 21st June 6.00pm
I Am Not Your Negro Introduced by June Givanni
With images and archive footage prompted by James Baldwin’s writing, I Am Not Your Negro has been dubbed a ‘cinematic séance’, and hailed as one of the best films about the American Civil Rights era.
At his death in 1987, James Baldwin left behind only 30 completed pages of the manuscript for his next book, a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of his close friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Filmmaker Raoul Peck imagines the book he never finished.
Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated documentary opens with a counterintuitive screenwriting credit to James Baldwin. The narration by Samuel L. Jackson of Baldwins’ text and letters ripples through the film, and the mass of archival clips are underscored by his words.
I Am Not Your Negro will be introduced by film writer, historian and archivist, June Givanni. June is a Guyanese born, London-based film curator who specialises in the independent cinema of African Americans. June is a jury member of the Africa Movie Academy Awards.
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Wednesday 21st June 7.00pm
Performance Rose Theatre
Cartref
Theatr Gadair Ddu
Set when the foundations of Welsh National Identity were laid, Cartref explores Wales’ most influential migrant community, the Liverpool-Welsh.
Rewinding back to August 1929, the performance calls the audience to witness a middle-aged Welsh woman as she prepares a funeral tea, according to the traditions of her community. Cartref visits a closed Liverpool-Welsh community in mourning, during the National Eisteddfod (a Welsh annual festival of music, song and poetry).
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Theatr Gadair Ddu is a new theatre company based in Liverpool and Rhuthun, Wales. The company’s work aims to explore human experience by placing the actor at the centre of the theatrical event. Cartref represents the company’s first in a collection of works focused on the experiences of the Liverpool Welsh community during the interwar period. The performance will be followed by a short Q&A with the actors and director.
Performance Rose Theatre
Thursday 22nd June 7.00pm
Identity Crisis
Written and Performed by Phina Oruche Directed by Bill Hopkinson
Phina Oruche is having an identity crisis.
Best known for her role as aloof supermodel Liberty Baker in ITV1 drama Footballers’ Wives, Phina, now in her 40s, has started to question who she really is. Spending more than two decades of her life taking on other people’s identities – first as a New York fashion model and later as an award-winning TV actress – has taken its toll. Her onewoman show, Identity Crisis, is based upon her own life story and explores identity struggles that are common to all of us.
Through its low-key staging, the show provides a perfect vehicle for Phina’s larger than life characterisations. From Amy Tan, a working class white girl with a Scouse Brow and a taste for spray tans to Antonio de Silva, a footballcrazy Italian living in LA who misses his mum, Phina brings a colourful cast of eight characters to life, all of whom are having their own identity crises. Phina Oruche graduated from Edge Hill University in 2014 after completing her Masters degree in Media.
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Friday 23rd June 6.00pm
Public Lecture and Book Launch Rose Theatre
The Psychology of Language and Communication Professor Geoff Beattie
The language we use in everyday life reflects, signals and helps construct our personal and social identity, our sense of who we are and how we belong.
In this talk, Professor Geoff Beattie will uncover some of the less obvious ways in which language is used, focussing in detail on the more hidden aspects of the generation of linguistic utterances; pauses, hesitations, and the silences within turn-taking. Overlapping responses in conversations often go unnoticed but can send out powerful signals about our status, position, and identity. This psycholinguistic processing can significantly affect and influence important social processes within society. Book your FREE place at: 38
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This lecture will launch Geoff’s latest publication, The Psychology of Language and Communication written with Andrew Ellis and released by the Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions series. The books in this series are widely recognised as 'timeless classics' in the field of psychology. First published thirty years ago, The Psychology of Language and Communication was considered highly original and innovative, offering an approach which breaches conventional disciplinary boundaries. The book draws on elements from many sub-disciplines, including cognitive and social psychology, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology.
Geoff Beattie is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University and a prize winning author in the field of applied Social Psychology. Well known for bringing analyses of behaviour – particularly nonverbal communication – to a more general audience, Geoff was the on-screen psychologist for eleven series of Big Brother, amongst other TV appearances.
Public Lecture Tech Hub
Monday 26th June 6.00pm
Athena SWAN Annual Lecture Professor Janet Hemingway CBE
Edge Hill University’s annual Athena SWAN Lecture will be presented by internationally renowned researcher, Director of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Insect Molecular Biology, Janet Hemingway CBE.
Professor Hemingway will deliver an inspiring lecture on her career journey and her role as Senior Technical Advisor on Neglected Tropical Diseases for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Professor Hemingway initially trained as a geneticist and now leads a team of over 450 people based in Liverpool, Malawi and other tropical locations. She has 38 years’ experience working on the biochemistry and molecular biology of specific enzyme systems associated with xenobiotic resistance, and has been involved in projects with funding in excess of £60million, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded Innovative Vector Control Consortium.
Janet is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Society and the American Academy of Microbiology. In 2010, she was also elected as a
Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Scientists. Janet has achieved a wealth of accolades in medical sciences and public health, including a CBE for services to the Control of Tropical Disease Vectors.
The Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research.
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Tuesday 27th June 6.00pm
Public Lecture Rose Theatre
Wellbeing or Flourishing? The Role of Identity in the Era of Health Care Austerity Dr Andrew Edgar
This event will debate these concepts and their appropriateness in the presence of austerity and resource constraints, as are currently being experienced within communities and in health and social care services.
Wellbeing is a concept that has become increasingly prominent within healthcare, social care and public health. The notion of ‘flourishing’ allows for individual identity and for people to make meaning of their own lives, even in the presence of ongoing personal challenges or struggles, such as ill health. Flourishing as a concept has not been extensively explored, but may be increasingly more applicable in the healthcare context.
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Dr Andrew Edgar is a lecturer in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy (ENCAP), at Cardiff University. He is widely published on the theme of flourishing within healthcare. At Masters level, he teaches courses on medical meta ethics and the political philosophy of medicine, the role of health-related quality of life measures in the allocation of healthcare, the virtues of the chronically ill and the nature of dignity in the treatment of the elderly. Dr Edgar has been involved in a number of European Commission-funded research projects that have looked at various problems in the field of bioethics.
Wednesday 28th June 5.00pm
Performance Studio Theatre
STUCK
Julia Griffin, Professor Helen Newall, Professor Steve Davismoon
STUCK is an immersive performance which explores the way in which time and memory are staged, using digital video technology, soundscape and live performance. This autobiographical journey depicts the gradual decline of the artist’s mother from advancing dementia, observing the difficult process of her identity being stripped through memory loss.
The experimental soundscape will be derived entirely from the recordings of the dance artist’s motions, footsteps, and breaths. Playing with size and scale, presence and absence, this work represents the fragmented memory and the fractured process of both remembering and forgetting. The installation creates a sensory inner world which emotionally connects with the audience.
Juxtaposing live video footage with the presence of the physical performer, a space will be created where individual experiences can be shaped and forgotten fragments of memory can be revisited. Different perceptions of reality will be explored, using both real and manipulated time frames. STUCK is a collaboration between Edge Hill University academics, Dance Artist Julia Griffin, Digital Artist Professor Helen Newall and Composer/Sound Artist Professor Steve Davismoon.
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Wednesday 28th June 6.00pm
Performance Rose Theatre
Medea/Mother’s Clothes Dr Lena Simic
In Greek mythology, Medea was an anti-mother figure who avenges her husband’s betrayal by killing their children. This performance reenvisages this mythical character and explores concepts of motherhood, intimately portraying the life of a contemporary mother living in a foreign country.
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Medea/Mother’s Clothes is an autobiographical representation of Croatian born Dr Lena Simic, and a group of mothers from Liverpool-based toddler groups. It tells the tale of the social and cultural constrictions and the sense of displacement which Lena felt were placed onto her as a mother and as a foreigner. Through the development of the piece as part of her Performance and Maternal Practice research project, Lena found expression through live art, which accommodated her early experiences of motherhood.
Dr Lena Simic is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Edge Hill University, mother of two and a transnational performance practitioner. Her PhD research project was entitled (Dis)Identifying Female Archetypes in Live Art. Lena’s research interests include feminist theatre, citizenship and performance and the maternal. Lena has performed her work in nationally renowned venues such as Tate Modern, Bluecoat, Arnolfini, and the Nuffield Theatre.
Seminar Business School
Thursday 29th June 4.00pm
What Do We Need to Create a Good Society? The Webb Memorial Trust
According to the Office for National Statistics, 3.9 million people in the UK were living in ‘persistent poverty’ in 2016.
This event presents the work of the Webb Memorial Trust and its current project, Social Housing and the Good Society, tackling issues such as poverty and equality in Britain. Together with the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) and Edge Hill University’s Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice (I4P), the Webb Memorial Trust will present the findings of their report and invite participants to discuss how to influence policymakers and decision-makers, and what the necessary ingredients for a good society are.
CLES is a leading independent think-tank, with the aim of realising progressive economics, social justice, good local economies and effective public services for people everywhere.
The Webb Memorial Trust pursues the intellectual legacy of Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), who embarked on a vigorous programme of social reform which influenced the development of the post-war welfare state. The Trust was formed in 1944 with the purpose of the advancement of education and learning with respect to the history and problems of government and social policy.
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Friday 30th June 8.30am - 9.00pm
Symposium Rose Theatre
Leonora Carrington Centenary Symposium
The Pomps of the Subsoil – Leonora Carrington - 1947
The Leonora Carrington Centenary Symposium will celebrate and bring into discussion the work and legacy of Lancastrian-born Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011).
This timely event forms part of the existing body of research and creative practice that has already emanated from across disciplines at Edge Hill University, including film scholarship, creative writing, and dance performance and choreography.
Acknowledging recent scholarly interest in Carrington’s life and work, this event extends the legacy of this British-Mexican artist who gained a stellar reputation in her adopted country of Mexico, while remaining arguably one of Britain’s finest and neglected surrealists.
Carrington was reluctant to analyse her artwork, insisting, “I warn you I refuse to be an object”. In light of this, when mapping Carrington’s legacy, we approach this event through the same lens of give and return that the
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artist musingly offers in her 1965 text Jezzamathatics, “I was decubing the root of a Hyperbollick Symposium... when the latent metamorphosis blurted the great unexpected shriek into something between a squeak and a smile. IT GAVE, so to speak, in order to return.”
The symposium, along with a range of researchers, academics and writers, will feature:
Keynote Speaker Dr Catriona McAra from Leeds College of Art, whose co-edited book Leonora Carrington and the International Avant Garde is published in Spring 2017.
Guest Speaker Joanna Moorhead, cousin of Leonora, will discuss her new book, The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. International Guest Gabriel Weisz Carrington, Leonora Carrington's son, and the Director of the Fundación Leonora Carrington (Mexico City).
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Public Lecture Faculty of Health and Social Care
Friday 30th June 6.00pm
Technology and E-Solutions in Healthcare Dr Liz Mear
With government funding being cut, the NHS is currently facing one of the biggest challenges in its existence, and the strains on the system mean that patients are competing for hospital beds and practitioners’ time.
Dr Liz Mear, Chief Executive of the Innovation Agency (Academic Health Science Network) will discuss how such pressures can be alleviated with the use of technology, allowing patients to self-monitor health conditions, prevent illness and, ultimately, reduce the need for hospitalisation. A number of e-health solutions are currently being put in place, requiring support and adaptation from patients, as creative approaches become integral to the NHS business model.
Dr Liz Mear was one of the founding members of the Innovation Agency, before which she was Chief Executive of the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Cheshire and Merseyside Comprehensive Local Research Network. Liz is an expert in genomics, the branch of molecular biology concerned with the structure, function, evolution, and mapping of genomes. Liz has held a number of director roles in a variety of NHS organisations as well as working as a Senior Management Consultant specialising in public sector business performance improvement and change management. Book your place at: ehu.ac.uk/FOI
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