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Public Events Spring 2017
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Public Events Spring 2017
Welcome
Welcome to Edge Hill University’s Spring Public Event series 2017, celebrating new professors, cutting-edge research and exploring our current cultural climate. From lectures to film screenings and live performances, all our events are open to members of the public.
The season begins with a unique evening of collaborative poetry, as The North West Poetry Tour makes a stop at the Arts Centre, premiering new poetry and artwork. Another distinctive event follows, as lecturer in Performing Arts, Dr Barnaby King, promises an entertaining launch of his new book, Colombian Clowning as Social Performance: Ridicule and Resistance. Barnaby’s talk will be preceded by a special performance of Ceniza with Columbian clown, Lucho Guzman.
The Inaugural Lecture series continues with a focus around Technology, marking the opening of the £13m Tech Hub at Edge Hill University, complete with the UK’s first super immersive 3D virtual environment. Newly appointed Head of Computer Sciences, Professor Nik Bessis will deliver his Inaugural Lecture Next Generation Emerging Technologies in the new Harvard-style lecture theatre. Keep up to date with all of our events on Facebook @EHUevents.
We hope you can join us.
At a Glance Camarade: New Poetry in Performance Curated by Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler with Robert Sheppard Thursday 19th January Film Screening Peggy Su! Tuesday 24th January
Ceniza (Ashes) Performed and conceived by Lucho Guzman Tuesday 24th January
Book Launch Colombian Clowning as Social Performance: Ridicule and Resistance Dr Barnaby King Tuesday 24th January End of Life Care: Getting it Right Professor Mary O’Brien Thursday 26th January
What is the Game, Who Are the Players and How Do We Win? The Journey from Research to Changes in Healthcare Practice Professor Sally Spencer Thursday 2nd February
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Michel Faber Tuesday 7th February
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Policing Gender and Ethics: An Ethnographic View of Culture and Practice Dr Louise Westmarland, The Open University Wednesday 8th February
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O NO! Love, Art and Other Acts of Foolishness Jamie Wood, Co-directed by Wendy Hubbard Thursday 16th February
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Exhibition And The Word Was Bill Bulloch Thursday 9th February - Friday 24th February
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Public Events Spring 2017
The Connected World: Blurring the Boundary between Real and Virtual Objects Professor Ella Pereira Thursday 23rd February
LEVIATHAN James Wilton Tuesday 28th February
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Hallucinogenic Visions Graham Duff Thursday 2nd March
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Slap and Tickle Liz Aggiss Tuesday 7th March
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A Muffled Clamour: Turning up the Volume on Children’s Stories of Pain and Illness 07.03 Professor Bernie Carter Tuesday 7th March
Symposium, Poetry Reading and Exhibition Professor Robert Sheppard Wednesday 8th March
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Workshy Katy Baird Thursday 9th March
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Next Generation Emerging Technologies Professor Nik Bessis Thursday 16th March
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Seeing is Believing: Environmental Change Down a Very Long Lens Professor Paul Aplin Thursday 30th March
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FoMO, mofos! (Fear of Missing Out, motherf***ers!) Created by Mary Pearson Tuesday 14th March
Psychiatrised Childhoods: A Human Rights Issue? Professor Vicki Coppock Thursday 6th April
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Camarade: New Poetry in Performance Curated by Tom Jenks and SJ Fowler with Robert Sheppard
19.01.17 Thursday The Arts Centre 6.00pm Reading
The Camarade series explores collaboration between poets, taking the form of events which pair writers to produce and premiere new poems or artworks. The pairs will share their live work in short bursts, drawing in audiences with an open, communal, and engaging aesthetic. The North West Poetry Tour comprises over 80 poets collaborating to produce over 60 works for performance over six nights in January and February 2017.
Each performance will be hosted in different venues across Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Leeds, as well as Edge Hill University.
Six touring poets will perform in conjunction with six poets from Edge Hill University: Robert Sheppard – Professor of Poetry and Poetics
Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/artscentre
Patricia Farrell – Creative writing programme, Poetry and Poetics Research Group Joanne Ashcroft – PHD student, winner of the Rhiannon Evans Poetry Scholarship
Matt Fallaize – Poetry and Poetics Research Group
Adam Hampton – Graduate Teaching Assistant
Cathy Butterworth – Arts Manager
Public Events Spring 2017
Peggy Su! Film Screening
A romantic comedy set in Liverpool’s Chinese community (the oldest in Britain), Peggy Su! depicts the generational and cultural conflicts experienced by 19-year-old Peggy (Pamela Oei) as she tries to balance respect for her father’s wishes with her own views about what constitutes a good marriage, and as she struggles to keep up with the rapid social change (this being 1962, just before The Beatles turned everything upside down).
The first film to receive Lottery funding, Peggy Su! was written by Liverpool writer Kevin Wong and funded by BBC Films and Liverpool’s MIDA. It won a Royal Television Society award.
24.01.17 Tuesday The Arts Centre 7.00pm Film Screening
Edge Hill University’s Professor Roger Shannon, MIDA Executive Producer of the film, will introduce the screening. Peggy Su!
UK, 1996; 94 mins. BBC Films, ACE Lottery, MIDA/Liverpool Director: Frances-Anne Solomon; Writer Kevin Wong Cast: Pamela Oei, Adrian Pang, Sukie Smith, Burt Kwouk, Jacqui Chan, Dan York.
Book your FREE place at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
Ceniza (Ashes) - Lucho Guzman
©Fernanda Pineda
Colombian Clowning as Social Performance: Ridicule and Resistance - Dr Barnaby King
24.01.17 Tuesday The Arts Centre 7.30pm Performance 8.30pm Book Launch and Q&A Book your FREE place at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
Ceniza tells the tale of a lone soldier taking refuge in an abandoned big-top. While the battle rages on outside, he opens the clown’s suitcase and finds himself being drawn into the world of the circus.
Lucho Guzman bears his extensive talents as a clown in a feast of absurd and macabre comedy, inspired by real experiences of conflict in Colombia.
Ceniza is presented as part of Lucho’s week-long residency at Edge Hill University and tour of north west venues, featuring performances, clown workshops and lecture presentations on the growing practice of the social and humanitarian clown. Directed by Felipe Ortiz Original Music by Aldo Zolev
Book Launch Colombian Clowning as Social Performance: Ridicule and Resistance details the proliferation of clown performance in Colombia and its surprising social significance. Drawing on five years of ethnographic research, author Dr Barnaby King explores the relationship of comic performance to Colombia’s precarious political and social situation which, even today, seemingly hangs in the balance.
Dr Barnaby King is a Senior Lecturer in Performance at Edge Hill University. His research revolves around clowning, circus and popular performance, and their relationship to local culture and social conditions.
Public Events Spring 2017
End of Life Care: Getting it Right Professor Mary O’Brien
In a world of uncertainties one thing is constant, we will all die, eventually. How we die can have a lasting impact on those we leave behind. For health and social care professionals involved in end-of-life and bereavement care, there is only one opportunity to get it right.
Professor O’Brien joined the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Edge Hill University in 2003, following a nursing career which culminated in nine years as a Nurse Specialist for Motor Neurone Disease (MND). She was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of Palliative and Supportive Care in August 2015.
Professor Mary O’Brien’s Inaugural Lecture will reflect on her research that has contributed to acknowledging the support needs of patients with advanced and progressive illnesses, including MND, and their family carers. She is continually helping to facilitate the assessment of those needs during end-of-life care and into bereavement. She has published widely on the subject, achieving international recognition.
Mary has successfully obtained a number of research grants, including two from the prestigious National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme. She is a member of the MND Association Health Research Advisory Panel, the UK MND Clinical Studies Group and is a panel member of the RfPB North West Regional funding committee.
26.01.17 Thursday Faculty of Health and Social Care 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Inaugural Lecture Series
What is the Game, Who Are the Players and How Do We Win? The Journey from Research to Changes in Healthcare Practice Professor Sally Spencer
02.02.17 Thursday Faculty of Health and Social Care 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Inaugural Lecture Series
Professor Sally Spencer is Director of Clinical Research for the Postgraduate Medical Institute. Sally joined the University in Autumn 2015 with the aim of driving the growth of research activity within the Faculty of Health and Social Care, and across the wider University, through collaboration with external public and private sector organisations relevant to healthcare. Professor Spencer’s Inaugural lecture will evaluate the development and delivery of health research, relevant to practice and patients across the research cycle. Sally will illustrate this using personal experiences of developing person-centred outcome measures and their measurement in randomised controlled trials. She will also explore the role of trials in the development of evidence-based practice and facilitating multi-disciplinary cross-sectoral research.
Sally’s main research areas have largely involved the measurement of outcomes in clinical trials and the development and uptake of evidence-informed practice. As an Editor for two Cochrane collaboration groups (Dementia and Airways), she is directly involved in the generation of high quality evidence for healthcare and is a grantholder on two clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Health Research. Over recent years her career has focused on the collaborative nature of health research and the need for multi-professional partnerships based on the identification of common goals. She is a member of the board for the Innovation Agency and sits on the Liverpool City Region Health and Life Sciences Board.
Public Events Spring 2017
Michel Faber
Primarily known as a writer of fiction, Michel Faber has written nine books including novellas and short story collections. His novel, New York Times Best Seller The Crimson Petal and the White, was adapted into a BBC4 drama. Michel’s electrifying debut, Under the Skin, was made into a film, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson. Faber is also author of The Fire Gospel and The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award 2015.
As well as discussing his fiction, Michel will read from his debut collection of deeply moving poems entitled Undying. In tender, bittersweet verse, Faber grieves for his wife Eva who died in 2014 after a six year battle with cancer. His fearless poems present brutally honest meditations on Eva’s death; how it feels to say a long, heartbroken, impotent goodbye.
Bright, tragic, candid, heartbreaking, honest and true, these poems chronicle Eva’s diagnosis, illness and death, and Michel’s mourning process. They are an exceptional account of what it means to find the love of your life. And what it is like to have to say goodbye. “Michel Faber’s love poems are lucid, tender and wise, and they pulse with this fine writer's intelligence” Ian McEwan
07.02.17 Tuesday The Arts Centre 6.30pm Reading Tickets £5.00 Book your tickets at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
Policing Gender and Ethics: An Ethnographic View of Culture and Practice Dr Louise Westmarland, The Open University
08.02.17 Wednesday Business School 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/i4p
Annual Policing Lecture
What do gender and ethics have to do with modern policing? While they may not appear to have much in common at first glance, what used to be called ‘equal opportunities’ in the police has similarities and continuities with current debates around ethics and integrity. This is particularly evident in domestic abuse cases and the investigation of homicide, as these crimes are potentially high risk in terms of reputation and outcome. Drawing on first hand observations of ‘backroom’ conversations, practices and beliefs in a number of such cases, this lecture will reveal the ways in which gender, ethics and culture often interact, and show why the culture and practice of the police continue to require academic attention.
Dr Louise Westmarland has spent 15 years with The Open University, contributing to debates around police culture and more recently ethics and integrity, in national and international forums. Her research expertise is in gender and policing, police culture, domestic homicide, ethics and integrity. Louise has recently undertaken research with various police forces across England and Wales into integrity and corruption, and has completed studies in the US which involved interviewing and shadowing homicide detectives on live investigations. Louise was independent Chair of several Domestic Homicide Reviews which consider the processes and procedures of murder investigations. She is Chair of The Open University’s Human Research Ethics Committee and her work on police ethics and integrity has been included in Parliamentary debates and Select Committee proceedings. She is the author of two books and co-author of a third, as well as numerous papers and articles.
Public Events Spring 2017
Exhibition And The Word Was Bill Bulloch
Curated by writer, artist and Edge Hill University postgraduate student Bill Bulloch, And The Word Was explores how poetry, fiction and script manifest in other ways, such as visual poetry, photography, painting and sculpture.
Creative Writing students from Edge Hill University showcase their visual art practice with this exhibition of work which brings writing off the page and into other forms. The result is an interplay of arts, a body of work responding to their writing.
09.02.17 24.02.17 The Arts Centre
Lifting the initial concept from the bare words on the page, students expand upon their ideas and illuminate their stories and poetry in a variety of new and exciting directions.
And The Word Was will be hosted in The Arts Centre exhibition space.
Booking not required For opening times see: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
O NO! Love, Art and Other Acts of Foolishness Jamie Wood, Co-directed by Wendy Hubbard
16.02.17 Thursday The Arts Centre 7.30pm Performance Tickets £10.00, £8.00 concessions, £5.00 EHU Students Book your tickets at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
One of the most talked about shows of the Edinburgh Fringe 2015, O No! is a psychedelic ride and a wonky homage to the woman damned for destroying the Beatles. It borrows Yoko Ono’s art instructions to ask whether falling in love is always catastrophic.
The show is an anecdote of reckless optimism, avant-garde art and what we might yet have to learn from the hippies.
Jamie Wood is a performer and director, creating striking and accessible theatre. His work reflects a training combining fine art, theatre, clown and dance and ranges from the comic and darkly surreal plays of The Frequency D’Ici (Paperweight, Fringe First 2008) to the physical and visual poetics of Petra’s Pulse (Aegean Fatigue, National Review of Live Art 2008).
Nominated for a Total Theatre Award for Experimentation and Innovation. “…like being sucked down a rabbit hole full of joy.” ★★★★ Fest
“Fractious, hilarious and punctuated by undeniable beauty, Jamie Wood’s tribute to Yoko Ono is a thing of mischief and magic” ★★★★★ The Stage
“By the end, Wood has got the entire audience making music and probably doubled the amount of happiness floating around...” ★★★★ The Guardian
Public Events Spring 2017
The Connected World: Blurring the Boundary between Real and Virtual Objects Professor Ella Pereira
Access to information and computational resources anywhere, anytime, is fast becoming an expectation in people’s everyday life. The fact that ‘On-Demand Computing’ as a concept was introduced less than two decades ago is easily forgotten.
Society’s dependence on technology has far exceeded what was envisaged at the beginning of the 21st century. What we now strive to achieve is a virtual world that can accurately monitor and manage the real world of interconnected objects, acting on behalf of humans to enhance their lives.
Drawing on her knowledge and experience in distributed systems and software engineering, Professor Ella Pereira will examine the effects of the interconnected world. Ella will explore what the future connected world might look like, concluding with some challenging questions.
Ella Pereira became a Professor of Computing at Edge Hill University in August 2015. Ella has an extensive background in Mechanical Engineering, publishing widely for journals, conferences and books. She has served as a chair and programme committee member for many international events and edited for specialist journals. Ella has a growing research interest in deploying the ‘connected world’ technology for health and wellbeing of people.
23.02.17 Thursday Tech Hub 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Inaugural Lecture Series
LEVIATHAN James Wilton
28.02.17 Thursday The Arts Centre 7.30pm Performance Tickets £5.00 Book your tickets at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
Multi-award winning choreographer James Wilton re-imagines Herman Melville’s seminal novel, Moby Dick.
LEVIATHAN follows Ahab, a ship captain hell-bent on capturing the white whale: Moby Dick, a beast as vast and dangerous as the sea itself, yet serene and beautiful beyond all imagining. Ahab’s crew are drawn into the unhinged charisma of their captain, blindly following him on his perilous adventure towards almost certain destruction.
Featuring a cast of seven, Wilton’s trademark blend of athletic dance, martial arts, capoeira and partner-work, LEVIATHAN will have you on the edge of your seat. It will leave you gasping for air under the sheer ferocity of movement, accompanied by a powerful electro-rock soundtrack by Lunatic Soul. LEVIATHAN is man versus nature.
Commissioned by: The Barbican Theatre, Plymouth University, Plymouth Culture and Ocean City Festival, Swindon Dance, The Place, Blackpool Grand, Barnsley Civic, The Gulbenkian and BBC Performing Arts Fund, with support from Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts.
Public Events Spring 2017
Altered States’ (1980) dir. Ken Russell
Hallucinogenic Visions Graham Duff
Graham Duff is a prolific screenwriter and actor best known for dark comedy drama Ideal starring Johnny Vegas.
Graham created and wrote the Sky Arts horror series The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells starring Michael Gambon and Ray Winstone, three series of Radio 4’s science fiction sitcom Nebulous and co-wrote BBC2’s Dr. Terrible’s House of Horrible starring Steve Coogan. He script edited the movie Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa and Radio 4’s Sony award winning Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show.
As an actor his appearances include Doctor Who and the Harry Potter films.
He writes about art, music and underground culture with articles appearing in The Guardian and Wire magazine.
In the mind-bending Hallucinogenic Visions, Duff explores the techniques that cinema has used to make hallucinations manifest on screen. He discusses how in the mid 1960s, the spread of the drug counter culture meant more people than ever before were experiencing hallucinations first hand. And so, from then on, film makers had to up their game in the creation of on-screen hallucinations. Duff will screen a wide range of excerpts, including both classics and more obscure material. From Dumbo to A Field In England, from The Singing Detective to Into The Void. Warning: Contains flashing imagery and material not suitable for minors. For more information go to www.grahamduff.co.uk
02.03.17 Thursday The Arts Centre 6.00pm Performance Tickets £5.00 Book your tickets at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
A Muffled Clamour: Turning up the Volume on Children’s Stories of Pain and Illness Professor Bernie Carter
07.03.17 Tuesday
Faculty of Health and Social Care 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Inaugural Lecture Series
Children have been trying to tell us things for years, but we haven’t always been listening to them. And even when we do listen, we can be guilty of trivializing or disbelieving their accounts. The stories children tell about pain and illness cut to the heart of things that affect them. By creating opportunities to learn about the ‘worms’ in a child’s head, their sense that they are ‘being rubbed out’ or the ‘poison moving through [their] veins’, we gain insight into their experiences.
Using children’s stories and artwork as a starting point, Professor Bernie Carter’s Inaugural Lecture will explore how pain and illness can shape children’s lives, how they resist these changes and ultimately how their stories and pictures can help deepen our understanding of the meanings they make. This knowledge enriches nursing care.
Bernie is a children’s nurse who has worked clinically within children’s surgery, neonatal, and children’s intensive care settings. In practice she found there to be more questions than answers, which led to the start of her research career.
Professor Carter joined the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Edge Hill University in February 2016 to lead the Children, Young People and Families Research Group. She is the Director of the Children’s Nursing Research Unit at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, and the Director of Circle, an international research collaboration of children’s nurses.
Bernie has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles and written and edited books on pain and children’s nursing, including Stories of Children’s Pain. She is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Child Health Care and a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing.
Public Events Spring 2017
Slap and Tickle Liz Aggiss
Maverick, anarchic, indomitable and fearless: all words that have been used to describe performance artist Liz Aggiss. Born in an era when children were seen and not heard, Liz never had a clue what she wanted to do. She just knew she wanted to be seen and heard.
Slap and Tickle is a dark and ribald physical commentary on cultural mores and sexual taboos: a disorientating display of interpretations and contradictions about women, girls, mothers, bitches and senior citizens. Beating a path through the personal and historical, Aggiss creates a feminist soup that lurches from spoken word to expressionist movement, from music hall to radio nostalgia, from costume change to prop manipulation. “A very funny solo piece… no need for Aggiss to bemoan the lack of opportunities facing older women in the theatre, because she puts herself centre stage.” The Guardian
“….drenched in raucous, uninhibited humour, all of which nonetheless unmasks a very real world of gendered prejudices.” Róisín O’Brien, seeingdance.com “sidesplittingly funny, entertainingly choreographed and spectacularly devoid of ordinariness or political correctness” Niki McWilliams, theatre bubble This performance contains strobe, strong language and balloons. Age 15+.
Supported by Arts Council England, South East Dance, Dance4 and University of Bath
07.03.17 Tuesday The Arts Centre 7.30pm Performance Tickets £10.00, £8.00 concessions, £5.00 EHU Students Book your tickets at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
The Robert Sheppard Poetry Symposium
08.03.17 Wednesday The Arts Centre 10.00am - 5.00pm Symposium 7.00pm - 10.00pm Reading Book your FREE place at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
Exhibition 01.03.17 – 31.03.17 For opening times see: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
The Robert Sheppard Poetry Symposium will celebrate Robert’s body of creative and critical works. The symposium will comprise panel sessions and presentations of research papers throughout the day followed by a reading from some of the most prominent poets in UK. Speakers and readers to include: Allen Fisher, Robert Hampson, Zoe Skoulding, Antony Rowland and Scott Thurston.
Robert Sheppard is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University, where he has taught for 20 years. A major influence behind what is often termed ‘Linguistically Innovative Poetry’, his books include History or Sleep: Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2015), and Complete Twentieth Century Blues (Salt, 2008). His critical books include The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and its Discontents and When Bad Times Made for Good Poetry.
The Robert Sheppard Symposium event is supported by the Department of English, History and Creative Writing, Edge Hill University and The North West Poetry and Poetics Network.
edgehill.ac.uk/creativewriting/events/sheppard-symposium
Public Events Spring 2017
Workshy Katy Baird
This is a show about work.
What we are and aren’t willing to do for money.
Some people work to make money. Some people work to feel fulfilled. Some people don’t work at all.
For the last two decades, Katy has been at the frontline of the Customer Service industry. From getting you high to supersizing your whopper meal she has done everything she can to make you happy.
She isn’t sure if she has much left to give but, for this show (like the true professional she is), she will put herself out there one more time to give you everything you want. Join Katy for a very personal story of the ups and downs of what it means to serve you – the great British Public.
Age 18+
Features nudity and scenes of a sexual nature.
09.03.17 Thursday The Arts Centre 7.30pm Performance Tickets £10.00, £8.00 concessions, £5.00 EHU Students Book your tickets at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
FoMO, mofos! (Fear of Missing Out, motherf***ers!) Created by Mary Pearson
14.03.17 Tuesday The Arts Centre 7.30pm Performance Tickets £10.00, £8.00 concessions, £5.00 EHU Students Book your tickets at: edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre
Enter here and now. A woman, and a mystery: what happened? How did we get here? How do we get down from here? Flashing back through another time, another place, a woman is lost in a digital age state of being. All eyes gaze upon her, their insatiable desire is to invade and capture her privacy.
She metamorphoses into a series of different animal totems: a peacock, a sheep, and a moth. She is at once the killer and the sacrificed, powerful goddess and guru who commands space and time itself. The hallucination fades. She is naked, cast out and ashamed, fighting invisible ghosts from the past. She is stuck, an outcast with no memory and no future.
FoMO, mofos! is a kaleidoscopic meditation passing through the films Blow-up and Mullholland Drive and the songs of Robert Wyatt, Kraftwerk and John Lennon; a modern myth, cautionary tale, and cinematic visual feast.
Based on collaborations with: Stéphanie Auberville (Brussels/FR), Lea Kieffer (Berlin/FR), Deborah Black (Rotterdam/USA), Hannah Buckley (Leeds), Anthony Cairns (Liverpool) Supported by Arts Council England Made possible by a Time & Space residency at Metal Culture and residencies at Au Brana Cultural Centre (FR) and Unity Theatre (Liverpool)
Public Events Spring 2017
Next Generation Emerging Technologies Professor Nik Bessis
Everything from social media to investigations into the building blocks of the universe has harnessed the power of computational resources and services through the Internet – but what does the future hold?
Professor Nik Bessis will provide a retrospective analysis of the Internet and WWW evolution to the current state-of-the-art Cloud Computing, Big Data and Internet of Things (IoTs). Nik will focus on issues related to dynamic resource provisioning; data push; social graphs for big data analytics and inter-clouds.
Professor Bessis joined Edge Hill University in September 2015 as Head of Computer Science. Prior to that, he was a Professor and the Director of the Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research centre at the University of Derby.
Professor Bessis has completed projects worth over £7m and has chaired over 40 international events. Nik is the International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST) founding Editor-in-Chief. He has won four awards for ‘best paper’ and published over 260 works. His latest edited book in Big Data and IoTs has over 77,000 downloads and has ranked as number 25 in Amazon Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence books.
16.03.17 Thursday Tech Hub 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Inaugural Lecture Series
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Seeing is Believing: Environmental Change Down a Very Long Lens Professor Paul Aplin
30.03.17 Thursday Tech Hub 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Inaugural Lecture Series
Decades of scientific investigation have not yet succeeded in countering all climate change scepticism, but it can be hard to argue with a perfectly painted picture. Satellite sensors have been capturing images of the Earth for nearly 50 years, and image analysis can be unambiguous in mapping the rapidly changing nature of the Earth’s surface. Professor Paul Aplin’s lecture will present state-of-the-art technologies in the field of remote sensing, shedding light on a range of environmental applications with some spectacular fieldwork visuals.
Professor Paul Aplin was appointed Professor of Geography at Edge Hill University in 2015. In addition to publishing widely in academic literature, he has sought to influence the discipline’s development and its public persona through a series of voluntary engagements and activities. Nationally, he chaired the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society, and led the Natural Environment Research Council’s knowledge exchange initiative on Earth Observation technology. Professor Aplin has acted as UK delegate to the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Paul’s research has taken him to most continents, recently slogging through a peat swamp in Malaysia, commissioned by the Royal Geographical Society’s prestigious Ralph Brown expedition award. Paul has delivered postgraduate student summer schools globally, from Addis Ababa to Warsaw.
Public Events Spring 2017
Psychiatrised Childhoods: A Human Rights Issue? Professor Vicki Coppock
In recent decades there has been intense public, political and professional concern about escalating rates of diagnosable mental disorders in children and young people in the UK and globally. In her Inaugural Lecture, Professor Vicki Coppock will argue that this ‘epidemic’ has been conceptualised in individual biomedical terms, with little attention paid to wider structural processes informing the context of change.
Professor Coppock will draw on her substantial professional experience, research and publications on the medicalisation of children’s emotions and behaviour to critique and challenge the dominance of biomedical perspectives in child and adolescent mental health. Crucially focussing on the negative consequences for children caused by current diagnostic and treatment practices, she will argue for a children’s human rights-informed approach to theory, policy and practice.
Professor Coppock began her professional career as a Psychiatric Social Worker, joining Edge Hill University in 1991. Vicki has built an international reputation for pioneering research and publications that combine the fields of social work, the sociology of childhood, critical psychology and psychiatry. She is a founding member of the international Psychiatrised Childhoods Network. Her research Mad, Bad or Misunderstood? has been instrumental in supporting professionals working with children and young people and influencing the way mental health issues are approached in schools.
06.04.17 Thursday Faculty of Health and Social Care 5.30pm Registration and Refreshments 6.00pm Lecture followed by Q&A 7.15pm Refreshments and networking Book your FREE place at: ehu.ac.uk/bookevents
Inaugural Lecture Series
I D E N T I T Y : A Festival of Ideas June 2017 Edge Hill University’s second Festival of Ideas explores themes of Identity and Belonging in a stimulating programme of debates, talks, films, exhibitions, roundtables and performances throughout the month of June 2017.
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, protean, restless, open-ended, flexible, and versatile... existing in fluidity rather than 'fixed' characteristics.
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 using Scottish independence and Brexit as examples of the concept of conflicting and mutating notions of identity, 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 ‘North’ in the wake of the Northern Powerhouse, the diasporic cultures of exile and displacement prompted by global migration, and the concept of regional, urban or rural identities.
As we enter an era where our identity will be increasingly defined and decoded by the algorithms of artificial intelligence, how will human beings respond to the impact of technological classification?
I D E N T I T Y draws on academic strands within the University’s three research institutes:
The Institute for Public Policy and Professional Practice (I4P) Cross-disciplinary reasearch and knowledge exchange.
The Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE) Connecting the University to the creative industries.
The Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) Driving improvements in health and social care.
ehu.ac.uk/foi2017
Public Events Spring 2017
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