Thanks to generous HEA funding, a workshop will be held at Manchester Metropolitan University’s history department for teachers of North American history (based in any department).

This event will explore the use of visual and material resources in the teaching of North American history and will ask how we can develop our practice by learning from other disciplines, engage with a public history audience using these techniques, use museum exhibitions and memorials to enliven discussion and finally use documentary and feature films to trigger active rather than passive learning among students. Improving student experience and student learning will be the central focus of our discussions.

The workshop, like previous North American History teaching meetings, is designed to attract all levels of staff from postgraduate through to professor, recognising that teaching innovation can be driven by newcomers to the profession as well as more experienced practitioner.

This event is free to attend and tea/coffee and lunch will be provided. To register please email the organiser, Dr Catherine Armstrong: C.M.Armstrong@mmu.ac.uk

February 7th, 2012 - 10:22am

8 June 2011
Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University.

This workshop will explore broad questions of how national identity has historically been created, maintained and manipulated using three different media: the printed book, material artefacts and film. Topics covered range chronologically from the early modern to the twentieth century. The workshop welcomes postgraduates and unaffiliated researchers as well as more established scholars and also hopes to encourage a dialogue on how these materials might be used in teaching as well as research.

Registration details

The workshop is FREE but please register by 1 June 2011.

Book History Research Network website: http://www.bookhistory.org.uk/book-history-research-network
Conference Programme and Registration form: http://bhrn-june-2011.eventbrite.com/
For more information please contact c.m.armstrong@mmu.ac.uk

May 10th, 2011 - 09:31am

Your chance to help the children and families of Japan…..

If the shocking images and reports that have come out of Japan in the aftermath of the massive earthquake and the devastating tsunami have left you thinking ‘What can I do to help when I live so far away?’ then here’s your chance to make a real difference.

Dr Ryoko Sasamoto and colleagues in the Department of Languages and the Manchester Japanese community invite you to a special screening of the award-winning Japanese film: ‘Still Walking’ (a moving Japanese family film that’s impossible to watch without a lump in your throat)

When: Thursday 5th May ( ‘Children’s Day’ in Japan)

Doors open from 6pm, screening starts at 6.30pm.

Where: Manchester Lecture Theatre, All Saints Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Donations will be collected on behalf of the British Red Cross and Save The Children to help children and families recover from this unimaginable devastation.

For more details email: r.sasamoto@mmu.ac.uk or tel Dr Ryoko Sasamoto: 0161 247 3939

April 21st, 2011 - 10:50am

Dr. Paul Oldfied has been awarded  57,894 over 8 months to complete research and produce a monograph for Cambridge University Press on “Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200”.

March 4th, 2011 - 11:03am

This workshop intends to re-examine selected European peripheries and frontier zones during a period when Europe as a political and geographical entity was in its formative stage, with political, religious and economic power oscillating between strong centres, and a huge array of regions keen to preserve their distinct political, cultural and economic identities. It will look at the role of warfare on the border, webs of dynastic alliances, religious links and hierarchies, and political rights and treaties in these areas, as well as the actors who drove the history of peripheral regions.

Frontiers Day Conference Programme

When?

3rd May 2011

Where?

Manchester Metropolitan University
Geoffrey Manton Building
Oxford Road
Manchester
M15 6LL
United Kingdom

Registration details

Registration Form
The workshop is free, but please register by April 15th 2011.

Contact details

Dr Kathryn Hurlock
k.hurlock@mmu.ac.uk

February 15th, 2011 - 11:16am

November 19th, 2010 - 11:55am

November 19th, 2010 - 11:55am

November 19th, 2010 - 11:50am