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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #150: Ray Grewal
DESCRIPTION:Ray Grewal is an award-winning writer who has worked across film\, theatre\, TV and radio. He has also worked as a Production and Development Executive at Creative England on a slate of short films and features\, a script editor at the BBC in various departments and he mentors film makers for the BFI and Ffilm Cymru. \n\n\n\nAs an educator\, he has run writing workshops at the ShortFLIX event in Birmingham\, for Creative England in Manchester\, for the BFI Northern Film Hub in Leeds and for Ffilm Cymru in Cardiff. He has lectured in screenwriting at Regent’s University\, Bournemouth University\, the London Film Academy\, the MetFilm School and he was a script consultant at the London Film School. \n\n\n\nHe received his PGCHE from Regent’s University\, his MA in theatre from Goldsmith’s College and his BA in filmmaking specialising in screenwriting from the University of Northumbria. He is programme leader for MA Performance (Writing) at Central Saint Martins (UAL).
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-150-ray-grewal/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #149: Amanda Beech x Adam Walker
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Beech x Adam Walker \n\n\n\nAmanda Beech is an artist and writer. In video\, painting and other forms\, her work apprehends structures that subtend and are coextensive with our lived reality. She invests in the capacity for a new form of realism that demands the invention of new explicatory forms of reason and contingency. Her work draws from philosophical theory\, science\, literature and real historical and contemporary political events\, all hinging upon the violence of capitalism\, liberalism and revolutionary thought and practice. The proposition that art can produce a form of intelligence beyond the principles of capitalism necessarily brings the work to question the limits that art has historically set for itself by means of its critiques. \n\n\n\nShe has exhibited widely in various Biennales and has written texts for anthologies and museum catalogues. She has edited numerous books including being the contributing editor of Construction Site for Possible Worlds\, 2019\, Urbanomic/MIT Press and Cold War\, Cold World\, Urbanomic\, 2015. Her recent writing includes an essay on Jean Francois Lyotard’s exhibition Les Immateriaux for Beyond Matter\, ZKM\, Karlsruhe\, NL\, and recent exhibitions include Future Possessive\, Front Gallery\, Los Angeles\, and Delphic Future\, Twelve Ten Gallery\, Chicago. Recent video work \ includes Map of the Bomb\, 2022 a five channel video installation on encryption and feminist noir. In 2024 Beech was visiting professor at Aalto University Finland\, Vienna University of the Angerwandte\, and Vienna Akademie of Art\, Austria. She also presented keynotes for the conferences Desire and Capitalism (Erasmus University\, Rotterdam\, NL) and Marxism and the Pittsburgh School ( UCL\, London\, UK). Forthcoming work includes a new book on art\, aesthetics and philosophy; The Intolerable Image\, from MIT. \n\n\n\nAdam Walker is an artist and writer. Their practice is research-led\, critically and reflexively considering structures of inequality\, not least their own complicit position amidst these. Text sits at the centre of their practice\, including its extensions into digital terrains as code and data. Interruption and impropriety are sought: subtexts and counter-texts which might interrupt dominant textual flows. \n\n\n\nTheir work has been exhibited\, performed\, published and commissioned by institutions including the ICA\, Tate\, Tyneside Cinema\, Coventry Biennial\, Serpentine Gallery\, Ma Bibliotheque and NEoN Digital Arts Festival within the UK; Skelf and Hoax online; Yermilov Centre\, Izolyatsia and the House of Cinema in Ukraine; and Adana Archaeological Museum in Turkey. Their book Art\, Labour\, Text and Radical Carewas published in 2023 by Routledge. They are a Lecturer in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art\, Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nImage: still from Map of the Bomb\, 2022\, 1:04.00 5 channel video installation commissioned by Fieldwork Marfa
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-149-amanda-beech-x-adam-walker/
LOCATION:SODA\, 14 High Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250319T183000
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SUMMARY:Tessallation
DESCRIPTION:Emerging out of a series of workshops exploring the dialogical relationship between contemporary dance technique\, improvisation and creative reflection\, this choreography has been created by Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk in collaboration with a group of participants including professional independent artists and students at Manchester Metropolitan University from the MA/MFA Performance\, BA Drama and Contemporary Performance\, BA Acting and BA Fine Art programmes. \n\n\n\nAnd why not stay for Lewys Holt’s 30 Minute Set\, following straight afterwards? Full details\, and tickets here. \n\n\n\nThe project began its development as part of the Future Flares Festival 22-24th January 2025.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/tessallation/
LOCATION:Grosvenor east\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Neil Mackenzie":MAILTO:n.k.mackenzie@mmu.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250304T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250304T183000
DTSTAMP:20241206T212502Z
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #148: Jurriaan Benschop
DESCRIPTION:Jurriaan Benschop in conversation with Jenny Eden \n\n\n\nJurriaan Benschop is a Dutch writer and curator who is based in Athens and Berlin. He is the author of Why Paintings Work (2023) and Salt in the Wound. Encountering Contemporary Artists across Europe (2019). His reviews and essays are published in Artforum International\, The Brooklyn Rail\, on Arterritory as well as in numerous \n\n\n\nexhibition catalogues and artists’ books. Exhibitions that he has curated include Material World (Tartu Art House\, 2024) What we Learn from Land and Sea (Cycladic Arts\, Paros\, 2023)\, A Grammar of Gestures (Kourd Gallery\, Athens\, 2021-22)\, Taking Root (KIT\, Düsseldorf\, 2019-20) and A Matter of Touch (Kunst- und Projekthaus Torstrasse 111\, Berlin\, 2020). He has been lecturing at art schools and universities in Los Angeles\, Chicago\, Detroit\, Bloomington IN\, Riga\, Tallinn\, Vienna\, Helsinki and other cities. \n\n\n\nBunker Talks \n\n\n\nThis event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art\, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical\, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters\, presentations\, provocation and dialogue. \n\n\n\nOriginally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists\, writers\, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work\, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020\, over 145 talks have been hosted by Art & Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded\, edited\, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue\, capturing how artists\, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-148-jurriaan-benschop/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250225T173000
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #147: Lynn Setterington
DESCRIPTION:ynn Setterington is an internationally recognised artist working in the textiles arena. Her work explores contemporary issues in society and how stitch can be used to commemorate people and communities. Her quilts and cloths are held in many major public museums including the V&A\, Crafts Council\, IQSC and Whitworth Art Gallery. In the 1990s she became known for her use of kantha embroidery and quilts. Since the 2000’s she has used textiles as a method to share with and commemorate communities and celebrate the everyday. In 2010 she began an extensive study of an overlooked aspect of social history and folk art in the form of signature cloths\, working with groups in the US\, India\, Bangladesh and the UK. \n\n\n\nBorn in Yorkshire\, Lynn trained at York College of Arts and Technology and Goldsmiths College London. She has been a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University in the School of Art since 1992 and in 2009 was awarded a Public Engagement Fellowship. She is an Associate Fellow of the International Quilt Study Center in the US and in 2010 received their visiting Fellowship. \n\n\n\nLynn’s PhD from UCA\, Farnham builds on her extensive knowledge to investigate the hidden values and tensions in stitch-based engagement including the intertwining of the ethical and aesthetics.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-147-lynn-setterington/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #146: Stephen Scott-Bottoms x Andy Smith
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Scott-Bottoms\n\n\n\nStephen Scott-Bottoms is a writer\, researcher and theatre-maker. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance at the University of Manchester\, having previously taught in Leeds and Glasgow. Steve is the author of several books\, most recently Incarceration Games: A History of Role-Play in Psychology\, Prisons and Performance (University of Michigan Press \, 2024)\, which reinvestigates some notorious social psychology experiments as forms of improvised theatre. His recent work as a practitioner has focused on humanising complex questions of flood and climate resilience through storytelling methods. Steve is a Creative Associate of the Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission\, and co-founder of the social enterprise Vesper Hill. \n\n\n\nwww.vesperhill.org \n\n\n\nAndy Smith\n\n\n\nAndy Smith is a theatre-maker based in the North-West of England and part-time lecturer in theatre practice at the University of Manchester. His most recent works include the plays The Preston Bill (2015) SUMMIT(2017)\, as well as the 2018 performance work COMMONISM\, a collaboration with the Norwegian artist Amund Sjølie Sveen. Andy has also collaborated with the theatre maker Tim Crouch since 2004\, co-directing (along with Karl James) a number of plays including An Oak Tree\, The Author and most recently Truth’s A Dog Must To Kennel. \n\n\n\nFor the last six years he has been developing a longer form project called PLAYS FOR THE PEOPLE. Rather than be performed by actors for an audience\, these short works are for audiences and groups of people to meet and read together. Each play aims to present ideas\, questions and dilemmas around their themes\, encourage discussion between participants. The latest and most ambitious of these works is A CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY\, which tells a story about a group of people meeting to discuss the climate emergency. It has been created in collaboration with applied arts practitioner Lynsey O’Sullivan. \n\n\n\nwww.andysmiththeatre.com
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-146-stephen-scott-bottoms-x-andy-smith/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #145: Dan Dubowitz
DESCRIPTION:Dan Dubowitz is Reader in Architecture and the International Lead for Manchester School of Architecture. He heads up he FLUX Atelier and is co-chair of the schools expert panel which delivers the ‘Provocations’ series\, inspirations talks\, Atelier nights\, and the salons programme. \n\n\n\nTrained as an architect\, Dan worked for architectural and design practices in London and Hong Kong before joining Peter Eisenman Architects in New York. In 1996 he established the Masters in Advanced Architectural Design programme at Strathclyde University with Per Kartvedt and started the design practice\, Heisenberg Collaborative Arts in Glasgow with Matt Baker. \n\n\n\nIn 2003 Dan set up the design practice\, Civic Works Ltd\, to deliver Cultural Masterplans for post-industrial areas in decline from Glasgow (Gorbals)\, and Manchester (Ancoats) to London (Nine Elms). From 2003-14 the Civic Works offered those charged with the regeneration of inner cities a novel masterplanning framework to better engage communities and effect a transformation of identity. \n\n\n\nIn tandem with his urbanism research-practice\, Dan undertakes visual research projects\, recent monographs include ‘Fascimo Abbandonato’ (pub. Dewi Lewis)\, ‘Wastelands’ (pub. Dewi Lewis)\, ‘The Peeps’ (pub. MUP) and ‘Citizen Manchester’ (pub. MUP). The forthcoming book ‘Instruments of Perpetual Revolution’ centres on a visual essay of the work of Avant-garde constructivist architect\, Stefan Sebök. My next photographic series are an investigation of delusions of grandeur in city-making: 1929-2029: ‘The Masterplan’. \n\n\n\nDubowitz’s current research area\, ‘Collaborative Urbanism’\, is primarily concerned with how tomorrows cities could grow out of the cities we live and work in today: prototyping novel methods for professional charged with the transformation of a neighbourhood to meaningfully engage its citizens.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-145-dan-dubowitz/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250124T180000
DTSTAMP:20241209T091318Z
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SUMMARY:Future Flares Festival
DESCRIPTION:Future Flares Festival returns once again\, with a curated programme of innovative politically engaged performances\, plus related talks and workshops. This year’s line-up will feature work from radical performance makers including ‘Get Off’\, an ‘in yer face’ look at desire by Katy Baird\, the ecologically devastating ‘Vigil’ by Mechanimal/Tom Bailey\, and what promises to be a thrilling new ‘30 min set’ by Lewys Holt\, alongside pieces by leading artists/researchers based at Manchester Met including Dan Dubowitz\, Brigitte Jurack\, Andrea Maciel\, Michael Pinchbeck and others.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/future-flares-festival/
LOCATION:Grosvenor east\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Neil Mackenzie":MAILTO:n.k.mackenzie@mmu.ac.uk
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241205T140000
DTSTAMP:20241107T135029Z
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SUMMARY:SINGING GRAPHICS IN VR: EXHIBITION AND PLAYTEST
DESCRIPTION:The Manchester Game Centre is proud to support an exhibition of two VR artworks by Performance Research Group member\, Adinda van’t Klooster:  the AudioVirtualizer (2019) and VRoar  (2023). You can experience these artworks and take part in a playtest and evaluation activity from Thursday 28 November to Friday 6 December\, in the Holden Gallery\, in Manchester Metropolitan University’s Grosvenor Building. This exhibition will end with a launch of the Emote VR Voicer project on Thursday 5 December from 12pm to 2pm. Reserve a free place here.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/singing-graphics-in-vr-exhibition-and-playtest/
LOCATION:Holden Gallery\, Cavendish St\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6BX\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Adinda van't Klooster":MAILTO:A.vant.Klooster@mmu.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241203T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241203T190000
DTSTAMP:20241022T074419Z
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #144: Melanie Wilson
DESCRIPTION:Melanie Wilson is a U.K. based inter-disciplinary performance maker. Her acclaimed work is founded on the dialogue between sound\, experimental forms of composition\, language\, technology and live performance. \n\n\n\nMelanie’s work exists to connect and question\, and to create space for audiences to feel and think deeply through listening. \n\n\n\nMelanie Wilson Projects works to develop and raise the profile of sound lead performance as an art form in the U.K. and champions its need for recognition and resource.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-144-melanie-wilson/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241106T033000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241106T170000
DTSTAMP:20241022T071958Z
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SUMMARY:Granny Jackson's Dead: Our Digital Afterlives
DESCRIPTION:Granny Jackson’s Dead is an immersive performance and research project about technology\, memory and mourning\, which asks what’s good and what’s not-so-good about the ways that technology is changing our ritual lives. This project has involved collaboration with researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University who are working with Big Telly Theatre Company to understand more about what people think about the issues that Granny Jackson’s Dead raises e.g. how can grief technology (‘grief tech’) help us to remember someone after they die? What are the real-world implications of this technology? And finally how can immersive theatre help us to ask these questions?. \n\n\n\nResponding to the festival theme ‘Our Digital Lives’\, this event will allow us to showcase our research so far into ‘Our Digital Afterlives’. We will show video and photos from the immersive performance\, as well as an excerpt from the show and a Q&A with the creative team. You will also be invited to experience some of the new technology used in the show and contribute to our ongoing survey about ‘grief tech’. The project is supported by the Centre for Cultural Value as part of its Collaborate Scheme and will tour the UK in 2024/25. \n\n\n\nThis project involves Big Telly Theatre Company in Northern Ireland working in collaboration with colleagues from the Department of Art and Performance and the School of Digital Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. This event is led by the Performance Research Group based at Manchester School of Art. The Performance Research Group nourishes world-leading\, industry-focused and interdisciplinary work in the field of performance. They build practices\, structures and projects that bring performance artists and researchers into productive dialogue with each other.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/call-for-papers-symposium-on-sustainability-teaching-in-higher-education-approaches-methods-and-perspectives/
LOCATION:Home\, Manchester\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 4FN\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241105T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241105T193000
DTSTAMP:20241022T074519Z
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SUMMARY:Bunker Talk #143: Lume x Reckless Sleepers
DESCRIPTION:Members of the established theatre groups\, Reckless Sleepers (UK/Belgium) and LUME (Brazil) will\, for the first time\, engage in a public dialogue about their distinct practices\, specifically with a focus on performer training. \n\n\n\nLUME was founded at UNICAMP\, in 1985\, as a research centre in action\, conceived by Luís Otávio Burnier. In 1993 it became the Interdisciplinary Centre for Theatrical Research – LUME. Dedicated to the art of acting and effectively promoting scenic research\, LUME are internationally recognized for their Laboratory Theatre work. The group conduct research into the hybrid territory of theatre-dance and theatre-performance\, which includes the art of clowning\, corporeal mimesis\, training and scenic presence. \n\n\n\nReckless Sleepers was founded in 1988 by Artistic Director Mole Wetherell\, as a collective of artists committed to generating radical contemporary performance work. By 2012 both Kevin Egan and Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk had joined the group as performers\, and this represents a moment of expansion where theatre-dance converged with the group’s repertoire in theatre-performance. In its current format\, the group creates work that foregrounds this hybridisation of theatre training\, with a focus on rules\, scores\, forms and concepts. \n\n\n\nDuring the discussion Kevin and Rachel will interrogate the training practices of both groups within the context of their own practice-research\, which situates the act of performing as a model of apprenticeship training. This discussion is a way to understand the different perspectives and points of connection between Laboratory Theatre and Contemporary Performance practices.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/bunker-talk-143/
LOCATION:The Salutation\, Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Michael Pinchbeck":MAILTO:m.pinchbeck@mmu.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241028T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241028T170000
DTSTAMP:20241022T071757Z
CREATED:20241022T071651Z
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SUMMARY:Religious Communities in the Virtual Age:  Practices\, Values\, Technologies\, Boundaries 
DESCRIPTION:Since the COVID-19 pandemic\, religious communities across Europe and the world have engaged with the digital world and specific digital technologies in a wide variety of ways. Some have embraced online worship and gathering as a tool for widening or enriching a sense of community. Others have used social media to re-think the boundaries of their work with their wider society around them or to connect with their co-religionists across the world. Still others have consciously avoided digital tools\, seeing a spiritual and social potency in in-person gathering that cannot be replicated. But nearly all have had to face the new assumptions and practices of the virtual age that the pandemic made far more universal than they were before.  \n\n\n\nHow have these engagements with the technologies\, practices and norms of the virtual age changed the lives of religious communities? How has it affected their sense of community\, their understanding of the borders of membership\, or their relationship with the wider world? What has it meant for the means and potencies of collective worship? How has it changed patterns of authority and decision making? How have notions of sacred place and time been affected by the virtual? How do communities navigate notions of ‘appropriate’ or ‘genuine’ in the context of the digital society?   \n\n\n\nThis conference will bring together scholars investigating these questions in a range of religious communities\, from large and dominant ones to established minorities and marginalised or immigrant groups\, and from a range of national contexts. It centres around the work of the EU-CHANSE funded project Religious Communities in the Virtual Age (recovira.org)\, but welcomes other scholars in dialogue with these concerns from fields such as the study of religion\, sociology\, theology\, performance\, anthropology\, cultural studies and so on.
URL:https://performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/event/religious-communities-in-the-virtual-age-practices-values-technologies-boundaries/
LOCATION:Manchester Metropolitan University\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, Lancashire\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Josh Edelman":MAILTO:j.edelman@mmu.ac.uk
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