Public engagement
Madeleine Reeves
Between 2006 and 2009 Madeleine Reeves and Nina Bagdasarova from the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavonic University in Bishkek co-directed the OSI-HESP Regional Seminar on Nationhood and Narrative in Central Asia: History, Context, Critique. This brought together 35 scholars of nationhood and nationalism from Central Asia and beyond and included 3 summer institutes and three week-long workshops in Osh, Kyrgyzstan. Madeleine’s research on Kyrgyzstan’s southern borderlands came to prominence in 2010 when a coup in April and a violent inter-ethnic clashes inthe city of Oshin June brought Kyrgyzstan into international headlines. Madeleine was invited to give interviews and commentary to a number of outlets including Channel 4 news, the BBC World Service, Al-Jazeera, Danish Radio, Kyrgyz 5th Channel TV, Voice of America, Russia Today and Australian National Radio. She was also invited to speak at an invited seminar on the Kyrgyzstan crisis at the Royal Institute for International Affairs in September 2010, and to provide briefings for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the OSCE delegation in Bishkek and the High Commissioner for National Minorities in the Hague.
Articles
- Osh Report: Quick Conclusions, Lost Opportunities, OpenDemocracy.com (picked up by Transitions Online and Ferghana.ru and translated into Russian for polit.ru)
- Interview for BBC Uzbek service.
- A Weekend in Osh, London Review of Books
- Getting To The Roots Of Resentment In Kyrgyzstan, RFERL
- Why the UK should care about what is happening in Kyrgyzstan, British Politics and Policy, LSE blog
- The ethnicisation of violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan, OpenDemocracy.com
- The Latest Revolution, London Review of Books
- Breaking point: why the Kyrgyz lost their patience, OpenDemocracy.com
Radio & TV
- Trouble in Kyrgyzstan, ABC Radio National Australia
- Report on Kyrgyzstan including interview with Madeleine Reeves, Russia Today
Ewa Ochman
Student Conference on Polish Language and Culture - 2011
Ewa Ochman co-ordinated a workshop for AS and A2 students of Polish on 19th March 2011. Nearly 100 6th Form students from the North (Lancaster, Manchester, Nottingham, Huddersfield, Derby, Hull) participated in workshops on Polish language, literature, culture and history. Programme.
Students from Polish Saturday Schools in Nottingham and Huddersfield who took part in the conference
Speakers from Manchester, Sheffield, London, Warsaw and Kraków
Student Conference on Polish Language - 2010
In March 2010 Ewa organised a conference for Six Form students from the North of England taking GCE examinations in Polish Language. Over 100 students took part, coming from as far as Lancaster, Bradford, Leeds and Derby. Many of the students attending the conference arrived in the UK from Poland just a few years ago. They had an opportunity to participate in workshops on Polish language, literature, film, drama and history. A plenary talk was given by Kathryn McTavish from The University of Manchester on higher education opportunities in the UK.
The Emigrants by Slawomir Mrozek
The first two pictures are from The Emigrants, a play by Slawomir Mrozek that Ochman co-produced for ''PALAVER: a Festival of Language and Performance". The second two pictures are from a debate led by Ochman about Polish migration to Manchester that followed the The Emigrants.
The event took place in The Contact Theatre in Manchester in March 2008.
Felicia Chan
Felicia Chan co-founded the Chinese Film Forum UK network in collaboration with colleagues from Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Salford, the Chinese Arts Centre, Cornerhouse and the Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester in 2009. With the support of RICC and other sponsors, the Forum was formally launched on 4 February 2010 with a symposium at the Chinese Arts Centre and an exclusive preview of If You Are the One (Feng Xiaogang, China 2008).
Other collaborations include:
- UnSpooling — Artists & Cinema Keynote Lecture and Roundtable Discussion, 12 November 2010.
- Preview screening of Bodyguards and Assassins (Teddy Chan, China 2008) with a one-hour Intro by Zheng Yangwen, Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Manchester, 14 July 2010.
- UK premiere of Lan Yu (Stanley Kwan, China 2001). Introduced by David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania, and in collaboration with the Sexuality Summer School and Queer Up North 2010. Supported by the Research Institute of Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC) at the University of Manchester, and co-presented with the Chinese Film Forum UK, 24 May 2010.
- Once Upon a Time in China film season, 2 to 4 October 2009.
- Preview screening of The Warlords (Peter Ho-Sun Chan, China/Hong Kong 2008), 5 February 2009. With a one-hour intro by Zheng Yangwen, Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Manchester.
- Preview screening of Cape No. 7 (Te-Shing Wei, Taiwan 2008), 20 May 2008.
- One-hour introduction of 'Wong Kar-wai and the Hong Kong Star System', Cornerhouse, 15 October 2008
Adi Kuntsman
As part of her research on digital media and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Adi Kuntsman has recently contributed a piece to Middle East Report, Another War Zone: Social Media in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, with Rebecca L Stein from Duke University USA