By Annya Pabial Manchester Metropolitan University welcomes Afghan refugee and author Gulwali Passarlay for a Met Talk, as part of The Home Festival. In 2006, aged 12-years-old, Gulwali made the perilous journey from Afghanistan to England after his mother paid smugglers to take him and his brother across Europe. At the beginning of the talk, he…
By Annya Pabial Manchester Metropolitan University held the Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slaveholding South Conference, inviting leading academics to present their papers on a range of issues concerning the Antebellum American South. The event began with the topic of ‘Sex, Violence and Female Agency in the Slaveholding South’, and Dr Shannon Eaves’…
By Annya Pabial Photography: Petar Milenkovic Former Manchester Metropolitan University student, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, returned to the university this week, to share poems from her new book The Celox and the Clot, in partnership with the Manchester Writing School. Hafsah held the audience’s undivided attention as she read a range of tragic, funny, nostalgic and empowering…
By Annya Pabial Drum and bass and grime artist MC Trigga, aka Tundy Smith, gave an insightful talk on his experiences in the music industry at Manchester Met, as part of the ongoing Home Festival. Keen students welcomed the MC to the university and listened intently as he spoke about the highs and lows of…
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