BILL EMMOTT and ANNALISA PIRAS bring Girlfriend in a Coma to Manchester, Friday, 8th February, Sandra Burslem Buildling, MMU Words by Amillah Javed On the evening of Friday, 8th February, Bill Emmott and Annalisa Piras were invited to MMU to show a screening of their controversial documentary, as well as allowing us time to interrogate…

Film and Culture Event for Languages (FACE) GCSE Day, Monday, 4th February, Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU Words and photographs by Amillah Javed The Routes into Languages event took place on Monday, 4th February, at Manchester Metropolitan University. Year 10 and 11 students from Bury Grammar School Boys arrived in the atrium of the Geoffrey Manton…

MMU Student Press Office journalist, Megan Lucie Adams, gives us a first-hand account of Alzheimer’s Culture by Dr Lucy Burke – Monday, 4th February, 2013 It is often a label that we find hard to understand and many fail to comprehend what Alzheimer’s actually refers to. Many may believe they know, thanks to the press, popular culture and literature, however, it is…

Thursday, 31st January, 2013Words and photgraphs by Claudia Conerney Carol Ann Duffy introduces Mother Tongue Other Tongue The Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has announced that Mother Tongue Other Tongue will be her next Laureate Education Project. An idea originally developed by the Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at MMU, and Routes into Languages North…

MMU Student Press Office Journalist Liam Stewart shares his account of a wonderful reading from two local authors, Thursday, 24th January, IABF Nicholas Royle In the suitably literary surroundings of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, I had the pleasure of attending an evening with Nicholas Royle and Alison Moore.  Both authors have had recently published…