At the edges of languaging [HYBRID EVENT]

Schedule

Mon Jun 08 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University | Manchester, EN

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Join us for the first of a new seminar series curated by Dr Khawla Badwan that aims to explore and exemplify the work of language
About this Event

This event will be a hybrid event. To join us online, please see the . If you are attending online, there’s no need to book a ticket.

This first event will focus on Khawla’s poetry and writing to explore the edges of languaging. The series will perceive of language as an active verb that flows with the world, refusing its failure.

The series will be located at edges of disciplines, genres, and established norms, in pursuit of new ness that carves out a scholarship of heartbreak. Hybrid events will combine poetry, art, stories, ethics, and aesthetics, with conceptual openings and creative methodologies to centre care, moral clarity and solidarity with communities and populations harmed by the horrorism of explosive violence in Palestine and many parts of the world.

The series will be of interest to a wide range of audience interested in poetry, education, language, human rights, arts, social justice and decoloniality.

Dr Khawla Badwan is Reader in Applied Linguistics and co-lead for the Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her expertise includes language education, intercultural communication, social justice, and language in times of unspeakability.

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Manchester Poetry Library at Manchester Metropolitan University, Grosvenor East Building, Manchester, United Kingdom

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