SALC Research Showcase – SALC 2025: Discovering Pasts, Creating Futures

Event Schedule:

12 - 12.50pm – Lunch

12.50 - 1pm – Greetings: Erica Baffelli

1 - 1.40pm – Sustainable Futures

Chair: James Scorer

Sundhya Walther (EACW) Wolf Tracks
Duncan Keenan-Jones (CAHAE) Mithaka Country floodplain resource management
Emma Merkling (AHCP) Science, Séance, Stereoscopy
Siobhan Hearne (History) Humanitarianism and State Socialism

1.40 - 2pm – Digital Futures

Chair: Mel Giles

Ignacio Aguiló (MLC) Indigenous Youth, Social Media and New Forms of Activism in Latin America
Ricardo Climent (Music) KeepItHuman: Video Games, Sustainability and the Planet

2 - 2.30pm – Break with refreshments

2.30 - 3pm – Healthier Futures

Chair: Stuart Jones

Antoine Burgard (HCRI) Who is a Child? Determining Age in British and French Border Policing, 1918 to the Present
Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero (LEL) Du siehst, mein Sohn, zum Raum wird hier die Zeit.
Julene Abad del Vecchio (CAHAE) Visualising Ancient Grief: Glimpses from Latin Literature
Wren Radford (R&T) Caring Hurts: Everyday Embodiments, Inequality, and Activism

3 - 3.40pm – Creative Manchester

Chair: Anastasia Valassopoulos

Martyna Majewska (AHCP) Embodied Countermonuments? Investigating Recent Artist-led Historical Reenactments in the United States.
Ruth Abou Rached (MLC) Landscapes of Future Memory in Middle East North Africa (MENA)
Paul Oldfield (History) Political Toponymy and 'New' Cities in the Medieval World.
David Calder (Drama) The Sphere and the Square: Performing Public Space.

3.45 - 4pm – CIDRAL: Negotiating Interdisciplinarities

James Scorer

4 - 4.20pm – Interdisciplinary Research Funding

Chloe Jeffries and Guilherme Moreira Fians

4.30 - 5.30pm – Drinks Reception