Past Spotlight Series

2023-24

Festival of Failure

Failure is often invisible, and within the ‘winning’ mentality of the modern world it is an almost taboo subject. This 'Festival of Failure', through its talks, discussions and events seeks multidisciplinary advances in mental, physical, creative, systemic, and structural resilience to failure.

2022-23

Planetary Feminisms / Transhemispheric Dialogues

Bringing scholars, artists, curators and activists together across four ‘long-clock’ roundtables, to explore the transformative potential of planetary feminisms for decolonial, ecological thinking and creative praxis in many and more-than-human worlds

2021-22

Pacifism and Nonviolence

This Spotlight Series will explore some of the salient questions in the emerging literature which is giving serious attention to pacifism and nonviolence

Transitions

This Festival of Ideas brings together scholars, activists, artists, and the wider University and local communities, to critically examine crucial transitions and pave the way for more informed, cross-disciplinary thinking for change.

2020-21

Arctic Geopolitics

This Spotlight will use the Arctic as a case study to encourage the development of new concepts and approaches that will improve understanding of the how the Anthropocene may interact with inter-state rivalry.

Design Leadership Summit on Applied Storytelling

The Design Leadership Summit on Applied Storytelling is part of a 2 year plan of activities in UK and the US organised by the Storytelling Academy at º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ.