Event Details

Join us for the first ever FESTIVAL OF WICKED PROBLEMS at the School of Global Affairs, Monday 18th May – Friday 22nd May in FHASS MR2/3, Margaret Fell Foyer. All Welcome! Sign up below!

Join us at the first Festival of Wicked Problems:

Sign up here via Eventbrite for any of the events below, which offer opportunities to:

· join others in supportive writing and collaborating spaces to make progress on your own projects

· break up your revision with interesting workshops, cafés, films and karaoke!

· hear about each other’s work, discuss ideas, and find collaborators

· meet and have fun with fellow researchers

· find out more about further postgraduate study in the School of Global Affairs

Any questions, get in touch with Dr Benjamin Dalton (b.dalton@lancaster.ac.uk)

Monday 18^th May – Festival of Wicked Problems Day 1

9:30 – 12:00 – SHUT UP AND WRITE WORKSHOP 1 (FASS MR2/3)

Whether you are on your BA, MA, PhD, or staff, come and write together – whether you are working on an essay, exam revision, a creative text or artwork, a grad scheme or job application, a grant proposal, your CV... anything!

13:00 – 14:00 – OPENING CEREMONY: FESTIVAL OF WICKED PROBLEMS (FASS MR2/3)

Roundtable discussion and refreshments, chaired by Professor Charlotte Baker and Professor Caron Gentry)

18:00 – 20:00 – Re-imagining the Hospital on Film: Screening 1 – Hallelujah (dir. Richard Eyre, 2023) (Marcus Merriman Lecture Theatre, Bowland North)

Join us to explore ideas about the pasts, presents and futures of hospital design through film! This is part of ongoing research by colleagues in SGA and across the University to re-imagine the future landscapes of health and care through the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Tuesday 19^th May – Festival of Wicked Problems Day 2

11:00 – 13:00 – RICHARDSON INSTITUTE – RESEARCH POSTER SHOWCASE (FASS MR2/3)

13:00 – 14:00 – SHUT UP AND WRITE WORKSHOP 2 (FASS MR2/3)

18:00 – 20:00 – Re-imagining the Hospital on Film: Screening 2 – Every Little Thing [La moindre des choses] (dir. Nicolas Philibert, 1996) (Elizabeth Livingston Lecture Theatre, Bowland North)

Wednesday 20^th May – Festival of Wicked Problems Day 3

12:00 – 14:00 – GLOBAL LANGUAGES CAFE (FASS MR2/3)

Join to eat delicious homemade foods and speak a wide range of languages!

14:00 – 17:00 – SHUT UP AND WRITE WORKSHOP 2 (FASS MR2/3)

18:00 – 20:00 – Re-imagining the Hospital on Film: Screening 3 – Hospital (dir. Frederick Wiseman, 1970) (Marcus Merriman Lecture Theatre, Bowland North)

Thursday 21^st May – Festival of Wicked Problems Day 4

09:00 – 12:00 – SHUT UP AND WRITE WORKSHOP 3 (FASS MR2/3)

13:00-14:00 – LET'S GO TO MARS! SPECULATIVE FUTURES WORKSHOP (FASS MR2/3)

Join current students on the Global Leadership MA programmes in SGA: the MA Global Medical and Health Humanities; the MA Sustainability and Global Environmental Futures; and the MA AI, Society and Global Challenges. This workshop invites all participants to engage in speculative design and design fiction to imagine futures on the surface of Mars.

19:00 – onwards – GLOBAL KARAOKE (FASS MR2/3)

Come and sing in any language other than English!

Friday 22nd May – Festival of Wicked Problems Day 5

10:00 – 15:00 – METAMOSAICS WORKSHOP (FASS MR2/3)

Join us for a collaborative workshop led by cutting-edge facilitators MetaMosaics. Here, we will be asking: what are the most urgent questions and global challenges we want to take forward? What is the role of a School of Global Affairs in fairing global challenges and ‘wicked problems’; and what would successful approaches to such problems (characterized by their indefinability and resistance to easy resolution) look like?