More about Manchester Metropolitan University’s Humanities in Public programme.

Of special interest to MCFly readers will be;
Weds 20th November 2013  “Global Citizens and Global Futures”
Weds 5th March 2014 “Feminism in the 21st Century: Privilege, Bias and Feminist Practice”
Monday 12th May 2014 “Reach for the stars: On haptic perception and the atmosphere”
Monday 19th May “Sensing Place” symposium is probably also a good’un

Why does this video exist?
Because more people should know about MMU’s “Humanities in Public” programme. It is one of the things that universities should have been doing forever. And when it does start to happen, it deserves a shout out.

Why is it so crap?
You mean the camera “work” and everything? Because I am not a professional. It’s one of my hobbies. I’ll get better, perhaps. The interviewee (Prof Berthold Schoene) is very good though, isn’t he?

Why have you not edited out the last three minutes?
Because the question “how will you measure success” is a crucial one in any endeavour (though often, unavoidably, only fuzzy answers can be given. Fuzzy can be okay). Also, Prof Schoene does something that is, in my experience, very unusual. Unbidden, he gives credit to someone else, and to someone who is, gasp, female. Now, that’s just good manners and common sense and fair, but you’d be surprised how rare that is. So, he deserved that to be seen and – more importantly – Helen Malarky deserved the shout out to be heard.

Is this news? No, this is information. News is something that someone, somewhere, doesn’t want you to know. But information is fine too!