Conferences

Art History Careers Day

29 October 2016
This year’s AAH Careers Day will be hosted by the University of Manchester in the newly refurbished Whitworth Gallery. This event is aimed at recent graduates, undergraduates, sixth-form…

Methods Fair 2016

10:30 - 16:30 4 November 2016
Come and find out about the range of research methods being used across the social sciences and beyond at the methods@manchester Methods Fair. A full programme will be available on…

7th Annual Culture and International Mental Health Conference

09:00 - 17:00 9 November 2016
The conference will explore the field of Culture and Global Mental Health and will be led by two extremely accomplished Senior Academic Clinicians: Professor Nusrat Husain & Professor…

Historical Geographies of Higher Education in Greater Manchester

10:00 - 16:30 9 November 2016
This one-day symposium will be a significant opportunity to examine the historical development of higher and further education, its geographical expansion, architectural expression…

7th Annual Culture and International Mental Health Conference

09:00 - 17:00 10 November 2016
The conference will explore the field of Culture and Global Mental Health and will be led by two extremely accomplished Senior Academic Clinicians: Professor Nusrat Husain & Professor…

Connecting Research and Practice in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

09:00 - 16:00 22 November 2016
A variety of research projects from across the UK focussing on children and young people’s mental health will be presented in this one-day free conference. The day will be both multi-disciplinary…

An exploration of religious voices and identities in higher education

09:00 - 17:00 28 November 2016
This one-day conference brings together researchers, lecturers and students who share an interest, be it personal, teaching or research-based, in the topic of religion in higher education.…

Open Minds XII: Student Philosophy Conference

2 - 3 December 2016
We are pleased to announce our twelfth Open Minds philosophy conference. After a very successful decade as a conference for PhD students (and recently awarded PhDs), we are continuing…

Migration and Families in Europe: National and Local Perspectives Conference

7 - 8 February 2017
Registration details available soon. We are pleased to announce our two-day international conference which brings together researchers, practitioners in government and voluntary sectors…

From Malacca to Manchester: Curating Islamic Collections Worldwide

23 - 24 February 2017
This conference will explore and appraise current and developing practices in the curating of museum collections of Islamic art and material culture around the world, in Europe and…

Hallsworth Conference on China and the Changing Global Order

23 - 24 March 2017
How is China’s rise changing the global order? This question has become increasingly salient since the beginning of the 2010s, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is widely assumed…

Wars of Position: Marxism and Civil Society International Conference

8 - 10 June 2017
‘In Russia’, wrote Antonio Gramsci, ‘the State was everything’ and ‘civil society primordial’; in the highly-developed West, civil society formed ‘permanent fortifications’ which the…

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