School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Norman Erikson Pasaribu in conversation with Will Harris

12:30 - 14:00 27 April 2022
International Booker Prize long-lister Norman Erikson Pasaribu will be in conversation with the poet and Burgess Writer Fellow, Will Harris. Norman Erikson Pasaribu is a writer and…

The Door Opened: 1980s China - Photographs by Adrian Bradshaw

26 January - 6 July 2022
One can argue that nostalgia is the strongest emotion, a pure mixture of wistfulness and melancholy. Adrian Bradshaw, an English photographer, brings that sense of yearning into full…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Peter Atkins, University of Chester, ‘Reading Across the Human-Animal Boundary: The Animalising Affliction of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4’

14:00 - 15:30 28 April 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Professor Grant Macaskill (University of Aberdeen) “Autism, Selfhood and Language: Social, Biblical and Theological Intersections”. [Zoom Only]

16:00 - 17:30 28 April 2022
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is an online event. Please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing Dr Andrew Boakye. Seminars…

White Cube, Renzo Martens - Film Screening and Panel Discussion

18:30 - 20:30 28 April 2022
Film Screening and Panel Discussion with artist, Renzo Martens, Prof David Olusoga, Alistair Hudson, WAG - The Whitworth Grand Hall About this event We are delighted to welcome Dutch…

A Writing Workshop With Juliet Jacques

18:00 - 20:00 29 April 2022
A writing workshop for trans, non-binary and GNC writers. This event accompanies Trans Healthcare: Past, Present & What Might Have Been. For more information and to reserve a place…

Danielle Terrazas Williams (Leeds): Who Dared to Question the Word of a Priest?: Free Black Women and Social Capital in Seventeenth-Century Mexico

17:00 4 May 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2021/22. This event will take place in Sam Alex_SG.16 but can be followed via Zoom. Here is the…

Sustainability in Research (SALC)

15:00 - 16:30 4 May 2022
This informal workshop will be aimed at opening a conversation about sustainable ways of doing research. Many of us want to find ways to do our research in ways that respond to the…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Sherry Ashworth, University of Manchester, ‘It's complicated: the relationship between Esther and Mordecai, mediated by Charles Dickens' Bleak House’

14:00 - 15:30 5 May 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Songs We Learn from Trees: Ethiopian Amharic Poetry in English

18:30 - 20:00 7 May 2022
Ethiopian poets celebrate Songs We Learn from Trees (Carcanet, 2020), the first anthology of Amharic poetry in English. About this event Join us for an evening of bilingual readings…

Blackwell's: Rebecca Zahabi in conversation with Jeanette Winterson

18:30 - 20:30 9 May 2022
Join us for the official launch of Rebecca Zahabi new novel THE COLLARBOUND About this event We're thrilled to be welcoming Rebecca Zahabi to the shop to launch her debut adult novel…

Henry Box Brown Lecture 2022

17:30 - 19:00 10 May 2022
'Surviving the Ends of Empire, Or How Insurgent Aesthetics and Queer Collective Care are Transforming Our Worlds' - Ronak K Kapadia, University of Illinois at Chicago (Art Image Credit:…

Film screening: "A Colombian Family" (Tanja Wol Sørensen, 2020)

17:00 - 19:00 11 May 2022
Organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies with the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and UoM's Department of Drama. The film will be shown in Samuel Alexander…

Historicising Sexuality: a Conversation. A roundtable celebrating Prof. Laura Doan’s work at the University of Manchester

14:00 - 17:00 12 May 2022
Historicising Sexuality: a Conversation A roundtable celebrating Prof. Laura Doan’s work at the University of Manchester Followed by a drinks reception in the atrium This one-day…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Christopher Shannahan (University of Coventry) “Transforming Structural Injustice’: Poverty, Theology and Discipleship in an Age of Austerity”

16:00 - 17:30 12 May 2022
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid session and can be attended in person or online. Please register to receive the Zoom link…

Ana Vivaldi (Manchester): Tbc

17:00 - 18:30 18 May 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be online. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930

English, American Studies, and Creative Writing Research Seminar - Inaugural seminar in the EAC environmental humanities seminar series

14:00 18 May 2022
Dr Sundhya Walther, (UoM), 'Denizens' Abstract to follow soon ...

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