School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Chinese Teaching Skills Exchange and Training Programme

2 - 23 July 2022
Join us during July as we invite British Chinese language teachers to our 2022 Teaching Skills Exchange and Training Programme, delivered in Mandarin Chinese! Overseas Chinese teaching…

Telegram: A Bengali play by Ayna Arts co-produced with Professor Anindita Ghosh, School of Arts Languages and Cultures

14:00 - 15:30 3 July 2022
In this play Professor Anindita Ghosh, who researches the role of music in the lives of migrants, has teamed up with a leading community based theatre group, Ayna Arts, to produce an…

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…

British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) Conference 2022

7 - 9 September 2022
We welcome participants in BAJS 2022 to Manchester for a long-awaited opportunity to meet and discuss in person over three days. We are very happy to have been able to accept 120 excellent…

Welcome Film & Pizza: Return to Dust

17:45 - 20:00 21 September 2022
As we are welcoming new and returning students to Manchester for the new academic year, Manchester Confucius Institute is delighted to invite to a special preview screening of 'Return…

Behind the Curtained Door

19:00 29 - 20:00 30 September 2022
Behind the Curtained Door follows three Chinese women of different generations navigating through their social and economic struggles after the loss of a loved one. In a run-down flat…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Todd Klutz (University of Manchester) ‘Judas and Association (Dis)order in John 12 – 13’

14:00 - 15:30 29 September 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,…

Chinese Cooking Class

11:00 - 13:00 1 October 2022
Join us Saturday 1 October at 11am with Sam Sin from Koi Kitchen for another fun and hands-on cookery class. Create an authentic dish as a group and share a meal together afterwards.…

Confucius Institute Talk: 'Illustrations of the Grand Ceremony': Behind the Composition

18:00 - 19:00 4 October 2022
This talk will focus on the recently premiered musical composition "Illustrations of the Grand Ceremony", a piece commissioned by the Manchester Confucius Institute to celebrate their…

Alfredo Villar (Independent): "De la historieta a la historia: Conflicto armado interno, memorias y contra estéticas visuales en la narrativa gráfica peruana"

17:00 - 19:00 5 October 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Building A202. However, it can be followed online…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Graham Twelftree (London School of Theology) ‘Magic and the Purpose of John’s Apocalypse’

14:00 - 15:30 6 October 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,…

A.M. Homes in Conversation (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2022
‘If I can pull us back into one conversation, the question is how to reclaim our America, a traditional America that honours the dreams of our forefathers.’ In a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona…

An Evening with Kamila Shamsie (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

19:30 - 21:00 8 October 2022
How much can a childhood friendship developed into adulthood withstand? Maryam and Zahra are lifelong friends despite differences of class, politics and lifestyles. Their relationship…

Kit de Waal (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2022
'I live with the dread that one day when my young muscles rebel, can take no more stillness and the brutal confinement of my very self, I will stand and strip naked and burst out of…

Guilt by Association: race, culture and criminalization

14:30 - 16:00 10 October 2022
In a recent controversial conspiracy case in Manchester several Black teenagers were found ‘guilty by association’ after prosecutors used social media messages and references to drill…

Carl Phillips (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

19:00 - 20:30 13 October 2022
Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading with Carcanet ‘A poet of enchantment and persuasion’ (The Los Angeles Review of Books). One of America’s most celebrated poets, published…

Ehrhardt Seminar: George Brooke (University of Manchester) ‘Performing Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament’

14:00 - 15:30 13 October 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,…

David Olusoga in Conversation with Ellah P Wakatama (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

19:00 - 20:30 15 October 2022
A special ‘in conversation’ with David Olusoga, the British historian, broadcaster, presenter and author of Black and British: A Forgotten History. David will discuss his role as a…

Olivia Casagrande: "Performing the jumbled city: subversive aesthetics and anticolonial indigeneity in Santiago de Chile"

17:00 - 18:30 19 October 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. The event will take place in Samuel Alexander A202. It can be followed online via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166

Annual Language Partner Event (Mandarin & English)

18:00 - 19:30 20 October 2022
Are you keen to improve your language skills? Do you want to have the chance to practice that language with native speakers? Or maybe you’d just like to get your homework reviewed by…

Cosey Fanni Tutti & Jon Savage (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022) CANCELLED

19:00 - 20:30 20 October 2022
What do performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti, pioneering electronic musician Delia Derbyshire and medieval mystic Margery Kempe have in common? Join Cosey and Jon Savage as they discuss…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Catrin Williams (University of Wales) 'Signs and Scripture in the Gospel of John’ - The 2022 Manson Memorial Lecture

14:00 - 15:30 20 October 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,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Wilkinson (Durham University) ‘How Does God Act in the World? Science, Providence and Miracle’ Discussion of themes from the 2022 Didsbury Lectures

14:00 - 15:30 27 October 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,…

R&T Seminar: Anupama Ranawana (St Andrews) 'What we know and do not want to know: The importance of refusal for storytelling in Asian Feminist Theology' (Zoom only)

16:00 - 17:30 27 October 2022
The Religion and Theology department's fortnightly seminar series. Unless otherwise stated sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via…

Halloween Talk at Ordsall Hall by the Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World Project Team

13:00 - 14:00 31 October 2022
Join the Sleeping well in the early modern world on Halloween for a special talk to discover how former residents of Ordsall Hall would protect themselves from evil spirits. Ordsall…

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