School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Dai-Oji : The Oji Paper Company and Japan's Pulp Pipelines in Asia (CIDRAL Visiting Fellow Keynote Talk)

16:00 - 18:00 25 May 2023
This talk explores the tangled histories of green imperialism and green capitalism in Asia through the lens of a Japanese corporation: the Oji Paper Company, historically one of the…

Live Performance Event in Partnership with Contact: ‘(Up) Against Nature’ (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

19:30 - 20:30 25 May 2023
Experience a screening of two filmed performances, one by Whiskey Chow, a performance artist and Chinese drag king, and the other by Ro Robertson, who explores the terrain of the Queer…

PERILOUS TIMES Book launch: Thomas D. Lee in conversation w/ Beth Underdown

18:30 - 20:00 25 May 2023
We're thrilled to be working with the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing to host the launch of Thomas D. Lee's wonderfully entertaining new novel PERILOUS TIMES. Mixing…

Polish Studies Group Northern Workshop

10:45 25 - 15:30 26 May 2023
This two-day workshop provides graduate training to PhD researchers working on projects related to Polish history, literature and area studies and facilitates international collaboration…

Closing Event: Film Screening and Discussion: Private View (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

17:30 - 19:00 26 May 2023
A queer painter, a non binary writer and portraiture like you’ve never seen it before…. Two British Artists: lesbian portrait painter Sadie Lee and Non-Binary writer Libro Levi Bridgeman…

Applied Creative Practice 3: Collaborations with cultural partners.

11:00 - 13:00 5 June 2023
This seminar is the third of a series of three linked workshops which will bring together researchers from a range of disciplinary fields in SALC to examine how different disciplines…

CSSC Talk: Prof Heather Love (Penn), 'To be Real: The Passion of the Self in Queer Writing'

17:00 - 18:30 13 June 2023
This event is part of the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture's public event series. Professor Heather Love is professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She…

Public Talk: Prof Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): 'The First Person at Work: Helen Garner, Hannah Arendt, and Wages for Housework'

13:00 - 14:30 13 June 2023
This event is part of the English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar, co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture Professor Christina Lupton…

Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

13:00 - 15:00 17 August 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

13:00 - 15:00 18 August 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

11:00 - 13:00 19 August 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

14:00 - 16:00 19 August 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

11:00 - 13:00 20 August 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

Dr Monica Pearl at the Manchester Pride Candlelit Vigil

20:00 - 21:00 28 August 2023
Every year, the Candlelit Vigil concludes the four days of Manchester Pride. During the Candlelit Vigil, participants come together to honour those who are suffering, persecuted, and…

Queer and Radical? 'Beyond Radical' Network Launch with Cheddar Gorgeous

18:30 - 20:00 28 September 2023
Queer and radical: two words we often see together. But their meanings are far from straightforward. While ‘queer’ is a word put to use in an increasing range of contexts, it is often…

Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

13:00 - 15:00 29 September 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

More than a 'Foul Drain': Manchester's Water History

13:00 - 15:00 30 September 2023
Where does Manchester get its water from? How has the city used water over the centuries? And how has water shaped the Manchester we know now? Join us and get to know Manchester’s water…

Mandarin Corner (every Wednesday)

16:45 4 October - 17:45 13 December 2023
Practice your Chinese and develop an appreciation of Chinese culture at our weekly Mandarin Corner. These are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK…

The Dazzling Whiteness of an Early Tomfoolery: Sex Work and Racial Politics in Samuel Beckett and Nancy Cunard’s early 1930s work'

17:00 - 19:00 4 October 2023
Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture hosts this public lecture with Professor Daniela Caselli. The event is followed by drinks reception. Everyone is welcome!

Where the Wind Blows - Chinese film screening at HOME cinema

6 - 12 October 2023
We are delighted to continue our collaboration with HOME Cinema with the screening of "Where the Wind Blows". The film will be showing from Friday, 6th October until Thursday, 12th…

"The Book of Beijing" at the Manchester Literature Festival

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2023
The Confucius Institute is co-hosting a discussion as part of the Manchester Literature Festival with two authors from China. Gu Shi and Wen Zhen will be reading from and discussing…

For the Record: Songs as archive, and other entanglements

17:00 - 18:30 18 October 2023
This unique presentation is the latest in a series of Entanglements devised by theatre-makers Karen Christopher and David Overend. These informal, hybrid events weave text, film, music…

Nuno Pinto (Manchester): Better decision support for better urban governance: How decision-support knowledge and methods help different stakeholders, examples from Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador

17:00 - 18:30 18 October 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be face to face, in Samuel Alexander A116. But it can also be followed online:…

Ethics and Sustainability for Today's Translation Professional

13:00 - 14:30 19 October 2023
Abstract: While ethical issues have now long been an important concern for translation scholars, professionals, and students alike, the challenging contemporary environment that we…

ENSFR Annual Conference. Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality.

23 - 25 October 2023
This conference will aim to consider the relationship that the short story form has in its representations of temporality. It will also ask “does the short story form do things uniquely,…

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