School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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,…

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…

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

13:00 - 15:00 27 October 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…

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

13:00 - 15:00 28 October 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…

Music and Sonic Art: Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight (MuSA 2023)

28 October 2023
We are delighted to announce the twelfth international conference on Music and Sonic Art: Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight (MuSA 2023), an interdisciplinary event supported by the Royal…

Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis

16:00 - 18:00 7 November 2023
Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which human beings are innately possessed of infinite desires and society must therefore facilitate endless growth and consumption…

EACW Research Seminar

14:00 - 16:00 8 November 2023
Lubaaba Al-Azami, UoM, 'Early Modern English Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean', and Amy Bride, UoM, book talk on Financial Gothic, just out from U of Wales Press A7, Samuel Alexander,…

Eduardo Restrepo (Temuco): '“Blancos” en un mundo negro: marcaciones raciales y distinciones de clase en Tumaco, Pacífico sur colombiano'

17:00 - 18:30 8 November 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: Tumaco es un poblado costero…

‘Bannockburn to Brexit 1314-2014’ – Philipp Roessner’s Inaugural Lecture

16:45 - 18:15 8 November 2023
For more than seven centuries Scotland has been part of Europe. Its links with Europe, including the German-speaking lands, have often been ignored, dismissed, and downplayed. Scotland…

On the Ethics and Politics of (not)Understanding: Going beyond Language in Multilingual and Multimodal Research Entanglements

13:00 - 14:30 9 November 2023
This talk discusses the problematics of understanding in intercultural communication research. It poses questions such as what happens when researchers do not understand? Should we…

Annual Language Partner Event 2023

15:30 - 17:30 15 November 2023
We’ve heard that students are finding it a challenge to team up with native speaking language partners so we have created this unique opportunity to introduce Chinese learners to Chinese…

Carlos Halaburda (University of Cologne): A Cosmopolitan Uranism: Queer Networks of Scandal in the Global Nineteenth Century

17:00 15 November 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC). This event will be…

EACW Research Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 15 November 2023
José Francisco Fernández, University of Almería, ‘Beckett vs. Translation’ Ellen Wilkinson C1.18, followed by drinks at Kro

Queering the Clinamen: Unearthly Objects as Queer Forms in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

22 November 2023
Dr James Metcalf, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, is presenting his current project at the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture on Wednesday 22nd November,…

Queering the Clinamen: Unearthly Objects as Queer Forms in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

17:00 - 19:00 22 November 2023
Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture hosts this public lecture with Dr James Metcalf. The event is followed by drinks reception. Everyone is welcome!

Voices of our National Health Service: Building a national oral history archive of the NHS and Covid-19

14:00 - 15:00 23 November 2023
Between 2017 and 2022, the NHS at 70 and NHS Voices of Covid-19 projects, based at the University of Manchester worked with volunteers from all walks of life to record the stories of…

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

13:00 - 15:00 24 November 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 25 November 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…

EACW Research Seminar

17:00 - 18:30 29 November 2023
Anthony Capildeo, University of York, ‘The Stones Will Speak’ Ellen Wilkinson C1.18. Followed by a reception in the atrium. Ideas of reading place ‘vertically’ through time, and…

Rozane Rebechi (Rio Grande do Sul): “Small” comparable corpora for the retrieval of culture-related equivalents: advantages and limitations

16:00 - 17:30 29 November 2023
Part of the research seminar series of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Abstract: This talk attempts to share findings of research I have carried out for the past years…

CTIS Research Seminar Series: How to Understand Intercultural Outcomes in Sojourner and Migrant Populations from an Interdisciplinary Perspective?

13:00 - 14:30 30 November 2023
This talk addresses the theoretical foundations and practical applications to understanding intercultural outcomes in sojourner and migrant populations from an interdisciplinary perspective,…

The history and evolution of Chinese names

13:00 - 14:00 30 November 2023
Are you interested in the history of Chinese names? Do you teach or support Chinese students and want to know more about the tradition and culture behind their names? Are your classmates…

Carol Mavor- 2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass (1946-2021)

17:00 - 19:30 5 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

Carol Mavor- 2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: 'A patch of yellow, a coat of blue: inside my heart and Vermeer'

17:00 - 19:30 6 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

EACW Research Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 6 December 2023
Chris Birkett, City University of London, Bill Clinton at the Church of Baseball book talk Samuel Alexander A7, followed by drinks at Kro

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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