School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Calligraphy course

13:00 20 February - 14:00 19 March 2024
Looking for an activity to chase away the Winter blues? Try calligraphy at the Confucius Institute. Our calligraphy course is running again from 20 February, every Tuesday lunchtime…

EACW Research Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2024
Coll Thrush (University of British Columbia), ‘Notes on an Entangled City: Lessons from Indigenous London’. This event is co-sponsored with the History Department

Mandarin Corner (on Wednesdays)

16:30 17 January - 17:30 27 March 2024
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…

Kofi LeNiles (Towson University): "Learning from the Maroons: Leveraging Culture to Meet the Needs of Black Children"

17:00 13 March 2024
Part of the research seminar of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be online and can be followed here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: Dr.…

CTIS Seminar: Dr Ashley Simpson, "Beyond façades of epistemological diversity? On the need of a dialectical approach for Intercultural Communication"

13:00 - 14:30 14 March 2024
Amidst calls for epistemological diversity and plurality within intercultural communication in this talk I contest the notion that the field has reached an epoch of criticality or that…

Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object I

10:00 - 11:30 15 March 2024
The first workshop of Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Experience, Writing, and Emotion in Times of Conflict'. Each of three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims…

Publishing Trade Books in History and Beyond

14:00 - 16:00 19 March 2024
Have you considered writing a trade book? What are the pros and cons of presenting academic research for a general readership, and what techniques of writing do you need to employ?…

Spring Open Day at the Confucius Institute

13:30 - 16:45 23 March 2024
Always fancied learning a new language, but not sure what learning Mandarin is like? Interested in Chinese characters and want to try your hand at Chinese calligraphy? Come along to…

LITERATURE LIVE! Martina Evans and Declan Ryan in conversation

18:30 - 20:00 8 April 2024
We're partnering with Blackwell's bookshop Manchester to host Martina Evans and Declan Ryan as part of our Literature Live series. Martina and Declan will be reading from and talking…

Agathe Faure (LSE): Moving and settling in history: Indigenous Emberá people between the city and the rainforest

17:00 - 18:30 10 April 2024
Part of the research seminar of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A116. But it can also be followed online:…

Francesca Billiani's Inaugural Lecture – 'The Aesthetics of Modernisation: Italy and the Short Twentieth-Century'

16:00 - 18:00 10 April 2024
Throughout the Twentieth Century, Italy has struggled with the imperative of becoming a modern Nation-State. This lecture will focus on some key historical and political junctions –…

Percival Everett in Conversation

19:00 10 April 2024
With my pencil, I wrote myself into being.’ In James, Percival Everett’s thrilling retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the enslaved Jim is allowed to tell his story for…

Employability Preparedness of International Students for an Era of Artificial Intelligence

13:00 - 14:30 11 April 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of work, potentially replacing human jobs, and risking many job categories (West, 2018; Poba-Nzaou et al., 2021). In higher education,…

CSSC Book Launch: The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature with Dr Sabine Sharp (Manchester)

17:00 - 19:00 15 April 2024
The Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture at the University of Manchester presents: BOOK LAUNCH: The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (2024) Join us to celebrate the…

LITERATURE LIVE! Nicolas Padamsee and Keiran Goddard in conversation

18:30 - 20:00 15 April 2024
We're delighted to be working with the Blackwells Book Store to host Nicolas Padamsee and Keiran Goddard as part of their Literature Live series. Nicolas and Kieran will be talking…

The Humanitarian Archive in Historical Perspective

15:30 - 18:00 15 April 2024
This session will explore the constitution of a new archive of humanitarian records and how historians develop a synchronous way of engaging with very contemporary sources they are…

Dr Raquel Campos Valverde (Leeds): "Spanish identities in the Latin music explosion"

17:00 - 18:30 17 April 2024
Part of the research seminar of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (SPLAS). Co-organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be in Spanish.…

EACW Research Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 17 April 2024
Chris Vardy (UoM), ‘Contemporary Prehistories’

Language Café

12:00 - 14:00 17 April 2024
We are pleased to announce the Language Café series at the University, which will be a safe space for you to explore language and develop your confidence. For those of you who are…

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 17 April - 17:30 19 June 2024
Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more cultural activities and language practice. Mandarin Corners are informal conversation sessions at Beginner…

CTIS Seminar: Dr Ruth Abou Rached, "Reading Iraqi women’s novels in English translation: Iraqi women’s stories"

13:00 - 14:30 18 April 2024
Since the 1970s, Iraqi women writers have engaged with translation as part of their creative expression and literary activism. Until recently, there was little research on how stories…

David Nicholls in Conversation

19:00 22 April 2024
A welcome return to Manchester Literature Festival for one of the UK’s best loved authors. David Nicholls joins us to discuss his witty and engrossing new novel, You Are Here. The story…

EACW Research Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:30 24 April 2024
Harry Pitt-Scott, Warwick/UoM, 'Oil and Horror: Volatile Futures at the Permafrost'

POSTPONED – NEW DATE TBC: ‘Beyond Subcultures: Populism, Hegemony and Cultural Production’ – David Alderson’s Inaugural Lecture

16:15 - 18:00 24 April 2024
This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon. Existing bookings will be valid for the rescheduled event, and more tickets will be released when the final details…

Writing the Camp: Remembering the voices and music of exilic Palestine

17:30 - 19:00 24 April 2024
At this event, award-winning Palestinian poet, Dr Yousif M. Qasmiyeh will be reading from his collection Writing The Camp (2021) , a collection of poems written an English intertwined…

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