School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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…

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

10:00 - 11:30 26 April 2024
The second workshop of Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Colonialism's Material Culture and Emotion'. Each of three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims to develop…

Esra Özyürek – 'Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany'

16:30 - 18:30 26 April 2024
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as…

CSSC Talk: Ben Nichols (Manchester), 'Intersectionality Fatigue: Rethinking "Single-Axis Analysis"'

14:15 - 15:15 1 May 2024
The Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture at UoM presents: CSSC Talk: Ben Nichols (Manchester), 'Intersectionality Fatigue: Rethinking "Single-Axis Analysis"'

Hannah Cobb's Inaugural Lecture – Assemblages of Teaching and Learning: Past, Present and Future

16:15 - 18:00 1 May 2024
In the metrics driven audit culture of today’s Higher Education landscape, there is a danger that teaching and learning are reduced to homogenised, transactional processes. In her…

Sound as an Archive of Memories: Constructing the Andalusi Past

16:00 - 18:00 1 May 2024
This workshop will study sound, broadly understood, as a political archive that mobilises the past to support different contemporary identity projects in the present. The event will…

Adolfo Polo y La Borda (Nottingham): “Radical Mobility. The limits and resistance to mobility in the seventeenth-century Spanish Empire.”

17:00 - 18:30 8 May 2024
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies's research seminar series. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A116. it can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166…

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