School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Manchester Histories Festival – Birth Day

12:00 - 16:00 9 June 2024
Marvel at the journey of medical advancement through artefacts from the University’s Museum of Medicine and Health, alongside digitized maps from the University Library Special Collections,…

Manchester Histories Festival – Historic Footprints Walk

11:00 - 12:00 9 June 2024
Join John Piprani, The University of Manchester and Dr Tereza Ward on this fascinating walk, discover a demolished synagogue beneath the Contact Theatre car park, and hear visitors’…

Manchester Histories Festival – Historic Footprints Walk

13:15 - 14:15 9 June 2024
Join John Piprani, The University of Manchester and Dr Tereza Ward on this fascinating walk, discover a demolished synagogue beneath the Contact Theatre car park, and hear visitors’…

Manchester Histories Festival – Humanitarian Medicine Exhibition

12:00 - 16:00 9 June 2024
Step into the heart of humanitarianism and conflict response at The Humanitarian Archive, a captivating exhibition from The University of Manchester Library and the prestigious Humanitarian…

Manchester Histories Festival – Michael Wood Talk

11:00 - 12:00 9 June 2024
Acclaimed historian, broadcaster, and Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester Michael Wood (whose BBC film series include The Story of England, the Great British…

Manchester Histories Festival – Panel Conversation: A Forgotten Wartime Tragedy

16:00 - 18:00 9 June 2024
Join us as we remember the tragic Bengal Famine of 1943, a man-made catastrophe that claimed the lives of millions in the Indian subcontinent. Often overlooked in Western discourse,…

Manchester Histories Festival – Panel Conversation: Manchester’s History of Humanitarianism

11:30 - 12:30 9 June 2024
Professor Bertrand Taithe from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester will delve into Manchester’s history of humanitarianism alongside one…

Manchester Histories Festival – Panel Conversation: The History and Legacy of Phil Martin and Champ's Camp

14:30 - 15:30 9 June 2024
A discussion about the history and legacy of Phil Martin and Champ’s Camp with some of the men who knew him best. Martin broke the mould of UK boxing with his training programmes and…

Manchester Histories Festival – Talk: Historical and Modern Slavery

15:45 - 16:30 9 June 2024
This talk centres on The University of Manchester staff’s research on slavery as both a historical and a contemporary form of abuse and exploitation. It will consist of two presentations,…

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…

Spring Chinese Calligraphy Course (EVERY THURSDAY)

13:00 16 May - 13:50 13 June 2024
Learn the art of Chinese calligraphy this Spring Whether you are new to writing Chinese characters or have already had some tuition, this course will be a great option. It will focus…

Animals and the Archive

14 June 2024
This one-day workshop brings emerging and established scholars together to explore how archival sources reveal relationships between animals and humans focusing on agency, cultural…

East Asian Studies Seminar: Edward Boyle (Nichibunken, Kyoto, Japan) on 'Heritage Contestation and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific'

16:30 - 18:00 14 June 2024
This talk will introduce the notion of Borders of Memory as a means to analyse contests over sites of heritage, and demonstrate its application through a series of contemporary examples…

Researcher Development Workshop, The Polish Studies Group (PSG) at the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

20 - 21 June 2024
This two-day workshop provides graduate training to PhD researchers working on projects related to Polish and East European history, literature, and area studies. The workshop has…

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

16:30 - 17:30 25 June 2024
The third workshop of the Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Affective Archives and Activist Archiving'. Each of the three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims to…

Chinese calligraphy evening course (27 June - 25 July)

18:00 - 20:00 27 June 2024
Calligraphy (shufa) is the traditional art of writing Chinese characters, and a fundamental part of Chinese culture. After centuries of evolution, calligraphy has developed into a truly…

Capture the K-Culture - 2024 Korean culture promotion event

1 July - 30 September 2024
This project is designed to promote Korean culture to the public with students' creativity and their passion for their Korean culture. The topic of 2024 is Korean Alphabets, Hangul.…

SCAFFOLDING and THE ORANGE ROOM: Lauren Elkin & Rosie Price in conversation

18:30 - 20:00 10 July 2024
We're delighted to be hosting the Manchester launch of Lauren Elkin's SCAFFOLDING and Rosie Price's THE ORANGE ROOM - two brilliant and beautiful new novels which explore relationships,…

Fear Research Network Seminar – Fear, Legal Victimhood and ‘Fraudulent’ Religion in Contemporary Japan

16:00 - 17:00 11 July 2024
Ioannis Gaitanidis (Chiba University) In the aftermath of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination, a nearly 40-year-old legal debate surrounding methods of soliciting religious…

Clerical Lives in Britain, c.1600-1800

16 - 17 September 2024
Clerical Lives in Britain, c.1600-1800 is a 2-day conference on the social, cultural, intellectual, political, domestic, and literary lives of Protestant clergymen in the seventeenth…

Autumn Open Day at the Manchester Confucius Institute

14:00 - 16:00 21 September 2024
Interested in learning a new language and always wondered what learning Mandarin would be like? Want to improve your wellbeing and try your hand at calligraphy? Come along to our Autumn…

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 2 October - 17:30 4 December 2024
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities.…

The Man who Photobombed De Gaulle

16:00 - 18:00 3 October 2024
The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris offers an opportunity to explore the discrepancy between race-based mythologies around the Second World War and Black involvement in…

Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME

19:00 - 20:15 6 October 2024
Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead. Manchester United lives on. In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off…

Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum

16:30 - 17:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent…

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