School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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…

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.…

MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick

19:00 - 20:15 8 October 2024
‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thomas Heatherwick is fighting ‘an epidemic of boringness’ and demands that we put human emotion…

Enrique Uribe Jongbloed (Cardiff): "From plagiarism to a vehicle for peace: one hundred years of comics in Colombia"

17:00 - 18:30 9 October 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 9 October 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in…

CTIS Research Seminars: "Insights into the Translation Industry" (Dr Callum Walker)

14:00 - 15:30 10 October 2024
In recent years, Translation Studies has witnessed a growing interest in what some would call “industry studies”. In different quarters, certain scholars and industry observers refer…

Manchester Literature Festival 2024 poetry reading with Gillian Clarke

19:00 - 20:15 10 October 2024
‘Clarke has a direct line to the natural world. She paints the Welsh landscape without idealising or romanticising, and in the process shows that nature doesn’t need to be elevated…

MLF 2024: Gillian Clarke poetry masterclass

16:00 - 17:15 10 October 2024
Poet, playwright and educator Gillian Clarke is one of the most acclaimed and widely read poets of recent decades. In this workshop, she will share insights into the craft of poetry,…

MLF 2024: Joe Boyd

19:00 - 20:15 14 October 2024
“New technologies may divert our attention, but music created in the moment can still be found where it always has been, in the feet, fingers, voices and spirits of musicians in every…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr Walaa Quisay – Dying to Live: Islam, Incarceration, and Hunger Strikes

16:30 - 18:00 16 October 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing…

MLF 2024: An Audience with Rebecca F. Kuang

19:30 - 20:45 17 October 2024
Bestselling global sensation, Rebecca F. Kuang is the author of the ‘Hard to put down, harder to forget’ (Stephen King) satirical phenomenon Yellowface, inventive fantastical novel…

Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) PhD and Postdoctoral Event on Current Research

16:30 - 19:00 23 October 2024
4.30-7pm Wednesday 23 October, C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building. Chair: Jackie Stacey Psychoanalytic approaches: 4.30-5 Dr James Slattery: Taking Back Desire: A psychoanalytic approach…

The Industrious Revolution Reconsidered: Did it Initiate a Consumer Revolution?

16:00 - 17:30 23 October 2024
This public lecture is co-hosted by the Economics and History departments.

CTIS Research Seminars: "Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in 1950s-1960s Italy" (Dr Mila Milani)

14:00 - 15:30 24 October 2024
The years following the Second World War saw an exponential increase in the translation of contemporary foreign poetry in Italy. The practice was at its most acute in the 1950s and…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Sun-Kyo Park (University of Manchester) - The Imagination of Salim: Transforming an Apocalyptic Unconscious to the Politics of Salim

16:00 - 17:30 24 October 2024
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid session and can be attended in person or online. To join us online or receive details…

Lecture: Professor Kath Albury (Swinburne University of Technology) and Yigit Aydinalp (University of Sheffield) 'Safer Sextech: Intimacy, Pleasure and Wellbeing'

15:30 - 17:30 25 October 2024
The event is co-organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media and the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. This event will be held only in person and…

Felipe Tuxá (UFBA, Oxford): "Are ‘autodemarcações’ a form of refusal? Imagining the future with the Tuxá community of São Francisco River, Brazil"

17:00 - 18:30 30 October 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 30 October 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel…

Instruments in Chinese music: The erhu (Chinese fiddle)

18:00 - 19:00 30 October 2024
We're delighted to invite you to the first talk in our "Instruments in Chinese music" series. The series will feature three talks hosted by Po Hang Yuen, each focusing on a different…

Early Modern Witch Bottles (Affective Artefacts speaker series)

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2024
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series, courtesy of the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. All welcome and no booking required.

Quintijn Kat (Ashoka University; Warwick): "Latin America shaping US hegemony from below: deference and defiance in trade and counternarcotics policy"

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 6 November 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel…

CTIS Research Seminars: "'Regimes of Shibboleth Consciousness: Justice making, Language and ‘Muslims’" (Dr Kamran Khan)

14:00 - 15:30 7 November 2024
Tim McNamara coined the phrase ‘Regimes of Shibboleth Consciousness’ in relation the ‘undecideability’ of the individual in the face of judgement. He drew Jacques Derrida’s work on…

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: Jesus the Model Man? Ancient Masculinities and the Jesus of the Johannine Passion Narrative

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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