School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Marion Turner (Oxford): 'Imagining Medieval Lives'

17:00 - 19:30 27 November 2024
Everyone is warmly invited to the Annual Brook Lecture in Middle English, to take place in: Ellen Wilkinson C1.18 at 5pm on Wednesday 27 November This year's lecturer is Marion Turner,…

International Zones: Impasse and Waiting in a World of State-Making, 1919-1956

13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2024
History guest speaker research seminar. At the end of the First World War, the peacemakers placed a small number of territories in Europe under the direct international administration…

Language Café

12:00 - 14:00 27 November 2024
Language lovers, assemble. We have a perfect lunch date for you; at the Language Café, you can grab a free brew whilst meeting new people and practising your language skills! Whether…

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.…

Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Racial capitalism has become a widely used term—pointing to the intimate connections between processes of racialization and of capitalist organization. This talk will focus on an eighteenth-century…

Shadows of Reality: W.G. Sebald's Photographic Materials

15:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
The peripatetic themes in W.G. Sebald’s writings have been widely discussed and analysed since the German publication of Vertigo (Schwindel. Gefühle) in 1990. Through The Emigrants,…

CTIS Research Seminar: "A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Person-Centred Approach in End-of-Life Care Policies in England and Japan" (Dr Chao Fang)

14:00 - 15:30 28 November 2024
Increasing evidence suggests that a person-centred approach (PCA) improves care outcomes and alleviates pressure on public health systems. However, policy gaps prevent its effective…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester) and Dr Siobhan Jolley (University of Manchester) - In Conversation: On Childlessness

16:00 28 November 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…

Pedro Mendes Loureiro (CLAS, Cambridge): The prison consensus: incarceration, investment, and inequality in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 4 December 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in…

Professor David Alderson’s Inaugural Lecture – Beyond Subcultures: Populism, Hegemony and Cultural Production

16:30 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Alan Sinfield once distinctively theorised both the New Left generally and liberation movements individually as subcultures, but regarded these positively in the context of the defeats…

Roundtable: New Approaches on the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2024
We welcome three guest speakers to our roundtable discussion of Claire Morelon’s new book 'Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague 1914-1920' (Cambridge University Press, 2024).…

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: What Is an Ancient Liturgy?

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Welcome to the Sacrifice Zone(s): Fear and Militarism in Okinawa (Fear Research Network Seminar Series / East Asian Studies Seminar Series)

16:30 5 December 2024
American and increasingly Japanese militarism is an ever-present feature of people’s daily lives in Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa. Being located closer to Taiwan than to…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr Lindsey Moore – ‘Taking the Suit for a Walk’: Re-imagining Urban Modernity before the Nakba

16:30 - 18:00 11 December 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…

Instruments in Chinese music: The guzheng

18:00 - 19:00 11 December 2024
We're delighted to invite you to the final talk in our "Chinese instruments in focus" series. The series features three talks hosted by Po Hang Yuen, each focusing on a different instrument.…

Language Café

12:00 - 14:00 11 December 2024
Language lovers, assemble. We have a perfect lunch date for you; at the Language Café, you can grab a free brew whilst meeting new people and practising your language skills! Whether…

Francisco Sánchez and Castellar Granados (Salamanca University): Race, Inequality, and Political Trust in Latin America

17:00 - 18:30 29 January 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 29 January 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be online via this…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), “I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You”: Introducing Walt Whitman and Your ‘Song of Myself’

16:00 - 17:30 29 January 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: “I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You”: Introducing Walt Whitman and Your ‘Song of Myself’…

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 4 February - 17:30 8 April 2025
HIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY between 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural…

The British Academy Lecture Series: Peter Sellars - How to End a War: The Living and the Dead Working Together in Baroque Opera

18:00 - 19:30 4 February 2025
Join us for an extraordinary evening with one of the most influential theatre directors of our time, Peter Sellars. Hosted at The University of Manchester, this event promises to explore…

EACW research seminar: Dr. Ben Ware (KCL), 'Dialectics of Extinction: From Freud to Anti-Natalism'

17:00 - 18:30 5 February 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Ben Ware (KCL), 'Dialectics of Extinction: From Freud to Anti-Natalism' Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building…

Language Café

12:00 - 14:00 5 February 2025
Language lovers, assemble. We have a perfect lunch date for you; at the Language Café, you can grab a free brew whilst meeting new people and practising your language skills! Whether…

CTIS Research Seminar - Exploring Communicative Practice and ‘Groupness’ in a Virtual Intercultural Intervention (Dr Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Newcastle University)

14:00 - 15:30 6 February 2025
Dr Milene will deliver an online talk, which is organised in a hybrid format. Please register for online participation here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuCtrjIrH9OekN7fkoGmxRdY2Rn78Yc4.…

Brazilian Indigenous Art and Environmental Thought

16:30 - 18:00 11 February 2025
A round table about Indigenous art from the Brazilian Northeast and its connection with environmental questions and land struggle. The Indigenous peoples from the Northeast of Brazil…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet Venue: Sam Alex Lecture Theatre, Samuel…

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