School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

CSSC Talk: Dr Gareth Gavin (EACW, UoM) 'Sex Realism: Change and Class in the Televised Transition of Julia Grant'

17:30 - 19:00 26 February 2025
Dr Gareth Gavin (EACW, UoM) 'Sex Realism: Change and Class in the Televised Transition of Julia Grant' C1.18 seminar room, Ellen Wilkinson All welcome! Organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture

Feeling With the Trouble: Affective Entanglements In and Beyond the Human

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2025
Join us for the latest in Affective Artefacts seminar series. This event is organised in collaboration with the Fear Research Network.

FeRN and Affective Artefact Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2025
Erica Baffelli (Manchester), Zhaokun Xin (Manchester), Jane Caple (Manchester) and Frederick Schröer (Freie Universität, Berlin) will be presenting a roundtable on Feeling With the…

History Research Seminar: The Unbearable Lightness of Liberalism: The Soviet State as a ‘Liberal Subject’ in World Trade

14:30 - 16:00 26 February 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker research seminar series. This paper examines the Soviet state’s contribution to the liberalization of international trade from…

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…

Nate Millington (Geography, Manchester): Infrastructural repurposing and repair in São Paulo, Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 26 February 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 26 February 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person,…

CTIS Research Seminar -Teaching Ethics in Translation and Interpreting Education: Reflections on Developing an Integrated Approach (Dr Rebecca Tipton, University of Manchester)

14:00 - 15:30 27 February 2025
Although the topic of ethics has received considerable attention from academics working in Translation and Interpreting Studies, questions about the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of teaching…

Robotics, Religion and Ethics

09:00 - 17:00 28 February 2025
Chairs: Erica Baffelli, Minoru Asada and Angelo Cangelosi Speakers and Topics: Minoru Asada (Osaka University): Cognitive Robotics and AI Erica Baffelli (The University of Manchester):…

In Conversation – Centre for New Writing Writer Fellows 2025: Daisy Hildyard and Padraig Regan

18:30 - 20:00 4 March 2025
Join us for an evening of readings and discussion with the Centre for New Writing's 2025 Writer Fellows Daisy Hildyard and Padraig Regan.

Lecture: Dr Michael Sappol (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet'.

17:30 - 19:00 4 March 2025
Dr Michael Sappol (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet'. Room 2.60,…

American Studies Lecture: Prof. Lisa McGirr (Harvard), 'Charles Lindbergh: Hitler’s American Friend and the America First Movement'

16:30 - 18:00 5 March 2025
American Studies lecture: Prof. Lisa McGirr (Harvard), 'Charles Lindbergh: Hitler’s American Friend and the America First Movement' Venue: SG.16, Samuel Alexander Building 4.30pm…

EAS-FeRN Seminar – Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology

16:30 - 18:00 5 March 2025
In 1945, researchers on a mission to Hiroshima with the United States Strategic Bombing Survey canvassed survivors of the nuclear attack. This marked the beginning of global efforts—by…

Manchester Cathedral Event: The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine)

12:00 - 13:00 6 March 2025
The annual Samuel Ferguson Lecture will be delivered by J. Kameron Carter who will give his presentation on Beyond Idolatry (Political and Otherwise) at Manchester Cathedral. Inaugurated…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine)) - Lecture

16:00 - 17:30 6 March 2025
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. J. Kameron Carter (University of California, Irvine). Prof. Carter is Professor of African American Studies,…

Pearl diving, oil discovery and rentierism: Projections of Collective Memory in the Theater of Qatari Playwright Abdulrahman AlMannai

16:00 - 17:00 7 March 2025
Speaker: Kaltham AlSuwaidi

History Research Seminar: Narratives and Identities of Syrian Fighters

13:00 - 14:30 12 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. This talk explores the journey of Syrian fighters from combatants driven by revolutionary fervour to key actors…

Maria Paula Prates (Oxford). Other ways of extracting: reproductive (in)justices and Indigenous body-territories in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 12 March 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in…

Raymond Williams Society Lecture: Prof. Benjamin Kohlmann (Regensburg/Oxford), 'World Literature and the Work of Revolution: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman, 1820-2020'

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2025
Raymond Williams Society Lecture Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (Regensburg/Oxford), "World Literature and the Work of Revolution: A Radical History of the Bildungsroman, 1820-2020" …

CTIS Research Seminar - How can We Interact Better with GenAI in the Posthuman Era? A Call for the Development of Critical Interactional Competence in Intercultural Professional Communication

14:00 - 15:30 13 March 2025
Against the proliferation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) products such as ChatGPT and Gemini, and their increasing use in professional communication training, researchers,…

Plant-Human Workshop 3: Printing Nature (CIDRAL)

13:30 - 15:00 14 March 2025
In this workshop we consider what it means to pick a found leaf, flower, root, or plant and to create an impression on paper of it. The practice of ‘nature printing,’ is about taking…

Race, Football and Mobilities: Exploring Latin American Dynamics in a Global Context

13:00 - 18:00 17 March 2025
Football, with its profound impact on national and local dynamics, offers a unique window into Latin American racial relations, discourses, and imaginaries. As the primary medium through…

History Research Seminar - 'Bolton's Grunwick': Bulmer and Lumb and Asian Working Class Resistance

16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. Strike leader Pravin Parmar, known to his friends as the ‘Che Guevara of Bolton’, stands with his arm raised,…

Complex Mobilities in Latin American History

15:00 - 17:00 19 March 2025
Historians of Latin America have rarely thought of mobility as the socially constructed expression of physical movement (favouring instead an understanding of mobility as connected…

Early Modern Masculinities: Sources, Approaches, and Cultures

16:00 - 17:30 19 March 2025
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series.

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse'

16:00 - 17:15 19 March 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'Whitman, Censorship, and the Question of Truly Free Verse' Venue: Samuel Alexander…

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