School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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…

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…

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…

Mauro Greco (Buenos Aires, Conicet): “The Aesthetics of the Argentine Dictatorship: Arts and Ethnography at the Crossroads of Collective Responsibilities”

17:00 - 18:30 19 March 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Manchester. It is co-organised with the Centre for Latin American and…

Seeds of Hope and Action Exhibition

20 March - 30 April 2025
Seeds of Hope and Action Exhibition The Seeds of Hope and Action exhibition, developed by the Earth Charter and SGI UK, focuses on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and…

Seeds of Hope and Action Panel

16:00 - 17:00 20 March 2025
The Seeds of Hope and Action project fosters intercultural and international cohesion around the Sustainable Development Goals by engaging students worldwide in meaningful conversations…

Untold HerStories: Forgotten Women's Voices of Slaves in River Spirit by Leila Aboulela and The Secrets of Zaafranah by Badyah Al-Beshr

15:15 - 16:15 21 March 2025
Speaker: Reem Alghusun

Agata Serranò (Autónoma de Madrid): Participación de las mujeres en los procesos de justicia transicional. Propuestas de construcción de paz desde Colombia, Guatemala y Perú

17:00 - 18:30 26 March 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: This event can be followed online via this link: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166…

CSSC/EAC Book Launch: Dr James Metcalf (UoM), Churchyard Poetics: Landscape, Labour, and the Legacy of Genre (Oxford University Press, 2025)

17:30 - 19:00 26 March 2025
Dr James Metcalf (UoM) Churchyard Poetics: Landscape, Labour, and the Legacy of Genre (Oxford University Press, 2025) Book Launch and Roundtable Discussion with Dr Clara Dawson,…

EACW Students' Choice Event: Dr. Suryia Nayak (Salford): 'Hosting a Dinner Party with Audre Lorde'

16:30 - 18:00 31 March 2025
Students in the Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing have voted to invite Dr. Suryia Nayak to speak in the Department. Monday 31st March, 4.30 - 6pm Venue:…

FeRN Seminar Series: “The harga is the women’s fault” – Fearing migration’s revolutionary potential in a Tunisian border town

15:15 - 16:30 2 April 2025
Valentina Zagaria Leverhulme Research Fellow Social Anthropology Department, University of Manchester Abstract: Dignity (karama) in Tunisia became politicised during the 2011 revolution…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), 'With Walt Whitman in Manchester: Local Access to America’s Global Poet'

16:00 - 17:30 2 April 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: 'With Walt Whitman in Manchester: Local Access to America’s Global Poet' Venue: Ground…

Serendipity: The Afterlife of the Object - A Book Talk with Carol Mavor

14:00 - 15:00 2 April 2025
Join us to hear from Prof Carol Mavor in conversation with Prof John McAuliffe about her latest book, exploring the sadness, as well as the joy, of unexpected discoveries. Carol Mavor’s…

CTIS Research Seminar -Who Counts as an Author? What Is a Text? Reshaping Literary Displacement through Collaboration

14:00 - 15:30 3 April 2025
This presentation explores how collaborative ways of making literature redefine literary texts as social processes, open up individual and canonical ideas of authorship and create more…

Spring Open Day at the Confucius Institute

14:15 - 16:15 5 April 2025
Come along to our Spring Open Day on 5 April and take part in a variety of fun cultural activities, language tasters, sample some Chinese tea and snacks and enter our prize draw to…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Prof. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College), 'Disappearing Muslims in Shakespeare' (Online Lecture)

17:00 - 18:00 9 April 2025
Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Prof. Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College), 'Disappearing Muslims in Shakespeare' (Online Lecture) Weds 9th April, 5pm UK time Venue: Online …

Words Across Borders: French Words in Seventeenth-Century England

14:00 - 15:30 29 April 2025
This workshop will consist of two presentations: Professor Richard Scholar (Durham) will present his work on untranslated French words such as ennui or je-ne-sais-quoi and what these…

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