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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…

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…

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…

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 …

BASE NOTES: Adelle Stripe in conversation

18:30 - 20:00 29 April 2025
We're excited to welcome Adelle Stripe to hear her discuss her wonderful new book, BASE NOTES: The Scents of a Life. Doors: 6.30pm, starts: 6.45pm Tickets are £4. Admission is free…

Cultural dislocation and the politics of recognition - Gary Younge in conversation with Michèle Lamont

15:00 - 17:30 29 April 2025
Creative Manchester and the American Studies Department of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures are delighted to welcome Michèle Lamont, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, for an…

The Contemporary Recontextualisation of Kuwaiti and Khaleeji Folk Music: From Zuhairiya and Sowt to Tanboura and Bahri Arts

16:00 - 17:00 29 April 2025
Speaker: Adnan Marafi (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) This lecture is part of The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern…

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…

EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natasha Periyan (KCL), 'Jacob’s Room, Meritocracy and Manchester'

16:30 - 18:00 30 April 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Natasha Periyan (KCL), 'Jacob’s Room, Meritocracy and Manchester' Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building All…

Environmental Humanities Annual Event: Living Proof – A Climate Story

14:00 - 17:45 30 April 2025
Please join us for this inaugural event, the first in a series to showcase and celebrate some of the diverse work on environmental questions and challenges undertaken by colleagues,…

Mandarin Corner - EVERY WEDNESDAY

16:30 30 April - 17:30 2 July 2025
THIS 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…

Manchester Literature Festival: Kevin Barry

19:00 - 20:15 1 May 2025
‘A true wonder’ – Max Porter Tom Rourke, poet, doper, drinker is struggling to make a life for himself amongst the Irish migrant workers seeking to make their fortunes in Butte, Montana.…

After the cuts: USAID, UK aid spending, and the future of the humanitarian sector (Zoom Webinar)

14:00 - 15:30 2 May 2025
HCRI is hosting an online roundtable about the recent dramatic changes to US & UK international aid spending and its implications for humanitarian work. Speakers to be announced shortly.…

Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership'

16:00 - 17:30 7 May 2025
Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership' Venue: A7, Samuel Alexander Building…

Reclaiming Islamic and Arabic philosophical heritage: translator’s interventions in the Hekmah Journal Translations

16:00 - 17:00 7 May 2025
Speaker: Hanan Alotaibi (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) This lecture is part of The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern…

EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice'

13:30 - 15:00 8 May 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice' Venue:…

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