School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Lunchtime calligraphy for wellbeing (EVERY TUESDAY)

13:00 3 - 14:00 24 June 2025
Are you looking for a lunchtime activity to improve your wellbeing? Join the Confucius Institute’s four-week Calligraphy for Wellbeing course and spend your lunch break doing something…

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…

Migrant Colonialism: South American States and European Empires, c.1830-c.1950

16:00 - 17:30 4 June 2025
Please do join us for this special lecture from our Simon Visiting Professor, Lucy Riall, FBA.

Reggae and Dub Poetry in the UK: A Northern perspective

18:00 - 20:30 4 June 2025
Karen Gabay x Creative Manchester x British Pop Archive This event is a rare opportunity to hear from three musicians from the North West of England, sharing their personal testimonies…

Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction

18:00 - 20:30 6 June 2025
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world…

Rowe Irvin and Gurnaik Johal in conversation with Kaye Mitchell

18:30 - 20:00 9 June 2025
We are thrilled to welcome Rowe Irvin and Gurnaik Johal to the shop to discuss their stunning debut novels LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTH and SARASWATI. The authors will be in conversation with…

Spontaneous Memorials: Contemporary perspectives on their sociocultural, psychological and organisational impact

12 - 13 June 2025
International Conference, Manchester, 12-13 June 2025 In-person and Online https://www.spontaneousmemorials.org/conference2025/ Register for Online Attendance: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sponta…

Creativity + AI: Publishing

15:00 - 17:00 16 June 2025
The rapid expansion of AI is impacting and changing the publishing industry. We will be asking a panel of publishers, authors and librarians to reflect on the pace of change in the…

Manchester Literature Festival: Colm Tóibín

19:00 - 20:30 16 June 2025
PLEASE NOTE: Due to popular demand, Colm Tóibín’s event has been moved from Central Library to University Place, 176 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. Quaytickets are in the process…

Online Talk: Sewing, Slavery and Social Change: Ruth and its Political Moment

19:00 25 June 2025
In 1853 when Elizabeth Gaskell brought out her novel Ruth about a teenage seamstress, her city of Manchester was at the centre of the global cotton trade and her country was on the…

Creativity + AI: Fashion

14:30 - 16:30 26 June 2025
Presented in partnership by Creative Manchester, Digital Futures and the Turing Innovation Catalyst (TIC) Manchester, the CreaTech 2025 series of events is aimed at supporting the development…

Manchester Literature Festival: Attica Locke

19:00 - 20:30 16 July 2025
‘This is the best kind of thriller: as literate and thoughtful as it is fast-moving. Attica Locke has bags of style, and sings the blues on every page’ - Mick Herron (Slow Horses) …

Digital Transformations: AI and Teaching Panel Event

12:00 - 13:00 3 September 2025
Join the Global Humanities Alliance for a panel discussion about AI and Teaching, led by the Digital Transformations Working Group.

A Rose Journey from Shanghai to Manchester

15:00 - 16:00 11 September 2025
On a quest following the descendants of Tang dynasty and Song Dynasty roses around the world, Shanghai-based author Chen Danyan will be in conversation with Marcus Chilton Jones to…

Cultural infrastructure at a crossroads - Research Café

16:00 - 19:00 16 September 2025
Join Creative Manchester for a panel and discussion event on devolution, cultural policy and Greater Manchester. Nearly ten years on from the Greater Manchester devolution deal and…

Manchester CI Teaching Seminar: AI Empowering Chinese Language Classrooms

10:00 - 16:00 20 September 2025
Join us for this year's Manchester Confucius Institute Chinese Language Teaching Seminar on 'Al Empowering Chinese Language Classrooms: Case Studies, Methods, and Tool Applications'.…

Social and Cultural Challenges of Palestinian Women

13:00 - 14:30 24 September 2025
Empowering Muslim women in Scientific Research - Webinar Series Join us for the first webinar in the joint University of Sharjah and The University of Manchester series: Empowering…

Confucius Institute Autumn Open Day

14:00 - 16:15 27 September 2025
Always fancied learning a new language and curious to find out what learning Mandarin would be like? Want to improve your wellbeing and try your hand at Chinese calligraphy? Come along…

Medieval Quarter Festival

27 September 2025
CMEMS sponsors and co-organises the Medieval Quarter Festival with Manchester City Council. Activities include: Saturday Scriptorium – members of the public can write like a scribe…

Dr Caroline Bressey (University College London), The Black Barmaid in England: Sexuality and Performance in Publands of the fin de siècle

16:00 - 18:00 8 October 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

Mandarin Corner - EVERY WEDNESDAY

16:30 8 October - 17:30 10 December 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…

Nuno Palma, UoM: African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 8 October 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 8 Oct 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Reading Marx Then and Now

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2025
Prof. Andrew Hartman (Illinois State University) Prof. David Alderson (EACW)

Resistance in the Age of Trump 2.0

16:00 - 17:00 9 October 2025
Roundtable Speakers: Prof. Elisabeth Anker (George Washington University) Prof. Sonya Posmentier (NYU) Dr. Monica Pearl (EACW)

Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester)

15:00 - 16:15 11 October 2025
Join us for a captivating afternoon with two of Britain’s most original literary talents, Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson, as they discuss their haunting new books exploring nature, myth,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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