School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Ideal Leadership in the Temple Scroll (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)

15:00 - 17:00 1 December 2025
Speaker: Abigail Naidu (PhD candidate, University of Birmingham)

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…

Launch Event: The Artefacts of Prediction – Imagining Tomorrow

14:00 - 15:30 2 December 2025
Join us for the opening of a new exhibition that explores how people from 1900-present have tried to glimpse, design, or control the future. Throughout the twentieth century and into…

AHCP Research Seminars

3 December 2025 - 3 December 2026
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851

Prof. Anja Laukötter (University of Jena), Colonial Botanies and Glocal Legacies: Carl Haussknecht and the 19th-Century Construction of “the Orient” in German History

13:00 - 15:00 3 December 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

CTIS Research Seminar - Why Creative and Collaborative Arts Matter in (De)preparing Learners for Critical Intercultural Citizenship?

14:00 - 15:30 4 December 2025
This talk takes you into my journey with the arts and critical intercultural communication education. It investigates the dynamic relationship between creative art-based methods, teaching…

The Two Worlds of the Reader: Text World and Life-world in a New Theory of Reading (Religions and Theology Research Seminar)

15:00 - 17:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Alexander Samely (The University of Manchester)

Fear Research Network Seminar Series: Dr Raamy Majeed (The University of Manchester) – 'Fear, Humiliation and Political Grievances'

16:00 - 17:30 9 December 2025
This talk explores how humiliation and fear turn economic insecurity into political grievances. Fear from financial or social uncertainty creates vulnerability, but this doesn’t usually…

Agustin Diz (Edinburgh): After Abundance: Guaraní Settlements and the Making of the Gran Chaco’s Extractive Frontier

17:00 - 18:30 10 December 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

16:00 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

Blooming in the West – Flowers from China

18:00 - 19:00 11 December 2025
Many flora species in English gardens that are often assumed to be native, including roses, peonies, chrysanthemums, camellias, magnolias, rhododendrons, to name but a few, are originally…

Student Voices in the Archives (The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series)

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2025
The University of Manchester’s archives offer a rich resource for researching student life and the history of the institution more generally. In this seminar, Grant Collier (Curator…

Mandarin Corner - EVERY WEDNESDAY

16:30 14 January - 17:30 25 March 2026
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…

History Department Seminar: Rethinking Black British History: Perspectives from the (Cricket) Field

16:00 - 17:30 27 January 2026
Dr Michael Collins (University College London) Dr Collins will be speaking about his recent book, Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England (OUP 2025).

Professor Steven Pierce ’s Inaugural Lecture: The Fetishistic State – Genealogies of Law in Northern Nigeria

16:30 - 18:30 28 January 2026
Guest Speaker Professor Olutayo Adesina, British Academy Global Professor (University of Manchester); Professor of History, University of Ibadan Venue Details The wine reception…

Webinar: Gender Attitudes and Trends over the Last Decade – Prof Amaney Jamal (Empowering Muslim Women in Scientific Research Series)

13:00 - 14:30 28 January 2026
Female labour force participation in MENA has been and continues to be quite low when compared cross-nationally. There are many structural factors that shape this outcome, including…

CLACS Seminar: Austin Zeiderman (LSE) "Racial Ecologies in Fluvial Colombia"

17:00 - 18:30 4 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 4 Feb 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Linguistics and English Language Seminar: The Optimal Assignment Principle

13:00 - 15:00 5 February 2026
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Quantitative, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics Research Group The idea that languages are shaped by a constellation…

Anatomy of the Author: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Female Gothic

16:00 - 17:00 11 February 2026
Please join us for a research seminar by Dr Amy Montz, EACW Visiting Fulbright Scholar: 'Anatomy of the Author: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Female Gothic'. The talk will take place on…

Songs and poems of Gaza during the genocide

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2026
Dr Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster Host: Dr Moshe Behar In my talk, I will highlight examples of poetry and songs from the Gaza Strip within the context of the genocide in…

The Sweet Taste of Empire

16:00 - 17:00 12 February 2026
Please join us for the next EACW Research Seminar, “The Sweet Taste of Empire,” featuring Professor Kim F. Hall (Barnard College) in conversation with Dr. Fred Schurink (EACW), discussing…

CLACS Seminar: Lucía Tiscornia (University College Dublin): Criminal Governance in Unexpected Places: The case of Uruguay

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A THURSDAY, STARTS AT 4PM AND IS NOT IN THE SAM ALEXANDER…

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