School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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

Building China: People’s Infrastructure

1 March - 31 May 2026
"Building China: People’s Infrastructure" invites audiences to encounter China from the kitchen table and the street corner rather than the skyline. Bringing together photographs and…

Liberalism, Democracy and Public Opinion: Intellectual Histories

14:00 - 17:00 17 March 2026
Speakers: Arthur Ghins (Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles), author of The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy…

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…

Alternative Ecological Futures

16:00 - 17:00 18 March 2026
Please join us for this exciting EACW research seminar event, taking place on Wednesday 18 March, from 4–5 pm, in Sam Alex A113. The session will feature talks by Professor Allison…

CLACS Seminar: Luis Schenoni (UCL): "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America"

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

Confucius Institute Spring Open Day

14:00 - 16:30 21 March 2026
Keen to find out what learning Mandarin would be like? Want to improve your wellbeing and try your hand at some Chinese arts and crafts? Join us at our Spring Open Day on 21 March…

Debating Issues of War and Peace in the Islamic Tradition

17:00 24 March 2026
Professor Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University (online) Host: Dr Tom Woerner-Powell Abstract: War and peace are universal themes in which Muslim scholars throughout history have taken…

Panel: Marking the completion of British Library Endangered Archives Project EAP1531

16:00 - 18:00 24 March 2026
We are pleased to invite you to a panel marking the completion of EAP1531, a British Library Endangered Archives Project that digitised and catalogued two endangered archival collections…

Magic for Wellbeing Workshops

13:30 25 March 2026
We are pleased to be able to offer a brand-new series of workshops with magician MO Shaoxian. Over the course of four sessions, you will learn tricks, while also develop your confidence.…

Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns book launch

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns book launch Speakers: Dr Naoise Murphy (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, UoM), with responses from Dr Katie Barnes (Salford),…

The Fear of a Shrinking Nation: Chronologies of the Future and the Collapse of Everyday Life in Japan

16:00 25 March 2026
Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford) The fear that the nation is shrinking, potentially into oblivion, prevails in contemporary Japan. Every year, stories about record-low fertility…

Book Talk: 'Capitalism – A Global History' with Professor Sven Beckert

17:00 - 18:30 26 March 2026
The Department of History Guest Research Seminar will host Professor Sven Beckert (Harvard University) for a book talk on his new publication, Capitalism: A Global History. A wine…

Mandarin Corner

16:30 - 17:30 15 April 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…

People as Infrastructure: The Architectural Wisdom of Informality

18:00 - 19:00 16 April 2026
Join us for the first public talk of the year launching our anniversary exhibition "Building China: People’s Infrastructure". Explore the spontaneous and ingenious adaptations found…

Black Feminism Now

15:00 - 16:30 20 April 2026
Four members of the Black Health and Humanities Network reflect on how Black feminist theory shapes our work, sharing research case studies. In this moment of economic precarity, worsening…

Magic for Wellbeing Workshops

13:30 22 April 2026
We are pleased to be able to offer a brand-new series of workshops with magician MO Shaoxian. Over the course of four sessions, you will learn tricks, while also develop your confidence.…

Mandarin Corner

16:30 - 17:30 22 April 2026
Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities. Mandarin Corners are informal conversation sessions at…

Nathaniel Andrews (UoM, History): ''Anarchist childhoods in Buenos Aires, 1890-1945'

17:00 - 18:30 22 April 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 22 April 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander…

CTIS Research Seminar 3: The Qipao in In the Mood for Love (2000) across intercultural contexts

14:00 - 15:30 23 April 2026
This talk examines the use of the Qipao in In the Mood for Love (2000), a film widely recognised in international cinema, focusing on how the film constructs the garment through its…

Intersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization

18:30 - 20:00 27 April 2026
Intersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization Speaker: Dr Iain Morland (Foundational Intersex Studies scholar), in conversation with Dr Ben Nichols (UoM) Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop,…

Alternative democratic spaces: environmentalism and Algerian youth politics

16:30 29 April 2026
Dr Jessica Northey, Coventry University Host: Dr Ikram Bennai Abstract: The uprisings in the Arab world since 2011 brought profound changes. The Algerian hirak of 2019 constituted…

Mandarin Corner

16:30 - 17:30 29 April 2026
Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities. Mandarin Corners are informal conversation sessions at…

Linguistics and English Language Seminar: 'Computational Linguistics Will Not Solve All Your Problems'

13:00 30 April 2026
Speaker: Jonathan Dunn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The age of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created an over-confidence in computational experiments. As a computational…

Colonising the Ear: Experimental Phonetics and the Taming of the Tongue

16:30 - 18:00 5 May 2026
THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. FIND THE LINK TO TEAMS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a range of technologies and institutional systems emerged…

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