Events at The University of Manchester

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…

CSSC lunchtime talk: Prof. Bharti Arora (Aarhus/New Delhi): Remapping Sensualities and (Queer) Desires in Select Indian Literary Narratives

12:30 - 14:00 15 May 2026
Friday, 15th May, 12.30-2 Remapping Sensualities and (Queer) Desires in Select Indian Literary Narratives Speaker: Prof. Bharti Arora (Aarhus/U. of New Delhi) Venue: Room A4, Samuel…

Mandarin Corner

16:30 - 17:30 20 May 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…

Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: Professor C. Riley Snorton

16:30 - 18:00 25 May 2026
Professor C. Riley Snorton: ‘An Ambiguous Heterotopia, Or Some Informal Remarks on “Biology” After Samuel Delany, Judith Butler, and Sylvia Wynter’ No booking required, all welcome.…

Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart

19:00 26 May 2026
We’re delighted to welcome back to Manchester Literature Festival Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart, to discuss his profoundly moving new novel John of John, set on the Isle…

Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: Professor Sarah Richardson

15:00 - 16:30 26 May 2026
Professor Sarah Richardson: ‘A Sceptical Empiricist's Guide to Sex Difference Science’ No booking required, all welcome. This year, the Sexuality Summer School returns with the theme…

Sexuality Summer School: Film Screenings programed with Club Des Femmes and introduced by So Mayer

17:45 - 20:30 26 May 2026
Film Screenings programed with Club Des Femmes and introduced by So Mayer: Laws of Love / Gesetze der Liebe (Magnus Hirschfeld, 1927); Sanctus (Barbara Hammer, 1990) Tickets required,…

Mandarin Corner

16:30 - 17:30 27 May 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…

Sexuality Summer School Performance Reading: All the Devils

19:00 - 21:00 27 May 2026
All the Devils (written by Jonathan Larkin; produced by Jayne Compton, Switchflicker; funded by The National Lottery Community Fund) No booking required, all welcome. This year, the…

Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: Professor Kane Race

16:00 - 17:30 27 May 2026
Professor Kane Race: ‘Hijacking Neuroscience: Psychoactive Performatives’ No booking required, all welcome. This year, the Sexuality Summer School returns with the theme On the Biological.…

Sexuality Summer School Performance: Second Trimester

20:00 28 May 2026
By Krishna Istha and Geetha Shankar Directed by Milli Bhatia Four years ago, Krishna told his mum he was trying to get pregnant and she freaked out. Like, massively freaked out.…

Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: Professor Celia Roberts

10:00 - 11:30 28 May 2026
Professor Celia Roberts: ‘Experimenting with Hormones’: Celia Roberts is a Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, Canberra. Prior to this she worked…

Manchester Literature Festival presents Tayari Jones

19:00 2 June 2026
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to welcome bestselling author Tayari Jones to discuss her highly anticipated new novel Kin. Born days apart in Honeysuckle, Louisiana,…

Mandarin Corner

16:30 - 17:30 3 June 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…

Mandarin Corner

16:30 - 17:30 10 June 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…

Mandarin Corner

16:30 - 17:30 17 June 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…

Professor Christian Goeschel’s Inaugural Lecture: Senses, Emotions, and Politics in Germany in 1933

17:00 - 19:00 24 June 2026
Abstract: In the current global crisis of liberal democracy, a menacing threat of right-wing populism, and war in Europe and elsewhere, a fresh analysis of the Nazi capture of power…

2026 BCLTS Annual Conference

9 - 10 July 2026
The Annual International Conference of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BLTS), co-organised by The Confucius Institute at the University of Manchester and Beijing Normal…

Autumn Open Day at the Confucius Institute

14:00 - 16:15 26 September 2026
Come along to our Spring Open Day and experience Chinese culture in the heart of Manchester. Keen to find out what learning Mandarin would be like? Want to improve your wellbeing and…

What's next for China's economy?

18:00 - 19:30 1 October 2026
Join us for a panel discussion and book launch discussing the future of China's economy with two eminent speakers. Accounting for more than a third of the world's population, China…

Manchester Literature Festival presents Maggie O’Farrell

19:00 9 October 2026
Maggie O'Farrell makes a welcome return to Manchester Literature Festival with her extraordinary new novel, Land - a sweeping, multi-generational epic inspired by her own family history…

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sarah Hall: Burning Snowflake – The 2026 Faber Lecture

18:00 10 October 2026
Award-winning author Sarah Hall delivers the 2026 Faber Lecture: Burning Snowflake. The natural world is burning. Time is running out. You know the story. So what possible role…

Manchester Literature Festival presents Patrick Radden Keefe

19:30 12 October 2026
A gripping evening with Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing. Patrick joins us to discuss his new work London Falling - a riveting true story of…

Manchester Literature Festival presents Sufiyaan Salam and Monika Radojevic

17:00 18 October 2026
Discover two fresh and uncompromising voices from Stormzy’s #Merky Books as Sufiyaan Salam and Monika Radojevic come together to discuss their acclaimed debut novels and the stories…

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