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…

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.…

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 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…

People's Infrastructure: Everyday Life in Changing China

18:00 - 19:00 5 May 2026
This talk moves from the visual culture of the 1950s and the institutional landscapes of the 1970s to contemporary studies of markets, parks, sidewalks, and sites of urban redevelopment.…

Fascism: Histories and Meanings

17:30 - 19:00 6 May 2026
Domenico Cangiano (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Federico Marcon (Princeton University) In conversation with: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) Martin Kristoffer…

Magic for Wellbeing Workshops

13:30 6 May 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.…

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…

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,…

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