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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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