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…

CTIS Research Seminar - How Interpreting Gets Used: Decision-Making, Modality Choices, and Systemic Constraints in Maternity Care

14:00 5 March 2026
Persistent inequalities and poorer maternal outcomes among women who speak languages other than English (LOTE) in the UK have been identified as being shaped, in part, by inadequate…

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…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Maureen Junker-Kenny

16:00 - 17:30 5 March 2026
Frameworks for Social Theology: Habermas and Ricoeur on Agency, Ethics, and Religion We are pleased to announce that the 2026 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Maureen Junker-Kenny…

Women in Egyptian Cinema: Shifting Narratives, Roles and Aesthetics

17:00 - 18:30 5 March 2026
Dr Dalia S Mostafa, University of Edinburgh/University of Manchester Host: Dr Ruth Abou Rached In this seminar, I aim to provide a historical context for the influential role that…

After the Burning Age: Green utopianism, climate catastrophe, and retooling the apocalypse

16:00 - 18:00 11 March 2026
Radical Formations seminar, University of Manchester About the seminar This talk addresses the relationship between apocalyptic visions of catastrophe and utopian accounts of liberation,…

Magic for Wellbeing Workshops

13:30 - 15:00 11 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.…

Professor Abigail Gilmore's Inaugural Lecture – 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place'

16:30 - 18:30 11 March 2026
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: England’s Cultural Policy Landscape under Austerity and Devolution What makes a town or city culturally vibrant, and who gets to decide? Which arts…

Voices for a Better Japan: Insights from Anthropology, Religion, Sociology, and History

17:00 - 18:30 11 March 2026
Dr. Chika Watanabe Prof. Erica Baffelli Dr. Yuki Asahina Dr. Aya Homei With a special introduction to Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester by Dr. Peter Cave. Talk Description…

CLACS/Music Department WCLC event: Music concert Ñandereko (Our Way of Life) by Ramon Gorigoitia (World Première) and associated events

13:10 - 14:00 12 March 2026
This concert is organised by the Music Department and also forms part of the events series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are…

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…

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.…

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,…

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.…

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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