School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Carol Mavor- 2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: 'A patch of yellow, a coat of blue: inside my heart and Vermeer'

17:00 - 19:30 6 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

EACW Research Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 6 December 2023
Chris Birkett, City University of London, Bill Clinton at the Church of Baseball book talk Samuel Alexander A7, followed by drinks at Kro

Film screening: Chileans of the North (Chris Paul)

17:15 - 19:00 6 December 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Department of Drama, the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, and the SPLAS…

Mandarin Corner (every Wednesday)

16:45 4 October - 17:45 13 December 2023
Practice your Chinese and develop an appreciation of Chinese culture at our weekly Mandarin Corner. These are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK…

Carol Mavor-2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: 'At once, she is one'

13:15 - 15:30 7 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

Medicine Unboxed; An Exhibition of artefacts from the Museum of Medicine and Health

10:00 - 17:00 7 December 2023
Students of Art Gallery and Museum Studies in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, present a one-day only exhibition of medical instruments and equipment from the Museum of Medicine…

Archive Fever

14:00 - 17:00 12 December 2023
This event, organised by Professor Stefan Hanß, explores the emotional resonance of archives for the fieldwork of researchers. What does the physical encounter with archival materials…

Chinese brush painting taster session

13:00 - 13:50 14 December 2023
Want to learn the art of Chinese brush painting? Looking for a relaxing and creative activity at lunchtime as you are winding down for the holidays? Join us for a free taster session…

CTIS Research Seminar Series: Prismatic Jane Eyre - An Experiment in the Study of Translations

13:00 - 14:30 14 December 2023
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been translated more than 600 times, into at least 68 languages. How can we grasp this plural, global, transtemporal and multilingual text? Is it in…

Digital Humanities Seminar: James Baker, 'Data Environmentalism'

13:00 - 14:00 24 January 2024
James Baker (U. Southampton), 'Data Environmentalism: reflections on 'Digital Humanities in the Anthropocene' at ten.' In her Digital Humanities 2014 keynote Bethany Nowviskie asked…

Faithful to the Salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India Company

16:30 - 18:00 29 February 2024
In 1818, the East India Company signed a treaty with the princely states of Jaipur and Jodhpur, offering British political and military protection in exchange for heavy cash tribute.…

Epistolary Archives and Sensibilities: Between the Personal and the Scientific in Women Mathematicians’ Correspondence

5 March 2024
In this talk, Maria Tamboukou offers the notion of sensibility as a methodological move that she has deployed in conducting archival research, but also as an epistemological lens through…

Sound as an Archive of Memories: Constructing the Andalusi Past

16:00 - 18:00 1 May 2024
This workshop will study sound, broadly understood, as a political archive that mobilises the past to support different contemporary identity projects in the present. The event will…

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