Events
Language Café
We are pleased to announce the Language Café series at the University, which will be a safe space for you to explore language and develop your confidence. For those of you who are trying out a new language for 2024 or want to have an opportunity to practice your language skills in an informal setting, the Language Café is the perfect place..
LITERATURE LIVE! Victoria Kennefick and Declan Ryan in conversation
We're partnering with Blackwell's bookshop Manchester to host Victoria Kennefick and Declan Ryan as part of our Literature Live series. Victoria and Declan will be reading from and talking about their new poetry collections EGG/SHELL and CRISIS ACTOR. Hosted by John McAuliffe. Doors: 18.30, starts: 18.45 Tickets are £3.00 or free when pre-o..
MUMS Public Lunchtime Concert: Quartet for the End of Time
‘In the days when the seventh angel is ready to blow his trumpet, the mystery of God will be completed’ (Revelation 10:7) Composed in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time takes inspiration from Revelation 10. At the head of the finished score he wrote “In homage to the Angel o..
Agathe Faure (LSE): Moving and settling in history: Indigenous Emberá people between the city and the rainforest
Part of the research seminar of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be in Spanish. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A116. But it can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 This paper draws on twenty months of fieldwork set in Colombia and conducted with Emberá Dobidá peo..
Francesca Billiani's Inaugural Lecture – 'The Aesthetics of Modernisation: Italy and the Short Twentieth-Century'
Throughout the Twentieth Century, Italy has struggled with the imperative of becoming a modern Nation-State. This lecture will focus on some key historical and political junctions – such as World War One, the Fascist Regime, and the economic boom from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. Join Professor Francesca Billiani for a fascinating disc..
Percival Everett in Conversation
With my pencil, I wrote myself into being.’ In James, Percival Everett’s thrilling retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the enslaved Jim is allowed to tell his story for the first time. While journeying down the Mississippi with Huck, Jim has a series of adventures and encounters. Often terrifying but hilariously recounted, th..
LITERATURE LIVE! Nicolas Padamsee and Keiran Goddard in conversation
We're delighted to be working with the Blackwells Book Store to host Nicolas Padamsee and Keiran Goddard as part of their Literature Live series. Nicolas and Kieran will be talking about their new novels ENGLAND IS MINE and I SEE BUILDINGS FALL LIKE LIGHTNING with host Luke Brown. Doors: 18.30, starts: 18.45 Tickets are £3.50 or free when p..
The Humanitarian Archive in Historical Perspective
This session will explore the constitution of a new archive of humanitarian records and how historians develop a synchronous way of engaging with very contemporary sources they are helping to preserve and archive. The event will include a presentation by the Humanitarian Archivist, Flora Chatt, on ‘The purpose of the archive’. This disc..
Dr Raquel Campos Valverde (Leeds): "Spanish identities in the Latin music explosion"
Part of the research seminar of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (SPLAS). Co-organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be in Spanish. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A114. But it can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: The Latin Grammys A..
EACW Research Seminar Series
Chris Vardy (UoM), ‘Contemporary Prehistories’