Events
Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)
Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more cultural activities and language practice. Mandarin Corners are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK 4-6) level that are designed to allow Mandarin learners to get together with fellow classmates, meet new friends and discuss Chine..
David Nicholls in Conversation
A welcome return to Manchester Literature Festival for one of the UK’s best loved authors. David Nicholls joins us to discuss his witty and engrossing new novel, You Are Here. The story of two lonely people, thirty-eight-year-old Marnie and forty-two-year-old Michael, battered by break-ups and the loss of the futures they’d hoped for. Brou..
EACW Research Seminar Series
Harry Pitt-Scott, Warwick/UoM, 'Oil and Horror: Volatile Futures at the Permafrost'
POSTPONED – NEW DATE TBC: ‘Beyond Subcultures: Populism, Hegemony and Cultural Production’ – David Alderson’s Inaugural Lecture
This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced soon. Existing bookings will be valid for the rescheduled event, and more tickets will be released when the final details are confirmed. Alan Sinfield once distinctively theorised both the New Left generally and liberation movements individually as subcultures, but regarded these pos..
Writing the Camp: Remembering the voices and music of exilic Palestine
At this event, award-winning Palestinian poet, Dr Yousif M. Qasmiyeh will be reading from his collection Writing The Camp (2021) , a collection of poems written an English intertwined with the voices of Palestinians living the 'in-between' spaces (camps) of the Middle East. His poems, read by Yousif for the first time in Manchester, will be in..
WCLC: Aria Vocal Trio Lunchtime Concert
Mariya Angelova Vocal Trio from Bulgaria presents songs from their debut album with traditional Bulgarian songs. Singers Mariya Angelova, Asya Pincheva and Vanya Dimitrova perform acapella polyphonic arrangements by Mariya Angelova, Gancho Gavazov, Stoyan Gagov ect. of songs from all the Bulgarian ethnic regions. The Thursday lunchtime concer..
Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object II
The second workshop of Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Colonialism's Material Culture and Emotion'. Each of three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims to develop thinking on the still little considered area of emotion-centred histories of the imperial archive, exploring how feeling, sense, and emotion are archived - both..
Esra Özyürek – 'Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Postwar Germany'
At the turn of the millennium, Middle Eastern and Muslim Germans had rather unexpectedly become central to the country's Holocaust memory culture—not as welcome participants, but as targets for re-education and reform. Since then, Turkish- and Arab-Germans have been considered as the prime obstacles to German national reconciliation with its..
Dr Laura Fernández-González (Lincoln): 'Building Port-Cities of the Iberian World, c. 1500-1780'
Part of the research seminar of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (SPLAS). Co-organised by the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be face to face, in Ellen Wilkinson C1.18. But it can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/91790185299 Abstrac..
Hannah Cobb's Inaugural Lecture – Assemblages of Teaching and Learning: Past, Present and Future
In the metrics driven audit culture of today’s Higher Education landscape, there is a danger that teaching and learning are reduced to homogenised, transactional processes. In her inaugural lecture, Professor Hannah Cobb will examine the value of reframing teaching and learning as a process of constant becoming, always mediated through the..