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..
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..
CSSC Talk: Ben Nichols (Manchester), 'Intersectionality Fatigue: Rethinking "Single-Axis Analysis"'
The Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture at UoM presents: CSSC Talk: Ben Nichols (Manchester), 'Intersectionality Fatigue: Rethinking "Single-Axis Analysis"'
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..
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..
Sound as an Archive of Memories: Constructing the Andalusi Past
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 begin by introducing the attendants to basic theory on the relationship between sound, music and memory. The speakers will then present two short, interrelated cas..
WCLC: Trio Atem presents Atem x Atem
Trio Atem return to Manchester with Atem x Atem: a programme of new pieces composed by the Trio themselves. Includes the premiere of the final work in Nina Whiteman's Cybird Trilogy - Incandescent, for trio with digital sound & video. Twitter: @TrioAtem #TrioAtem Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trioatem/ Instagram: https://www.instagra..