Events
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..
Adolfo Polo y La Borda (Nottingham): “Radical Mobility. The limits and resistance to mobility in the seventeenth-century Spanish Empire.”
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies's research seminar series. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A116. it can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: By focusing on three cases of trespassing scattered across the empire, from New Mexico, the Andes, and the Mediterranean, th..
Dirk Moses – 'The End(s) of German Memory Culture and the Catastrophization of Politics'
This paper begins with the catastrophization of politics in Germany today, meaning that the present is understood in terms of its catastrophic past: a repetition of impending National Socialist victory and the Holocaust. In the wake of Hamas’s 7 October 2023 terror attack on southern Israeli communities, the German political class has commi..
EACW Research Seminar Series
Xine Yao (UCL) ‘On the Racial and Sexual Politics of Unfeeling’
(Re)discovering the music of Mozart and Luiz Costa (Artur Pereira - piano)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, there has been a change of programme for the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert on Thursday 9 May. We regret that Antonia Sotgiu will no longer be performing, as was previously advertised. Instead, we are excited to feature acclaimed pianist, Artur Pereira! Concert pianist Artur Pereira performs Luiz Costa’s..
SEAGLASS - Kathryn Tann in conversation with Horatio Clare
We're delighted to be working with Blackwells Book Store Manchester to host the launch of Kathryn Tann's SEAGLASS - her new essay collection which reflects on shared experiences, anxieties, body confidence and contentment, food and family, and a growing connection to the natural world. Kathryn will be in conversation with Horatio Clare Doors:..
Gamelan Music from West Java
Experience the vibrant gamelan music from West Java, Indonesia. Our concert features instruments performing a variety of classical and contemporary pieces.