Events
AHCP Research Seminars
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851
Building China: People’s Infrastructure
"Building China: People’s Infrastructure" invites audiences to encounter China from the kitchen table and the street corner rather than the skyline. Bringing together photographs and prints from the 1950s to the 1980s with field images from the early 2000s and contemporary works, the exhibition traces urban change through the ordinary spaces..
Colonising the Ear: Experimental Phonetics and the Taming of the Tongue
THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. FIND THE LINK TO TEAMS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a range of technologies and institutional systems emerged with the aim of representing and regulating the sonic dimensions of language and voice. Devices such as the phonograph promoted new modes of listening, while..
People's Infrastructure: Everyday Life in Changing China
This talk moves from the visual culture of the 1950s and the institutional landscapes of the 1970s to contemporary studies of markets, parks, sidewalks, and sites of urban redevelopment. Across these moments, infrastructure is approached as something maintained through labour, inhabitation, and routine use. Attention shifts between rural and u..
Fascism: Histories and Meanings
Domenico Cangiano (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Federico Marcon (Princeton University) In conversation with: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) Martin Kristoffer Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin) Levi McLaughin (North Carolina State University/Simon Visiting Professor, University of Manchester) Chair: Erica Baffelli (Un..
Magic for Wellbeing Workshops
Are you feeling stressed about your upcoming exams and looking for a way to relax and improve your wellbeing? We are pleased to offer a free workshop with magician MO Shaoxian. Over the course of the session you will learn tricks, while also develop your confidence. Practicing magic can also improve your concentration and reduce stress. All m..
Mandarin Corner
Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities. 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..
Stephen Mossman's Inaugural Lecture – ‘Spirituality and a Military Order: God’s House in Medieval Strasbourg’
One focus of Stephen Mossman's research for more than a decade has been the commandery of the Knights Hospitaller in medieval Strasbourg, founded by the financier and mystical writer Rulman Merswin in the 1360s to enable a form of pious retreat for the devout laity of the late medieval city. The great library that it accumulated came to form..
Linguistics and English Language Seminar: Human-AI Hybrid Language Production – Evidence from a Multi-Dialectal, Longitudinal Corpus
Speaker: speaker: Dr Gan Qiao, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Abstract: With large language models increasingly embedded in everyday writing, language production is becoming a human-AI collaborative process. This talk examines how AI assistance shapes linguistic variation across English dialects and contexts. I present a multi-dialecta..
WCLC: Quatuor Danel with Noémi Gyori (flute)
Mozart – Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285 Amy Beach – Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet, Op. 80 No public seminar to follow Thursday 7 May concert The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll Trust. They provide a wide-ranging programme to..