Events

AHCP Research Seminars

03 December 2025 - 03 December 2026

Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851

Mandarin Corner - EVERY WEDNESDAY

14 January - 25 March 2026

THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY between 4:30PM – 5:30PM 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 learner..

Quatuor Danel lunchtime concert with Cheng Yu (pipa).

13:10 - 13:50 19 February 2026

Presented by the UoM Music Department and The Confucius Institute A special concert in celebration of Chinese New Year. Philip Grange – Soliloquy for Solo Viola Traditional – Solo Pipa with Cheng Yu Joshua Brown – Pipa Quintet (World Premiere for Pipa and String Quartet with Cheng Yu, Pipa) Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel public..

MUMS Chamber Orchestra Concert

14:00 - 15:00 21 February 2026

Join the University of Manchester Chamber Orchestra for a beautiful afternoon of music. The Orchestra will also be joined by the Universities Cosmo Chamber Choir, along with concerto competition winner, Maia Rey Macia, for Nielsen’s flute concerto!

CLACS Seminar: Lucía Tiscornia (University College Dublin): Criminal Governance in Unexpected Places: The case of Uruguay

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2026

This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A THURSDAY AND STARTS AT 4PM THURSDAY 26 Feb 2026, 4pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A112. It can be followed online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2 Abstract: Many st..

WCLC: Percussion NOW

13:10 - 13:50 26 February 2026

Art flourishes when tradition meets innovation. This concert, rooted in Miquel Bernat’s forward-looking artistry, unveils world premieres by Azguime and several first performances in England, an encounter where history, imagination, and the avant-garde merge to keep artistic creation vibrantly alive. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are par..

MANTIS Festival Spring Edition (Concert 1)

12:30 - 14:00 27 February 2026

Join us this Spring for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester. In partnership with the MHC Lunchtime Concert on the 26 of February, featuring renowned percussionist Miquel Bernat.

MANTIS Festival Spring Edition (Concert 2)

14:30 - 16:00 27 February 2026

Join us this Spring for the MANTIS Festival, showcasing innovative audio-visual and electroacoustic works by postgraduate composers at the University of Manchester. In partnership with the MHC Lunchtime Concert on the 26 of February, featuring renowned percussionist Miquel Bernat.

Building China: People’s Infrastructure

01 March - 31 May 2026

"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..

How (not) to translate a Christian emotion. Fear, Consolation, and Joy in the Sixteenth-century Jesuit Mission to Japan

10:00 - 12:00 04 March 2026

Dr. Linda Zampol D’Ortia (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) This talk considers the rarity of mentions of fear in the literature composed by the Catholic missionaries of the Society of Jesus from Japan, in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The mission, founded by future saint Francis Xavier in 1549, by the 1580s made accommod..