Events
Mandarin Corner - EVERY WEDNESDAY
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..
Ideal Leadership in the Temple Scroll (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)
Speaker: Abigail Naidu (PhD candidate, University of Birmingham)
Launch Event: The Artefacts of Prediction – Imagining Tomorrow
Join us for the opening of a new exhibition that explores how people from 1900-present have tried to glimpse, design, or control the future. Throughout the twentieth century and into our own time, the future has been imagined through science and superstition, data, design, and dreams. Drawing on objects from science, fashion, design, and popu..
Prof. Anja Laukötter (University of Jena), Colonial Botanies and Glocal Legacies: Carl Haussknecht and the 19th-Century Construction of “the Orient” in German History
Department of History Guest Seminar
CTIS Research Seminar - Why Creative and Collaborative Arts Matter in (De)preparing Learners for Critical Intercultural Citizenship?
This talk takes you into my journey with the arts and critical intercultural communication education. It investigates the dynamic relationship between creative art-based methods, teaching practice, theory, and research to develop a dialectical and dialogical model for (de)preparing learners for critical intercultural communication in the real..
Quatuor Danel: WCLC Lunchtime concert - Shostakovich Special
Stravinsky Three Pieces for String Quartet Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 The Quatuor Danel mark the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. Followed at 2.30pm by Quatuor Danel public seminar – Composition Workshop The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported..
Quatuor Danel: Evening Concert with Pete Furniss (clarinet), Richard Whalley (piano)
Joined by String Students from Chetham's School of Music Ustvolskaya Trio for violin, clarinet and piano, Marc Danel with Pete Furniss and Richard Whalley Shostakovich String Quartet No. 5 Barshai Chamber Symphony (arrangement of String Quartet No. 8) Op. 110a (1960) for string orchestra, arranged by Rudolf Barshai Marc Danel joins Dr Ri..
The Two Worlds of the Reader: Text World and Life-world in a New Theory of Reading (Religions and Theology Research Seminar)
Speaker: Alexander Samely (The University of Manchester)
Fear Research Network Seminar Series: Dr Raamy Majeed (The University of Manchester) – 'Fear, Humiliation and Political Grievances'
This talk explores how humiliation and fear turn economic insecurity into political grievances. Fear from financial or social uncertainty creates vulnerability, but this doesn’t usually spark political action on its own. Humiliation—feeling disrespected, abandoned, or unfairly treated—turns that vulnerability into a sense of personal or..
Agustin Diz (Edinburgh): After Abundance: Guaraní Settlements and the Making of the Gran Chaco’s Extractive Frontier
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A214. It can be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: The natural resources taken from the hills and semi-arid plains that mak..