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..
CSSC lunchtime talk: Prof. Bharti Arora (Aarhus/New Delhi): Remapping Sensualities and (Queer) Desires in Select Indian Literary Narratives
Friday, 15th May, 12.30-2 Remapping Sensualities and (Queer) Desires in Select Indian Literary Narratives Speaker: Prof. Bharti Arora (Aarhus/U. of New Delhi) Venue: Room A4, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester All welcome!
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..
Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: Professor C. Riley Snorton
Professor C. Riley Snorton: ‘An Ambiguous Heterotopia, Or Some Informal Remarks on “Biology” After Samuel Delany, Judith Butler, and Sylvia Wynter’ No booking required, all welcome. This year, the Sexuality Summer School returns with the theme On the Biological. For more information about the theme, details of public events, and tick..
Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart
We’re delighted to welcome back to Manchester Literature Festival Booker Prize-winning novelist Douglas Stuart, to discuss his profoundly moving new novel John of John, set on the Isle of Harris. Returning home after his art school years on the mainland, John-Calum Macleod is drawn back into a tightly bound Hebridean community shaped by f..
Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: PProfessor Sarah Richardson
Professor Sarah Richardson: ‘A Sceptical Empiricist's Guide to Sex Difference Science’ No booking required, all welcome. This year, the Sexuality Summer School returns with the theme On the Biological. For more information about the theme, details of public events, and ticket links, visit our website: https://sexualitysummerschool.wordpr..
Sexuality Summer School: Film Screenings programed with Club Des Femmes and introduced by So Mayer
Film Screenings programed with Club Des Femmes and introduced by So Mayer: Laws of Love / Gesetze der Liebe (Magnus Hirschfeld, 1927); Sanctus (Barbara Hammer, 1990) Tickets required, visit https://sexualitysummerschool.wordpress.com/ for more info. This year, the Sexuality Summer School returns with the theme On the Biological. For more inf..
Mandarin Corner
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..
Sexuality Summer School Performance Reading: All the Devils
All the Devils (written by Jonathan Larkin; produced by Jayne Compton, Switchflicker; funded by The National Lottery Community Fund) No booking required, all welcome. This year, the Sexuality Summer School returns with the theme On the Biological. For more information about the theme, details of public events, and ticket links, visit our web..