Events
After the cuts: USAID, UK aid spending, and the future of the humanitarian sector (Zoom Webinar)
HCRI is hosting an online roundtable about the recent dramatic changes to US & UK international aid spending and its implications for humanitarian work. Speakers to be announced shortly. Registration via: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N4jIADi-RX653sGDOz_row Any accessibility-related or other questions to: andrew.gibson-3@manchester.a..
Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership'
Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies: Prof. Adrienne Brown (Chicago), 'The Residential is Racial: A Perceptual History of Mass Homeownership' Venue: A7, Samuel Alexander Building --- Blurb for 'The Residential is Racial': Housing experts and activists have long described the foundational role race has played in the creation of ma..
Reclaiming Islamic and Arabic philosophical heritage: translator’s interventions in the Hekmah Journal Translations
Speaker: Hanan Alotaibi (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) This lecture is part of The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Research Seminar Series (2024-2025).
EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice'
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice' Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building 1.30pm **Please note change from previously advertised time** Sponsored by the EACW Environment and Ecologies Research Group..
Gamelan Music from West Java - UoM Gamelan Ensemble
Students on the Gamelan Performance module play a lively selection of music from West Java, Indonesia.
Creative Practice, Politics, and (Post)Colonialism: Roundtable Discussion
This roundtable discussion will focus on some of the challenges and insights of using creative practices when addressing issues related to politics, colonialism, and postcolonialism. Participants will share their thoughts on how creative practices, particularly creative writing and visual arts, might reshape methods, change our understanding o..
UoM Jazz Ensemble
Led by Alexander Gagatsis, undergraduate music students of the jazz ensemble module perform their own arrangements of popular music classics from the Northwest. Be prepared to listen to music by George Harrison, The Animals and The Stone Roses, arranged in jazz combo settings.
Manchester Literature Festival: Laura Bates
AI-powered technologies are revolutionising our lives and putting women and girls in danger. In her urgent and gripping new book The New Age of Sexism, Laura Bates delves into our future and finds it wanting. From chatbots to sex robots, from deep fakes to the metaverse, Laura examines how existing forms of discrimination, inequality and haras..
Dylan Bradbury (UoM): "Sounds that tell a world": Mapuzugun, orality and auditory regimes in Argentina
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 14 May 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: In this talk I draw from my doctoral research to explore how Mapuzugun,..
Biodiplomatic and Biocolonial Fictions: Speculations on Immunity, Debility, and Humanity
The fictions, theories, and practices of diplomacy exceed statecraft and the geopolitical imagination. They are often predicated on culture-specific forms of ‘mancraft’, handicraft, or the crafts of dealing with human and more-than-human beings. Through a reading of Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City, a cyberpunk speculative fiction novel set in Jo..