Events
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..
Plant-Human Research Network - Postgraduate Mini-Symposium
The Plant-Human Research Network is issuing a call for papers for the Postgraduate Mini-Symposium taking place on Monday 19th of May 2025, 11am-3pm, at The Firs Environmental Research Station. This Mini-Symposium is part of the Plant-Human Research Network Event Series, funded by CIDRAL. The purpose of this mini-symposium is to showcase t..
Saba Sams and Eley Williams in conversation
We are thrilled to welcome Saba Sams and Eley Williams to the shop. Saba Sams, the multi-award-winning author of Send Nudes is back with her debut novel GUNK; a nuanced exploration of friendship, queerness and love. Eley Williams' MODERATE TO POOR, OCCASIONALLY GOOD, is a poignant and playful collection of short stories exploring the nature of..
Saudi Women’s Activism Through Writing
Speaker: Hind Aldossary (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) Join on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/3944838983 This lecture is part of The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Research Seminar Series (2024-2025).
Desi Queers: Exploring Intergenerationality in LGBTQ South Asian Cultures in Britain
How do ideas, cultures and ways of living ‘move’ across generations in queer contexts? How do queer people’s positions outside of mainstream forms of biological (nuclear family) and cultural (schooling, history, heritage) reproduction affect this movement? Moreover, how do multiple forms of marginalization due to race and ethnicity shape..