Past events

The Last Pomegranate Tree (by Bachtyar Ali)

16:45 - 18:00 27 November 2025

Book launch and cultural event about Kurdish storytelling and history, which asks: why the UK? why n...

Annual Language Partner Event 2025

17:30 - 19:30 27 November 2025

Join the Manchester Confucius Institute and UoM Chinese Studies to practice your language skills and...

Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism

13:00 - 14:30 26 November 2025

Dr Mulki Al-Sharmani will explore what Islamic feminism contributes both as an academic field within...

Prof. Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), Coercion and Markets: Reconciling Economic and Social Explanations of Slavery in Precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900

13:00 - 15:00 26 November 2025

Department of History Guest Seminar

Nicolle Alzamora (UoM): A Tale of Two Invasions: Fictional Excavations of Panama’s Difficult Pasts

17:00 - 18:30 26 November 2025

This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed...

A Decolonial Reading of the Nicene Creed from a Dalit Theological Perspective (Religions and Theology Research Seminar)

15:00 - 17:00 24 November 2025

Speaker: Raj Patta (The University of Manchester alumni)

A Winter Concert

19:00 - 20:30 22 November 2025

University of Manchester Chamber Choirs present a Winter Concert featuring music by Martin, McDowall...

WCLC: Guitarrísimo: Isabel Martínez. Presented by the department of Music & The Cervantes Institute

13:10 - 13:50 20 November 2025

“Six Strings, Six Centuries” by Isabel Martínez invites audiences to explore the Spanish guitar...

CTIS Research Seminar - Experiencing the Uninhabited Traumascape of a Divided Capital: An Ethnographic Investigation of Nicosia’s UN-controlled Buffer Zone

14:00 - 15:30 20 November 2025

Cyprus and Nicosia, its capital, have been divided since the 1974 war. A buffer zone divides the two...

Putting on the New Self: Representing Conversion with Costume Change in Bible Films (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)

15:00 - 17:00 17 November 2025

Speaker: Dr Katie Turner (public historian and educator)