Past events

Stephen Mossman's Inaugural Lecture – ‘Spirituality and a Military Order: God’s House in Medieval Strasbourg’

15:30 - 17:30 6 May 2026

One focus of Stephen Mossman's research for more than a decade has been the commandery of the Knight...

The Arab Nahda and the Rise of the “Moroccan Ear” – Talk and Book Launch

6 - 16 May 2026

You are all warmly invited to the final talk in the AMES Seminar Series 2026 by SALC's very own Dr...

Mandarin Corner

15:30 - 16:30 6 May 2026

Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and...

Fascism: Histories and Meanings

16:30 - 18:00 6 May 2026

Domenico Cangiano (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Federico Marcon (Princeton University) In...

Colonising the Ear: Experimental Phonetics and the Taming of the Tongue

15:30 - 17:00 5 May 2026

THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. FIND THE LINK TO TEAMS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE Between the late nineteenth a...

People's Infrastructure: Everyday Life in Changing China

17:00 - 18:00 5 May 2026

This talk moves from the visual culture of the 1950s and the institutional landscapes of the 1970s t...

Linguistics and English Language Seminar: 'Computational Linguistics Will Not Solve All Your Problems'

30 April - 16 May 2026

Speaker: Jonathan Dunn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The age of Large Language Models (L...

WCLC: Inside Lud’s Church

12:10 - 13:00 30 April 2026

A cross-genre microtonal musical event inspired by geology and mythology around the Peak Distract ch...

Mandarin Corner

15:30 - 16:30 29 April 2026

Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and...

Alternative democratic spaces: environmentalism and Algerian youth politics

29 April - 16 May 2026

Dr Jessica Northey, Coventry University Host: Dr Ikram Bennai Abstract: The uprisings in the Ara...