Past events

AMES Public Seminar: Dr Walaa Quisay – Dying to Live: Islam, Incarceration, and Hunger Strikes

15:30 - 17:00 16 October 2024

The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites yo...

MLF 2024: Joe Boyd

18:00 - 19:15 14 October 2024

“New technologies may divert our attention, but music created in the moment can still be found whe...

WCLC: A Curious Mind: Ensemble Augelletti (New Generation Baroque Ensemble)

12:10 - 12:55 10 October 2024

Ensemble Augelletti tell the unique story of 18th-century Yorkshireman Edward Finch and perform musi...

CTIS Research Seminars: "Insights into the Translation Industry" (Dr Callum Walker)

13:00 - 14:30 10 October 2024

In recent years, Translation Studies has witnessed a growing interest in what some would call “ind...

MLF 2024: Gillian Clarke poetry masterclass

15:00 - 16:15 10 October 2024

Poet, playwright and educator Gillian Clarke is one of the most acclaimed and widely read poets of r...

Manchester Literature Festival 2024 poetry reading with Gillian Clarke

18:00 - 19:15 10 October 2024

‘Clarke has a direct line to the natural world. She paints the Welsh landscape without idealising...

Enrique Uribe Jongbloed (Cardiff): "From plagiarism to a vehicle for peace: one hundred years of comics in Colombia"

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2024

Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research sem...

MLF 2024: An Evening with Meera Sodha

18:30 - 19:45 9 October 2024

‘The ability to put a good dinner on the table has become my superpower and I want it to become yo...

MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick

18:00 - 19:15 8 October 2024

‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thoma...

Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum

15:30 - 16:45 6 October 2024

‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a...