Past events
Prof. Anja Laukötter (University of Jena), Colonial Botanies and Glocal Legacies: Carl Haussknecht and the 19th-Century Construction of “the Orient” in German History
Department of History Guest Seminar
Launch Event: The Artefacts of Prediction – Imagining Tomorrow
Join us for the opening of a new exhibition that explores how people from 1900-present have tried to...
Ideal Leadership in the Temple Scroll (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)
Speaker: Abigail Naidu (PhD candidate, University of Birmingham)
UoM Chorus & Symphony Concert
The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra present Edward Elgar's The Dream of Geron...
Bookwork: Extra-Illustration in the John Rylands Library (The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series)
This seminar provides an introduction to the rich holdings of extra-illustrated books in the John Ry...
WCLC: Nishla Smith
Nishla Smith is a jazz singer songwriter driven by a desire to tell stories. Her unique musical sens...
The Last Pomegranate Tree (by Bachtyar Ali)
Book launch and cultural event about Kurdish storytelling and history, which asks: why the UK? why n...
Annual Language Partner Event 2025
Join the Manchester Confucius Institute and UoM Chinese Studies to practice your language skills and...
Prof. Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), Coercion and Markets: Reconciling Economic and Social Explanations of Slavery in Precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900
Department of History Guest Seminar
Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism
Dr Mulki Al-Sharmani will explore what Islamic feminism contributes both as an academic field within...