Past events

Playing with Cruelty: Pop Culture, Performativity, and the Stanford Prison Experiment

15:00 - 17:00 4 June 2025

Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) in conversation with Professor Stephen Scott-B...

Migrant Colonialism: South American States and European Empires, c.1830-c.1950

15:00 - 16:30 4 June 2025

Please do join us for this special lecture from our Simon Visiting Professor, Lucy Riall, FBA.

Reggae and Dub Poetry in the UK: A Northern perspective

17:00 - 19:30 4 June 2025

Karen Gabay x Creative Manchester x British Pop Archive This event is a rare opportunity to hear fr...

Lunchtime calligraphy for wellbeing (EVERY TUESDAY)

3 - 24 June 2025

Are you looking for a lunchtime activity to improve your wellbeing? Join the Confucius Institute’s...

Desi Queers: Exploring Intergenerationality in LGBTQ South Asian Cultures in Britain

28 May - 11 July 2025

How do ideas, cultures and ways of living ‘move’ across generations in queer contexts? How do qu...

CreaTech Innovation Showcase 2025

12:00 - 16:30 22 May 2025

Join us for an afternoon discovering business and research applications of CreaTech with panel talks...

Saudi Women’s Activism Through Writing

15:00 - 16:00 21 May 2025

Speaker: Hind Aldossary (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Language...

Plant-Human Research Network - Postgraduate Mini-Symposium

10:00 - 14:30 19 May 2025

The Plant-Human Research Network is issuing a call for papers for the Postgraduate Mini-Symposium ta...

Saba Sams and Eley Williams in conversation

17:30 - 19:00 19 May 2025

We are thrilled to welcome Saba Sams and Eley Williams to the shop. Saba Sams, the multi-award-winni...

Biodiplomatic and Biocolonial Fictions: Speculations on Immunity, Debility, and Humanity

15:00 - 17:00 15 May 2025

The fictions, theories, and practices of diplomacy exceed statecraft and the geopolitical imaginatio...