Past events

UMDS MIFTAs: Wild Swimming by Marek Horn

6 - 8 November 2024

A Dorset beach. The year is 1593. Or maybe it’s 1607. We will meet here, on this beach, again and...

Felipe Tuxá (UFBA, Oxford): "Are ‘autodemarcações’ a form of refusal? Imagining the future with the Tuxá community of São Francisco River, Brazil"

17:00 - 18:30 30 October 2024

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

Instruments in Chinese music: The erhu (Chinese fiddle)

18:00 - 19:00 30 October 2024

We're delighted to invite you to the first talk in our "Instruments in Chinese music" series. The se...

MANTIS 20th Anniversary Festival

26 - 27 October 2024

MANTIS Festival – 20 year anniversary celebration, 26–27 October 2024. MANTIS welcomes back many...

MANTIS Festival: Autumn 2024

26 - 27 October 2024

MANTIS Festival – 20 year anniversary celebration, 26–27 October 2024. MANTIS welcomes back many...

Lecture: Professor Kath Albury (Swinburne University of Technology) and Yigit Aydinalp (University of Sheffield) 'Safer Sextech: Intimacy, Pleasure and Wellbeing'

14:30 - 16:30 25 October 2024

The event is co-organised by the Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media and the Centre fo...

WCLC: Quatuor Danel

12:10 - 12:55 24 October 2024

Quatuor Danel perform the Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 13 Rosamunde (1824) Followed at 2.30pm...

CTIS Research Seminars: "Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in 1950s-1960s Italy" (Dr Mila Milani)

13:00 - 14:30 24 October 2024

The years following the Second World War saw an exponential increase in the translation of contempor...

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Sun-Kyo Park (University of Manchester) - The Imagination of Salim: Transforming an Apocalyptic Unconscious to the Politics of Salim

15:00 - 16:30 24 October 2024

The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid sessi...

The Industrious Revolution Reconsidered: Did it Initiate a Consumer Revolution?

15:00 - 16:30 23 October 2024

This public lecture is co-hosted by the Economics and History departments.