Past events

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: ...

Catherine Andrews (CIDE, Mexico). The Republic Needs a Man! The Plan of Guadalajara and the Debate about Dictatorship in Mexico, 1852-1853

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2025

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

UMDS MIFTAs Presents...Wish List

12 - 14 February 2025

Wish List, a pre-published play by Katherine Soper. Tamsin didn’t plan to spend her teenage years...

Brazilian Indigenous Art and Environmental Thought

16:30 - 18:00 11 February 2025

A round table about Indigenous art from the Brazilian Northeast and its connection with environmenta...

MUMS Opera Presents...Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld

19:00 - 21:30 8 February 2025

A comic opera in three acts from the original by Hector Cremieux and Ludovic Halvey. New book and...

MUMS Opera Presents...Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld

13:00 - 15:30 7 February 2025

A comic opera in three acts from the original by Hector Cremieux and Ludovic Halvey. New book and...

CTIS Research Seminar - Exploring Communicative Practice and ‘Groupness’ in a Virtual Intercultural Intervention (Dr Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Newcastle University)

14:00 - 15:30 6 February 2025

Dr Milene will deliver an online talk, which is organised in a hybrid format. Please register for on...

Language Café

12:00 - 14:00 5 February 2025

Language lovers, assemble. We have a perfect lunch date for you; at the Language Café, you can grab...

EACW research seminar: Dr. Ben Ware (KCL), 'Dialectics of Extinction: From Freud to Anti-Natalism'

17:00 - 18:30 5 February 2025

English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Ben Ware (KCL), 'Dialectics o...

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

4 February - 8 April 2025

HIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY between 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for an...