Events
Upcoming events in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC).
- 2025 Annual International Peace Lecture: The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress. (8 October 2025 3pm-5.30pm)
- Aesthetics and the City Launch (8 October 2025 3pm-4.30pm)
- Guest lecture: Place-making and the role of culture in Manchester (8 October 2025 5.30pm-8pm)
- Politics - 2025 Annual Peace Lecture - The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress (8 October 2025 3pm-5.30pm)
- A History of Black Theatre in Manchester 1827-2020: Celebrating presence (9 October 2025 5.30pm-7pm)
- Lunchtime concert - In Memoriam, Gubaidulina (1931-2025) (9 October 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
- Evening Concert with Richard Whalley (piano) (10 October 2025 7.30pm-9.30pm)
- Sarah Hall and Daisy Johnson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (11 October 2025 3pm-4.15pm)
- Refugees and the UK housing crisis (HCRI public event) (14 October 2025 5pm)
- Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Marilyne Ordekian (15 October 2025 12pm-1pm)
- SPRITE+ and Digital Futures: Lunch and Learn with Jennifer Cearns (15 October 2025 1pm-1.30pm)
- Fear Research Network Seminar Series – 'Harsh Truths and Mistaken Vows: The Ugly Side of Buddhist Charisma' (16 October 2025 4pm)
- Reproducing Revolution: Women's Labour and the War in Myanmar (16 October 2025 4pm-5.30pm)
- The Faber Lecture 2025: Gary Younge (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Creative Manchester) (16 October 2025 7pm-8.30pm)
- WCLC: In Focus - Jack Sheen. Manchester Camerata featuring Eleonore Cockerham (16 October 2025 1.10pm)
- Manchester University Music Society: Symphony Orchestra Concert (18 October 2025 6.30pm-8.30pm)
- Sayaka Murata (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (18 October 2025 7pm-8.15pm)
- Marcus du Sautoy (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (19 October 2025 4.30pm-5.45pm)
- The Poems of Seamus Heaney (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (20 October 2025 7.30pm-8.45pm)
- Translation as Activism Workshop with Kasia Szymanska (Manchester Literature Festival) (20 October 2025)
- Mimi Khalvati: Rylands Poetry Reading (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (23 October 2025 7pm-8.15pm)
- WCLC: Spartimu - Music from Corsica (concert plus workshop) (23 October 2025 1.10pm-4pm)
- Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement (28 October 2025 4pm-6pm)
- WCLC: Giannis Koutis & Reza Mirjalali: Ottoman classical music. Presented by the departments of Music & Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (30 October 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
- MANTIS Festival (Concert 1) (1 November 2025 6pm-7pm)
- MANTIS Festival (Concert 2) (1 November 2025 7.30pm-9pm)
- MANTIS Festival (Concert 3) (2 November 2025 2pm-3.30pm)
- Uniting musical cultures from Manchester to Hong Kong (4 November 2025 6pm-7pm)
- Zadie Smith (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (4 November 2025 7.30pm-8.45pm)
- Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Robert Gorwa (5 November 2025 2pm-3pm)
- Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Wei-Yuan Wayne Lo (5 November 2025 12pm-1pm)
- You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British Music His and Herstories (6 November 2025 6pm-7.30pm)
- Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester) (11 November 2025 7pm-8.15pm)
- Evening concert - Wednesday performance (12 November 2025 7.30pm-9.30pm)
- Lunchtime concert: Quatuor Danel (13 November 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
- HCRI Landmark Lecture 2025 - Intersectional Beginnings and Abolitionist Endings: On the Urgency of Critical Theories in Humanitarian Studies and Practice' (19 November 2025 4pm-5.30pm)
- WCLC: Guitarrísimo: Isabel Martínez. Presented by the department of Music & The Cervantes Institute (20 November 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
- WCLC: Nishla Smith (27 November 2025 1.10pm)
- UoM Chorus & Symphony Concert (29 November 2025 7.30pm-9.30pm)
- Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Jonathan Reiter (3 December 2025 12pm-1pm)
- Lunchtime concert - Shostakovich Special (4 December 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
- Evening Concert with Pete Furniss (clarinet), Richard Whalley (piano) (5 December 2025 7.30pm)
- MUMS Festive Ensembles Extravaganza (10 December 2025 7pm-9.30pm)
- Blooming in the West – Flowers from China (11 December 2025 6pm-7pm)
- MUMS Festive Symphony Orchestra Concert (11 December 2025 6.30pm-8.30pm)
- WCLC: Ensemble Augelletti – Jewels that Brightly Burn (11 December 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
- Baroque Orchestra: Concerto Transalpino (12 December 2025 1.10pm-2pm)
- WCLC: James Clapperton (Piano) - Where the Wild Things Are - Music that makes the Impossible Possible (18 December 2025 1.10pm)
- MUMS: Public Lunchtime Concert – Festive Sing-along (RELAXED PERFORMANCE) (19 December 2025 1.10pm-1.55pm)
- Lunchtime concert with Cheng Yu (pipa). (19 February 2026 1.10pm)
- Lunchtime concert with Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) and Richard Whalley (piano) (26 March 2026 1.10pm)
- The 9th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues & Practices (EPIP) (14 - 15 April 2026)
- WCLC: Quatuor Danel with Noémi Gy?ri (flute) (7 May 2026 1.10pm-2pm)
- Beat the Rush Hour concert with Petr Prause (cello) - Schubert Special (8 May 2026 6pm-8pm)
- Quatuor Danel Public Workshop with Dr Anne Hyland & The Schubert Institute UK (8 May 2026 2.30pm-4pm)