Articles tagged with 'SALC' | University of Manchester

Following the success of last year’s inaugural celebration, the 2022 festival showcases a vibrant programme of 80 events in libraries across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.Creative Manchester – the University’s creativity-championing research...

Renowned violinist Madeleine Mitchell will be performing a new piece by University of Manchester Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition Kevin Malone in a recital celebrating music by women.The unique work for solo violin and electronics...

A University of Manchester machine-learning music project has been shortlisted for a Prolific North Digital City Award.UNSUPERVISED 2021 is a product of the ML4M (Machine Learning for Music) working group, a collaboration between the Royal Northern C...

On Monday, 7 March 2022 the University will welcome David Wengrow FBA, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London.The lecture, titled ‘For an anthropology and archaeology of freedom’ will draw on Professor Wengrow’s collaborati...

Anne Williams, fought for justice for the 97 victims who were unlawfully killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster - including her son Kevin. After refusing to accept the coroner's original verdict of accidental death, the real-life drama tells the st...

In June 2022 (Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 June) a festival exploring climate change will take place across Greater Manchester. Led by Manchester Histories, The History of Climate Change will be full of exhibitions, talks, creativity and more. The History ...

Every year, the Centre for New Writing welcomes two Writers in Residence to be part of the programme for the spring term. Since 2017, in partnership with The International Anthony Burgess Foundation and the Manchester Museum, these visiting writer fe...

The Tippett Medal is a new prize for composition which welcomed 54 submissions from a wide variety of compositional practices.  This prestigious honour was awarded for Casken's The Shackled King, a drama for bass, mezzo-soprano and ensemble based on ...

Researchers at the School of Arts, Languages and Culture were awarded a small grant from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account to explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on artists working in community and so...

The British Academy has awarded their 2021 President’s Medal to broadcaster and historian Professor David Olusoga in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the humanities and social sciences. ...

David Olusoga OBE, Professor of Public History at The University of Manchester, is chairing a special panel discussion on the debate around statues and public memorials in Manchester and Bristol as part of Black History Month. ...

"We are containers, it’s only the insides of our bodies that are important..."  Haunting words from Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale that summarise how fertile women are dehumanised in the dystopic fictional nation of Gilead, ensla...

Dozens of the students from The University of Manchester joined local residents to help tidy up the streets of Moss Side by picking up litter, recycling rubbish and planting trees.. ...