Articles tagged with 'arts-languages-cultures' | University of Manchester

Over five digital episodes, Ellah P Wakatama (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for New Writing) will be in conversation with debut authors about their craft and the journey to shaping their first, published full body of work. These works will span acro...

The 16th BBC National Short Story Award announced its shortlisted candidates on 10 September 2021, with lockdown-influenced themes of kindness, memory, loss and longing at the forefront of the chosen five stories.Dublin-born novelist, playwright and ...

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. ...

The Manchester Literature Festival returns this year for a spectacular series of in-person and online events, showcasing and celebrating some of the best in contemporary writing from around the world.This year, the Manchester Literature Festival will...

Students from the Centre for New Writing have launched the 2021 edition of the Manchester Anthology.The Manchester Anthology 2021 presents the work of talented new writers from the Centre. Despite the challenges this year has brought with it, the stu...

Welcome to the autumn 2021 season at the Martin Harris Centre.We are delighted to welcome you back to the Martin Harris Centre this autumn with a more limited series of events in music and drama.The season launches on 29 and 30 September with Catchin...

FeaturedManchester City of Literature celebrated Greater Manchester's 133 libraries with a Festival of Libraries from Wednesday 9 June to Sunday 13 June. Creative Manchester hosted a number of events at the festival, including the Research and Librar...

A professor from The University of Manchester is launching a new music composition on Saturday to mark the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the day passenger aircraft were hijacked in the USA and flown into targets including New York's Twin Towers. ...

When Professor of Social and Autoethnographic Composition Kevin Malone joined the University of Manchester's music department in 1999, he could never have envisaged that two years later the events of 9/11 in his home country of America would take him...

This year's Micropoetry competition was themed around the 2021 'Year of Space', and presented by Creative Manchester in collaboration with the Geological Society of London and the Centre for New Writing. Entrants were asked to write a poem in respons...

We are delighted to announce that Larissa Fast, Professor of Humanitarian and Conflict Studies, has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI).Professor Bertrand ...

2021 marks 100 years since the Football Association banned women’s football in England - to mark the anniversary, an expert from The University of Manchester has published work which describes how women fought to earn the right to play before the ban...

Archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and Cardiff have discovered the origins of Arthur’s Stone, one of the UK’s most famous Stone Age monuments. ...

Students from The University of Manchester have been involved in a project to catalogue and preserve tributes left on the Marcus Rashford mural in Withington, after thousands of people had covered over offensive graffiti with positive messages. ...

This year’s poetry competition took place from 21 March 2021 to 21 June 2021 and was presented by Creative Manchester in collaboration with the Geological Society of London and the Centre for New Writing. Entrants were asked to respond to the theme o...

The Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester’s 2021 Schools Poetry competition took place from 21 March 2021 to 28 May 2021. The theme was space, and entries were received from school pupils across Greater Manchester.The Creative Manchester and...

The University of Manchester is a proud Silver Supporter of the Manchester International Festival, as such we are working collaboratively on a number of flagship events as part of MIF21. Both students and academics are involved in the Festival, which...

Big Ben Lying Down with Political Books is a monumental participatory artwork at this year’s Manchester International Festival by Argentinian artist Marta Minujín. The installation, featuring a 42-metre structure of London’s iconic Big Ben clock towe...

A new collaborative artwork has been launched at Manchester Art Gallery, which aims to explore the futures of women in work in Greater Manchester after the coronavirus pandemic. ...

Commenting on the appointment, Professor Colette Fagan, Vice-President for Research, said: “I am thrilled that Professor John McAuliffe has been appointed as Director for the new Creative@Manchester research platform. John brings with him a wealth of...

Thomas returns to The University of Manchester, where he spent five years as Professor of Musicology and Head of the Division of Art History, Drama and Music. He has also held posts at Bangor University, the University of Frankfurt and the University...

This summer, The University of Manchester will be holding virtual celebrations for its graduating students, to celebrate the successful completion of their studies. These will be hosted locally for the majority of programmes in the week beginning Mon...

The Festival of Libraries is a celebratory series of over eighty free events, highlighting the successes of 133 libraries across Greater Manchester for their cultural significance alongside their role in providing outstanding services to empower and ...

A new guide has been launched to help science communicators to have conversations with individuals who buy into coronavirus conspiracy theories. ...

Manchester China Institute and Creative Manchester recently staged an awards ceremony in China for this year’s International Photography Competition, which marked the 35th anniversary of Manchester’s twinning with the city of Wuhan. ...

Manchester China Institute and Creative Manchester recently staged a China-based awards ceremony for this year’s International Photography Competition, which marked the 35th anniversary of Manchester’s twinning with Wuhan. Hundreds of caring-themed s...

A new project to uncover previously unpublished material from the early nineteenth century’s ‘foremost man of science’ launched online on 29 June, and the organisers are seeking volunteers to help. ...

Novel Voices saw Ellah P. Wakatama (Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for New Writing) cherry-pick 10 exceptional debut authors who were invited in pairs to feature in conversation about their craft and journ...

A new AHRC and BBC Radio 3 podcast series Green Thinking explores issues linking climate challenge and society, in conversation with some of the UK’s leading researchers.This 45-min launch episode on Radio 3 features SALC academic Dr Jenna Ashton, ta...

Promoting mutual understanding in UK-China relations, this year’s International Photography Competition – presented by Creative Manchester and the Manchester China Institute – celebrates the 35th anniversary of Manchester’s twinning with Wuhan, the c...