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

Black History Month in reviewThroughout October, the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and the wider University of Manchester community celebrated Black History Month with a number of online events and features. Our history staff and postgraduat...

Mary Trend, Creative Writing MA student from The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, has been awarded the Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) Literature Prize for her novel-in-progress, Bitter Honey, which explores unapologetic female ambit...

We're very excited to announce that third-year Drama and English Literature student Gabriel Clark has been cast in Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks as the new Ollie Morgan, replacing actor Aedan Duckworth.Gabriel will continue to study for his degree a...

Researchers in Higher Education institutions often find the process of accessing businesses and organisations difficult. Equally, arts and cultural organisations may not be fully aware of how best to collaborate with researchers, nor of the value of ...

MCI Director Pete Gries has contributed to a new report published by the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, which presents recent survey findings on European public opinion towards China. Nearly 20,000 Europeans were surveyed in September-O...

The workshop, which took place via Zoom on 11 November, was a collaboration between Creative Manchester, the Music Department and the University’s Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work. Its varied, 3-hour programme brought together distinguish...

Brexit could trigger an ‘artistic hiatus’ in the UK as cultural organisations struggle with loss of funding and new regulations, according to new research on the consequences of leaving the EU. ...

In an exclusive UK interview ahead of the release of his memoirs, former President of the United States Barack Obama will speak to The University of Manchester’s Professor of Public History David Olusoga about his country, his political career, and h...

Over 50 years ago, 14 Black football players from the University of Wyoming took a principled stand against racial injustice at great personal cost.On Monday 23 November, the University of Manchester’s History Department is holding an online event ex...

A political activist who had been fighting for the right to remain in the UK for 15 years is celebrating after he was finally granted asylum, largely thanks to a researcher based at The University of Manchester. ...

The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing (CNW) was thrilled to present a number of events with the Manchester Literature Festival (MLF) this year, which has just wrapped up its latest outing - a successful all-digital event. For the f...

Throughout October, the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (and the wider University of Manchester community) celebrated Black History Month with a series of events and resources. From 'in conversations', to workshops, to reading lists, these...

An Emeritus Professor from The University of Manchester has won the prestigious Yasnaya Polyana Literary Prize 2020 for her outstanding work in the foreign fiction category, the Russian translation of her novel, James Miranda Barry. Patricia Dunck...

Dr Alexia Yates, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, and Dr Stefan Hanß, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at The University of Manchester, have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020 worth £100,000 in recognition of their outstanding resea...

Egyptology has stormed The University of Manchester’s Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Student Experience Awards.  Nicky Nielsen and Joyce Tyldesley received Outstanding Teaching Awards for the 2019-2020 academic year, while both academics also ...

The Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology (CAHAE) is delighted to announce that recent Archaeology and Anthropology graduate Kate MacLachlan has been awarded runner-up in the Prehistoric Society’s Undergraduate Dissertat...

On Saturday 17 October, Professor of Poetry and Director of the Centre for New Writing John McAuliffe led an online mentorship workshop for the winners of the Writing the Pandemic initiative, presented by the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manch...

  The Manchester Classical Association has announced a programme of engaging new online talks for a public audience, including teachers, pupils and students for 2020/21. The organisation, which was founded over a century ago, is run by colleagu...

Throughout October, the British Council is running an online festival for cultural exchange between the UK and China. Around 50 cultural institutions from both countries have provided digital content that forms more than 75 individual cultural projec...

The 75th anniversary of the 5th Pan African Congress – a crucial event in the African independence movement held in Manchester that brought together key figures who later led successful anticolonial campaigns – is being marked by the region’s univers...

On 11 November, The University is hosting a Music, Health & Wellbeing workshop that will serve to answer these questions. Presented in partnership with Creative Manchester, the Music Department and the Division of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work, th...

Acclaimed American poet Louise Glück has been deservedly awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for her ‘unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’.  Glück is the first American woman to win the No...

Students from the Centre for New Writing have launched the 2020 edition of the Manchester Anthology, MANY. The Manchester Anthology 2020 presents the work of talented new writers from the Centre. Despite the challenges this year has brought with i...

A piece of music by Henry Purcell at long last got its official premiere – only 340 years late. On Tuesday 6 October 2020, a devotional partsong by the English composer was given its first airing in modern times, and possibly its first ever public...

In an exciting collaboration between The University of Manchester Drama Department, The Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester, the playwriting course has been introduced to provide MA students with a gateway to a writing career in the theatr...

The Centre for New Writing is delighted to be hosting a number of events with the Manchester Literature Festival this year, which is going digital for the first time since its inception in 2006.  Taking place over three days, the literature festiv...

From the First World War to the present day, countless lives have been affected by conflict, resulting in ordinary people making the difficult decision to flee their homes - this is the focus of a major new exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum ...

In celebration of Black History Month 2020, The Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester has collaborated with the Centre for New Writing, The Department of American Studies and Creative Manchester to pull together an extensive suggested...

The Abstainer, the latest novel by Dr Ian McGuire, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester, was published officially on September 17 2020 by Scribner UK.  Set on the streets of Victorian Manchester, The Abstai...

Ancient Egypt fever has barely cooled in Western civilisation since the first major excavations European excavations in Egypt after the Napoleonic conquest of the country in 1798, and a new book written by University of Manchester Egyptology Lecturer...