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

The Centre for Biblical Studies extends its congratulations to Peter Oakes, currently Professor of New Testament, who has just been appointed to the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis. This prestigious Chair was established in 1904 a...

Read the University's latest information on Coronavirus. In light of the developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice for people to avoid non-essential contact, we have taken the decision to postpone all events at the Ma...

This year, Manchester Confucius Institue collaborated with Manchester Airport in its community outreach efforts by hosting workshops and events around Manchester to celebrate Chinese New Year. The Institute - which is a partnership between The Uni...

Alumni from The University of Manchester's Music Department have been instrumental in the Olympias Music's Women's Voices choir event taking place on 12 March 2020. The choir will present a series of songs on the theme of modern femininity. ...

Burgess Fellow at Centre for New Writing, Jessica Moor, who studied an MA in creative writing at the Centre for New Writing is the second MA alumna to be included in The Observer's top ten debut novelists of 2020 for her literary thriller, Keeper. ...

Thursday 5 March is World Book Day, an initiative aimed at making books more accessible for all children and for celebrating authors, illustrators and in general. Here at Centre for New Writing, we champion creative writing all year round, but World ...

Dr Ian Scott, Senior Lecturer in the American Studies department at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures was recently an academic consultant on ‘The Californian Century’, an insightful BBC Radio 4 series telling the dramatic history of the stat...

Professor Peter Gatrell from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester is one of five authors to have their books shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize. His book titled The Unsettlin...

The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) has supported the inaugural Global Emergency Care Collaborative (GECCo) North West event, bringing practitioners together to discuss global health expertise. The ga...

Siobhán Jolley, a PhD candidate in the Centre for Biblical Studies, participated in the prestigious residential research programme at the British School at Rome (BSR). ...

The University of Manchester has been ranked first place for university language centres in the UK by EL Gazette. The University came ahead of the universities of Liverpool, Edge Hill (Brighton), King’s College London and Leicester on the list on ...

The next generation of arts managers can develop their skills on a new short course offered by the Creative Manchester Summer Schools. Running from 6-15 July 2020, the Creative Producing Summer School offers students a chance to work with cultural...

Peter Gries, Director of the Manchester China Institute and Professor of Chinese politics at the University discusses how coronavirus is affecting the local community. The Year of the Rat has not started well. In China, over 10,000 people have...

Manchester Central Library hosted a day-long event to reflect on the complex history and legacies of the Nigeria-Biafra war. Even though the conflict lasted less than three years (July 1967 to January 1970), the Biafra War marked a rupture in the ...

Sarah Lagot Odwong, a Humanitarianism and Conflict Response MA graduate has been included in Uganda’s Sunday Vision Top 40 Under 40. The list recognises outstanding managers/leaders who act as a beacon to their peers and whose work has led to posi...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) has been re-designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Conflict Analysis and Programming. Over the next two years, HCRI will work closely with colleagues at the WHO headquarters in Geneva,...

Michael Wood, the renowned historian, broadcaster and filmmaker, has been appointed President of SACU, the Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding. Founded in 1965, SACU promotes good relations between the people of China and the UK, with the Chin...

The University of Manchester has launched an innovative new digital platform, which allows a global audience to view its vast collection of historic publications. ...

A group of researchers from The University of Manchester and The University of Leeds have launched a new festival which aims to introduce contemporary Russian culture to the British public in all its diversity and richness.New Russias takes place ove...

Challenging domesticity in 1890-1990s Britain will be on the table at a new workshop ‘Activism and the home’ hosted by The University of Manchester and The Pankhurst Centre on 3 April 2020. Historians and heritage practitioners will be squaring up...

The Muslim arts and culture festival MACFEST 2020 enjoyed a successful outing at Blackwell’s book store at University Place, Manchester on Monday 13 January 2020. Well-known authors participated in celebrating the diversity and richness of Muslim ...

Welcome to the new season of events at the Martin Harris Centre. We have an exciting and diverse programme lined up this season, with a range of events from drama, literature, music and more. The season launches with a free concert as part of the ...

How do Germans feel and think about China? Peter Hays Gries, MCI Director, talks with Kerstin Lohse-Friedrick to analyse the ideological drivers which shape the views of Germans on China. The MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies) Experts p...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester will be launching a new CPD unit in Humanitarian Education in summer 2020. The course is designed to support educators in engaging with humanitarian topics, fr...

A student from The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing has been awarded a literature prize for his unfinished post-Brexit novel. Thomas Lee was handed the PFD prize for Best Fiction on 9 December at the Literature Live: Annual Caroli...

Blue Mythologies, the latest book by Professor of Visual Arts at The University of Manchester’s Department of Art History Carol Mavor, has been celebrated as ‘richly eclectic’ by the Guardian’s PD Smith. The book covers the history of art, photogr...

University of Manchester Music PhD student Hongshuo Fan has received the 2019 Giga Hertz Production Award for his piece >>Handwriting<<, in the field of live electronics and video. Hongshuo was handed the accolade by Detlef Heusinger at an awards ...

The evolution of medical practice through innovation and the development of new materials is explored in a pop-up exhibition produced by students from the University of Manchester’s MA Art Gallery & Museum Studies course. Instrumental Change featu...

A doctoral student at The University of Manchester’s Department of Music has been given an award for an outstanding paper on music composition at this year’s international conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL).  ...

Following the success of previous concerts, The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra returns on 30 November to the Whitworth Hall with a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, edited by Barry Cooper and conducted by Robert Guy. ...