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

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...

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. ...

Manchester residents are being invited to contribute to new research around public signage in the city and share their experience of multilingualism. ...

A virtual guide that tells the story of what it was like to live in New Testament times has been launched by the Centre for Biblical Studies. Led by Prof Peter Oakes, this vivid new resource transports readers to Pompeii, where the city’s rich evi...

Students of Drama and Electronic Engineering lent their talents to an event at the heart of Manchester International Festival (MIF) in the latest chapter of The University of Manchester’s fruitful partnership with MIF. Shining a light on these pla...

A University of Manchester Drama alumna has been recognised for harnessing her creative talents to benefit the community at the Manchester Culture Awards. Cara Looij, who graduated in 2018, took home the Young Creative of the Year award at the eve...

A pioneering new way to learn about music has been launched for the BBC Philharmonic’s 2019/20 season. The Notes app encourages concert-goers to break convention and leave their smartphones on during performances, sending subscribers timely notifi...

Creatives will be joining the discussion on issues affecting the burgeoning city of Manchester as part of a special weekend-long event. Contemporary theatre company Quarantine (Wallflower; Summer.), is bringing people together from all sides of th...

Last month (17 October), the 2019 outing for the Manson Memorial Lecture brought lively discussions on religion and sociology thanks to an engaging talk by Prof Andréas Dettwiler of the University of Geneva. The professor of Theology gave a paper ...

Dr Christian Goeschel, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History in The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, was invited to discuss his book Mussolini and Hitler in a live radio interview. Dr Goeschel spoke about the...

Applicants have been invited to register their interest in the cultural discovery being carried out by the Melbourne and Manchester Graduate Research Group. The Group is an international research training group, comprised of researchers and jointl...

The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing (CNW) is celebrating the success of the 2019 Manchester Literature Festival, which has drawn to a close after over two weeks of exciting events marking the city’s contribution to literature. Th...

Ancient British burial objects are being celebrated with poetry this Halloween as part of a project to understand the significance of the items, and to investigate why their owners would have wanted them in their graves. ...

A University of Manchester drama alumna has been shortlisted in the Young Creative of the Year category of the Manchester Culture Awards. Cara Looij, who graduated in 2018, is one of five people up for the award, which recognises young people aged...

Q: You are one of the leaders of the ‘Prehistory to Primary Schools’ outreach project. Can you tell us more about the project, and why it is so important for the children that it reaches? A: Prehistory to Primary Schools is a project based in ...

The University of Manchester’s extensive Peterloo Collection is the first to be launched on the innovative new digital platform, giving users all over the world access to the unique documents within the collection. Built in collaboration w...

HCRI are inviting applications for a lectureship in responses to the climate crisis for the first time in the Institute’s history. The lectureship is part of an expansion in the Institute designed to build upon existing strengths around the inters...

More than 150 staff and students from The University of Manchester attended a very special music event on 14 October proving that percussion is for everyone. Celebrating 100 years of Deaf Education, Dame Evelyn Glennie, the pre-eminent solo percus...

Fifteen British and Chinese diplomats and civil servants have met in Manchester to discuss UK-China cultural and educational exchanges, trade and investment relations, and the global context and future of UK-China relations. ...

The world premiere of Philip Grange’s new violin concerto will take place at Bridgewater Hall next month, commissioned by the BBC and performed by the BBC Philharmonic. Professor of Composition at The University of Manchester’s Music Department in...

A trio of undergraduate students have successfully set up an HCRI university society on campus. Committee organisers Holly Vipond, Matilda Shannon and Sarah Hilton-Watts identified that unlike other institutes and courses across The University, HC...

New sociology research dives into the inequalities of the cultural sector, with recommendations for improving how the sector collects its equality monitoring data. Dr Susan Oman, an Honorary Research Fellow working with the Institute for Cultural ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have collaborated with Oldham Coliseum to explore how the experiences of women aged over 50 can help to map out what makes a good place in which to grow old. The project involved a group of women aged 50...