Congratulations to Dr Sheena Kalayil, Senior Lecturer in the University Centre of Academic English (UCAE) and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies! Her novel 'The Others' has been longlisted for the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction. Read more: womensprize.com/library/the-...

Thanks to the Student Experience Fund, the REES department hosted a fun cultural evening at 532 with quizzes, Russian language games, and a buffet, bringing students and staff together and strengthening our community.

Manchester Literature Festival presents Douglas Stuart Date: Tue 26 May Time: 7pm Venue: Contact Tickets: £15 / £13 Book now: https://ow.ly/uNBf50Yk8lU

Yesterday, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the humanitarian organisation, MSF. The University’s interdisciplinary expertise will support enquiry-based learning and innovation in humanitarian practice, at a time when it is needed most. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/u... @msf.ca

Wednesday, 4th March, 5-7pm CSSC PhD Roundtable and Q & A Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester All welcome!

On Thursday 11 December, students from across the university joined a vibrant multicultural evening as part of the LEAP Socials, featuring an interactive quiz, festive food and drinks, all aimed at strengthening connections and fostering inclusion and wellbeing within the LEAP community.

The winners of its 3rd annual Flash Fiction/Non-Fiction Writing Competition, with the theme of transformation, announced: First Prize: Oscar Oruche – Colour is Not a Barrier Second Prize: Scarlett Shaw – Rivers of Blood Third Prize: Changjae Lee – The Eternal Flame that Bloomed on the Chair

Join us to celebrate the release of 'May We Feed the King', CNW graduate Rebecca Perry's debut novel. 📅 Tuesday 24 February ⏰ 6.30-8pm 📍 @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 🎟️ £4 (or free with a copy of the book) Tickets and info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/may-we-fee...

📢NEW EVENT: Music & Manchester - The past, present & future of computers in electronic music 🗓️25/03📍Kilburn Building 🎟️ https://ow.ly/ZAVH50Yc9jG 🔊Followed by THE TURING – MACHINE: a sound installation: How do algorithms, AI & digital tech interact with us? School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Join us for Professor Abigail Gilmore's Inaugural Lecture – 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place' 📅 Wednesday 11 March ⏰ 4.30-6.30pm 🎟️ Free – booking required Tickets and info: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Book now for our @mcrlitfest.bsky.social events in partnership with @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social and @newwritingmcr.bsky.social – featuring Douglas Stuart and Tayari Jones 📚

The next Rylands lunchtime seminar will look into the nationally recognised archives of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust, and explore the value of community-generated archives. 📅 Thu 12 Feb ⏰ 12-1pm 💻 Online 🎟️ Free – Booking required www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-...

Head to Social Refuge next week for the launch of 'Chosen Family', a new novel by our PhD graduate Madeleine Gray: 📅 Monday 26 January ⏰ 7-9pm 📍 Social Refuge, 27 Great Ancoats Street, M4 5AJ 🎟️ £5 (£20 including book) www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...

NEXT WEEK: Join us for Professor Steven Pierce's inaugural lecture: 'The Fetishistic State – Genealogies of Law in Northern Nigeria' 📆 Wed 28 Jan ⏰ 4.30-6.30pm 📍 Samuel Alexander Building 🎟️ Free – Booking required Tickets and info: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: AI at Manchester 📅 Until 11 February 📍 Sam Alex Glass Corridor Creative Manchester are celebrating 75 years since Alan Turing established the Turing Test by spotlighting the work of early career researchers on the future of AI.

Join us for Professor Steven Pierce's inaugural lecture: 'The Fetishistic State – Genealogies of Law in Northern Nigeria' 📆 Wed 28 Jan ⏰ 4.30-6.30pm 📍 Samuel Alexander Building 🎟️ Free – Booking required Tickets and info: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...

ASLE-UKI online seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature & Environment - Thurs 29 Jan, 3-7pm. Featuring @brycchancarey.bsky.social, Eric Gidal, EACW's James Metcalf, Nicolle Jordan, Alessio Mattana, Annette Hulbert, Jodie Matthews & @tobiasmenely.bsky.social. Register asle.org.uk/events/semin....

🎉 Congratulations to Professor Sir Tony Redmond KCMG OBE Co-Founder of @hcrinstitute.bsky.social at @manchester.ac.uk and @uk-med.bsky.social, recognised with a KCMG in the King’s New Year Honours for his leadership in humanitarian medicine. 👏

Horatio Clare's We Came By Sea - Stories of a Greater Britain, which examines the unreported side of the small boats crisis, has been shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the Nero Book Awards. To read more: https://ow.ly/h4nv50XJAkE

James Scorer, Professor of Latin American Studies, is joint winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century. 📚🏆 To read more: https://ow.ly/2swC50XJzTL

Please enjoy this festive round-up from @uomhums.bsky.social – featuring many of SALC's 2025 highlights! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnR9...

Jeanette Winterson, Professor of New Writing at the Centre for New Writing, will appear on BBC Radio 4 over the festive season. You can find the full schedule here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/bbc-radio-and-bbc-sounds-christmas-2025

New video 🎥🌍 Religion, Theology and Climate Change How is climate change reshaping faith? The project explores how Christian activists understand their vocation and responsibility to care for our common home. Watch now on YouTube: https://ow.ly/PaGq50XJvAy

Hazel Gardner, Communications & Engagement Coordinator at Creative Manchester since 2022 and published children’s author, is leaving the University after 20 years to focus on her writing career. ✨📚 Read more on our website: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/spotlight-on-hazel-gardner

Dr Ruth Abou Rached leads a fascinating discussion to mark #WorldArabicLanguageDay

English, American Studies & Creative Writing, with the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, hosted Poet Laureate Simon Armitage 🎤📚 In his Brook Lecture, he discussed Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translation, Manchester music, and life as laureate today.

Centre for New Writing launches the latest Manchester Anthology at the Anthony Burgess Foundation 📚✨ Congratulations to award winners Anne Boyd Rioux (PFD Prize for Fiction) and Ellie Grant (MA Poetry Prize).

Dr Omer Aijazi, Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Crisis at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), has won the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize for his monograph. Read more: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/hcri-anthropologist-recognised-with-top-feminist-scholarship-award/

Researchers from @manchester.ac.uk in partnership with @ox.ac.uk have been awarded funding from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for their project Envisioning Print with AI Computer Vision. Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...

The next round of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships will open in February 2026, with a deadline in June 2026. For more info and details of how to apply, visit our Funding Opportunities page: www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

This is definitely one of our favourite interpretations of our favourite building! 💙 @uomsalc.bsky.social

Manchester University Music Society Festive Ensembles Extravaganza 📅 Wednesday 10 December ⏰ 7-9.30pm 🎟️ £11.50 / £7.50 / £3.75 (Free to MUMS members and UoM Music students) Tickets and info: www.quaytickets.com/martinharris...

On @thejohnrylands.bsky.social blog, Dr Naomi Baker discusses one of the earliest known English conversion narratives by Rose Thurgood, giving us rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War. Read more: rylandscollections.com/2025/10/17/t...

Dr Ed Pulford, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, wins 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize The prize recognises the celebrates the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition.   For the full story, visit our website:

The Artefacts of Prediction: Imagining Tomorrow 📅 Tue 2 Dec ⏰ 2pm-3.30pm 📍 Manchester Museum 🎟️ Free – booking required Join us for the opening of an exhibition that explores how people from 1900-present have tried to glimpse, design, or control the future. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-eve...

Islamic Feminism: Hermeneutics and Activism 📅 Wednesday 26 November ⏰ 1-2.30pm 💻 Online event 🎟️ Free – Booking required Tickets and info: www.eventbrite.com/e/islamic-fe...

Join us for a cultural event about Kurdish storytelling and history, to celebrate the launch of 'The Last Pomegranate Tree' by Bachtyar Ali 📅 Thursday 27 November ⏰ 4.45-6pm 📍 Samuel Alexander Building, SG16 🎟 Free entry, all welcome, no booking required

NEW EVENT: Follow the White Rabbit: In defence of conspiracy theories Join us in welcoming a guest lecture from Gabriel Gatehouse, followed by a discussion with Professor Gary Younge. 📅 3 December, 6–7.30pm 📍 University Place, Oxford Road 🎟️ Free: https://ow.ly/aWIq50XmrSf

More events feat. Translation Multiples (also online!): 📢Thurs, 13 Nov, 2-4pm: a triple book showcase (with Delphine Grass & Anna Lanfranchi) on recent books in literary translation: events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:... 📢Friday, 14 Nov, 5-6.30pm: a multiples workshop www.kcl.ac.uk/events/works...

🌍 Inundated is a networking event like no other. A short play. Climate conversation. Rethink the future of how we work. 🗓️ Tue 4 Nov 🕠 5.30-7.30pm 📍 Revolucion de Cuba, M2 5QR 🔗 Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1688161349039 #Inundated #ESRCFestival #ClimateResilience #SustainableWork

We bring Black Theatre History Month to a close with a final blog post – about Christmas pantomimes featuring figures from Jamaican folk culture, incorporating patois and folk music, and addressing issues in local, national and global politics. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

Our penultimate Black Theatre History Month blog post shines the spotlight on 'Rockets and Blue Lights' – A play which explores the legacy of slavery through parallel stories of Black Londoners in the 1840s and 2000s. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

On our Black Theatre History Month blog today, we take a look at 'Flash Trash', a Jamaican reggae pantomime that was first seen in Britain at the Half Moon Theatre in London’s East End. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

On day 28 of Black Theatre History Month, our blog looks at plays featuring Anansi, the trickster figure whose intelligence and cunning allow him to triumph over bigger and more powerful people and animals. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

Join the Centre for New Writing and @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social at @mcrlitfest.bsky.social to hear Zadie Smith discuss her new essay collection 'Dead and Alive'. 📅 Tue 4 Nov ⏰ 7.30pm 📍 @rncmlive.bsky.social 🎟 £18 (£35 including the book) manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/zadie...

In our Black Theatre History Month blog post today, we focus on plays by Black authors written for a solo performance. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

'Refugee Boy' is the focus of today's Black Theatre History Month blog – this play tells the story of Alem, his journey to find a new life in the UK, and his family's past. Read more: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-a-difference/2025/10/26/black-theatre-history-month-day-26-refugee-boy/

Learn all about productions of Shakespeare's plays directed by Black directors and performed by Black casts, on our Black Theatre History Month blog. Read more: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-a-difference/2025/10/25/black-theatre-history-month-day-25-black-shakespeare/

Head over to our Black Theatre History Month blog for today's post, a round-up of plays for teenagers. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

Inundated: A Climate Conversation in Performance A unique interactive theatre event exploring how our working lives must adapt to the climate crisis. 📅 Tue 28 Oct and Tue 4 Nov ⏰ Bar opens 5.30pm. Performance 6-7.30pm 📍 Revolucion de Cuba, 11 Peter Street M2 5QR 🎟 Free – Booking required