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

Our latest Black History Theatre Month blog examines 'Barber Shop Chronicles', an exploration of migration, diaspora, masculinity, family and community – the play shows the experiences and preoccupations of a diverse group of black men. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

Congratulations to Dr Ed Pulford, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies (@uomsalc.bsky.social) at @manchester.ac.uk, who has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme prize in the Languages and Literatures category! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from the virtuoso American soprano Lucy Shelton, at two upcoming events. Find out more and book on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/after-pier... Brought to you by @manchester.ac.uk Music Department, in partnership with The Commission for New and Old Art

Today's Black Theatre History Month blog post is all about 'Look to the Sky', a gripping play which explores the mysterious and complicated culture of inner-city youth. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

On day 21 of Black Theatre History Month, our blog looks at Black actors who have performed the role of Othello, from Ira Aldridge in the 1820s to David Harewood in 2025. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

Our latest Black Theatre History Month blog post invites you to dive into The Black Plays Archive, a rich resource of information and inspiration founded in 2013 by playwright and director Kwame Kwei-Armah. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

Daniel R. Langton has published Darwin in the Jewish Imagination: Jews' Engagement with Evolution Theory (Oxford University Press, 2025). This book offers the first major study of Jewish responses to Darwinian evolution, one of the most transformative and contested ideas of the industrial age.

Visit our Black Theatre History Month blog to learn all about 'The Lily of Bermuda', described as "a gentle satire of British colonialism in Bermuda". Read more: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-a-difference/2025/10/19/black-theatre-history-month-day-19-the-lily-of-bermuda/

On day 18 of Black Theatre History Month, our blog celebrates the work of Britain’s Black Theatre companies. Read more: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-a-difference/2025/10/18/black-theatre-history-month-day-18-black-british-theatre-companies/

NEW: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions 📅 17 Nov, 5pm 📍Sam Alex Building Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers

Black Theatre History Month continues with a blog post examining 'The Black Jacobins', a dramatization of the revolution of 1791-1804 that led to the liberation of Saint Domingue (now Haiti) from French colonial rule. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

TheCentre for New Writing, @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social and @mcrlitfest.bsky.social bring you a fascinating talk from Marcus du Sautoy, exploring the boundaries between art and mathematics. 📅 Sun 19 Oct ⏰ 4.30pm 📍 Mcr Central Library 🎟 £12 / £10 manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/marcu...

📢IN 3 WEEKS: 'You Ought To Know' - Reclaiming Black British Music His and Herstories 📅6 Nov, 6pm 📍 @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Join us to hear Karen Gabay's research findings documenting the stories of artists underrepresented in the history of the Manchester music scene. 🎫 ow.ly/aGbX50WY6hQ

Today our Black Theatre History Month blog looks at 'Leave Taking' – a play which explores the daily struggles of Enid, a Jamaican woman who emigrated to London, bringing up her two daughters as a single parent. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

'Hot Orange', a play by Half Moon Young People's Theatre that explores friendship and queer desire, is the subject of today's Black Theatre History Month blog post. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

Congrats to Vona Groarke, the Centre for New Writing's Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, on being shortlisted for this year's T. S. Eliot Prize. The prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best new poetry collection published in the UK and Ireland. Read more: tseliot.com/prize/about/

In today's Black Theatre History Month blog post, we bring you a range of resources for high school teachers of Drama and English Literature that focus on Black authored plays and adaptations of novels into plays. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...

Delve into a selection of plays about queer love and acceptance, in today's Black Theatre History Month blog. Read more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/salc-making-...