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exhibition explores 40 years of Opera North’s operatic storytelling, and the ways it has engaged with issues of race, representation and authenticity.

The Most Musical Part of the Land: Opera-going in Northern England in the 1920s

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26

Roda Gigante: Carmela Gross, Lina Bo Bardi, and Objective Form in Brazil

This year's Pilkington Lecture is presented by Gail Day, Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at the University of Leeds, and 2025/6 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History.

Mangoletsi-Potts lectures 2026

The Mangoletsi-Potts Lectures are an annual series of four public lectures aimed at a general academic audience, addressing topics in 'theoretical philosophy' broadly construe

A heavy load: reading domestic work in Ghana through contemporary art and infrastructural critique

Join us for a seminar hosted by the Feminisms Research Group, with speaker Dr Gill Park (Lecturer in Curating and Contemporary Art in the School of Fine Art History of Art and Cultural Studies).

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2026 COIL Showcase: Preparing our students for a changing world with transformative globally engaged learning

With COILs now being run or developed in every Faculty and most Schools across the University, we've seen exciting progress in the scaling up of COIL provision across the University.

A photo of a cardboard placard held by a protestor at a demonstration

2026 Jay Blumler Lecture with Guest Speaker Professor Jeffrey Alexander

"Theory of Trump"

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