Events
FUAM Graduate Art Prize exhibition 2025
Celebrating its 13th year, the FUAM Graduate Art Prize exhibition showcases the artistic talent of students completing BA studies in Art and Design and Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2025.
Research Seminar: ‘Slashing the Sisterhood? Women’s Authorship and the Postfeminist Politics of Early Teen Slasher’
This seminar unearths a history of women’s authorship in North American slasher film production, and examines the role women have played in the overarching politics and ideology of the slasher film
Research Seminar: ‘Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labor Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China’
Siyuan Yin’s ethnographic study explores how mediated labor activism advances worker mobilization, feminist activism, and counter-discourses amid China’s authoritarian constraints
How does music shape imagination?
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
A conversation with Tendai Huchu
Tendai (T.L.) Huchu is an award-winning Zimbabwean writer living in Edinburgh and the author of the critically-acclaimed The Hairdresser of Harare (2010)
Language Taster Sessions
Join us for a series of language taster sessions. Learn a few new phrases and meet speakers of the language. All levels welcome - no prior knowledge of the languages is required.
Language@Leeds webinar: Maximising the benefit of early years education for children’s language development
A webinar by Professor Cat Davies
PRiA/DCCH/AI-Hub Workshop: After Gen AI training, what next for AI for pedagogy and pedagogic research in AHC?
The workshop is aimed at all staff (academic, professional services) in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures who are considering issues around AI in their educational and PedR/SoTL activities
Research papers by Visiting PGRs Sofía Rodríguez Palomar and María Llinares Galustian
Part of the CHIA seminar programme, 2025-2026
Comics Practice and Theory: Roundtable and Exhibition Launch
An expert roundtable exploring the intersection of comics, creative practice and academic research, featuring leading national creators and scholars.
Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences
Music and the Arts in France – 1925 is an international Conference and Festival that takes 1925 as the confluence for exploring key composers for whom it was a significant date.
Ailish Tynan (soprano) & Joseph Middleton (piano) | Art Song
Ailish Tynan and Joseph Middleton perform music including Ravel's Sheherazade, Poulenc La courte paille, and songs by Satie and Rosenthal.
Vocal Masterclass with Dame Felicity Lott
Dame Felicity Lott leads a masterclass with students of the Royal Northern College of Music and Leeds Song Young Artists.
'Influencer Creep: How Optimisation, Authenticity and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture' Book Launch
Book Launch for ‘Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture’ by Sophie Bishop, with Dr Eirini Boukla (School of Design) and artist Marianna Mariz
Barriers and pathways: rethinking access in music education and composition
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Film Screening: "Mamífera" (Liliana Torres, 2024)
Film in Catalan with English subtitles
Media Frontiers: Creative Industries and AI, Some Big Questions
Join us for the inaugural 'Media Frontiers' event in The School of Media and Communication, bringing industry experts in conversation with the School’s research staff, students and beyond
Research Seminar: ‘Performing Power’
Performing Power proposes an analysis of social power not as a material or ideal resource, but as a dramatic and aesthetic act.
How management works in the music industry
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Javier Fernández-Galeano, “An Oasis of Debauchery: Sexuality, Scandal, and Moral Ambiguity in the Late-Francoist Spanish Sahara”
Part of the CHIA seminar programme, 2025-2026
Uncomposing Gaia: new music, sound art, and the limits of non/life
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Idiom, genre, and whiteness in Dutch improvised music and postcolonial jazz
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
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