Events

Celebrating its 14th 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 2026.

A ‘pop-up’ exhibition of new paintings by Postgraduate Researcher Paul Grist and an audio-visual performance by Racket Ball.

Join us for the latest event in our ARTFUL talks series, with speakers Dr Rob Knifton and Dr Louise Atkinson from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.

Location: Newlyn Seminar LG.01

Join staff and students from the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures and the Mid-Yorkshire Fungus Group for an autumn fungi foray on campus.

Location: B.09 (SR) Parkinson Building

Join us for a work in process seminar with speaker Mani Sharpe, Lecturer in Film in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies.

This Media Frontiers panel event brings five exciting digital creatives to the School of Media and Communication to discuss their process, inspirations and challenges.

Location: Lecture Theatre 3, School of Music

Join us for a launch event of two outputs from Feminist Art Making Histories, a project exploring the encounter between art and feminism across Britain and Ireland from the 1970s-1990s.

Cultural Collections & Galleries and Poetry@Leeds mark Liliane Lijn’s new memoir and new work responding to her remarkable campus sculpture.

Location: Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music

Join us for the latest in our ARTFUL talks series, with speaker Gail Day (Professor of Art History and Critical Theory in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies).

The School's Media, Power and Publics Research Theme invites you to a book talk by Professor Stephen Coleman on his new publication, ‘Shaping Citizenship through Talk Radio’ (Intellect, 2026).

How and why do people engage with music after a bereavement?

How can the case of Jamaican dub reggae broaden our understanding of music experimentation?

The talk explores how digital communication shapes environmental activism across local, national, and transnational levels, sometimes undermining rather than strengthening transnational solidarity

Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music

An afternoon of stories, creativity, and conversation.

Join us for a talk with Olivia Bax, a sculptor who brings things together, creating ensembles of found and made objects, held together by metal armatures, chicken wire, cardboard and paper pulp.

From Oprah to TherapyTok, this interactive talk explores how mental health becomes entertainment, why therapists turn to social media, and what happens when care depends on commercial visibility.

People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust

Location: Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music

A history of how computers came to shape political imagination, from election forecasting to AI in the United States, and what that history tells us about democracy today.