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Utopian Envisioning Lab

This full-day event bridges historical research with contemporary civic action, exploring how the history of utopias can serve as a practical tool to collaboratively design sustainable futures.

Roundtable on the Media Image of Africa

This roundtable discussion brings together contemporary expertise on Africa’s media image from a variety of perspectives.

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

Professor Cathy Johnson's Inaugural Lecture – ‘Television Matters: Power, Platforms and the Public Good’

From childhood viewing to global platforms, this talk explores the structural decline of broadcast television, what’s at stake and why we should all care.

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 Jay Blumler Lecture with Guest Speaker Professor Jeffrey Alexander

"Theory of Trump"

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