Events

This new exhibition of rare and beautiful books on furniture history celebrates a transformational gift to the University’s Special Collections.

The benefits of the course will ensure delegates understand the textiles they are dealing with, be it fabric production, garments, accessories or interior textiles.

This hybrid mini conference is a chance for our Postgraduate Researchers to share their projects with each other and colleagues in the school.

'Temporal and Eternal Goods: C.S. Lewis and the Idea of a Theistic Spirituality' with Mark Wynn, University of Oxford

A presentation by Dimitra Kokotsaki, Goldsmiths, Durham University.

Our level 2 Fine Art students are showcasing their work in April and May through seven group exhibitions in a range of venues across Leeds.

Looking for something to do on a Sunday afternoon? Go ‘AWOL'.

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Mohammad Barrangi, a multidisciplinary artist born in Rasht, Iran and based in Leeds.

Milk Teeth is a collective of contemporary artists united by our passion for sculpture, particularly in the realm of ceramics.

The Writing the Now collective is pleased to be joined by four fantastic UK writers for the latest event in our Sadler Seminar Series.

Psyche is an exhibition of work by Level 2 fine art students from the University of Leeds.

Quilting Points are pleased to announce a symposium on the theme of ‘Racial Capitalism and Cultural Resistance’, inspired by our year-long consideration of the work of Cedric Robinson.

Dr Arran Rees is a speaker at this webinar exploring how action research and value frameworks may lead to better practices when connecting digital heritage collections.

Dr Kit Heyam presents a seminar entitled: 'Gendering the Royal Armouries: Collaboration and Queer Community Engagement'.

The annual lecture of the Centre for World Literature will be delivered by Dr Özen Nergis Dolce

Part of the Institute for Medieval Studies 2023-24 events programme, and co-organised with the White Rose Medievalists seminar.

When Terrible Things are Happening and the Country's Falling Apart: Democratic Hope in an Age of Anxiety

Us until now is one of a number of student exhibitions taking place on campus and across Leeds this month, as part of our Fine Art Level 2 Festival of Art 2024.

13 lucky artists come together to understand how process artists and expression artists work as one.

Dr Taras Fedirko presents a seminar entitled 'Non-state support for Ukraine's war effort (2014-2023) and its consequences for Ukrainian politics'.

The School of English, the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, and the National Poetry Centre are pleased to present this inaugural lecture-performance.

FOUND is an exhibition of immersive and collaborative art, created with the intention of facilitating inner and outer connection.

Join Dr Iona McCleery from the School of History as she presents 'Feast and Famine' at the Thackray Museum of Medicine together with Dr Jonny Geber from the University of Edinburgh.

Part of the 2023-24 Institute for Medieval Studies events series.

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Victoria Lucas, an artist based in Sheffield.

This paper explores how female authors in UK television comedy, from 2010 to 2020, balance ‘unruly’ subversiveness with ‘fastidious’ crafts(wo)manship

The Working Class Network is a new group organised to foster a sense of community and belonging for working class staff and students from all programmes and years of study in our school.

On Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 May 4 – 5pm, speak to tutors about Masters study at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.

'The Cross and the Status of Suffering and Death in Christian Theology' with Karen Kilby, Durham University

A presentation by Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin.

On Thursday 9 May 4 – 5pm, speak to tutors about Masters study at the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science

Go behind the scenes of the ‘Part of the Furniture’ exhibition, with curators Mark Westgarth, Rachel Eckersley and Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis.

The lecture explores three elements key to understanding the dynamics of independent fashion design as urban creative economy.

PRESENTACIÓN DEL LIBRO: Alba Martínez Martínez, Nosotras, las refugiadas. Género, identidades y experiencias de las españolas refugiadas en Francia (1939–1978) (Granada: Comares, 2024)

You are invited to join Pedagogic Research in the Arts (PRIA) for an in-person event exploring ways in which colleagues research, embed and co-create interculturality within their pedagogic practices

The 2024 Mangoletsi-Potts lectures will be given by Professor Marya Schechtman, Professor of Philosophy

This course is designed for anyone involved in fashion, textiles, retail and buying who wishes to develop a clearer understanding of sustainability for the industry.

This conference explores the particularities involved in researching media production in non-Western sites of production

Join our live online event to receive expert advice on how to make your Masters a reality with funding and invest in your future.   

This event is part of the School of Media and Communication research seminar series

Dr Katie Carpenter presents an interactive seminar entitled 'The Searchlight: A Public Engagement Project on Girls in the History of Science'

A research seminar paper by Sara J Brenneis (Amherst College).

This symposium at the University of Leeds explores furniture history as a subject and reflects on what furniture history of the future might look like.

This course gives a wide introduction to textile manufacturing, from fibres to yarns to fabrics, both woven, knitted and nonwoven through to the dyeing, printing and finishing stages.

The theme of the third annual international conference of the Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) will be 'Economies of Military Welfare: Conversations between Past and Present'.

Gibson Ncube considers what it means to be a single man in heteropatriarchal societies like Southern Africa, the stigmatisation and marginalisation of men who choose to be single and non-conformist

Join us at The National Archives for a study day diving into the careers of British Army officers from 1790 to 1820 on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

Reckoning with the Past

Part of ‘The place of singles studies in feminist and gender discourses’ seminar series co-hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and The Centre for Religion and Public Life

Part of ‘The place of singles studies in feminist and gender discourses’ seminar series co-hosted by University of Leeds’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

The 11th European Society for Translation Studies (EST) Congress will take place at the University of Leeds in 2025.