Events
Research Seminar: ‘Investigating digitally mediated temporal experience’
The aim of this talk is to set out an empirical framework for scrutinizing the ethical dimensions of digitally mediated temporal experience
Thinking with Materiality. The Rattle in the Graves of Francoism
Please note: there will be reference to repression and violence in this presentation.
Idiom, genre, and whiteness in Dutch improvised music and postcolonial jazz
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
SOLUM: Jim Brogden photographs 2007-2025
The exhibition will reveal a researcher-photographer attuned to the quiet eloquence of place and the stories embedded in its contours
Research Seminar: ‘Visibility, invisibilities and hypervisibility of female professionals in the Dutch screen industry’
Based on research in collaboration with professional organizations I discuss how female screen professionals navigate challenges in their work through visibility, invisibility and hypervisibility.
Research Seminar: Who knew? The ‘migrated archives’, secrecy, and decolonisation
Dr Tim Livsey presents a paper for the Politics, Diplomacy and International History and Empires and Aftermath seminar groups in the School of History.
Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-being on Social Media
In this book talk, Niall Docherty will present empirical and theoretical findings from Healthy Users (2025, UC Press) to show how living well online is not as simple as it seems
Peering Through the Cracks. Polish Musicians in Tehran 1942 to 1945: The Case of Irena Valdi-Gołębiowska
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
When the Political is Personal: Gendering Mourning in the Royal Courts of Castile and Portugal
Professor Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado Boulder)
The Cultural Industries in Long-Term Historical Context
Marking the publication of the new, fifth edition of David Hesmondhalgh’s book The Cultural Industries, a discussion between David Hesmondhalgh and Anamik Saha followed by Q&A
Symposium: Cultures of Platformisation in Africa
What are the social and cultural implications of platforms and platformisation in Africa? This in-person and online seminar critically assesses accelerating and expansive platformisation
The Roland x0x Series: If synthesizers and drum machines were videogames
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Research Seminar: A Just War versus a Dignified Peace? Discourses about War and Peace in the Peace Negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Party in 1949
Dr Elisabeth Forster presents a paper for the War Studies research group in the School of History.
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.
EPOD 2026 Conference - Beyond the Classroom: The Power of Podcasts in Shaping the Future of Learning and Media
Education through Podcasting (EPOD) is a conference and book series where experts share research and practice on learning through recorded audio, media, and podcasting in educational contexts
Conference: International Medieval Congress 2026
IMC 2025 will take place 06-09 July in a fully hybrid format from the University of Leeds campus.
- One day event
- Reoccuring events