Events
Research Seminar: ‘Gurus, Hucksters, Entertainers: How Influencers Reshaped Social Media’
This talk examines how influencer careers and revenues shape the content that populates our social media feeds.
Cineclubismo and Territory in Brazil's Baixada Fluminense
Location: B.09 (SR) Parkinson Building
Media Frontiers: ‘People Doing Cool Creative Work Online: An Industry Panel’
This Media Frontiers panel event brings five exciting digital creatives to the School of Media and Communication to discuss their process, inspirations and challenges.
Research Seminar: Who Shapes the Opera? Immersive Opera, Emotion Engine and the Intelligent Stage
Location: Lecture Theatre 3, School of Music
Liquid Reflections: Liliane Lijn in Conversation with Laurence Sillars
Cultural Collections & Galleries and Poetry@Leeds mark Liliane Lijn’s new memoir and new work responding to her remarkable campus sculpture.
Research Seminar: Audible Incarceration: Empire, Biopolitics and Modern Listening
Location: Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music
My Heart Will Go On – Exploring Engagement With Music During Grief
How and why do people engage with music after a bereavement?
Science into Pop: Triangulating Legitimacy in Three Experimental Music Traditions
How can the case of Jamaican dub reggae broaden our understanding of music experimentation?
Research Seminar: Environmental Activism and Digital Communication: Scaling, Space, and the Limits of Transnational Solidarity
The talk explores how digital communication shapes environmental activism across local, national, and transnational levels, sometimes undermining rather than strengthening transnational solidarity
Research Seminar: David Bowie and the Pulse of Jean Genet
Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music
The Algorithm Will See You Now: Theratainment and the Digital Commodification of Mental Health
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.
Queer History Club: People Without History Are Dust - Queer Desire and the Holocaust
People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust
Research Seminar: Recomposed: Music, Climate, Crisis, Change
Location: Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music
SimPolitics: America’s Quest to Solve Politics with Computers
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.
- One day event
- Reoccuring events