Events

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

All are welcome and invited to this community exhibition event showcasing artwork created by the men and women wellbeing groups at Leeds Refugee Forum.

Ushering in The Writers’ Room, a new residency space with The Wild Pansy Press at the Florence Trust’s recently converted Holy Trinity Church in Islington, London.

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Oliver Getley, an interdisciplinary artist based in Leeds.

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

This event comprises of two talks from Dr Nur Kareelawati Abd Karim and Dr Sami Hajjaj

Dr Laura King presents a paper entitled 'Living with the Dead: The Meanings of Graves and Sites of Remembrance Practices in 20th Century Britain.'

'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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)

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

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

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.