Events

Celebrating its 14th year, the FUAM Graduate Art Prize exhibition showcases the artistic talent of students completing BA studies in Art and Design and Fine Art at the University of Leeds in 2026.

Institute for Medieval Studies research seminar, with Professor Matthew Townend, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York.

Joint seminar with Empires and Aftermath and GLAM research groups with Dr Kevin Greenbank, Centre for South Asian Studies Archivist and Vice President at Wolfson College, Cambridge.

This event forms part of the Research Seminar Series in the School of Media and Communication.

Join us for a launch event of two outputs from Feminist Art Making Histories, a project exploring the encounter between art and feminism across Britain and Ireland from the 1970s-1990s.

Cultural Collections & Galleries and Poetry@Leeds mark Liliane Lijn’s new memoir and new work responding to her remarkable campus sculpture.

Location: Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music

The School of History is delighted to welcome back our graduate Dr Louise Earnshaw to present the International Society for First World War Studies 2026 Dennis Showalter Public Memorial Lecture.

Join us for the latest in our ARTFUL talks series, with speaker Gail Day (Professor of Art History and Critical Theory in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies).

After a long break, the Contemporary & Historic Issues in the Art Market series returns with a hybrid event.

The School's Media, Power and Publics Research Theme invites you to a book talk by Professor Stephen Coleman on his new publication, ‘Shaping Citizenship through Talk Radio’ (Intellect, 2026).

Venue: Malcom Heath Seminar Room, 1.01, Michael Sadler Building.

How and why do people engage with music after a bereavement?

The next speaker in our ARTFUL talks series is Sunshine Wong, art worker, researcher, facilitator and Director of Bloc Projects.

Daisy Durham (University of Leeds) gives a paper for the Women, Gender and Sexuality research group in the School of History

Seminar with Tommy Yui Chim Lo, Hallsworth Research Fellow in Chinese Political Economy, University of Manchester, for the PDIH research group.

How can the case of Jamaican dub reggae broaden our understanding of music experimentation?

The talk explores how digital communication shapes environmental activism across local, national, and transnational levels, sometimes undermining rather than strengthening transnational solidarity

Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music

An afternoon of stories, creativity, and conversation.

Join us on for this inaugural lecture of Mark Westgarth, Professor of History of the Art Market at the University of Leeds.

Join us for a discussion focused on the archive of Bluett & Sons, one of the world's most important dealers in Chinese works of art, with Dominic Jellinek (formerly of Bluett & Sons).

Join us for a talk with Olivia Bax, a sculptor who brings things together, creating ensembles of found and made objects, held together by metal armatures, chicken wire, cardboard and paper pulp.

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.

People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire and the Holocaust

Location: Lecture Theatre 2, School of Music

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.

People with stronger authoritarian attitudes have more trust in AI and higher support for AI-enabled governance.