Events
Language Taster Sessions
Join us for a series of language taster sessions. Learn a few new phrases and meet speakers of the language. All levels welcome - no prior knowledge of the languages is required.
Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences
Music and the Arts in France – 1925 is an international Conference and Festival that takes 1925 as the confluence for exploring key composers for whom it was a significant date.
Ailish Tynan (soprano) & Joseph Middleton (piano) | Art Song
Ailish Tynan and Joseph Middleton perform music including Ravel's Sheherazade, Poulenc La courte paille, and songs by Satie and Rosenthal.
Vocal Masterclass with Dame Felicity Lott
Dame Felicity Lott leads a masterclass with students of the Royal Northern College of Music and Leeds Song Young Artists.
'Influencer Creep: How Optimisation, Authenticity and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture' Book Launch
Book Launch for ‘Influencer Creep: How Optimization, Authenticity and Self-Branding Transform Creative Culture’ by Sophie Bishop, with Dr Eirini Boukla (School of Design) and artist Marianna Mariz
Barriers and pathways: rethinking access in music education and composition
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Film Screening: "Mamífera" (Liliana Torres, 2024)
Film in Catalan with English subtitles
LAHRI Connected Conversations
The first of LAHRI Connected Conversations will take place on 25 November focusing on one of the University's three signature strengths: health, wellbeing and health tech
Media Frontiers: Creative Industries and AI, Some Big Questions
Join us for the inaugural 'Media Frontiers' event in The School of Media and Communication, bringing industry experts in conversation with the School’s research staff, students and beyond
In Conversation: ‘Notions Of Care’ – A Response to Turner Prize 2025
Dr Jade French (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies) is one of five panelists at this hybrid event organised by Yorkshire Contemporary in partnership with the University of Leeds.
Research Seminar: ‘Performing Power’
Performing Power proposes an analysis of social power not as a material or ideal resource, but as a dramatic and aesthetic act.
How management works in the music industry
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Javier Fernández-Galeano, “An Oasis of Debauchery: Sexuality, Scandal, and Moral Ambiguity in the Late-Francoist Spanish Sahara”
Part of the CHIA seminar programme, 2025-2026
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Laura King
The School of History invites you to join us for Professor King's inaugural lecture, entitled 'History is not ours: Collaboration, expertise, and history making beyond the academy.’
Book launch: Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature, by Adriaan van Klinken
The programme will include an interview with the author, reflections on the book, and a plenary Q&A
From São Paulo to Leeds: Museums, Access and Inclusive Arts Practice
Join us for this seminar with researchers and museum practitioners from Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Brazil.
Making (knowledge of) the nation
Online platforms appear democratizing, but Wikipedia shows disagreements over mundane topics expose schisms—not over facts, but whose knowledge is acknowledged and whose downplayed
Navigating Industrial and Critical Challenges After Mass Media
An exploration of how the dominant and ‘normal’ operation of commercial screen storytelling became a business of attracting microaudiences and what that means for the stories told
Uncomposing Gaia: new music, sound art, and the limits of non/life
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Idiom, genre, and whiteness in Dutch improvised music and postcolonial jazz
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
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
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