Events
Leeds Alumni Voices 2026 - Jacqui Oatley MBE
Join our Q&A session with University of Leeds alum and trailblazing sports broadcaster Jacqui Oatley MBE (German 1996).
Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture 2026
For this year's Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture, Dr Amy Williams will speak on 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 Years On…'.
Gail Day and Steve Edwards discuss their much-anticipated book on Allan Sekula
Seminar with Gail Day, Steve Edwards, Alex Fletcher and Stephanie Schwartz, discussing award-winning, anti-capitalist artist, photographer, filmmaker and theorist Allan Sekula (1951–2013).
Research Seminar: ‘Dodging the apocalypse: Young people, the future and justice for all’
Based on interviews with youth across the world this talk examines how techno-capitalist precarity, disinformation and structural violence are pushing young people into crisis.
Uncomposing Gaia: new music, sound art, and the limits of non/life
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Worlds Apart: German author Julia Franck visits Leeds to discuss her new novel
Author Julia Franck, together with her English publisher, Monique Charlesworth, will be in Leeds on the 6th of February to give a reading from and talk about her new novel, Worlds Apart.
Deconstituting Museums: Participation's affective work – book talk
In this talk, Dr Helen Graham will share insights from her new book, which explores why participation – the direct involvement of non-museum staff in museums – has been so hard.
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
Lucía Expósito-Cívico & Rosa Medina Doménech (University of Granada)
In Conversation: ‘Cultures of Memory’ – A Response to Turner Prize 2025
The theme of memory in art is explored by a panel of artists, curators and academics, with reference to the Turner Prize 2025 and artists connected to West Yorkshire.
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.
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
When the Political is Personal: Gendering Mourning in the Royal Courts of Castile and Portugal
Professor Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado Boulder)
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
The Roland x0x Series: If synthesizers and drum machines were videogames
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
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.
A heavy load: reading domestic work in Ghana through contemporary art and infrastructural critique
Join us for a seminar hosted by the Feminisms Research Group, with speaker Dr Gill Park (Lecturer in Curating and Contemporary Art in the School of Fine Art History of Art and Cultural Studies).
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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