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Results 1 to 21 of 21 in Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures

Jacqui Oatley, wearing a headset and looking at the camera

Join our Q&A session with University of Leeds alum and trailblazing sports broadcaster Jacqui Oatley MBE (German 1996).

From left: Kindertransport tag of Hannah Zack Miley (Bonn, Germany, 24 July, 1939; Photo of Amy Williams.

For this year's Holocaust Memorial Day Lecture, Dr Amy Williams will speak on 'Kindertransport: New Discoveries, or Rethinking the Kindertransport 87 Years On…'.

transparency of ‘astronaut’ protestor

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).

Credit: Joshua Rawson Harris - Unsplash

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.

Exterior of School of Music building

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26

A woman in a black top smiling at the camera

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.

Photo of Helen Graham standing to the right of the picture

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.

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The aim of this talk is to set out an empirical framework for scrutinizing the ethical dimensions of digitally mediated temporal experience

Street of houses and water reflection in Spain

Lucía Expósito-Cívico & Rosa Medina Doménech (University of Granada)

Installation view of Zadie Xa’s presentation at the Turner Prize 2025, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery.

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.

Three screens in the School of Music attached to the wall reading 'Welcome to the School of Music, University of Leeds'.

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26

Contre jour 2017 jim brogden

The exhibition will reveal a researcher-photographer attuned to the quiet eloquence of place and the stories embedded in its contours

Film crew l minh

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

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

Landscape of Portugal.

Professor Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado Boulder)

Steinway piano

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26

A computer keyboard, mouse and headphones with neon backlights.

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26

exhibition explores 40 years of Opera North’s operatic storytelling, and the ways it has engaged with issues of race, representation and authenticity.

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26

Remote being held up to TV

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.

Artworks in a gallery

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).

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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

  • One day event
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