Events
Familiar Threads – exhibition
This new exhibition of work by fine art alumni Alice Boot at Sunny Bank Mills explores domestic and industrial narratives of woven textile.
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.’
Launch event for new Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics
Location: Chemistry SR (1.53g)
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
PRiA Workshop: AI Luminaries: Ethical, Greener AI for Educational Empowerment, Knowledge Sustainability and Openness
The session will be led by Prof Antonio Martínez-Arboleda (LCS), Dr Noorhan Abbas (School of Computing) and Prof Mirjam Hauck (The Open University)
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
- One day event
- Reoccuring events












