Events

This new exhibition of rare and beautiful books on furniture history celebrates a transformational gift to the University’s Special Collections.

This two-day course is structured to provide delegates with a basic understanding of pattern cutting for apparel using the flat pattern method.

This two-day course is structured to provide delegates with a basic understanding of pattern cutting for apparel using the flat pattern method.

Join our live online event to receive expert advice on how to make your Masters a reality with funding and invest in your future.   

All are welcome and invited to this community exhibition event showcasing artwork created by the men and women wellbeing groups at Leeds Refugee Forum.

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Oliver Getley, an interdisciplinary artist based in Leeds.

Part of the 2023-24 Institute for Medieval Studies events series.

The benefits of the course will ensure delegates understand the textiles they are dealing with, be it fabric production, garments, accessories or interior textiles.

Dr Laura King presents a paper entitled 'Living with the Dead: The Meanings of Graves and Sites of Remembrance Practices in 20th Century Britain.'

The Working Class Network is a new group organised to foster a sense of community and belonging for working class staff and students from all programmes and years of study in our school.

Ann Powers examines the 1970s moment when Joni Mitchell created her blackface character Art Nouveau; Eric Weisbard explores the whiteness of Elvis Presley’s wail on “Hound Dog.”

'Temporal and Eternal Goods: C.S. Lewis and the Idea of a Theistic Spirituality' with Mark Wynn, University of Oxford

A presentation by Dimitra Kokotsaki, Goldsmiths, Durham University.

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Mohammad Barrangi, a multidisciplinary artist born in Rasht, Iran and based in Leeds.

The Writing the Now collective is pleased to be joined by four fantastic UK writers for the latest event in our Sadler Seminar Series.

Quilting Points are pleased to announce a symposium on the theme of ‘Racial Capitalism and Cultural Resistance’, inspired by our year-long consideration of the work of Cedric Robinson.

Dr Arran Rees is a speaker at this webinar exploring how action research and value frameworks may lead to better practices when connecting digital heritage collections.

Dr Kit Heyam presents a seminar entitled: 'Gendering the Royal Armouries: Collaboration and Queer Community Engagement'.

Part of the Institute for Medieval Studies 2023-24 events programme, and co-organised with the White Rose Medievalists seminar.

When Terrible Things are Happening and the Country's Falling Apart: Democratic Hope in an Age of Anxiety

Dr Taras Fedirko presents a seminar entitled 'Non-state support for Ukraine's war effort (2014-2023) and its consequences for Ukrainian politics'.

The School of English, the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, and the National Poetry Centre are pleased to present this inaugural lecture-performance.

Join Dr Iona McCleery from the School of History as she presents 'Feast and Famine' at the Thackray Museum of Medicine together with Dr Jonny Geber from the University of Edinburgh.

Part of the 2023-24 Institute for Medieval Studies events series.

For this week's Visiting Artist's Talk we welcome Victoria Lucas, an artist based in Sheffield.

This paper explores how female authors in UK television comedy, from 2010 to 2020, balance ‘unruly’ subversiveness with ‘fastidious’ crafts(wo)manship

The Working Class Network is a new group organised to foster a sense of community and belonging for working class staff and students from all programmes and years of study in our school.

'The Cross and the Status of Suffering and Death in Christian Theology' with Karen Kilby, Durham University

A presentation by Eric Drott, University of Texas at Austin.

The lecture explores three elements key to understanding the dynamics of independent fashion design as urban creative economy.

PRESENTACIÓN DEL LIBRO: Alba Martínez Martínez, Nosotras, las refugiadas. Género, identidades y experiencias de las españolas refugiadas en Francia (1939–1978) (Granada: Comares, 2024)

The 2024 Mangoletsi-Potts lectures will be given by Professor Marya Schechtman, Professor of Philosophy

This course is designed for anyone involved in fashion, textiles, retail and buying who wishes to develop a clearer understanding of sustainability for the industry.

This conference explores the particularities involved in researching media production in non-Western sites of production

Dr Katie Carpenter presents an interactive seminar entitled 'The Searchlight: A Public Engagement Project on Girls in the History of Science'

A research seminar paper by Sara J Brenneis (Amherst College).

This symposium at the University of Leeds explores furniture history as a subject and reflects on what furniture history of the future might look like.

The theme of the third annual international conference of the Military Welfare History Network (MWHN) will be 'Economies of Military Welfare: Conversations between Past and Present'.

Gibson Ncube considers what it means to be a single man in heteropatriarchal societies like Southern Africa, the stigmatisation and marginalisation of men who choose to be single and non-conformist

Join us at The National Archives for a study day diving into the careers of British Army officers from 1790 to 1820 on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.

Reckoning with the Past

The 11th European Society for Translation Studies (EST) Congress will take place at the University of Leeds in 2025.