Past events
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Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
16:00 - 17:30 13 May 2026
In this public lecture, EACW John Edward Taylor Fellow Prof. Anne Anlin Cheng will be reading from her most recent book, Ordinary Disasters, and reflecting more broadly on how this collection of essays—traversing memoir, cultural criticism, and history—meditates on race, gender, aging, and contemporary...
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Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising (Speakers: Dr. João Florêncio [Linkoping] and Liz Rosenfeld [Artist, Berlin])
17:30 - 19:00 7 May 2026
Thursday, 7th May, 6.30 – 8pm Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising Speakers: Dr. João Florêncio (Linkoping) and Liz Rosenfeld (Artist, Berlin) Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, University Green, Manchester, M13 9GP Book tickets at the booking link! Student discount code for free ticket: UOMSS100 NB....
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Intersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization
17:30 - 19:00 27 April 2026
Intersex: A Manifesto Against Medicalization Speaker: Dr Iain Morland (Foundational Intersex Studies scholar), in conversation with Dr Ben Nichols (UoM) Venue: Blackwell’s Bookshop, University Green, Manchester, M13 9GP Book tickets at the booking link! Student discount code: UOMSS100 NB. Request...
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Black Feminism Now
14:00 - 15:30 20 April 2026
Four members of the Black Health and Humanities Network reflect on how Black feminist theory shapes our work, sharing research case studies. In this moment of economic precarity, worsening health inequalities and an accelerating environmental crisis, Black feminist theory continues to offer essential...
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Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns book launch
16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing: Uneasy Moderns book launch Speakers: Dr Naoise Murphy (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, UoM), with responses from Dr Katie Barnes (Salford), Prof. Daniela Caselli (UoM), and Dr Ben Nichols (UoM) Chaired by Prof. Jackie Stacey Venue: Room A115, Samuel...
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