Events Search Search for: Search 12Jun Sights of Wonder: Online Exhibition DatesFriday 12 June 2020 (00:00) - Thursday 1 February 2024 (00:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionSights of Wonder is the first-ever digital exhibition by the Barber - curated by University of Birmingham MA Art History and Curating Students in collaboration with Royal Collection Trust. 25Apr A History through Objects: Research and Innovation at the University of Birmingham DatesMonday 25 April 2022 (12:00) - Monday 31 July 2023 (12:00)LocationAston Webb BuidlingDescriptionThis exhibition showcases a range of historical and contemporary examples of research and discovery, created in Birmingham with global reach - affecting the lives of millions of people around the world. 1Jul Family Activities – Tilly The Trilobite's Hidden Word Trail DatesFriday 1 July 2022 (10:00) - Friday 30 June 2023 (10:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionCan you find the letters hidden around the museum? Grab a trail sheet from the Reception desk and get hunting. 1Jul Family Activities – Borrow a Backpack Trail DatesFriday 1 July 2022 (10:00) - Monday 31 July 2023 (17:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionNEW! Fossil Detectives Backpack Trail. Visit the museum reception to borrow one of our new backpack trails on your visit to the Lapworth. 21Nov Living Traditions: A Director's Acquisitions of Works on Paper DatesMonday 21 November 2022 (12:23) - Monday 10 July 2023 (17:00)DescriptionA display of drawings acquired by outgoing Barber Institute director Nicola Kalinsky during her ten-year tenure. 3Jan History of the University of Birmingham DatesTuesday 3 January (09:00) - Tuesday 23 May 2023 (18:00)LocationMain Library AtriumDescriptionExhibition about the history of the University of Birmingham in the Main Library atrium, illustrated through photographs from the University Heritage Archive Collection. 20Feb Winterbourne House and Garden - What's on DatesMonday 20 February 2023 (16:07) - Thursday 20 February 2025 (16:07)LocationWinterbourne House and GardenDescriptionFind out what's on at Winterbourne House and Garden. 1Mar Women in the CRL Flickr album DatesWednesday 1 March (09:00) - Friday 31 March 2023 (19:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionCadbury Research Library. International Women's Day. Flickr album 4Mar Where We Once Gathered DatesSaturday 4 March (09:00) - Friday 8 December 2023 (17:00)Location1st Floor Foyer - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionHandsworth Wood documentary photographer Herbert Walters exhibits his 2020 Covid Lockdown exhibition. 8Mar Dubai Events DatesWednesday 8 March (13:00) - Friday 31 March 2023 (13:00)LocationDubai CampusDescriptionInternational Women's day events for Dubai 1Apr Medieval English Theatre Conference: Bodies, Embodiment and Early Theatre DatesSaturday 1 April 2023 (08:00-20:00)LocationAlan Walters Building G11DescriptionThe conference will consider bodies and embodiment in relation to any aspect of early theatre. 3Apr Museum Tours DatesMonday 3 April 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum 3Apr The Exchange Easter egg hunt DatesMonday 3 April (10:00) - Thursday 6 April 2023 (15:00)LocationThe Vaults: The Exchange 3 Centenary Sq Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionJoin us for The Exchange Easter Trail and explore our fascinating historic building and current exhibition A Place to Call Home. And everyone who cracks the code and finds our golden eggs can claim a special prize! 5Apr The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Sudha Sundar DatesWednesday 5 April 2023 (16:30-17:30)LocationLeonard Deacon Lecture theatre, 1st Floor, Medical School (B1), Online - Registration via ZoomDescriptionAdvertising the inaugural lecture of Professor Sudha Sundar. 12Apr Alessandro Stradella's (1678) The Power of Paternal Love DatesWednesday 12 April (19:00) - Saturday 15 April 2023 (17:00)LocationCrescent Theatre - Sheepcote Street - B16 8AEDescriptionAlessandro Stradella's 1678 opera 'La Forza dell'amor paterno' returns to the stage for the first time since the 17th century with this Barber Opera production. 19Apr Student Workshop | Barber Print Club @ Winterbourne House DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (14:00-16:30)LocationWinterbourne House and Garden (G12 on campus map)DescriptionPrint Club for University of Birmingham Students at Winterbourne House and Gardens 19Apr Battlefield Balladry: How Irish-Americans Sang about the American Civil War DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (17:30-19:00)LocationArts Building, Lecture Theatre 3DescriptionWar Studies Seminar given by Catherine Bateson 19Apr Professor Nikk Effingham Inaugural Lecture DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (18:00-19:00)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120)DescriptionJoin Professor Nikk Effingham for his Inaugural Lecture 'The Dangers of Time Travel' Is time travel possible? If it is, does it matter? Or is it the sort of thing that only Netflix shows should deal with? 19Apr Our songs of courage; women's story project DatesWednesday 19 April (09:00) - Wednesday 7 June 2023 (17:00)LocationCharles W Gillet CentreDescriptionThis women's story project will share songs that have inspired us throughout our complex lives. We will talk about the important moments that came after these songs that stirred change from within. 20Apr Early modern playbooks in the southern hemisphere DatesThursday 20 April 2023 (15:00-16:00)LocationThe Shakespeare InstituteDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar with Hannah August (Massey University, New Zealand). 22Apr Your family archives DatesSaturday 22 April 2023 (14:00-16:00)LocationAssembly Room: The Exchange 3 Centenary Sq Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionHow do we decide what is treasure and what is trash? This workshop explores how we all act as archivists by making that decision. 26Apr Student Workshop | Barber's Drop in and Draw @ Winterbourne House DatesWednesday 26 April 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationWinterbourne House and Garden (G12 on campus map)DescriptionDrawing workshop for University of Birmingham Students at Winterbourne House and Gardens 27Apr The traffic of the stage: the social lives of Shakespeare's stories DatesThursday 27 April 2023 (15:00-16:00)LocationThe Shakespeare InstituteDescriptionRescheduled to 27 April 2023 - Shakespeare Institute Thursday seminar with Charlotte Scott (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust). 29Apr Audio performance with Max Porter DatesSaturday 29 April 2023 (18:30-21:00)LocationBanking Hall: The Exchange 3 Centenary Sq Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionJoin Max Porter for a night of poetry, performance and discussion to celebrate Shy, a novel about being lost in the dark and realising you are not alone, exploring guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood. 2May Museum Tours DatesTuesday 2 May 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum 5May Culture, Power and Identity - School of History and Cultures Postgraduate Research Conference DatesFriday 5 May 2023 (08:30-19:30)LocationMuirhead Tower and ZoomDescriptionConference for UK Postgraduate Researchers on the topic of Culture, Power and Identity 12May Second Annual Tolkien Lecture DatesFriday 12 May 2023 (19:00-20:30)LocationBramall Concert HallDescriptionJoin us for our Second Annual Tolkien Lecture, delivered by John Garth, renowned Tolkien expert. 18May Influential Researcher #3 - Curate your online publication profile DatesThursday 18 May 2023 (10:00-11:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionJoin this online workshop and discover the practical steps you can take to build and enhance your online publication profile. 31May The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument DatesWednesday 31 May 2023 (17:00-18:30)LocationRoom G03 - The Alan Walters BuildingDescriptionProfessor Paul Copan (Palm Beach Atlantic University) gives a Public Lecture for the Global Philosophy of Religion project 5Jun Museum Tours DatesMonday 5 June 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum 6Jun Queer nostalgia: Ernst Hildebrand, homoerotica, and memory in post-war Berlin DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (16:15-17:30)LocationBarber Lecture Theatre - Barber Institute - University of BirminghamDescriptionLecture by Ty Vanover (University of California, Berkeley). 6Jun Disability in poetry and performance DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (18:30-20:30)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: Readings/performances from Sarah James, Beth O'Brien, and Jamie Hale. 7Jun Authenticity and Adaptation: Association of Adaptation Studies 2023 DatesWednesday 7 June (09:00) - Friday 9 June 2023 (17:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe question of authenticity has implications for the thinking in adaptation studies, which this conference will address. 8Jun Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesThursday 8 June 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationRoom TBCDescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: Leigh Claire La Berge is a Professor of English at BMCC CUNY and a 2021-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin. 14Jun Black Ghost of Empire: Comparative Emancipations in Comparative Perspective DatesWednesday 14 June 2023 (15:30-17:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 3 - Arts Building (rm127)DescriptionLeverhulme lecture: Kris Manjapra 15Jun Noël Coward: Past, Present and Future DatesThursday 15 June (00:00) - Friday 16 June 2023 (00:00)LocationEdgbaston Park HotelDescriptionAn interdisciplinary approach to Coward's influence beyond the realm of the theatre - novelist, short story writer; composer, lyricist, singer; actor, screen writer and director as well as the figure of Coward himself. 22Jun Inaugural Lecture of Professor Maria Kavussanu DatesThursday 22 June 2023 (16:30-18:00)LocationTeaching and Learning BuildingDescriptionInaugural Lecture of Professor Maria Kavussanu 22Jun Filibusters in Birmingham: a Conference on Wyndham Lewis DatesThursday 22 June (00:00) - Friday 23 June 2023 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThis conference will focus on the doubled and doubling identity announced in the title of Lewis's 1932 work: the filibuster. 27Jun Conference: Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present DatesTuesday 27 June (09:30) - Wednesday 28 June 2023 (16:30)LocationArts BuildingDescriptionConference on Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present 28Jun The Literary Twilight Zone: Nonfictional Fiction, 1820–1920 DatesWednesday 28 June 2023 (00:00)LocationMuirhead Tower 12th Floor SuiteDescriptionThis one-day academic workshop, hosted by the Nineteenth-Century Centre, brings together scholars interested in fiction's relationships with the creation of knowledge. 3Jul Museum Tours DatesMonday 3 July 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum 7Aug Museum Tours DatesMonday 7 August 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum 30Aug EuroSLA 32 DatesWednesday 30 August (00:00) - Saturday 2 September 2023 (00:00)LocationAston Webb building, University of BirminghamDescriptionThe 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association
12Jun Sights of Wonder: Online Exhibition DatesFriday 12 June 2020 (00:00) - Thursday 1 February 2024 (00:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionSights of Wonder is the first-ever digital exhibition by the Barber - curated by University of Birmingham MA Art History and Curating Students in collaboration with Royal Collection Trust.
25Apr A History through Objects: Research and Innovation at the University of Birmingham DatesMonday 25 April 2022 (12:00) - Monday 31 July 2023 (12:00)LocationAston Webb BuidlingDescriptionThis exhibition showcases a range of historical and contemporary examples of research and discovery, created in Birmingham with global reach - affecting the lives of millions of people around the world.
1Jul Family Activities – Tilly The Trilobite's Hidden Word Trail DatesFriday 1 July 2022 (10:00) - Friday 30 June 2023 (10:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionCan you find the letters hidden around the museum? Grab a trail sheet from the Reception desk and get hunting.
1Jul Family Activities – Borrow a Backpack Trail DatesFriday 1 July 2022 (10:00) - Monday 31 July 2023 (17:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionNEW! Fossil Detectives Backpack Trail. Visit the museum reception to borrow one of our new backpack trails on your visit to the Lapworth.
21Nov Living Traditions: A Director's Acquisitions of Works on Paper DatesMonday 21 November 2022 (12:23) - Monday 10 July 2023 (17:00)DescriptionA display of drawings acquired by outgoing Barber Institute director Nicola Kalinsky during her ten-year tenure.
3Jan History of the University of Birmingham DatesTuesday 3 January (09:00) - Tuesday 23 May 2023 (18:00)LocationMain Library AtriumDescriptionExhibition about the history of the University of Birmingham in the Main Library atrium, illustrated through photographs from the University Heritage Archive Collection.
20Feb Winterbourne House and Garden - What's on DatesMonday 20 February 2023 (16:07) - Thursday 20 February 2025 (16:07)LocationWinterbourne House and GardenDescriptionFind out what's on at Winterbourne House and Garden.
1Mar Women in the CRL Flickr album DatesWednesday 1 March (09:00) - Friday 31 March 2023 (19:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionCadbury Research Library. International Women's Day. Flickr album
4Mar Where We Once Gathered DatesSaturday 4 March (09:00) - Friday 8 December 2023 (17:00)Location1st Floor Foyer - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionHandsworth Wood documentary photographer Herbert Walters exhibits his 2020 Covid Lockdown exhibition.
8Mar Dubai Events DatesWednesday 8 March (13:00) - Friday 31 March 2023 (13:00)LocationDubai CampusDescriptionInternational Women's day events for Dubai
1Apr Medieval English Theatre Conference: Bodies, Embodiment and Early Theatre DatesSaturday 1 April 2023 (08:00-20:00)LocationAlan Walters Building G11DescriptionThe conference will consider bodies and embodiment in relation to any aspect of early theatre.
3Apr Museum Tours DatesMonday 3 April 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum
3Apr The Exchange Easter egg hunt DatesMonday 3 April (10:00) - Thursday 6 April 2023 (15:00)LocationThe Vaults: The Exchange 3 Centenary Sq Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionJoin us for The Exchange Easter Trail and explore our fascinating historic building and current exhibition A Place to Call Home. And everyone who cracks the code and finds our golden eggs can claim a special prize!
5Apr The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Sudha Sundar DatesWednesday 5 April 2023 (16:30-17:30)LocationLeonard Deacon Lecture theatre, 1st Floor, Medical School (B1), Online - Registration via ZoomDescriptionAdvertising the inaugural lecture of Professor Sudha Sundar.
12Apr Alessandro Stradella's (1678) The Power of Paternal Love DatesWednesday 12 April (19:00) - Saturday 15 April 2023 (17:00)LocationCrescent Theatre - Sheepcote Street - B16 8AEDescriptionAlessandro Stradella's 1678 opera 'La Forza dell'amor paterno' returns to the stage for the first time since the 17th century with this Barber Opera production.
19Apr Student Workshop | Barber Print Club @ Winterbourne House DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (14:00-16:30)LocationWinterbourne House and Garden (G12 on campus map)DescriptionPrint Club for University of Birmingham Students at Winterbourne House and Gardens
19Apr Battlefield Balladry: How Irish-Americans Sang about the American Civil War DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (17:30-19:00)LocationArts Building, Lecture Theatre 3DescriptionWar Studies Seminar given by Catherine Bateson
19Apr Professor Nikk Effingham Inaugural Lecture DatesWednesday 19 April 2023 (18:00-19:00)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre (room 120)DescriptionJoin Professor Nikk Effingham for his Inaugural Lecture 'The Dangers of Time Travel' Is time travel possible? If it is, does it matter? Or is it the sort of thing that only Netflix shows should deal with?
19Apr Our songs of courage; women's story project DatesWednesday 19 April (09:00) - Wednesday 7 June 2023 (17:00)LocationCharles W Gillet CentreDescriptionThis women's story project will share songs that have inspired us throughout our complex lives. We will talk about the important moments that came after these songs that stirred change from within.
20Apr Early modern playbooks in the southern hemisphere DatesThursday 20 April 2023 (15:00-16:00)LocationThe Shakespeare InstituteDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar with Hannah August (Massey University, New Zealand).
22Apr Your family archives DatesSaturday 22 April 2023 (14:00-16:00)LocationAssembly Room: The Exchange 3 Centenary Sq Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionHow do we decide what is treasure and what is trash? This workshop explores how we all act as archivists by making that decision.
26Apr Student Workshop | Barber's Drop in and Draw @ Winterbourne House DatesWednesday 26 April 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationWinterbourne House and Garden (G12 on campus map)DescriptionDrawing workshop for University of Birmingham Students at Winterbourne House and Gardens
27Apr The traffic of the stage: the social lives of Shakespeare's stories DatesThursday 27 April 2023 (15:00-16:00)LocationThe Shakespeare InstituteDescriptionRescheduled to 27 April 2023 - Shakespeare Institute Thursday seminar with Charlotte Scott (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust).
29Apr Audio performance with Max Porter DatesSaturday 29 April 2023 (18:30-21:00)LocationBanking Hall: The Exchange 3 Centenary Sq Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionJoin Max Porter for a night of poetry, performance and discussion to celebrate Shy, a novel about being lost in the dark and realising you are not alone, exploring guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood.
2May Museum Tours DatesTuesday 2 May 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum
5May Culture, Power and Identity - School of History and Cultures Postgraduate Research Conference DatesFriday 5 May 2023 (08:30-19:30)LocationMuirhead Tower and ZoomDescriptionConference for UK Postgraduate Researchers on the topic of Culture, Power and Identity
12May Second Annual Tolkien Lecture DatesFriday 12 May 2023 (19:00-20:30)LocationBramall Concert HallDescriptionJoin us for our Second Annual Tolkien Lecture, delivered by John Garth, renowned Tolkien expert.
18May Influential Researcher #3 - Curate your online publication profile DatesThursday 18 May 2023 (10:00-11:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionJoin this online workshop and discover the practical steps you can take to build and enhance your online publication profile.
31May The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument DatesWednesday 31 May 2023 (17:00-18:30)LocationRoom G03 - The Alan Walters BuildingDescriptionProfessor Paul Copan (Palm Beach Atlantic University) gives a Public Lecture for the Global Philosophy of Religion project
5Jun Museum Tours DatesMonday 5 June 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum
6Jun Queer nostalgia: Ernst Hildebrand, homoerotica, and memory in post-war Berlin DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (16:15-17:30)LocationBarber Lecture Theatre - Barber Institute - University of BirminghamDescriptionLecture by Ty Vanover (University of California, Berkeley).
6Jun Disability in poetry and performance DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (18:30-20:30)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: Readings/performances from Sarah James, Beth O'Brien, and Jamie Hale.
7Jun Authenticity and Adaptation: Association of Adaptation Studies 2023 DatesWednesday 7 June (09:00) - Friday 9 June 2023 (17:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe question of authenticity has implications for the thinking in adaptation studies, which this conference will address.
8Jun Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesThursday 8 June 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationRoom TBCDescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: Leigh Claire La Berge is a Professor of English at BMCC CUNY and a 2021-2023 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin.
14Jun Black Ghost of Empire: Comparative Emancipations in Comparative Perspective DatesWednesday 14 June 2023 (15:30-17:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 3 - Arts Building (rm127)DescriptionLeverhulme lecture: Kris Manjapra
15Jun Noël Coward: Past, Present and Future DatesThursday 15 June (00:00) - Friday 16 June 2023 (00:00)LocationEdgbaston Park HotelDescriptionAn interdisciplinary approach to Coward's influence beyond the realm of the theatre - novelist, short story writer; composer, lyricist, singer; actor, screen writer and director as well as the figure of Coward himself.
22Jun Inaugural Lecture of Professor Maria Kavussanu DatesThursday 22 June 2023 (16:30-18:00)LocationTeaching and Learning BuildingDescriptionInaugural Lecture of Professor Maria Kavussanu
22Jun Filibusters in Birmingham: a Conference on Wyndham Lewis DatesThursday 22 June (00:00) - Friday 23 June 2023 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThis conference will focus on the doubled and doubling identity announced in the title of Lewis's 1932 work: the filibuster.
27Jun Conference: Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present DatesTuesday 27 June (09:30) - Wednesday 28 June 2023 (16:30)LocationArts BuildingDescriptionConference on Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present
28Jun The Literary Twilight Zone: Nonfictional Fiction, 1820–1920 DatesWednesday 28 June 2023 (00:00)LocationMuirhead Tower 12th Floor SuiteDescriptionThis one-day academic workshop, hosted by the Nineteenth-Century Centre, brings together scholars interested in fiction's relationships with the creation of knowledge.
3Jul Museum Tours DatesMonday 3 July 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum
7Aug Museum Tours DatesMonday 7 August 2023 (12:00-13:00)LocationLapworth Museum of Geology - Earth Sciences Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionJoin us for Tours of the Museum
30Aug EuroSLA 32 DatesWednesday 30 August (00:00) - Saturday 2 September 2023 (00:00)LocationAston Webb building, University of BirminghamDescriptionThe 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association