College of Arts and Law events Early Modern Puppet Literature: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton Puppet Plays DatesThursday 20 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HP From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - G03 Illuminating the invisible - physics and light DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (17:30-19:30)LocationIkon Gallery 1 Oozells Square Brindley Place B1 2HS Search for:Search All eventsPerformanceResearch seminarsLectures, Talks and Workshops 19Feb Spectacles of Memory: Public Heritage and the Legacy of Zimbabwe's Liberation War DatesWednesday 19 February 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationOnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Njabulo Chipangura (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). 20Feb Early Modern Puppet Literature: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton Puppet Plays DatesThursday 20 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) 21Feb Frederick Long - bass-baritone | Sholto Kynoch - piano DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionBass-baritone Frederick Long leads the battle of a man against the elements, with poetry and music exploring his relationship with the natural world, and with his own nature itself. 21Feb From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - G03DescriptionFrom Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong - Professor Bodo Winter's Inaugural Lecture 21Feb Illuminating the invisible - physics and light DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (17:30-19:30)LocationIkon Gallery 1 Oozells Square Brindley Place B1 2HSDescriptionIn our event we will 'Illuminate the Invisible', showing how we can understand the fundamental nature of light, use it as a tool in unexpected ways and scratch the surface of what light can teach us. 22Feb New Music Ensemble DatesSaturday 22 February 2025 (19:30-21:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University New Music Ensemble performs William Walton's 'Façade', which features the poems of Edith Sitwell. 23Feb Baroque-Classical Orchestra DatesSunday 23 February 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionBaroque music fans are in for a treat as we present the rarely performed 'Concerto for Four Harpsichords' by J.S. Bach. 26Feb Queer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality DatesWednesday 26 February 2025 (10:00-21:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - Room G11 (Lecture Theatre 2) - University of Birmingham - Edgbaston - Birmingham - B15 2TTDescriptionQueer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality one day conference 26Feb My Iris DatesWednesday 26 February 2025 (17:00-19:00)LocationThe Foyer, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionDedicated to exploration and adroit writing, saxophonist Trish Clowes provides her bandmates with a unique platform for individual expression and group interplay. 28Feb The Well Gardened Mind DatesFriday 28 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis delightful collection of piano music intertwines with spoken texts from Dr Sue Stuart-Smith's book, 'The Well Gardened Mind'. 1Mar Trueform Projects - Archives Live DatesSaturday 1 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA night of immersion and discovery that brings the story of the East in West Archive to life. 4Mar Seventeenth-century settings of the poetry of John Donne DatesTuesday 4 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA performance of the musical settings of John Donne's poetry. 5Mar Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia. DatesWednesday 5 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Peter Brookes (Oxford University). 6Mar Bad Shakespeare: Performing Failure DatesThursday 6 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Anna Blackwell (University of Nottingham). 6Mar In Conversation: South Asian Women in Creative Leadership DatesThursday 6 March 2025 (18:30-20:00)LocationComposer’s Suite - Edgbaston Park Hotel - 53 Edgbaston Park Rd - Birmingham - B15 2RSDescriptionPart of our International Women's Day 2025 commemorative programme. 7Mar Lecture Recital - Earth and Air and Rain DatesFriday 7 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionAward-winning pianist Ceri Owen presents a lecture-recital with baritone Dominic Sedgwick. 8Mar University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir DatesSaturday 8 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)LocationLichfield CathedralDescriptionJoin the University Liturgical Choir and Dr Paul Rodmell as they perform Evensong in the splendour of Lichfield Cathedral. 11Mar Dominican Prometheus: Tragedy, Race, and Héctor Incháustegui Cabral (1912-1979) DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (17:00-18:30)LocationArts Lecture Room 3 - Arts Building (rm127)DescriptionAs part of our celebration of 125 years of Classics at the University of Birmingham, we invite you to a public lecture by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor at Princeton University. 11Mar Good Bad Books: Our Love Affair with Dystopia DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (18:00-19:00)LocationWG05 Lecture Theatre - Aston Webb Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionProfessor Nathan Waddell Inaugural lecture 12Mar Year of the Locusts: 125 BCE and Rome's Ecological Histories DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (13:00-14:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 4DescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology research seminar given by Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton). 12Mar Lorenco da Silva Mendonca and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building, Lecture Room 5, OnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Jose Ligna Nafafe (University of Bristol) 13Mar Myself the man i'th'moon do seem to be: Costuming the Moon before Moonshine DatesThursday 13 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Hess Bradley. 14Mar Chaos String Quartet DatesFriday 14 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe Chaos String Quartet join us for their Barber Concerts debut as BBC New Generation Artists. 15Mar BBC Singers feat. Birmingham University Singers DatesSaturday 15 March 2025 (18:30-20:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionWe welcome the BBC Singers for an eclectic Barber Evening Concert of choral music, with guest appearance from Birmingham University Singers. 16Mar Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir DatesSunday 16 March 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Music Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir bring together musicians from across campus for an afternoon of light entertainment. 17Mar Philosophy and Conspiracy Theories DatesMonday 17 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy and Conspiracy Theories Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 19Mar 'Just for Fun When the Moon is Shining:' Narratives of Dance in Early Colonial Malawi DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Zoe Groves (University of Leicester). 19Mar Philosophy Everywhere DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy Everywhere - Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 20Mar John Donne's Greatest Hits: Seventeenth-Century Musical Settings of John Donne's Poetry' DatesThursday 20 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar incorporating a talk and concert, given by Dr Elaine Nelson (scholar and performer). 21Mar Adam Heron - piano DatesFriday 21 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA Barber Lunchtime Concert with the BBC Young Musician 2018 piano finalist, Adam Heron. 21Mar University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs DatesFriday 21 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs come together for this uplifting concert in the Elgar Concert Hall. 22Mar Wind Band and Saxophone Choir DatesSaturday 22 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Wind Band and Saxophone Choir present an eclectic concert. 23Mar Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra DatesSunday 23 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionSymphony Orchestra and String Orchestra treat us to some fabulous music. 25Mar Philosophy in the Classroom DatesTuesday 25 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPart of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 26Mar Mundane materialities of nothing: the affinities and disruptions of invisible, hidden and transient things DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, room 105DescriptionCentre for Material Cultures and Materialities lecture given by Helen Holmes (Manchester). 26Mar Screening Urban Life in Nigeria before (and after) Nollywood DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Connor Ryan (University of Bristol). 26Mar Philosophy and Mental Health DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (14:00-16:00)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy and Mental Health Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 26Mar Britten Sinfonia - 1945: A Kind of Haunting DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionWe welcome Britten Sinfonia to the Elgar Concert Hall for the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's 'A Kind of Haunting' for baritone, two narrators, and string orchestra, along with other orchestral works. 27Mar Caledonian Hamlet DatesThursday 27 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Ewan Fernie (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham). 27Mar University Vocal Consort DatesThursday 27 March 2025 (18:30-19:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionTalented final-year choral conducting student, Jessica Duckworth takes to the podium with the University Vocal Consort to present a short recital. 28Mar Heartstrings DatesFriday 28 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis programme takes the golden age of lutesong as its basis with works of Dowland, Campion, Strozzi and Monteverdi. 28Mar The Music of Binney and Holland - University Jazz Orchestra DatesFriday 28 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Jazz Orchestra and their director Jonathan Silk turn to two artists from either side of the Atlantic for this performance in the Elgar Concert Hall. 29Mar Circlesong - University Chorus and Upper Voices DatesSaturday 29 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Chorus and Upper Voices choir join forces to perform Bob Chilcott's musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. 30Mar The Planets - Philharmonic Orchestra DatesSunday 30 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Philharmonic Orchestra present Gustav Holst's iconic The Planets alongside Haydn's London Symphony. 3Apr A Queer Twist to Shakespeare": Achilles and Patroclus in postwar productions of Troilus and Cressida DatesThursday 3 April 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Steve Purcell (University of Warwick). 4Apr Njioma Chinyere Grevious - violin | Joseph Havlat - piano DatesFriday 4 April 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionViolinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious and her duo partner Joseph Havlat perform music from the collaboratively written 'FAE Sonata'. 4Apr University Camerata DatesFriday 4 April 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis recital from University Camerata features talented choral singers from across the University under the direction of two members of the 2024/25 MA Choral Conducting cohort. 8Apr Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move DatesTuesday 8 April (13:15) - Friday 11 April 2025 (16:45)DescriptionConference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK. 25Apr Noisy Hegemonies: How does tradition help a community regain its voice? DatesFriday 25 April 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre, Online - a link will be sent to you before the eventDescriptionProfessor Alexander M. Cannon Inaugural Lecture 7May Brautigam/Hoppe/Poltéra Trio DatesWednesday 7 May 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis internationally acclaimed, all-star trio give the final Barber Evening concert of the 24/25 season. 21May "Challenging Times": LCAHM Conference 2025 DatesWednesday 21 May 2025 (10:00-16:30)LocationUniversity of Birmingham and OnlineDescriptionThe School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for the forthcoming PGR-led conference to be held at the University of Birmingham and online on May 21, 2025. 5Jun A history of the right to bodily integrity in practice: the case of forensic vaginal examinations DatesThursday 5 June 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationUniversity campus (room tbc), ZoomDescriptionIn collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, CMCM will be welcoming Robert Williamson (History, University of North Carolina). 21Jun 125 Anniversary Concert DatesSaturday 21 June 2025 (18:45-22:00)LocationGreen HeartDescriptionJoin us for an unforgettable celebratory concert set against the iconic open-air backdrop of the Green Heart and Old Joe. 1Jul Youth and Horror: An International Conference DatesTuesday 1 July (00:00) - Wednesday 2 July 2025 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe Youth and Horror Research Network is delighted to invite submissions for its international conference. 1Jul Katherine Mansfield Conference 2025 DatesTuesday 1 July (00:00) - Thursday 3 July 2025 (00:00)LocationOld GymDescriptionThe 2025 conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society will re-examine the importance of place in Mansfield's writings. 17Jul Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies World Congress 2025 DatesThursday 17 July (00:00) - Sunday 20 July 2025 (00:00)LocationAlan Walters BuildingDescriptionSociety for Global Nineteenth Century Studies World Congress 2025 19Aug International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference 2025 DatesTuesday 19 August (00:00) - Friday 22 August 2025 (00:00)LocationArts BuildingDescriptionCall for papers. Conference theme: Highlighting the cross-disciplinarity of the psychology of religion 21Feb Frederick Long - bass-baritone | Sholto Kynoch - piano DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionBass-baritone Frederick Long leads the battle of a man against the elements, with poetry and music exploring his relationship with the natural world, and with his own nature itself. 22Feb New Music Ensemble DatesSaturday 22 February 2025 (19:30-21:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University New Music Ensemble performs William Walton's 'Façade', which features the poems of Edith Sitwell. 23Feb Baroque-Classical Orchestra DatesSunday 23 February 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionBaroque music fans are in for a treat as we present the rarely performed 'Concerto for Four Harpsichords' by J.S. Bach. 26Feb My Iris DatesWednesday 26 February 2025 (17:00-19:00)LocationThe Foyer, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionDedicated to exploration and adroit writing, saxophonist Trish Clowes provides her bandmates with a unique platform for individual expression and group interplay. 28Feb The Well Gardened Mind DatesFriday 28 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis delightful collection of piano music intertwines with spoken texts from Dr Sue Stuart-Smith's book, 'The Well Gardened Mind'. 1Mar Trueform Projects - Archives Live DatesSaturday 1 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA night of immersion and discovery that brings the story of the East in West Archive to life. 4Mar Seventeenth-century settings of the poetry of John Donne DatesTuesday 4 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA performance of the musical settings of John Donne's poetry. 7Mar Lecture Recital - Earth and Air and Rain DatesFriday 7 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionAward-winning pianist Ceri Owen presents a lecture-recital with baritone Dominic Sedgwick. 8Mar University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir DatesSaturday 8 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)LocationLichfield CathedralDescriptionJoin the University Liturgical Choir and Dr Paul Rodmell as they perform Evensong in the splendour of Lichfield Cathedral. 14Mar Chaos String Quartet DatesFriday 14 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe Chaos String Quartet join us for their Barber Concerts debut as BBC New Generation Artists. 15Mar BBC Singers feat. Birmingham University Singers DatesSaturday 15 March 2025 (18:30-20:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionWe welcome the BBC Singers for an eclectic Barber Evening Concert of choral music, with guest appearance from Birmingham University Singers. 16Mar Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir DatesSunday 16 March 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Music Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir bring together musicians from across campus for an afternoon of light entertainment. 21Mar Adam Heron - piano DatesFriday 21 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA Barber Lunchtime Concert with the BBC Young Musician 2018 piano finalist, Adam Heron. 21Mar University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs DatesFriday 21 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs come together for this uplifting concert in the Elgar Concert Hall. 22Mar Wind Band and Saxophone Choir DatesSaturday 22 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Wind Band and Saxophone Choir present an eclectic concert. 23Mar Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra DatesSunday 23 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionSymphony Orchestra and String Orchestra treat us to some fabulous music. 26Mar Britten Sinfonia - 1945: A Kind of Haunting DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionWe welcome Britten Sinfonia to the Elgar Concert Hall for the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's 'A Kind of Haunting' for baritone, two narrators, and string orchestra, along with other orchestral works. 27Mar University Vocal Consort DatesThursday 27 March 2025 (18:30-19:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionTalented final-year choral conducting student, Jessica Duckworth takes to the podium with the University Vocal Consort to present a short recital. 28Mar Heartstrings DatesFriday 28 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis programme takes the golden age of lutesong as its basis with works of Dowland, Campion, Strozzi and Monteverdi. 28Mar The Music of Binney and Holland - University Jazz Orchestra DatesFriday 28 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Jazz Orchestra and their director Jonathan Silk turn to two artists from either side of the Atlantic for this performance in the Elgar Concert Hall. 29Mar Circlesong - University Chorus and Upper Voices DatesSaturday 29 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Chorus and Upper Voices choir join forces to perform Bob Chilcott's musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. 30Mar The Planets - Philharmonic Orchestra DatesSunday 30 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Philharmonic Orchestra present Gustav Holst's iconic The Planets alongside Haydn's London Symphony. 4Apr Njioma Chinyere Grevious - violin | Joseph Havlat - piano DatesFriday 4 April 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionViolinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious and her duo partner Joseph Havlat perform music from the collaboratively written 'FAE Sonata'. 4Apr University Camerata DatesFriday 4 April 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis recital from University Camerata features talented choral singers from across the University under the direction of two members of the 2024/25 MA Choral Conducting cohort. 7May Brautigam/Hoppe/Poltéra Trio DatesWednesday 7 May 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis internationally acclaimed, all-star trio give the final Barber Evening concert of the 24/25 season. 21Jun 125 Anniversary Concert DatesSaturday 21 June 2025 (18:45-22:00)LocationGreen HeartDescriptionJoin us for an unforgettable celebratory concert set against the iconic open-air backdrop of the Green Heart and Old Joe. 19Feb Spectacles of Memory: Public Heritage and the Legacy of Zimbabwe's Liberation War DatesWednesday 19 February 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationOnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Njabulo Chipangura (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). 5Mar Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia. DatesWednesday 5 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Peter Brookes (Oxford University). 11Mar Dominican Prometheus: Tragedy, Race, and Héctor Incháustegui Cabral (1912-1979) DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (17:00-18:30)LocationArts Lecture Room 3 - Arts Building (rm127)DescriptionAs part of our celebration of 125 years of Classics at the University of Birmingham, we invite you to a public lecture by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor at Princeton University. 12Mar Year of the Locusts: 125 BCE and Rome's Ecological Histories DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (13:00-14:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 4DescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology research seminar given by Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton). 12Mar Lorenco da Silva Mendonca and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building, Lecture Room 5, OnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Jose Ligna Nafafe (University of Bristol) 19Mar 'Just for Fun When the Moon is Shining:' Narratives of Dance in Early Colonial Malawi DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Zoe Groves (University of Leicester). 26Mar Screening Urban Life in Nigeria before (and after) Nollywood DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Connor Ryan (University of Bristol). 19Feb Spectacles of Memory: Public Heritage and the Legacy of Zimbabwe's Liberation War DatesWednesday 19 February 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationOnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Njabulo Chipangura (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). 20Feb Early Modern Puppet Literature: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton Puppet Plays DatesThursday 20 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham) 21Feb From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - G03DescriptionFrom Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong - Professor Bodo Winter's Inaugural Lecture 26Feb Queer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality DatesWednesday 26 February 2025 (10:00-21:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - Room G11 (Lecture Theatre 2) - University of Birmingham - Edgbaston - Birmingham - B15 2TTDescriptionQueer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality one day conference 5Mar Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia. DatesWednesday 5 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Peter Brookes (Oxford University). 6Mar Bad Shakespeare: Performing Failure DatesThursday 6 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Anna Blackwell (University of Nottingham). 11Mar Dominican Prometheus: Tragedy, Race, and Héctor Incháustegui Cabral (1912-1979) DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (17:00-18:30)LocationArts Lecture Room 3 - Arts Building (rm127)DescriptionAs part of our celebration of 125 years of Classics at the University of Birmingham, we invite you to a public lecture by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor at Princeton University. 11Mar Good Bad Books: Our Love Affair with Dystopia DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (18:00-19:00)LocationWG05 Lecture Theatre - Aston Webb Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionProfessor Nathan Waddell Inaugural lecture 12Mar Year of the Locusts: 125 BCE and Rome's Ecological Histories DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (13:00-14:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 4DescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology research seminar given by Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton). 12Mar Lorenco da Silva Mendonca and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building, Lecture Room 5, OnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Jose Ligna Nafafe (University of Bristol) 13Mar Myself the man i'th'moon do seem to be: Costuming the Moon before Moonshine DatesThursday 13 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Hess Bradley. 17Mar Philosophy and Conspiracy Theories DatesMonday 17 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy and Conspiracy Theories Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 19Mar 'Just for Fun When the Moon is Shining:' Narratives of Dance in Early Colonial Malawi DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Zoe Groves (University of Leicester). 19Mar Philosophy Everywhere DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy Everywhere - Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 20Mar John Donne's Greatest Hits: Seventeenth-Century Musical Settings of John Donne's Poetry' DatesThursday 20 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar incorporating a talk and concert, given by Dr Elaine Nelson (scholar and performer). 25Mar Philosophy in the Classroom DatesTuesday 25 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPart of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 26Mar Mundane materialities of nothing: the affinities and disruptions of invisible, hidden and transient things DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, room 105DescriptionCentre for Material Cultures and Materialities lecture given by Helen Holmes (Manchester). 26Mar Screening Urban Life in Nigeria before (and after) Nollywood DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Connor Ryan (University of Bristol). 26Mar Philosophy and Mental Health DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (14:00-16:00)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy and Mental Health Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy 27Mar Caledonian Hamlet DatesThursday 27 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Ewan Fernie (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham). 3Apr A Queer Twist to Shakespeare": Achilles and Patroclus in postwar productions of Troilus and Cressida DatesThursday 3 April 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Steve Purcell (University of Warwick). 25Apr Noisy Hegemonies: How does tradition help a community regain its voice? DatesFriday 25 April 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre, Online - a link will be sent to you before the eventDescriptionProfessor Alexander M. Cannon Inaugural Lecture 21May "Challenging Times": LCAHM Conference 2025 DatesWednesday 21 May 2025 (10:00-16:30)LocationUniversity of Birmingham and OnlineDescriptionThe School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for the forthcoming PGR-led conference to be held at the University of Birmingham and online on May 21, 2025. 5Jun A history of the right to bodily integrity in practice: the case of forensic vaginal examinations DatesThursday 5 June 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationUniversity campus (room tbc), ZoomDescriptionIn collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, CMCM will be welcoming Robert Williamson (History, University of North Carolina). 1Jul Youth and Horror: An International Conference DatesTuesday 1 July (00:00) - Wednesday 2 July 2025 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe Youth and Horror Research Network is delighted to invite submissions for its international conference. 1Jul Katherine Mansfield Conference 2025 DatesTuesday 1 July (00:00) - Thursday 3 July 2025 (00:00)LocationOld GymDescriptionThe 2025 conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society will re-examine the importance of place in Mansfield's writings. 17Jul Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies World Congress 2025 DatesThursday 17 July (00:00) - Sunday 20 July 2025 (00:00)LocationAlan Walters BuildingDescriptionSociety for Global Nineteenth Century Studies World Congress 2025 19Aug International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference 2025 DatesTuesday 19 August (00:00) - Friday 22 August 2025 (00:00)LocationArts BuildingDescriptionCall for papers. Conference theme: Highlighting the cross-disciplinarity of the psychology of religion
Early Modern Puppet Literature: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton Puppet Plays DatesThursday 20 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HP
From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - G03
Illuminating the invisible - physics and light DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (17:30-19:30)LocationIkon Gallery 1 Oozells Square Brindley Place B1 2HS
19Feb Spectacles of Memory: Public Heritage and the Legacy of Zimbabwe's Liberation War DatesWednesday 19 February 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationOnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Njabulo Chipangura (National University of Ireland, Maynooth).
20Feb Early Modern Puppet Literature: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton Puppet Plays DatesThursday 20 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
21Feb Frederick Long - bass-baritone | Sholto Kynoch - piano DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionBass-baritone Frederick Long leads the battle of a man against the elements, with poetry and music exploring his relationship with the natural world, and with his own nature itself.
21Feb From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - G03DescriptionFrom Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong - Professor Bodo Winter's Inaugural Lecture
21Feb Illuminating the invisible - physics and light DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (17:30-19:30)LocationIkon Gallery 1 Oozells Square Brindley Place B1 2HSDescriptionIn our event we will 'Illuminate the Invisible', showing how we can understand the fundamental nature of light, use it as a tool in unexpected ways and scratch the surface of what light can teach us.
22Feb New Music Ensemble DatesSaturday 22 February 2025 (19:30-21:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University New Music Ensemble performs William Walton's 'Façade', which features the poems of Edith Sitwell.
23Feb Baroque-Classical Orchestra DatesSunday 23 February 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionBaroque music fans are in for a treat as we present the rarely performed 'Concerto for Four Harpsichords' by J.S. Bach.
26Feb Queer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality DatesWednesday 26 February 2025 (10:00-21:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - Room G11 (Lecture Theatre 2) - University of Birmingham - Edgbaston - Birmingham - B15 2TTDescriptionQueer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality one day conference
26Feb My Iris DatesWednesday 26 February 2025 (17:00-19:00)LocationThe Foyer, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionDedicated to exploration and adroit writing, saxophonist Trish Clowes provides her bandmates with a unique platform for individual expression and group interplay.
28Feb The Well Gardened Mind DatesFriday 28 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis delightful collection of piano music intertwines with spoken texts from Dr Sue Stuart-Smith's book, 'The Well Gardened Mind'.
1Mar Trueform Projects - Archives Live DatesSaturday 1 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA night of immersion and discovery that brings the story of the East in West Archive to life.
4Mar Seventeenth-century settings of the poetry of John Donne DatesTuesday 4 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA performance of the musical settings of John Donne's poetry.
5Mar Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia. DatesWednesday 5 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Peter Brookes (Oxford University).
6Mar Bad Shakespeare: Performing Failure DatesThursday 6 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Anna Blackwell (University of Nottingham).
6Mar In Conversation: South Asian Women in Creative Leadership DatesThursday 6 March 2025 (18:30-20:00)LocationComposer’s Suite - Edgbaston Park Hotel - 53 Edgbaston Park Rd - Birmingham - B15 2RSDescriptionPart of our International Women's Day 2025 commemorative programme.
7Mar Lecture Recital - Earth and Air and Rain DatesFriday 7 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionAward-winning pianist Ceri Owen presents a lecture-recital with baritone Dominic Sedgwick.
8Mar University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir DatesSaturday 8 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)LocationLichfield CathedralDescriptionJoin the University Liturgical Choir and Dr Paul Rodmell as they perform Evensong in the splendour of Lichfield Cathedral.
11Mar Dominican Prometheus: Tragedy, Race, and Héctor Incháustegui Cabral (1912-1979) DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (17:00-18:30)LocationArts Lecture Room 3 - Arts Building (rm127)DescriptionAs part of our celebration of 125 years of Classics at the University of Birmingham, we invite you to a public lecture by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor at Princeton University.
11Mar Good Bad Books: Our Love Affair with Dystopia DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (18:00-19:00)LocationWG05 Lecture Theatre - Aston Webb Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionProfessor Nathan Waddell Inaugural lecture
12Mar Year of the Locusts: 125 BCE and Rome's Ecological Histories DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (13:00-14:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 4DescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology research seminar given by Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton).
12Mar Lorenco da Silva Mendonca and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building, Lecture Room 5, OnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Jose Ligna Nafafe (University of Bristol)
13Mar Myself the man i'th'moon do seem to be: Costuming the Moon before Moonshine DatesThursday 13 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Hess Bradley.
14Mar Chaos String Quartet DatesFriday 14 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe Chaos String Quartet join us for their Barber Concerts debut as BBC New Generation Artists.
15Mar BBC Singers feat. Birmingham University Singers DatesSaturday 15 March 2025 (18:30-20:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionWe welcome the BBC Singers for an eclectic Barber Evening Concert of choral music, with guest appearance from Birmingham University Singers.
16Mar Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir DatesSunday 16 March 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Music Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir bring together musicians from across campus for an afternoon of light entertainment.
17Mar Philosophy and Conspiracy Theories DatesMonday 17 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy and Conspiracy Theories Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
19Mar 'Just for Fun When the Moon is Shining:' Narratives of Dance in Early Colonial Malawi DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Zoe Groves (University of Leicester).
19Mar Philosophy Everywhere DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy Everywhere - Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
20Mar John Donne's Greatest Hits: Seventeenth-Century Musical Settings of John Donne's Poetry' DatesThursday 20 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar incorporating a talk and concert, given by Dr Elaine Nelson (scholar and performer).
21Mar Adam Heron - piano DatesFriday 21 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA Barber Lunchtime Concert with the BBC Young Musician 2018 piano finalist, Adam Heron.
21Mar University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs DatesFriday 21 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs come together for this uplifting concert in the Elgar Concert Hall.
22Mar Wind Band and Saxophone Choir DatesSaturday 22 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Wind Band and Saxophone Choir present an eclectic concert.
23Mar Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra DatesSunday 23 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionSymphony Orchestra and String Orchestra treat us to some fabulous music.
25Mar Philosophy in the Classroom DatesTuesday 25 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPart of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
26Mar Mundane materialities of nothing: the affinities and disruptions of invisible, hidden and transient things DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, room 105DescriptionCentre for Material Cultures and Materialities lecture given by Helen Holmes (Manchester).
26Mar Screening Urban Life in Nigeria before (and after) Nollywood DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Connor Ryan (University of Bristol).
26Mar Philosophy and Mental Health DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (14:00-16:00)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy and Mental Health Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
26Mar Britten Sinfonia - 1945: A Kind of Haunting DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionWe welcome Britten Sinfonia to the Elgar Concert Hall for the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's 'A Kind of Haunting' for baritone, two narrators, and string orchestra, along with other orchestral works.
27Mar Caledonian Hamlet DatesThursday 27 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Ewan Fernie (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham).
27Mar University Vocal Consort DatesThursday 27 March 2025 (18:30-19:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionTalented final-year choral conducting student, Jessica Duckworth takes to the podium with the University Vocal Consort to present a short recital.
28Mar Heartstrings DatesFriday 28 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis programme takes the golden age of lutesong as its basis with works of Dowland, Campion, Strozzi and Monteverdi.
28Mar The Music of Binney and Holland - University Jazz Orchestra DatesFriday 28 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Jazz Orchestra and their director Jonathan Silk turn to two artists from either side of the Atlantic for this performance in the Elgar Concert Hall.
29Mar Circlesong - University Chorus and Upper Voices DatesSaturday 29 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Chorus and Upper Voices choir join forces to perform Bob Chilcott's musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America.
30Mar The Planets - Philharmonic Orchestra DatesSunday 30 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Philharmonic Orchestra present Gustav Holst's iconic The Planets alongside Haydn's London Symphony.
3Apr A Queer Twist to Shakespeare": Achilles and Patroclus in postwar productions of Troilus and Cressida DatesThursday 3 April 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Steve Purcell (University of Warwick).
4Apr Njioma Chinyere Grevious - violin | Joseph Havlat - piano DatesFriday 4 April 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionViolinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious and her duo partner Joseph Havlat perform music from the collaboratively written 'FAE Sonata'.
4Apr University Camerata DatesFriday 4 April 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis recital from University Camerata features talented choral singers from across the University under the direction of two members of the 2024/25 MA Choral Conducting cohort.
8Apr Critical Junctions: Anthropology on the Move DatesTuesday 8 April (13:15) - Friday 11 April 2025 (16:45)DescriptionConference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK.
25Apr Noisy Hegemonies: How does tradition help a community regain its voice? DatesFriday 25 April 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre, Online - a link will be sent to you before the eventDescriptionProfessor Alexander M. Cannon Inaugural Lecture
7May Brautigam/Hoppe/Poltéra Trio DatesWednesday 7 May 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis internationally acclaimed, all-star trio give the final Barber Evening concert of the 24/25 season.
21May "Challenging Times": LCAHM Conference 2025 DatesWednesday 21 May 2025 (10:00-16:30)LocationUniversity of Birmingham and OnlineDescriptionThe School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for the forthcoming PGR-led conference to be held at the University of Birmingham and online on May 21, 2025.
5Jun A history of the right to bodily integrity in practice: the case of forensic vaginal examinations DatesThursday 5 June 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationUniversity campus (room tbc), ZoomDescriptionIn collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, CMCM will be welcoming Robert Williamson (History, University of North Carolina).
21Jun 125 Anniversary Concert DatesSaturday 21 June 2025 (18:45-22:00)LocationGreen HeartDescriptionJoin us for an unforgettable celebratory concert set against the iconic open-air backdrop of the Green Heart and Old Joe.
1Jul Youth and Horror: An International Conference DatesTuesday 1 July (00:00) - Wednesday 2 July 2025 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe Youth and Horror Research Network is delighted to invite submissions for its international conference.
1Jul Katherine Mansfield Conference 2025 DatesTuesday 1 July (00:00) - Thursday 3 July 2025 (00:00)LocationOld GymDescriptionThe 2025 conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society will re-examine the importance of place in Mansfield's writings.
17Jul Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies World Congress 2025 DatesThursday 17 July (00:00) - Sunday 20 July 2025 (00:00)LocationAlan Walters BuildingDescriptionSociety for Global Nineteenth Century Studies World Congress 2025
19Aug International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference 2025 DatesTuesday 19 August (00:00) - Friday 22 August 2025 (00:00)LocationArts BuildingDescriptionCall for papers. Conference theme: Highlighting the cross-disciplinarity of the psychology of religion
21Feb Frederick Long - bass-baritone | Sholto Kynoch - piano DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionBass-baritone Frederick Long leads the battle of a man against the elements, with poetry and music exploring his relationship with the natural world, and with his own nature itself.
22Feb New Music Ensemble DatesSaturday 22 February 2025 (19:30-21:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University New Music Ensemble performs William Walton's 'Façade', which features the poems of Edith Sitwell.
23Feb Baroque-Classical Orchestra DatesSunday 23 February 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionBaroque music fans are in for a treat as we present the rarely performed 'Concerto for Four Harpsichords' by J.S. Bach.
26Feb My Iris DatesWednesday 26 February 2025 (17:00-19:00)LocationThe Foyer, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionDedicated to exploration and adroit writing, saxophonist Trish Clowes provides her bandmates with a unique platform for individual expression and group interplay.
28Feb The Well Gardened Mind DatesFriday 28 February 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis delightful collection of piano music intertwines with spoken texts from Dr Sue Stuart-Smith's book, 'The Well Gardened Mind'.
1Mar Trueform Projects - Archives Live DatesSaturday 1 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA night of immersion and discovery that brings the story of the East in West Archive to life.
4Mar Seventeenth-century settings of the poetry of John Donne DatesTuesday 4 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA performance of the musical settings of John Donne's poetry.
7Mar Lecture Recital - Earth and Air and Rain DatesFriday 7 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionAward-winning pianist Ceri Owen presents a lecture-recital with baritone Dominic Sedgwick.
8Mar University of Birmingham Liturgical Choir DatesSaturday 8 March 2025 (17:30-18:30)LocationLichfield CathedralDescriptionJoin the University Liturgical Choir and Dr Paul Rodmell as they perform Evensong in the splendour of Lichfield Cathedral.
14Mar Chaos String Quartet DatesFriday 14 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe Chaos String Quartet join us for their Barber Concerts debut as BBC New Generation Artists.
15Mar BBC Singers feat. Birmingham University Singers DatesSaturday 15 March 2025 (18:30-20:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionWe welcome the BBC Singers for an eclectic Barber Evening Concert of choral music, with guest appearance from Birmingham University Singers.
16Mar Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir DatesSunday 16 March 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Music Flute Choir and Clarinet Choir bring together musicians from across campus for an afternoon of light entertainment.
21Mar Adam Heron - piano DatesFriday 21 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA Barber Lunchtime Concert with the BBC Young Musician 2018 piano finalist, Adam Heron.
21Mar University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs DatesFriday 21 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Brass Band and Chamber Choirs come together for this uplifting concert in the Elgar Concert Hall.
22Mar Wind Band and Saxophone Choir DatesSaturday 22 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Wind Band and Saxophone Choir present an eclectic concert.
23Mar Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra DatesSunday 23 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionSymphony Orchestra and String Orchestra treat us to some fabulous music.
26Mar Britten Sinfonia - 1945: A Kind of Haunting DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionWe welcome Britten Sinfonia to the Elgar Concert Hall for the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's 'A Kind of Haunting' for baritone, two narrators, and string orchestra, along with other orchestral works.
27Mar University Vocal Consort DatesThursday 27 March 2025 (18:30-19:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionTalented final-year choral conducting student, Jessica Duckworth takes to the podium with the University Vocal Consort to present a short recital.
28Mar Heartstrings DatesFriday 28 March 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis programme takes the golden age of lutesong as its basis with works of Dowland, Campion, Strozzi and Monteverdi.
28Mar The Music of Binney and Holland - University Jazz Orchestra DatesFriday 28 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Jazz Orchestra and their director Jonathan Silk turn to two artists from either side of the Atlantic for this performance in the Elgar Concert Hall.
29Mar Circlesong - University Chorus and Upper Voices DatesSaturday 29 March 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Chorus and Upper Voices choir join forces to perform Bob Chilcott's musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America.
30Mar The Planets - Philharmonic Orchestra DatesSunday 30 March 2025 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Philharmonic Orchestra present Gustav Holst's iconic The Planets alongside Haydn's London Symphony.
4Apr Njioma Chinyere Grevious - violin | Joseph Havlat - piano DatesFriday 4 April 2025 (13:00-13:50)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionViolinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious and her duo partner Joseph Havlat perform music from the collaboratively written 'FAE Sonata'.
4Apr University Camerata DatesFriday 4 April 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis recital from University Camerata features talented choral singers from across the University under the direction of two members of the 2024/25 MA Choral Conducting cohort.
7May Brautigam/Hoppe/Poltéra Trio DatesWednesday 7 May 2025 (19:30-21:30)LocationElgar Concert Hall - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThis internationally acclaimed, all-star trio give the final Barber Evening concert of the 24/25 season.
21Jun 125 Anniversary Concert DatesSaturday 21 June 2025 (18:45-22:00)LocationGreen HeartDescriptionJoin us for an unforgettable celebratory concert set against the iconic open-air backdrop of the Green Heart and Old Joe.
19Feb Spectacles of Memory: Public Heritage and the Legacy of Zimbabwe's Liberation War DatesWednesday 19 February 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationOnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Njabulo Chipangura (National University of Ireland, Maynooth).
5Mar Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia. DatesWednesday 5 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Peter Brookes (Oxford University).
11Mar Dominican Prometheus: Tragedy, Race, and Héctor Incháustegui Cabral (1912-1979) DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (17:00-18:30)LocationArts Lecture Room 3 - Arts Building (rm127)DescriptionAs part of our celebration of 125 years of Classics at the University of Birmingham, we invite you to a public lecture by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor at Princeton University.
12Mar Year of the Locusts: 125 BCE and Rome's Ecological Histories DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (13:00-14:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 4DescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology research seminar given by Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton).
12Mar Lorenco da Silva Mendonca and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building, Lecture Room 5, OnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Jose Ligna Nafafe (University of Bristol)
19Mar 'Just for Fun When the Moon is Shining:' Narratives of Dance in Early Colonial Malawi DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Zoe Groves (University of Leicester).
26Mar Screening Urban Life in Nigeria before (and after) Nollywood DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Connor Ryan (University of Bristol).
19Feb Spectacles of Memory: Public Heritage and the Legacy of Zimbabwe's Liberation War DatesWednesday 19 February 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationOnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Njabulo Chipangura (National University of Ireland, Maynooth).
20Feb Early Modern Puppet Literature: Shakespeare, Marlowe and Milton Puppet Plays DatesThursday 20 February 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
21Feb From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong DatesFriday 21 February 2025 (16:00-17:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - G03DescriptionFrom Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong - Professor Bodo Winter's Inaugural Lecture
26Feb Queer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality DatesWednesday 26 February 2025 (10:00-21:00)LocationAlan Walters Building - Room G11 (Lecture Theatre 2) - University of Birmingham - Edgbaston - Birmingham - B15 2TTDescriptionQueer Feminist Translation, Affect, and Decoloniality one day conference
5Mar Manly Machines and Homely Objects: Gender, Development and Divergent Radio Technologies in Late-Colonial Ghana and Zambia. DatesWednesday 5 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Peter Brookes (Oxford University).
6Mar Bad Shakespeare: Performing Failure DatesThursday 6 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Anna Blackwell (University of Nottingham).
11Mar Dominican Prometheus: Tragedy, Race, and Héctor Incháustegui Cabral (1912-1979) DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (17:00-18:30)LocationArts Lecture Room 3 - Arts Building (rm127)DescriptionAs part of our celebration of 125 years of Classics at the University of Birmingham, we invite you to a public lecture by Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor at Princeton University.
11Mar Good Bad Books: Our Love Affair with Dystopia DatesTuesday 11 March 2025 (18:00-19:00)LocationWG05 Lecture Theatre - Aston Webb Building (R4 on campus map)DescriptionProfessor Nathan Waddell Inaugural lecture
12Mar Year of the Locusts: 125 BCE and Rome's Ecological Histories DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (13:00-14:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 4DescriptionDepartment of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology research seminar given by Dan-El Padilla Peralta (Princeton).
12Mar Lorenco da Silva Mendonca and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century DatesWednesday 12 March 2025 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building, Lecture Room 5, OnlineDescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Jose Ligna Nafafe (University of Bristol)
13Mar Myself the man i'th'moon do seem to be: Costuming the Moon before Moonshine DatesThursday 13 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationZoomDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Hess Bradley.
17Mar Philosophy and Conspiracy Theories DatesMonday 17 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy and Conspiracy Theories Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
19Mar 'Just for Fun When the Moon is Shining:' Narratives of Dance in Early Colonial Malawi DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Zoe Groves (University of Leicester).
19Mar Philosophy Everywhere DatesWednesday 19 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy Everywhere - Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
20Mar John Donne's Greatest Hits: Seventeenth-Century Musical Settings of John Donne's Poetry' DatesThursday 20 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar incorporating a talk and concert, given by Dr Elaine Nelson (scholar and performer).
25Mar Philosophy in the Classroom DatesTuesday 25 March 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPart of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
26Mar Mundane materialities of nothing: the affinities and disruptions of invisible, hidden and transient things DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, room 105DescriptionCentre for Material Cultures and Materialities lecture given by Helen Holmes (Manchester).
26Mar Screening Urban Life in Nigeria before (and after) Nollywood DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (13:00-14:30)LocationArts Building, Online, Room 104DescriptionAfrica Talks seminar given by Connor Ryan (University of Bristol).
26Mar Philosophy and Mental Health DatesWednesday 26 March 2025 (14:00-16:00)LocationOnline - hosted via ZoomDescriptionPhilosophy and Mental Health Part of a new series of UoB #PhilosophyMatters webinars on the importance of Philosophy supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy
27Mar Caledonian Hamlet DatesThursday 27 March 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Professor Ewan Fernie (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham).
3Apr A Queer Twist to Shakespeare": Achilles and Patroclus in postwar productions of Troilus and Cressida DatesThursday 3 April 2025 (15:00-16:00)LocationShakespeare Institute - Mason Croft - Church St - Stratford-upon-Avon - CV37 6HPDescriptionShakespeare Institute Thursday seminar given by Dr Steve Purcell (University of Warwick).
25Apr Noisy Hegemonies: How does tradition help a community regain its voice? DatesFriday 25 April 2025 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts Main Lecture Theatre, Online - a link will be sent to you before the eventDescriptionProfessor Alexander M. Cannon Inaugural Lecture
21May "Challenging Times": LCAHM Conference 2025 DatesWednesday 21 May 2025 (10:00-16:30)LocationUniversity of Birmingham and OnlineDescriptionThe School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for the forthcoming PGR-led conference to be held at the University of Birmingham and online on May 21, 2025.
5Jun A history of the right to bodily integrity in practice: the case of forensic vaginal examinations DatesThursday 5 June 2025 (15:00-16:30)LocationUniversity campus (room tbc), ZoomDescriptionIn collaboration with the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, CMCM will be welcoming Robert Williamson (History, University of North Carolina).
1Jul Youth and Horror: An International Conference DatesTuesday 1 July (00:00) - Wednesday 2 July 2025 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe Youth and Horror Research Network is delighted to invite submissions for its international conference.
1Jul Katherine Mansfield Conference 2025 DatesTuesday 1 July (00:00) - Thursday 3 July 2025 (00:00)LocationOld GymDescriptionThe 2025 conference of the Katherine Mansfield Society will re-examine the importance of place in Mansfield's writings.
17Jul Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies World Congress 2025 DatesThursday 17 July (00:00) - Sunday 20 July 2025 (00:00)LocationAlan Walters BuildingDescriptionSociety for Global Nineteenth Century Studies World Congress 2025
19Aug International Association for the Psychology of Religion Conference 2025 DatesTuesday 19 August (00:00) - Friday 22 August 2025 (00:00)LocationArts BuildingDescriptionCall for papers. Conference theme: Highlighting the cross-disciplinarity of the psychology of religion