College of Arts and Law events The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument DatesWednesday 31 May 2023 (17:00-18:30)LocationRoom G03 - The Alan Walters Building Disability in poetry and performance DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (18:30-20:30)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR Authenticity and Adaptation: Association of Adaptation Studies 2023 DatesWednesday 7 June (09:00) - Friday 9 June 2023 (17:00)LocationUniversity of Birmingham Search for:Search All eventsPerformanceResearch seminarsLectures, Talks and Workshops 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. 30May PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia DatesTuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building Room 103DescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: This PGR-focused event will offer perspectives on post-PhD careers that don't involve teaching in a university. 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 1Jun The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health DatesThursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionThe Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative. 5Jun Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History DatesMonday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts 335 Rodney Hilton RoomDescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 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 A Journey of Transformative Faith Leadership: Africa, India, and Handsworth DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (17:00-19:00)LocationAlan Walters Building G11DescriptionThe Bhai Sahib Ji Honorary Professorial Lecture 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 How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London) 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. 7Jun Our songs of courage; women's story project DatesWednesday 7 June (10:00) - Thursday 15 June 2023 (12:30)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. 8Jun Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesThursday 8 June 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationArts Building, Room 439DescriptionCentre 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. 10Jun Sing Together: Handel's Messiah DatesSaturday 10 June 2023 (11:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionCome and join choral conductors, singers, and staff past and present from the University of Birmingham as we come together in the Elgar Concert Hall for a singalong day on Handel's much-loved oratorio, Messiah. 11Jun Power Folk DatesSunday 11 June 2023 (14:00-23:00)LocationThe Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NHDescriptionOur University Folk Band play at the annual day festival hosted by Joe Broughton's Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble. 11Jun Strange and Upside Down: The Fantastical World of Alexander Agricola DatesSunday 11 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionOne of North America's leading string quartets, and passionate new music advocates, Quatuor Bozzini, join us to give the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's String Quartet No. 3. 14Jun A Tyranny of Intimacy: Photography & Stasi Surveillance DatesWednesday 14 June 2023 (16:17-17:30)LocationBarber Lecture TheatreDescriptionDonna West Brett (University of Sydney) speaks at the University of Birmingham 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. 16Jun University Jazz Orchestra Feat. Cherise DatesFriday 16 June 2023 (17:00-18:30)LocationJennifer Blackwell Performance Space - Symphony HallDescriptionUniversity Jazz Orchestra welcome emerging young soul singer, Cherise, as guest artist and perform musicfrom her upcoming album release. 16Jun Jazz Collective Presents Bobtail DatesFriday 16 June 2023 (20:00-23:00)LocationThe Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NHDescriptionTalented students perform as part of their own small bands as we move across the city from the Jazz Orchestra's earlier performance at Symphony Hall. 18Jun Cinematic Sounds: Summer Festival Orchestra DatesSunday 18 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe Summer Festival Orchestra presents music from cinema and stage and the premiere of 'Earth' by Music Society Composition Competition winner Michael Triggs. 19Jun Bring Back the Bodies DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)LocationArts 224 (Danford Room)DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 19Jun miniBEAST DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe perfect lunchtime performance for those who are new to electroacoustic music and the work of our electroacoustic studio composers. 19Jun Black Ghost of Empire: Comparative Emancipations in Comparative Perspective DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (15:30-17:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 5DescriptionLeverhulme lecture: Kris Manjapra 20Jun Graduate workshop DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)LocationAlan Walters Building Seminar Room 111DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 20Jun University Music Scholars DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA relaxed showcase performance from a selection of scholarship holders from across the University. 21Jun Music Society Performance Platform DatesWednesday 21 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music Building - University of BirminghamDescriptionA selection of ensembles from the Music Society's Chamber Music Network and members of the Music Society give short performances. 21Jun University Brass Band DatesWednesday 21 June 2023 (18:00-20:00)LocationThe Green HeartDescriptionJoin the University Brass Band for our annual summer performance in the University's Green Heart. 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. 23Jun Folk Band DatesFriday 23 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Folk Band give a lunchtime performance to conclude the Summer Festival of Music and our Summer concerts programme. 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. 29Jun Pre-reflective Agency conference DatesThursday 29 June 2023 (08:30-17:45)LocationEdgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RSDescription[Internal] Pre-reflective Agency conference 'The piecemeal business' constitutive of our ethical lives 29Jun Robert Cryer - A Life in Law and a Law unto himself DatesThursday 29 June (09:00) - Friday 30 June 2023 (18:00)LocationUniversity House - University of Birmingham (The Business School)DescriptionWe greatly miss Professor Rob Cryer, who passed away in 2020 at the age of forty-six. This conference celebrates his oeuvre, research, mentorship, teaching, insights, idiosyncrasy, laughter, vim, and wit. 4Jul Children's Voices and Family Justice – Time for Change DatesTuesday 4 July 2023 (09:00-17:00)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionWorkshop presented by the Family Law Reform Now network 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 9Sep Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference DatesSaturday 9 September 2023 (00:00)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionTeachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference 13Sep The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference DatesWednesday 13 September (00:00) - Thursday 14 September 2023 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference 13-14 September 2023 University of Birmingham 10Jun Sing Together: Handel's Messiah DatesSaturday 10 June 2023 (11:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionCome and join choral conductors, singers, and staff past and present from the University of Birmingham as we come together in the Elgar Concert Hall for a singalong day on Handel's much-loved oratorio, Messiah. 11Jun Power Folk DatesSunday 11 June 2023 (14:00-23:00)LocationThe Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NHDescriptionOur University Folk Band play at the annual day festival hosted by Joe Broughton's Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble. 11Jun Strange and Upside Down: The Fantastical World of Alexander Agricola DatesSunday 11 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionOne of North America's leading string quartets, and passionate new music advocates, Quatuor Bozzini, join us to give the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's String Quartet No. 3. 16Jun University Jazz Orchestra Feat. Cherise DatesFriday 16 June 2023 (17:00-18:30)LocationJennifer Blackwell Performance Space - Symphony HallDescriptionUniversity Jazz Orchestra welcome emerging young soul singer, Cherise, as guest artist and perform musicfrom her upcoming album release. 16Jun Jazz Collective Presents Bobtail DatesFriday 16 June 2023 (20:00-23:00)LocationThe Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NHDescriptionTalented students perform as part of their own small bands as we move across the city from the Jazz Orchestra's earlier performance at Symphony Hall. 18Jun Cinematic Sounds: Summer Festival Orchestra DatesSunday 18 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe Summer Festival Orchestra presents music from cinema and stage and the premiere of 'Earth' by Music Society Composition Competition winner Michael Triggs. 19Jun miniBEAST DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe perfect lunchtime performance for those who are new to electroacoustic music and the work of our electroacoustic studio composers. 20Jun University Music Scholars DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA relaxed showcase performance from a selection of scholarship holders from across the University. 21Jun Music Society Performance Platform DatesWednesday 21 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music Building - University of BirminghamDescriptionA selection of ensembles from the Music Society's Chamber Music Network and members of the Music Society give short performances. 21Jun University Brass Band DatesWednesday 21 June 2023 (18:00-20:00)LocationThe Green HeartDescriptionJoin the University Brass Band for our annual summer performance in the University's Green Heart. 23Jun Folk Band DatesFriday 23 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Folk Band give a lunchtime performance to conclude the Summer Festival of Music and our Summer concerts programme. 30May PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia DatesTuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building Room 103DescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: This PGR-focused event will offer perspectives on post-PhD careers that don't involve teaching in a university. 1Jun The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health DatesThursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionThe Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative. 5Jun Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History DatesMonday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts 335 Rodney Hilton RoomDescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 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 How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London) 8Jun Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesThursday 8 June 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationArts Building, Room 439DescriptionCentre 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 A Tyranny of Intimacy: Photography & Stasi Surveillance DatesWednesday 14 June 2023 (16:17-17:30)LocationBarber Lecture TheatreDescriptionDonna West Brett (University of Sydney) speaks at the University of Birmingham 19Jun Bring Back the Bodies DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)LocationArts 224 (Danford Room)DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 20Jun Graduate workshop DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)LocationAlan Walters Building Seminar Room 111DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 30May PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia DatesTuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building Room 103DescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: This PGR-focused event will offer perspectives on post-PhD careers that don't involve teaching in a university. 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 1Jun The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health DatesThursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionThe Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative. 5Jun Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History DatesMonday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts 335 Rodney Hilton RoomDescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 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 A Journey of Transformative Faith Leadership: Africa, India, and Handsworth DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (17:00-19:00)LocationAlan Walters Building G11DescriptionThe Bhai Sahib Ji Honorary Professorial Lecture 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 How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London) 7Jun Our songs of courage; women's story project DatesWednesday 7 June (10:00) - Thursday 15 June 2023 (12:30)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. 8Jun Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesThursday 8 June 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationArts Building, Room 439DescriptionCentre 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. 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. 19Jun Bring Back the Bodies DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)LocationArts 224 (Danford Room)DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 19Jun Black Ghost of Empire: Comparative Emancipations in Comparative Perspective DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (15:30-17:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 5DescriptionLeverhulme lecture: Kris Manjapra 20Jun Graduate workshop DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)LocationAlan Walters Building Seminar Room 111DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023. 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. 29Jun Pre-reflective Agency conference DatesThursday 29 June 2023 (08:30-17:45)LocationEdgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RSDescription[Internal] Pre-reflective Agency conference 'The piecemeal business' constitutive of our ethical lives 29Jun Robert Cryer - A Life in Law and a Law unto himself DatesThursday 29 June (09:00) - Friday 30 June 2023 (18:00)LocationUniversity House - University of Birmingham (The Business School)DescriptionWe greatly miss Professor Rob Cryer, who passed away in 2020 at the age of forty-six. This conference celebrates his oeuvre, research, mentorship, teaching, insights, idiosyncrasy, laughter, vim, and wit. 4Jul Children's Voices and Family Justice – Time for Change DatesTuesday 4 July 2023 (09:00-17:00)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionWorkshop presented by the Family Law Reform Now network 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 9Sep Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference DatesSaturday 9 September 2023 (00:00)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionTeachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference 13Sep The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference DatesWednesday 13 September (00:00) - Thursday 14 September 2023 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference 13-14 September 2023 University of Birmingham
The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument DatesWednesday 31 May 2023 (17:00-18:30)LocationRoom G03 - The Alan Walters Building
Disability in poetry and performance DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (18:30-20:30)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Authenticity and Adaptation: Association of Adaptation Studies 2023 DatesWednesday 7 June (09:00) - Friday 9 June 2023 (17:00)LocationUniversity of Birmingham
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.
30May PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia DatesTuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building Room 103DescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: This PGR-focused event will offer perspectives on post-PhD careers that don't involve teaching in a university.
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
1Jun The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health DatesThursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionThe Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative.
5Jun Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History DatesMonday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts 335 Rodney Hilton RoomDescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
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 A Journey of Transformative Faith Leadership: Africa, India, and Handsworth DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (17:00-19:00)LocationAlan Walters Building G11DescriptionThe Bhai Sahib Ji Honorary Professorial Lecture
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 How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London)
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.
7Jun Our songs of courage; women's story project DatesWednesday 7 June (10:00) - Thursday 15 June 2023 (12:30)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.
8Jun Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesThursday 8 June 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationArts Building, Room 439DescriptionCentre 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.
10Jun Sing Together: Handel's Messiah DatesSaturday 10 June 2023 (11:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionCome and join choral conductors, singers, and staff past and present from the University of Birmingham as we come together in the Elgar Concert Hall for a singalong day on Handel's much-loved oratorio, Messiah.
11Jun Power Folk DatesSunday 11 June 2023 (14:00-23:00)LocationThe Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NHDescriptionOur University Folk Band play at the annual day festival hosted by Joe Broughton's Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble.
11Jun Strange and Upside Down: The Fantastical World of Alexander Agricola DatesSunday 11 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionOne of North America's leading string quartets, and passionate new music advocates, Quatuor Bozzini, join us to give the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's String Quartet No. 3.
14Jun A Tyranny of Intimacy: Photography & Stasi Surveillance DatesWednesday 14 June 2023 (16:17-17:30)LocationBarber Lecture TheatreDescriptionDonna West Brett (University of Sydney) speaks at the University of Birmingham
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.
16Jun University Jazz Orchestra Feat. Cherise DatesFriday 16 June 2023 (17:00-18:30)LocationJennifer Blackwell Performance Space - Symphony HallDescriptionUniversity Jazz Orchestra welcome emerging young soul singer, Cherise, as guest artist and perform musicfrom her upcoming album release.
16Jun Jazz Collective Presents Bobtail DatesFriday 16 June 2023 (20:00-23:00)LocationThe Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NHDescriptionTalented students perform as part of their own small bands as we move across the city from the Jazz Orchestra's earlier performance at Symphony Hall.
18Jun Cinematic Sounds: Summer Festival Orchestra DatesSunday 18 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe Summer Festival Orchestra presents music from cinema and stage and the premiere of 'Earth' by Music Society Composition Competition winner Michael Triggs.
19Jun Bring Back the Bodies DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)LocationArts 224 (Danford Room)DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
19Jun miniBEAST DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe perfect lunchtime performance for those who are new to electroacoustic music and the work of our electroacoustic studio composers.
19Jun Black Ghost of Empire: Comparative Emancipations in Comparative Perspective DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (15:30-17:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 5DescriptionLeverhulme lecture: Kris Manjapra
20Jun Graduate workshop DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)LocationAlan Walters Building Seminar Room 111DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
20Jun University Music Scholars DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA relaxed showcase performance from a selection of scholarship holders from across the University.
21Jun Music Society Performance Platform DatesWednesday 21 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music Building - University of BirminghamDescriptionA selection of ensembles from the Music Society's Chamber Music Network and members of the Music Society give short performances.
21Jun University Brass Band DatesWednesday 21 June 2023 (18:00-20:00)LocationThe Green HeartDescriptionJoin the University Brass Band for our annual summer performance in the University's Green Heart.
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.
23Jun Folk Band DatesFriday 23 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Folk Band give a lunchtime performance to conclude the Summer Festival of Music and our Summer concerts programme.
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.
29Jun Pre-reflective Agency conference DatesThursday 29 June 2023 (08:30-17:45)LocationEdgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RSDescription[Internal] Pre-reflective Agency conference 'The piecemeal business' constitutive of our ethical lives
29Jun Robert Cryer - A Life in Law and a Law unto himself DatesThursday 29 June (09:00) - Friday 30 June 2023 (18:00)LocationUniversity House - University of Birmingham (The Business School)DescriptionWe greatly miss Professor Rob Cryer, who passed away in 2020 at the age of forty-six. This conference celebrates his oeuvre, research, mentorship, teaching, insights, idiosyncrasy, laughter, vim, and wit.
4Jul Children's Voices and Family Justice – Time for Change DatesTuesday 4 July 2023 (09:00-17:00)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionWorkshop presented by the Family Law Reform Now network
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
9Sep Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference DatesSaturday 9 September 2023 (00:00)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionTeachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference
13Sep The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference DatesWednesday 13 September (00:00) - Thursday 14 September 2023 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference 13-14 September 2023 University of Birmingham
10Jun Sing Together: Handel's Messiah DatesSaturday 10 June 2023 (11:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionCome and join choral conductors, singers, and staff past and present from the University of Birmingham as we come together in the Elgar Concert Hall for a singalong day on Handel's much-loved oratorio, Messiah.
11Jun Power Folk DatesSunday 11 June 2023 (14:00-23:00)LocationThe Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NHDescriptionOur University Folk Band play at the annual day festival hosted by Joe Broughton's Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble.
11Jun Strange and Upside Down: The Fantastical World of Alexander Agricola DatesSunday 11 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionOne of North America's leading string quartets, and passionate new music advocates, Quatuor Bozzini, join us to give the world premiere performance of Michael Zev Gordon's String Quartet No. 3.
16Jun University Jazz Orchestra Feat. Cherise DatesFriday 16 June 2023 (17:00-18:30)LocationJennifer Blackwell Performance Space - Symphony HallDescriptionUniversity Jazz Orchestra welcome emerging young soul singer, Cherise, as guest artist and perform musicfrom her upcoming album release.
16Jun Jazz Collective Presents Bobtail DatesFriday 16 June 2023 (20:00-23:00)LocationThe Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NHDescriptionTalented students perform as part of their own small bands as we move across the city from the Jazz Orchestra's earlier performance at Symphony Hall.
18Jun Cinematic Sounds: Summer Festival Orchestra DatesSunday 18 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)LocationElgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe Summer Festival Orchestra presents music from cinema and stage and the premiere of 'Earth' by Music Society Composition Competition winner Michael Triggs.
19Jun miniBEAST DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe perfect lunchtime performance for those who are new to electroacoustic music and the work of our electroacoustic studio composers.
20Jun University Music Scholars DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionA relaxed showcase performance from a selection of scholarship holders from across the University.
21Jun Music Society Performance Platform DatesWednesday 21 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music Building - University of BirminghamDescriptionA selection of ensembles from the Music Society's Chamber Music Network and members of the Music Society give short performances.
21Jun University Brass Band DatesWednesday 21 June 2023 (18:00-20:00)LocationThe Green HeartDescriptionJoin the University Brass Band for our annual summer performance in the University's Green Heart.
23Jun Folk Band DatesFriday 23 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationThe Dome - Bramall Music BuildingDescriptionThe University Folk Band give a lunchtime performance to conclude the Summer Festival of Music and our Summer concerts programme.
30May PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia DatesTuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building Room 103DescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: This PGR-focused event will offer perspectives on post-PhD careers that don't involve teaching in a university.
1Jun The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health DatesThursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionThe Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative.
5Jun Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History DatesMonday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts 335 Rodney Hilton RoomDescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
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 How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London)
8Jun Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesThursday 8 June 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationArts Building, Room 439DescriptionCentre 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 A Tyranny of Intimacy: Photography & Stasi Surveillance DatesWednesday 14 June 2023 (16:17-17:30)LocationBarber Lecture TheatreDescriptionDonna West Brett (University of Sydney) speaks at the University of Birmingham
19Jun Bring Back the Bodies DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)LocationArts 224 (Danford Room)DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
20Jun Graduate workshop DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)LocationAlan Walters Building Seminar Room 111DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
30May PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia DatesTuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)LocationArts Building Room 103DescriptionCentre for the Study of North America: This PGR-focused event will offer perspectives on post-PhD careers that don't involve teaching in a university.
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
1Jun The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health DatesThursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)LocationOnlineDescriptionThe Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative.
5Jun Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History DatesMonday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationArts 335 Rodney Hilton RoomDescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
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 A Journey of Transformative Faith Leadership: Africa, India, and Handsworth DatesTuesday 6 June 2023 (17:00-19:00)LocationAlan Walters Building G11DescriptionThe Bhai Sahib Ji Honorary Professorial Lecture
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 How Global Was the Age of Revolutions? DatesWednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)LocationZoomDescriptionSujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London)
7Jun Our songs of courage; women's story project DatesWednesday 7 June (10:00) - Thursday 15 June 2023 (12:30)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.
8Jun Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (a CSNA Guest Lecture by Leigh Claire La Berge) DatesThursday 8 June 2023 (13:00-15:30)LocationArts Building, Room 439DescriptionCentre 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.
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.
19Jun Bring Back the Bodies DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)LocationArts 224 (Danford Room)DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
19Jun Black Ghost of Empire: Comparative Emancipations in Comparative Perspective DatesMonday 19 June 2023 (15:30-17:00)LocationArts Lecture Room 5DescriptionLeverhulme lecture: Kris Manjapra
20Jun Graduate workshop DatesTuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)LocationAlan Walters Building Seminar Room 111DescriptionOne of a series of seminars hosted by Kris Manjapra and Shirley Ye supported by the Leverhulme Trust for postgraduate students in May and June 2023.
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.
29Jun Pre-reflective Agency conference DatesThursday 29 June 2023 (08:30-17:45)LocationEdgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RSDescription[Internal] Pre-reflective Agency conference 'The piecemeal business' constitutive of our ethical lives
29Jun Robert Cryer - A Life in Law and a Law unto himself DatesThursday 29 June (09:00) - Friday 30 June 2023 (18:00)LocationUniversity House - University of Birmingham (The Business School)DescriptionWe greatly miss Professor Rob Cryer, who passed away in 2020 at the age of forty-six. This conference celebrates his oeuvre, research, mentorship, teaching, insights, idiosyncrasy, laughter, vim, and wit.
4Jul Children's Voices and Family Justice – Time for Change DatesTuesday 4 July 2023 (09:00-17:00)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionWorkshop presented by the Family Law Reform Now network
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
9Sep Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference DatesSaturday 9 September 2023 (00:00)LocationThe Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DRDescriptionTeachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland conference
13Sep The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference DatesWednesday 13 September (00:00) - Thursday 14 September 2023 (00:00)LocationUniversity of BirminghamDescriptionThe Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System conference 13-14 September 2023 University of Birmingham