College of Arts and Law events

hervert-walters
4Mar

Where We Once Gathered

Dates
Saturday 4 March (09:00) - Friday 8 December 2023 (17:00)
Location
1st Floor Foyer - Bramall Music Building
Description
Handsworth Wood documentary photographer Herbert Walters exhibits his 2020 Covid Lockdown exhibition.
30May

PGR Roundtable Discussion: the PhD beyond academia

Dates
Tuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)
Location
Arts Building Room 103
Description
Centre 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.
Paul Copan-315
31May

The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument

Dates
Wednesday 31 May 2023 (17:00-18:30)
Location
Room G03 - The Alan Walters Building
Description
Professor Paul Copan (Palm Beach Atlantic University) gives a Public Lecture for the Global Philosophy of Religion project
mhh-activities-cropped-300x300
1Jun

The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health

Dates
Thursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
Online
Description
The Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative.
Leverhulme_Trust_300
5Jun

Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History

Dates
Monday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)
Location
Arts 335 Rodney Hilton Room
Description
One 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.
Jamie_Hale_315
6Jun

Disability in poetry and performance

Dates
Tuesday 6 June 2023 (18:30-20:30)
Location
The Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Description
Centre for the Study of North America: Readings/performances from Sarah James, Beth O'Brien, and Jamie Hale.
brihc-315
7Jun

How Global Was the Age of Revolutions?

Dates
Wednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)
Location
Zoom
Description
Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London)
our-songs-of-courage-900-cropped-300x300
7Jun

Our songs of courage; women's story project

Dates
Wednesday 7 June (10:00) - Thursday 15 June 2023 (12:30)
Location
Charles W Gillet Centre
Description
This 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.
handels-messiah
10Jun

Sing Together: Handel's Messiah

Dates
Saturday 10 June 2023 (11:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
Description
Come 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.
power-folk
11Jun

Power Folk

Dates
Sunday 11 June 2023 (14:00-23:00)
Location
The Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NH
Description
Our University Folk Band play at the annual day festival hosted by Joe Broughton's Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble.
gusto-renaissance-winds
11Jun

Strange and Upside Down: The Fantastical World of Alexander Agricola

Dates
Sunday 11 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
Description
One 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.
noel-coward
15Jun

Noël Coward: Past, Present and Future

Dates
Thursday 15 June (00:00) - Friday 16 June 2023 (00:00)
Location
Edgbaston Park Hotel
Description
An 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.
cherise
16Jun

University Jazz Orchestra Feat. Cherise

Dates
Friday 16 June 2023 (17:00-18:30)
Location
Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space - Symphony Hall
Description
University Jazz Orchestra welcome emerging young soul singer, Cherise, as guest artist and perform musicfrom her upcoming album release.
alicia-gardener-trejo
16Jun

Jazz Collective Presents Bobtail

Dates
Friday 16 June 2023 (20:00-23:00)
Location
The Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NH
Description
Talented 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.
summer-festival-orchestra
18Jun

Cinematic Sounds: Summer Festival Orchestra

Dates
Sunday 18 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
Description
The Summer Festival Orchestra presents music from cinema and stage and the premiere of 'Earth' by Music Society Composition Competition winner Michael Triggs.
Leverhulme_Trust_300
19Jun

Bring Back the Bodies

Dates
Monday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)
Location
Arts 224 (Danford Room)
Description
One 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.
mini-beast
19Jun

miniBEAST

Dates
Monday 19 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
The perfect lunchtime performance for those who are new to electroacoustic music and the work of our electroacoustic studio composers.
Leverhulme_Trust_300
20Jun

Graduate workshop

Dates
Tuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)
Location
Alan Walters Building Seminar Room 111
Description
One 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.
uob-music-concerts-24jun21-72
20Jun

University Music Scholars

Dates
Tuesday 20 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
A relaxed showcase performance from a selection of scholarship holders from across the University.
music-society-platform
21Jun

Music Society Performance Platform

Dates
Wednesday 21 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building - University of Birmingham
Description
A selection of ensembles from the Music Society's Chamber Music Network and members of the Music Society give short performances.
university-brass-band
21Jun

University Brass Band

Dates
Wednesday 21 June 2023 (18:00-20:00)
Location
The Green Heart
Description
Join the University Brass Band for our annual summer performance in the University's Green Heart.
Wyndham_Lewis_photo_by_George_Charles_Beresford_1913-315w
22Jun

Filibusters in Birmingham: a Conference on Wyndham Lewis

Dates
Thursday 22 June (00:00) - Friday 23 June 2023 (00:00)
Location
University of Birmingham
Description
This conference will focus on the doubled and doubling identity announced in the title of Lewis's 1932 work: the filibuster.
folk-band
23Jun

Folk Band

Dates
Friday 23 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
The University Folk Band give a lunchtime performance to conclude the Summer Festival of Music and our Summer concerts programme.
literary-twilight-zone-315
28Jun

The Literary Twilight Zone: Nonfictional Fiction, 1820–1920

Dates
Wednesday 28 June 2023 (00:00)
Location
Muirhead Tower 12th Floor Suite
Description
This 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

Dates
Thursday 29 June 2023 (08:30-17:45)
Location
Edgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RS
Description
[Internal] Pre-reflective Agency conference 'The piecemeal business' constitutive of our ethical lives
rob-cryer-315w
29Jun

Robert Cryer - A Life in Law and a Law unto himself

Dates
Thursday 29 June (09:00) - Friday 30 June 2023 (18:00)
Location
University House - University of Birmingham (The Business School)
Description
We 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.
EuroSLA32 logo
30Aug

EuroSLA 32

Dates
Wednesday 30 August (00:00) - Saturday 2 September 2023 (00:00)
Location
Aston Webb building, University of Birmingham
Description
The 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association
handels-messiah
10Jun

Sing Together: Handel's Messiah

Dates
Saturday 10 June 2023 (11:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
Description
Come 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.
power-folk
11Jun

Power Folk

Dates
Sunday 11 June 2023 (14:00-23:00)
Location
The Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NH
Description
Our University Folk Band play at the annual day festival hosted by Joe Broughton's Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble.
gusto-renaissance-winds
11Jun

Strange and Upside Down: The Fantastical World of Alexander Agricola

Dates
Sunday 11 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
Description
One 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.
cherise
16Jun

University Jazz Orchestra Feat. Cherise

Dates
Friday 16 June 2023 (17:00-18:30)
Location
Jennifer Blackwell Performance Space - Symphony Hall
Description
University Jazz Orchestra welcome emerging young soul singer, Cherise, as guest artist and perform musicfrom her upcoming album release.
alicia-gardener-trejo
16Jun

Jazz Collective Presents Bobtail

Dates
Friday 16 June 2023 (20:00-23:00)
Location
The Spotted Dog - 104 Warwick St - B12 0NH
Description
Talented 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.
summer-festival-orchestra
18Jun

Cinematic Sounds: Summer Festival Orchestra

Dates
Sunday 18 June 2023 (15:00-17:00)
Location
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
Description
The Summer Festival Orchestra presents music from cinema and stage and the premiere of 'Earth' by Music Society Composition Competition winner Michael Triggs.
mini-beast
19Jun

miniBEAST

Dates
Monday 19 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
The perfect lunchtime performance for those who are new to electroacoustic music and the work of our electroacoustic studio composers.
uob-music-concerts-24jun21-72
20Jun

University Music Scholars

Dates
Tuesday 20 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
A relaxed showcase performance from a selection of scholarship holders from across the University.
music-society-platform
21Jun

Music Society Performance Platform

Dates
Wednesday 21 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building - University of Birmingham
Description
A selection of ensembles from the Music Society's Chamber Music Network and members of the Music Society give short performances.
university-brass-band
21Jun

University Brass Band

Dates
Wednesday 21 June 2023 (18:00-20:00)
Location
The Green Heart
Description
Join the University Brass Band for our annual summer performance in the University's Green Heart.
folk-band
23Jun

Folk Band

Dates
Friday 23 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
The Dome - Bramall Music Building
Description
The 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

Dates
Tuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)
Location
Arts Building Room 103
Description
Centre 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.
mhh-activities-cropped-300x300
1Jun

The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health

Dates
Thursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
Online
Description
The Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative.
Leverhulme_Trust_300
5Jun

Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History

Dates
Monday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)
Location
Arts 335 Rodney Hilton Room
Description
One 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.
Jamie_Hale_315
6Jun

Disability in poetry and performance

Dates
Tuesday 6 June 2023 (18:30-20:30)
Location
The Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Description
Centre for the Study of North America: Readings/performances from Sarah James, Beth O'Brien, and Jamie Hale.
brihc-315
7Jun

How Global Was the Age of Revolutions?

Dates
Wednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)
Location
Zoom
Description
Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London)
Leverhulme_Trust_300
19Jun

Bring Back the Bodies

Dates
Monday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)
Location
Arts 224 (Danford Room)
Description
One 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.
Leverhulme_Trust_300
20Jun

Graduate workshop

Dates
Tuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)
Location
Alan Walters Building Seminar Room 111
Description
One 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

Dates
Tuesday 30 May 2023 (16:00-18:00)
Location
Arts Building Room 103
Description
Centre 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.
Paul Copan-315
31May

The Problem of Evil and the Moral Argument

Dates
Wednesday 31 May 2023 (17:00-18:30)
Location
Room G03 - The Alan Walters Building
Description
Professor Paul Copan (Palm Beach Atlantic University) gives a Public Lecture for the Global Philosophy of Religion project
mhh-activities-cropped-300x300
1Jun

The Salon presents... LGBTQ+ Mental Health

Dates
Thursday 1 June 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location
Online
Description
The Salon is a monthly virtual discussion for everyone, and is part of the University of Birmingham's Mental Health Humanities initiative.
Leverhulme_Trust_300
5Jun

Plantation Metaphors and Intellectual History

Dates
Monday 5 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)
Location
Arts 335 Rodney Hilton Room
Description
One 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.
Jamie_Hale_315
6Jun

Disability in poetry and performance

Dates
Tuesday 6 June 2023 (18:30-20:30)
Location
The Exchange: 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
Description
Centre for the Study of North America: Readings/performances from Sarah James, Beth O'Brien, and Jamie Hale.
brihc-315
7Jun

How Global Was the Age of Revolutions?

Dates
Wednesday 7 June 2023 (14:00-15:30)
Location
Zoom
Description
Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge), Joanna Innes (Oxford),Peter Hill (Northumbria) and Jeppe Mulich (City University of London)
our-songs-of-courage-900-cropped-300x300
7Jun

Our songs of courage; women's story project

Dates
Wednesday 7 June (10:00) - Thursday 15 June 2023 (12:30)
Location
Charles W Gillet Centre
Description
This 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.
noel-coward
15Jun

Noël Coward: Past, Present and Future

Dates
Thursday 15 June (00:00) - Friday 16 June 2023 (00:00)
Location
Edgbaston Park Hotel
Description
An 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.
Leverhulme_Trust_300
19Jun

Bring Back the Bodies

Dates
Monday 19 June 2023 (10:00-12:00)
Location
Arts 224 (Danford Room)
Description
One 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.
Leverhulme_Trust_300
20Jun

Graduate workshop

Dates
Tuesday 20 June 2023 (09:00-15:30)
Location
Alan Walters Building Seminar Room 111
Description
One 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.
literary-twilight-zone-315
28Jun

The Literary Twilight Zone: Nonfictional Fiction, 1820–1920

Dates
Wednesday 28 June 2023 (00:00)
Location
Muirhead Tower 12th Floor Suite
Description
This 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

Dates
Thursday 29 June 2023 (08:30-17:45)
Location
Edgbaston Park Hotel 53 Edgbaston Park Road Birmingham B15 2RS
Description
[Internal] Pre-reflective Agency conference 'The piecemeal business' constitutive of our ethical lives
rob-cryer-315w
29Jun

Robert Cryer - A Life in Law and a Law unto himself

Dates
Thursday 29 June (09:00) - Friday 30 June 2023 (18:00)
Location
University House - University of Birmingham (The Business School)
Description
We 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.
EuroSLA32 logo
30Aug

EuroSLA 32

Dates
Wednesday 30 August (00:00) - Saturday 2 September 2023 (00:00)
Location
Aston Webb building, University of Birmingham
Description
The 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association