Your University Events
Find out about our extensive alumni and supporter events programme that takes place throughout the year – online, on campus, across the UK, and internationally.
Upcoming Events
SIAH PGR Seminar Series: Amna Smith
This talk will discuss the barriers female refugee ESOL learners face when accessing ESOL provision in the east of England.
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The Parkes Institute presents: Dress, Migration and Belonging between Diaspora and “Eretz Israel”, 1880s-1948
Svenja Bethke is Associate Professor of Modern European History and Director of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dance of the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos (UTP 2021). For her current book project ‘Between Diaspora and Eretz Israel: Dress in the Time of Nation-Building’, she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship by The European Commission, hosted at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 2019-2021 and an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship (2023-2025).
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Turner Sims presents: Cara Dillon | Coming Home
Few singers are as celebrated and revered as Cara Dillon. Her captivating live performances, breathtaking voice and emotional delivery leave audiences spellbound. Her longstanding partnership with Sam Lakeman has ensured they have remained at the very pinnacle of the folk genre for over two decades.
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Inaugural Lecture – “Hearing Matters” presented by Professor Tracey Newman
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Tracey is leading work to embed Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement for people with hearing loss into the research agenda with a focus on reaching and engaging with under-served communities.
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F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture: Andrew McMillan
The School of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the 11th annual F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture which will be given by the poet Andrew McMillan. This special event is a chance to hear one of the most important voices in modern poetry, and a pioneer for queer writing.
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MENA Network presents – In Conversation with Muna AbuSalayman
We are excited to welcome Muna Abu Sulayman this October to the University as part of the MENA Network for an 'In Conversation' hosted by Professor Jane Falkingham. Muna AbuSulayman is an award-winning strategic development leader and one of the Arab World's most popular media personalities whose work has focused on systems thinking solutions to ensure universal opportunity for all.
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