Celebrate LGBT culture and history with free events

February is LGBT History Month, and The University of Nottingham is hosting a range of public […]

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Tags: Centre for Research in Race and Rights, community, culture, HR, LGBT, LGBT History Month, LGBT History Month 2017, local, people and culture, Rights and Justice Research Priority Area

In your head: spoken word expression of mental health

Come along to ‘In your head: spoken word expression of mental health’ in partnership with Rough Trade, featuring Jess Green, Eagle Spits and other performers.

Tags: culture, Disability December, health, mental health, music, people and culture, performance, poetry, Rough Trade, spoken word, wellbeing

The Paris Commune and US Internationalism

The Department of American and Canadian Studies presents this talk from Dr J Michelle Coghlan, University of Manchester, examining the Paris Commune as a sensation and a lived practice of counter-remembrance in the long nineteenth century.

Tags: culture, Department of American and Canadian Studies, France, history, Paris, University of Manchester

Celebrate Black History Month 2016

The University of Nottingham is celebrating Black History Month with music, public lectures, open discussion and […]

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Tags: Black and Minority Ethnic, Black History Month, BME, BME Staff Network, Boradway Cinema, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, community, culture, events, film, history, lecture, local, music, New Art Exchange, Nottingham Contemporary, public lecture, Rights and Justice, Rough Trade, Val Watson

Girl with all the Gifts = Pandora? Greek mythology in Mike Carey’s Melanie-stories

Dr Lynn Fotheringham, Department of Classics and part of the Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, gives this talk exploring the link between the Pandora figure in Greek mythology and upcoming film The Girl with all the Gifts, based on the novel by MR Carey.

Tags: CADRE, Centre for Ancient Drama and its Reception, classics, culture, Department of classics, Drama, film, Lynn Fotheringham, popular culture, public lecture, theatre

Ethnic homelands: contemporary and historical perspectives

Please join the Research Priority Area in Rights and Justice and the Centre for Research in Race and Rights for a panel discussion on ethnic homelands in contemporary and historical perspective.

Tags: Amal Treacher Kabesh, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, culture, race, Research Priority Area, Rights and Justice, RPA, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Teo Todorova

Emergency cultures: approaches to the study of late colonialism and the Cold War in Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong

Join the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies for the one day workshop, ‘Emergency cultures: new approaches to the study of late colonialism and the Cold War in Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong’. Facilitated by Dr Jeremy E Taylor, The University of Nottingham and Dr Xu Lanjun, National University of Singapore.

Tags: British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences, China, Cold War, culture, Jeremy Taylor, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies

Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling

Dr Claire Warden, De Montfort University, presents the lecture, ‘Pops and promos: speech and silence in professional wrestling’.

Tags: culture, De Montfort University, popular culture, Popular Culture Lecture Series, public lecture, sport, television, wrestling

Anti-ageing in the twentieth century

Ageing is a process that will affect us all. Throughout human history we have tried to slow down and even reverse the effects of ageing. Dr James Stark (Research Fellow, Leeds Humanities Research Institute) will explore how and why a wide range of anti-ageing technologies and products gained popularity in the 20th century, how our understanding of ageing and youth has changed and reflect on what it means to age.

Tags: beauty, cosmetics, culture, history, manuscripts and special collections, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Weston Gallery, Weston Gallery Exhibition

Violence against women in India: is ‘culture’ the culprit, or structure?

The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies presents the annual Tomlinson Memorial Lecture for 2015/16. Kavita Krishnan, Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association, will speak on ‘Violence against women in India: is ‘culture’ the culprit, or structure?’

6pm, Thursday 3 March

Tags: All India Progressive Women's Association, culture, India, Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies, International Women's Day 2016, Tomlinson Memorial Lecture, women