School of Arts, Media, and Communication
Events
Regular event series
Upcoming events
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Event |
Date(s) |
Organiser(s) |
Further information |
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Leicester Languages Week |
22 - 27 March 2026 |
Dr Emma Staniland and Dr Michelle Harrison, Modern Languages |
Leicester Languages Week is a celebration of Leicester's rich linguistic heritage - join us for a programme of public-facing talks and outreach activities for local schools run by language specialists on campus and in the city. |
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Literary Leicester 2026 |
18 - 21 March 2026 |
Literary Leicester |
To follow |
| Festival of Media Stories | 7 - 8 November 2025 | Film Studies; Media and Communication | Find out more |
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British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) Annual Conference |
3 - 5 September 2025 |
Dr Lin Feng, Film Studies |
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Symposium: 80 Years On: Memory and Legacy of World War II in ESEA Popular Culture |
1-2 September 2025 |
Dr Lin Feng, Film Studies; Dr Yan Ying, Translation and Interpreting Studies |
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Japanese-Language Proficiency Test at Leicester |
6 July 2025; 7 December 2025 |
Languages at Leicester |
Past events
Academic year 2024-2025
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Event |
Date(s) |
Organiser(s) |
| Reading Samuel Pepys's Shorthand: Online Talk and Workshop | 5 July 2025; 8 July 2025 | Professor Kate Loveman, English |
| British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) Talks 2025 |
27 June 2025 | Dr Claire Wood, Centre for Victorian Studies |
| Victorian Bodies | 18 June 2025 | Dr Doug Battersby and Dr Claire Wood, Centre for Victorian Studies |
| Joint Book Launch to Celebrate Film Studies at Leicester | 16 June 2025 |
Film Studies Celebrating the launch of Lin Feng's Film History and Screen Culture in Greater China and Beyond (Routledge, 2025); James Chapman's Financing the British Film Industry: Capital, Cash and Quota, 1896-1945 (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) and Screening Sherlock: A cultural history of the Great Detective on film and television (Manchester University Press, 2025); and David Christopher's Toronto New Wave cinema and the anarchist-apocalypse (Manchester University Press, 2025). |
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Cultures of AI Workshop |
9 June 2025 |
Dr Madeleine Chalmers, Modern Languages; Dr Victoria O’Meara and Dr Gabriela Zogall, Media and Communication; LIAS |
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Postgraduate Research Conference: The Evolution of Storytelling: Symbols, Myths and Legends |
6 June 2025 |
School of Arts, Media, and Communication |
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Summer School: Migration, Diaspora and Mobile Identities |
2 - 6 June 2025 |
College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities |
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Professor Lesley Wiley's Inaugural Lecture: Hummingbirds and the London Particular: W. H. Hudson's Allegories of Extinction |
28 May 2025 |
College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities |
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Building Bridges Translation Event |
22 May 2025 |
Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies; East Midlands Regional Group of the ITI (Institute of Translation and Interpreting) |
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Literary Leicester 2025 |
19 - 22 March 2025 |
Literary Leicester; catch up via SoundCloud |
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Celebrating Languages Day 2024 |
17 December 2024 |
Modern Languages |
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Professor Claire Brock's Inaugural Lecture: Surgery at Home |
4 December 2024 |
College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities |
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Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image |
27 November 2024 |
Centre for Victorian Studies; Literary Leicester |
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Representations of Migration on Screen: Screenings and Post-film discussion |
21 October - 4 November 2024 |
Migration, Mobility, and Citizenship Network; Phoenix Cinema |
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The Victorian Novel and the Health Humanities |
16 October 2024 |
Dr Doug Battersby, Centre for Victorian Studies |
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12 October 2024 |
Dr Madeleine Chalmers, Modern Languages; Phoenix Cinema |
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Professor Catherine Morley's Inaugural Lecture: Art and American Fiction |
26 September 2024 |
College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities |
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Festival of Media Stories |
13 September 2024 |
Media and Communication; Film Studies |
Academic year 2023-24
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Event |
Date(s) |
Organiser(s) |
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Multilingual Poetry Workshop with Nabeela Ahmed |
28 February 2024 |
Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies |
Academic year 2022-23
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Event |
Date(s) |
Organiser(s) |
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Latinx Studies in the UK |
20 - 21 April 2023 |
Modern Languages |