School of Arts, Media, and Communication
Events
Regular event series
Upcoming events
Academic year 2025-2026
| Event | Date(s) | Organiser(s) | Further information |
| Annual Creative Writing Lecture: Dame Jacqueline Wilson | 29 April 2026 | Literary Leicester; Centre for New Writing | To follow |
| 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. |
| Literary Leicester 2026 | 18-21 March 2026 | Literary Leicester | To follow |
| Centre for Victorian Studies Annual Public Lecture: 'Billy Waters is Dancing, or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain' | 18 February 2026 | Centre for Victorian Studies; Literary Leicester | To follow |
| Peter Sellers at 100 | 12 December 2025 | Literary Leicester, Festival of Media Stories, and Phoenix Arts Centre | To follow |
| Japanese-Language Proficiency Test at Leicester | 7 December 2025 | Languages at Leicester | Find out more |
| Festival of Media Stories | 7 November 2025 | Film Studies; Media and Communication | Find out more |
| Superdiversity on Screen | 3, 6, 7 November 2025 | Dr Zalfa Feghali, English | Find out more |
| Cama Sood Hara - Diwali Screening Event and Discussion with Director Haresh Sood | 30 October | Literary Leicester; Festival of Media Stories | Find out more |
| Black History Month Special Screenings with introductions and Q&A: I Am Not Your Negro; Black Panther; Detroit | 15 October, 21 October, 29 October | Dr David Christie, Film Studies; Festival of Media Stories; Heritage Hub |
Past events
Academic year 2025-2026
| Event | Date(s) | Organiser(s) |
| The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture: Cultures of Automation Book Launch | 23 October 2025 | Dr Madeleine Chalmers, on behalf of the HESTIA research cluster |
| How to Blow Up an Oil Rig: Harry Whitehead's White Road | 21 October 2025 | Literary Leicester |
| Ulrika Maude: Samuel Beckett and Medicine | 9 September 2025 | Dr Madeleine Chalmers and Dr Doug Battersby, on behalf of the HESTIA research cluster |
| British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) Annual Conference | 3-5 September 2025 | Dr Lin Feng, Film Studies |
| Lecture: How the manosphere weaponized autism: The importance of neuro-affirming antiviolence interventions Dr Yimin Chen |
1 September 2025 | Dr Victoria O'Meara, Media and Communication |
| 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 |
Academic year 2024-2025
| 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<br?> 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).</br?> |
| Cultures of AI Workshop | 9 June 2025 | Dr Madeleine Chalmers, Modern Languages; Dr Victoria O’Meara and Dr Gabriela Zogall, Media and Communication; LIAS |
| Postgraduate Research Conference: The Evolution of Storytelling: Symbols, Myths and Legends | 6 June 2025 | School of Arts, Media, and Communication |
| Summer School: Migration, Diaspora and Mobile Identities | 2 - 6 June 2025 | College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| Literary Leicester 2025 | 19 - 22 March 2025 | Literary Leicester; catch up via SoundCloud |
| Celebrating Languages Day 2024 | 17 December 2024 | Modern Languages |
| Professor Claire Brock's Inaugural Lecture: Surgery at Home | 4 December 2024 | College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities |
| Monkey to Man: The Evolution of the March of Progress Image | 27 November 2024 | Centre for Victorian Studies; Literary Leicester |
| Representations of Migration on Screen: Screenings and Post-film discussion | 21 October - 4 November 2024 | Migration, Mobility, and Citizenship Network; Phoenix Cinema |
| The Victorian Novel and the Health Humanities | 16 October 2024 | Dr Doug Battersby, Centre for Victorian Studies |
| Surrealist Soiree | 12 October 2024 | Dr Madeleine Chalmers, Modern Languages; Phoenix Cinema |
| Professor Catherine Morley's Inaugural Lecture: Art and American Fiction | 26 September 2024 | College of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities |
| Festival of Media Stories | 13 September 2024 | Media and Communication; Film Studies |
Academic year 2023-24
| Event | Date(s) | Organiser(s) |
| Multilingual Poetry Workshop with Nabeela Ahmed | 28 February 2024 | Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies |
Academic year 2022-23
| Event | Date(s) | Organiser(s) |
| Latinx Studies in the UK | 20 - 21 April 2023 | Modern Languages |