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  • Comedy and Racial Justice Conference

    Grosvenor East Building Manchester, United Kingdom

    Mixed Bill and Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies This conference seeks to investigate how comedy – as an artistic form, performance mode and research discipline – functions as a critical tool in the fight for racial justice. In so doing, it will shine a light on research that often struggles to […]

  • Postgraduate Welcome Dinner

    We would like to invite our new and returning postgraduate students to join us for a welcome (back) dinner at Indian Tiffin Room.

    Free

  • Renaissance One presents Colonial Countryside

    Manchester Poetry Library Manchester, United Kingdom

    Renaissance One presents Colonial Countryside with Corinne Fowler and Peter Kalu, chaired by Melanie Abrahams, sponsored by the Centre for Place Writing and the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies In 2020, author and academic Corinne Fowler co-authored a report investigating the colonial histories of National Trust properties following the initiation of a groundbreaking creative project bringing […]

    Free

  • Research Sharing Day

    We invite all MAPS researchers (staff and students) to join us for a research sharing afternoon, starting with lunch in The Grove.

  • Bidding Workshop

    SODA 1.07 14 Higher Chatham Street, Manchester

    Join us for a workshop led by experienced and successful bid writer, Professor Kate Pahl. Open to MAPS staff and PGR members.

    Free

  • Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diasporic Cinema UK Tour

    SODA Cinema, Manchester Metropolitan University School of Digital Arts, 14 Higher Chatham Street, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Waving Kites: Hong Kong Diasporic Cinema UK Tour, taking place in five cities in April-May 2026, explores Hongkonger diasporic experiences across different moments and places. Bringing together three feature-length documentaries and a selection of short films, it traces a range of perspectives—from hope to disillusionment, separation and exploration, the struggle to settle, and reflections shaped […]

    Free

  • Writing Retreat

    Gladstone’s Library Church Lane, Hawarden

    Join us for a 2-day writing retreat at Gladstone's Library. Open to MAPS centre members.

  • Decolonised Narratives? PGR-Led Symposium

    In a climate that sees frequent conflict between decolonial movements and efforts to reinvigorate the colonial projects of past centuries, from Palestine and Sudan to Myanmar and Taiwan, decoloniality as practice has come under increasing public scrutiny. It is more crucial now than ever to consider the possibilities and limitations of efforts to decolonise raised […]

  • PGMAPS Symposium: Decolonised Narratives?

    This symposium is hosted by postgraduate researchers of the Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies (MAPS) at Manchester Met. In a climate that sees frequent conflict between decolonial movements and efforts to reinvigorate the colonial projects of past centuries, from Palestine and Sudan to Myanmar and Taiwan, decoloniality as practice has come under increasing public […]

  • Working Lunch feat. Emma Liggins ‘Amelia Edwards and Egyptian Dark Tourism in the 1870s’

    Join us for lunch, chat, and a research paper by Dr Emma Liggins. Emma's paper focuses on the place writing of the late-Victorian traveller and ghost story writer Amelia Edwards. In her best-selling travel narrative A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877), Edwards reflected on the atmosphere of the Egyptian death-place, aestheticising ancient and medieval […]