Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 27-11-2012. Twentieth Century Communism day conference Friday 7 December 2012, 10.00-5.15 Arthur Lewis Building (boardroom), Social Sciences, University of Manchester   Up with the great anniversary! Up with the 4th Congress of the Comintern! Imperial War Museum – PST 6000 Given the professed internationalism of the…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 16/11/2012. The Social Spaces of Music: Networks, Worlds, Fields and Scenes 13 and 14th February, University of Manchester Music researchers have increasingly explored music as a social practice in which participants have varying degrees of engagement, seeking to analyse the ‘social spaces’ within which music is produced…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 17/1/2012. The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act A panel debate hosted by the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the British Library Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, 5 March 2012,…

Reading Workshop Reading (the activity not the place) Thursday 13th December, 5pm, Seminar room, John Rylands Deansgate (meet in the café by reception to be shown the way to the room)   What do you imagine when you read? Do you read to feel happy, safe, reassured? Reading is both an intimate and public activity,…