Events
Inaugural Lectures
Every year we celebrate our newly appointed professors by holding inaugural lectures. This gives our professors the opportunity present to their colleagues, friends and families about their work to date, current research and future plans.
Languages in a Global World
Languages in a Global World is held annually and brings together local Modern Foreign Language teachers and their GCSE and A-level students, University of Exeter alumni, and current staff and students of languages and international cultures at the University.
Creative Dialogues
‘Creative Dialogues’ is a series of exclusive ‘in-conversation’ events hosted by the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, showcasing a range of high-profile speakers who are leaders in their respective fields across the creative industries and Humanities.

Thursday, 01 January 2026 - Thursday, 31 December 2026
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AHVC Research Seminar - PGR Work-in-Progress
Art History and Visual Cultures Research Seminar
Wed 04 November, 202612:30 PM - 2:00 PM Old Library
Research events Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies
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Language Anxiety Among Learners of Arabic as a Foreign Language
A MAQAM lecture by Professor Khaled Abu Amsha
Wed 04 November, 20262:00 PM - 4:00 PM IAIS LT2
Workshops Institute of Arab and lslamic Studies
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Centre for Translating Cultures Research Seminar - Dr Gregoria Manzin (Australia)
Centre for Translating Cultures Research Seminar
Wed 04 November, 20263:30 PM - 4:30 PM Queen's Building
Research events Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies
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Listening to Thirteenth-Century Cairo and Damascus: What's New in Late Ayyubid Poetry?
An IAIS VisitIng Speaker Event with Dr Betty Rosen
Wed 04 November, 20264:30 PM - 6:30 PM IAIS LT2
Lectures Centre for the Study of Islam
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Krista Richardson-Cline: Identifying Marrow from Grease from Fuel: Equifinality in Fragmented and Burnt Bone
A HumAnE Research Centre Lecture
Wed 04 November, 20264:30 PM - 5:30 PM Laver 218
Lectures, Seminars Archaeology and History
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Hybrid Book Forum with John Minford: Ch’ing 情: A Chinese Book of Love
The Global China Research Centre is delighted to invite you to a hybrid book forum with Professor John Minford 閔福德 on his new anthology, Ch’ing 情: A Chinese Book of Love (Reaktion Books, 2026).
Fri 06 November, 202612:00 PM - 2:00 PM Seminar Room 1, Digital Humanities Lab, Queen’s Building, Streatham Campus, University of Exeter
Other events Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies
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Egenis seminar: Digital Dementia: The Futures of Ageing and Artificial Minds
Egenis seminar (hybrid) with James Rupert Fletcher (University of Bath)
Mon 09 November, 20263:15 PM - 5:00 PM Susan Kelly Seminar Room, Byrne House, Streatham Campus
Seminars Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences
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Buddha's life as a Byzantine best-seller - with a little help from Arab meditation
Centre for the Study of Islam Monday Majlis Series
Mon 09 November, 20265:00 PM - 6:30 PM Online
Lectures Centre for the Study of Islam
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Unity, Struggle, Victory: The Revolutionary World of Iranian Students
The latest exhibition launch in the IAIS Street Gallery
Wed 11 November, 20262:00 PM - 3:30 PM IAIS LT2
Exhibitions Institute of Arab and lslamic Studies
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Egenis Annual Lecture: Re-thinking the Relationship Between Organism and Environment
Egenis Annual Lecture (hybrid), hosted by LSI, with Professor Sonia Sultan (Wesleyan University and Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University)
Wed 11 November, 20263:30 PM - 5:00 PM LSI Seminar Rooms, Streatham Campus
Seminars Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life Sciences