Interested in the history of British Chinese food? In May, Dr Ursula Kania @instantlinguist.bsky.social from @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social is giving a tallk as part of @pintofscience.uk based on her research into British Chinese food coverage in newspapers. Details ⬇️

Cover image of The Architecture of Suzhou to the right, which features a traditional multi-storey pagoda rising above historic low-rise buildings, with a modern city skyline in the distance. The background image is the same pagoda from a different angle, surrounded by autumnal trees (photo by 鱼 鱼 via Unsplash). Text in white reads 'Captures the city’s key architecture and urban structures, revealing its remarkable journey of identity-building over the centuries.' LUP and XJTLU logos in white in the bottom left.

New from the XJTLU imprint: The Architecture of Suzhou by Fei Chen, Andre Brown, and Yiping Dong. This new book engages in a timely discussion on balancing heritage preservation, modern development, and environmental resilience. bit.ly/4dPiW17 @sotauol.bsky.social

What's on this week at @thetungauditorium.bsky.social 🧡

🎶 Sophie Lukacs
📅 Wednesday 15 April
🎟️ tinyurl.com/39zbwxj8

🎶 Imelda May
📅 Friday 17 April
🎟️ tinyurl.com/3mt6t6hm

🎶 LYR
📅 Friday 17 April
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🎶 Chaos String Quartet: Wiener Blut
📅 Sunday 19 April
🎟️ tinyurl.com/y4t4nnkv

Join us this coming Wednesday for the Material Worlds Lunchtime Seminar at 2pm featuring Sophie Oliver @sotauol.bsky.social, taking about the power of everyday objects in building sensual understandings of the world of Gertrude Stein.

#MaterialWorldsNetworkLiv

@livunihss.bsky.social

A Feast for the Mind Feeling hungry? Tonight, we’re going to discuss how the act of eating impacts the world! From cancer cells to deep-sea critters and even a good old Chinese…

Join me for 'A Feast for the Mind' at Lime Street Central on Wednesday, 20th May, from 7pm, as part of @pintofscience.uk. I'll be exploring the history of British Chinese food through newspaper coverage!

#pint26 @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

pintofscience.co.uk/event/a-feas...

BPA Prizes 2026 - British Philosophical Association The British Philosophical Association is delighted to celebrate the inaugural recipients of our new BPA Prizes. These awards were established to recognise and promote the outstanding breadth, depth, a...

Congratulations to Dr Jon Bebb, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, on receiving the British Philosophy Association’s ‘Teaching Philosophy in the Community’ award, for his work teaching Philosophy in prisons 👏🎉 @livunihss.bsky.social

Full story 👇
bpa.ac.uk/prizes2026/

Liverpool's Tung Auditorium Solidifies Its Reputation As A 'Hub For The Best Emerging Talent In Merseyside' | Liverpool Noise The Tung Auditorium has become a vital space in the city for young emerging musicians wanting to pursue the arts professionally.

Explore how @thetungauditorium.bsky.social is helping students develop as professionals though offering performance opportunities, platforms for artistic development, student placements and graduate opportunities 🎶@livunihss.bsky.social

Full story 👇
liverpoolnoise.com/music-in-liv...

Delighted to receive #BritishAcademy award to develop #HorizonEurope project with @eurohealthhist.bsky.social & others: 'Bridging Diverse Health Heritage(s): fostering shared responsibility and security through inclusive narratives, objects, and places'. @livunihss.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social

Great to see our English department in the top 100 QS subject rankings for English Language and Literature, one of 12 subject areas in the university@livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social Details ⬇️

Big news 🎉 English Language and Literature is now ranked in the global top 100 in the 2026 QS World University Rankings by Subject 🌍📚

Huge congratulations to the Department of English 👏@livunienglish.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

Read more 👇
www.liverpool.ac.uk/english/news...

🎶 Liverpool Welsh Choral: Passion Music
📅 Saturday 28 March
🎟️ tinyurl.com/4n7kynba

Coming up this week at @thetungauditorium.bsky.social 🧡

🎶 The Wonder of Stevie
📅 Thursday 26 March
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🎶 An Evening with Laurel and Hardy – Presented by Neil Brand
📅 Friday 27 March
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🎭 Feminist theatre in a time of crisis: Book launch and roundtable
📅 Wednesday 6th May, 3pm-4.30pm
📍 School of Arts Library and online

Register for online only 👇
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/913d36...

Congratulations to 1st year BA Philosophy Student, Isabel Dixon-Hardy who finished second place in the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Young Persons’ Lecture Competition for her talk, ‘Philosophical Foundations of Just Mining in the Low-Carbon Transition’ 🎉👏👇
tinyurl.com/f5h8mbym

Adding to our suite of provision in the field of game design, we are now offering a PhD in Game Design 🎮 This PhD offers a unique opportunity to develop innovative and impactful research within the expansive and continually growing field of digital games: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/game...

Fantastic food for thought today coming from the very inspiring research of Dr Alyssa Grossman & a fun challenge: potential collaboration as archaeologist with her and the NY-based artist Selena Kimball to look at artistic interventions on archaeological museum materials!

@sotauol.bsky.social

New publication from Dr Chris Jones of @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social Want to know some basics about spoken grammar? Details below⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap...

Poster reads: Writing Philosophical Fiction: A Creative Writing Workshop with Dr Rachel Handley, when: wednesday 25th march, 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, Saturday 28th March, 1 pm to 3 pm. Where: Liverpool Central Library (Hornby Library). All welcome! All you need is a pen and paper. For enquiries, contact Tom Bunyard at t.bunyard@liverpool.ac.uk Logos of liverpool city council, liverpool central library, the british philosophical association, university of Liverpool, and #philosophymatters appear on the bottom of the poster.

Come write some weird fiction with me at Liverpool Central Library on either the 25th or the 28th March.

The event is free and everyone is welcome!

@livunihss.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social @livunilibrary.bsky.social @thebpa.bsky.social

#philosophymatters #liverpool #philsky

Happy Monday! Coming up this week at @thetungauditorium.bsky.social 🧡

🎶 Brass-stronomy in Concert
📅 Wednesday 11 March
🎟️ thetungauditorium.com/events/brass...

🎶 Courtney Pine: House of Legends
📅 Saturday 14 March
🎟️ thetungauditorium.com/events/court...

Happy March 🌷 Coming up this week at @thetungauditorium.bsky.social 🧡

🎶 Soraya Verjee
📅 Wednesday 4 March
🎟️ tinyurl.com/htr3bp5f

🎶 The Irish House Party
📅 Friday 6 March
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🎶 Ash Sarkar - In Conversation
📅 Sunday 8 March
🎟️ tinyurl.com/y7xrt44u

Wishing a happy and prosperous New Year to all our students, staff and alumni celebrating, whether you’re enjoying Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year, Losar, Seollal, Tết Nguyên Ðán, Tsagaan Sar or another festival! 🎊

Liverpool School of Architecture researchers have won Best Paper award 2025 from Frontiers of Architectural Research journal for ‘Urban geometry as a climate adaptation strategy for enhancing outdoor thermal comfort in a hot desert climate’ @livunihss.bsky.social 👏🥳

Read more 👇
tinyurl.com/w5dchua5

‘Chia pudding is Cathy’s composed side’: the wild and worrying world of official Wuthering Heights merchandise Emerald Fennell’s lust-fuelled take on Emily Brontë’s novel has cued a hot flush of merchandise ranging from themed snacks to thongs. What exactly are they buying into?

@livunienglish.bsky.social doctoral candidate Natalie Wall has written for @theguardian.com about the bizarre brand collaborations with the new Wuthering Heights film (which includes a smoothie bowl...). Read Natalie's article here:

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

#wutheringheights

School of Architecture BA3 Studio 5 students have just returned from a (chilly) field trip to Vienna, visiting sites for their semester two project, International Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ICIR)
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Very excited to host the wonderful Tim Waterman tomorrow at the Liverpool School of Architecture! His talk, ‘Reworlding: Planetarity and Future Imaginaries’, is open for all and you can also look around our new home! @sotauol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture...

New book chapter from Dr Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social of @livunienglish.bsky.social @sotauol.bsky.social on gender-inclusive language. Details ⬇️

A Dirty History of Photography An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry.   Dependent on the extractive practices of fossil-fueled industrial capitalism, chemic...

Prof. Michelle Henning’s book, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire, is now out! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The historical oasis landscape of Misfat al-Abriyin

Attendees at the multi-stakeholder heritage workshop

Sustainable development is key when it comes to protecting the historic oasis landscapes of Oman. Colleagues from @heritageinstitute.bsky.social were on hand to provide insights and support at a recent workshop in Misfat al-Abriyin.
www.liverpool.ac.uk/heritage-ins...

SoTA's Georgian home in Abercromby Square.

School of the Arts @sotauol.bsky.social showing off its fine compositional skills here, as you would expect 🎨🏛️

Coming up this week at @thetungauditorium.bsky.social 🧡

🎶 Mark Simpson Wind Ensemble
📅 Wednesday 14 January, 7:30pm
🎟️ thetungauditorium.com/events/mark-...