Events

Forthcoming events:

Dawn Chorus Day Ecosocial Breakfast Walk

Sunday 4 May from 7:30 until 10:00

Brighton & Hove

Join us on International Dawn Chorus Day for an early morning sound walk through Stanmer Park and an ecosocial breakfast at the Ecomusicology plot.


Sexual Dissidence Research Symposium

Tuesday 6 May from 11:30 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

Come together with other researchers in LGBTQ+/sexuality/queer and related studies at Sussex to discuss current projects.


Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research OPEN HOUSE

Tuesday 6 May from 16:00 until 17:30

University of Sussex Campus

Open get together for all interested in life narrative-based research and methods or to discover our Centre network.


Nature Unseen

Thursday 8 May from 16:30 until 19:00

Brighton & Hove

Step into the world of sight impaired collaborators and their experiences of Wakehurst’s wild botanic garden in this immersive exhibition.


Post-Rave Britain Archive Roadshow

Thursday 8 May from 19:30 until 21:30

Brighton & Hove

Researchers and students from Sussex explore thirty years of British culture, society and politics through the lens of rave.


Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities/Library Partnership Day

Tuesday 13 May from 13:00 until 16:30

University of Sussex Campus

MAH faculty and PGRs are invited to a collaborative event which will enable you to engage with the Library's collections, services and spaces.


Whose streets? Mapping Places, Mapping Protests

Thursday 15 May from 18:00 until 20:00

Brighton & Hove

This event explores how the people of Brighton and Hove have responded to threats from the far right in the past and how this will look in the future.


Discover Musical Live Coding

Sunday 18 May from 11:00 until 17:00

Brighton & Hove

Come and discover how to use simple computer coding to make music! We'll guide you into making music with your first lines of code.


Music of the Pan-African Revolution with Martin Evans, led by Karina H-Maynard

Monday 19 May from 20:15 until 23:00

Brighton & Hove

Martin Evans, Karina H-Maynard and Nzinga Sounds will play selected tracks and discuss how the Pan-Africanist movement was expressed in song.


An unclassified syncretism

Friday 23 May from 19:30 until 21:00

University of Sussex Campus

Artists Bleue Liverpool & Ibukun Sunday orchestrate a live cinema that sonically and visually questions the socioethnographic artifacts of movement.


'Gilubong ang Akong Pusod sa Dagat' (My Navel is Buried in the Sea): Typhoon Time and the Balikbayan Beatbox

Tuesday 27 May from 16:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

History Work-in-Progress Seminar Series


Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies (SCCS) Annual Meeting and Picnic 2025

Friday 6 June from 12:00 until 16:00

University of Sussex Campus

Please join us at the SCCS Annual Meeting and Picnic to meet fellow researchers, and plan activities and collaborations for the year ahead.


Close to My Heart: Autoethnographic Approaches

Wednesday 18 June from 10:00 until 16:00

University of Sussex Campus

One-day, creative research methods gathering for Sussex PGRs to explore diverse and collaborative ways of working autoethnographically.


Media, Arts and Humanities - 2-Day Summer Writing Retreat

Monday 30 June from 9:30 until 16:00

University of Sussex Campus

This special event for Media, Arts and Humanities faculty and PGRs will take place at Stanmer House on Mon 30 June & Silverstone SB302 on Tue 1 July.


Media, Arts and Humanities - 2-Day Summer Writing Retreat

Tuesday 1 July from 9:30 until 16:00

University of Sussex Campus

This special event for Media, Arts and Humanities faculty and PGRs will take place at Stanmer House on Mon 30 June & Silverstone SB302 on Tue 1 July.


The 34th International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Dissidence

Saturday 5 July from 9:00 until 17:00

University of Sussex Campus

The Annual Virginia Woolf Conference hosted at the University of Sussex, 5-8 July 2025