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11th Rylands Poetry Reading

18:00 - 19:00 5 December 2013
For this year’s annual Rylands Poetry Reading, we are delighted to welcome Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, one of Ireland’s leading contemporary poets.

Are treatments for tinnitus effective?

16:00 - 17:00 5 December 2013
'''Host:''' Prof Kevin Munro, School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' The School of Psychological Seminar series runs weekly from 3rd October 2013 to 5th June 2014.…

Bishops and Roman Law from Constantine to Theodosius

16:55 - 18:30 5 December 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Blessed Days of Anaesthesia

16:30 - 18:30 5 December 2013
'''Host:''' Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences '''About the event:''' Among all the great discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century, few offer us a more fascinating…

CIDRAL Screening: The Stuart Hall Project (2013, John Akomfrah and Smoking Dogs Films)

18:10 - 20:30 5 December 2013
NB: Time may change SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH JOHN AKOMFRAH AND LINA GOPAUL (SMOKING DOGS FILMS) The Stuart Hall Project (2013, John Akomfrah) With Professor Jackie Stacey (CIDRAL,…

Coral: Something Rich and Strange

29 November 2013 - 16 March 2014
Temporary exhibition at Manchester Museum. Explore the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Rethinking Textual Authority in Jewish Antiquity - William Tooman

14:00 - 16:00 5 December 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates, with William Tooman from the University of St. Andrews. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

18:00 - 20:30 5 December 2013
Born 1942 in Cork, she was educated in Cork and Oxford. Poet and Emeritus Professor of English, Trinity College, Dublin, where she has taught since 1966 – she still teaches on translation…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 5 December 2013
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

25 October 2013 - 4 May 2014
This exhibition at Manchester Museum is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa.…

Home away from home: Israelis abroad in contemporary Israeli literature (CJS Seminar Series) - Tamar Drukker

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2013
Tamar Drukker (SOAS) explores a fascinating element of Israeli literature as part of the Centre for Jewish Studies ongoing seminar series.

Locating Boccaccio in 2013

11 July - 20 December 2013
On the 700th anniversary of his birth, this exhibition celebrates the enduring popularity of the works of the Italian medieval author Giovanni Boccaccio. Taking a wide-ranging overview…

Manchester University Big Band

19:30 - 21:30 5 December 2013
Certain to entertain any audience, Manchester University Big Band returns to deliver an exciting and energetic set, filled with popular tunes you’ll be humming all night long! Be sure…

Morbid Micellany

14 October 2013 - 31 January 2014
Behold bizarre bindings! Delight in death! Gaze in awe at aged autographs! Our Morbid Miscellany embraces the darker side of our collections. This selection of individual items, many…

Picturing Stories: British and French Romantic Illustrations

9 August 2013 - 9 January 2014
This exhibition explores the development of French and British Romantic illustration during the period 1770-1860. In contrast to earlier allegorical images, Romantic pictures are full…

Polari Mission: Bona Eek

16 August 2013 - 2 February 2014
Polari's history is as diverse as the people who have used it. For the Polari Mission project artists Jez Dolan and Joseph Richardson have created a series of innovative visual artworks…

Portrait of a Living Archive

3 October 2013 - 13 January 2014
When people think about libraries they tend to think of them as the ancestral home of written rather than visual culture. The John Rylands Library houses a significant collection of…

QUATUOR DANEL Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 5 December 2013
Casken Choses en moi; Reeves Fireworks Physonect Siphonophore (String Quartet No.1); Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op. 33 No. 2 (The Joke). John Casken – the University’s composer emeritus…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Bachelors of Composition

14:30 - 15:30 5 December 2013
The Quatuor Danel workshops new quartet movements by the University’s undergraduates.

Research Seminar - 'Downed Airmen as Social Catalysts, Germany and the United Kingdom, 1940-45: A Work in Progress' - Claire Andrieu

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2013
History Research Seminar 'Downed Airmen as Social Catalysts, Germany and the United Kingdom, 1940-45: A Work in Progress' Claire Andrieu (SciencesPo., Paris) All are welcome.…

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