Campus visit/tour, Lecture

Pilkington Visiting Lecture: Professor Horst Bredekamp

17:00 6 February 2014
Pilkington Visiting Lecture: Charlemagne and the Image Politics of the Body

1991: Did Russia Destroy the Union?

16:30 - 18:30 10 February 2014
What factors brought about quick and peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union? In my presentation I reappraise the role of such often-mentioned factors as the nationalist mobilization,…

Beyond Multilingualism: Heteroglossia as Pedagogy and Practice

18:00 - 20:00 10 February 2014
This lecture argues that the question of ‘who is speaking which language to whom’ may be insufficient to understand the complexity of communication in superdiverse cities. Analysis…

Guided Visits for Schools and Colleges

13:30 - 15:30 11 February 2014
We run regular campus visits throughout the year for groups of students in Year 10 and upwards. Activities include a welcome presentation, a question-and-answer session with a panel…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 12 February 2014
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 12 February 2014
If you are unable to come to one of our University open days, you can join us for a guided visit of the campus on a Wednesday afternoon. Guided visits include a presentation on the…

Vindolanda and a frontier in transition

17:30 - 19:00 12 February 2014
Classical Association Meeting

Lovell Lecture - Phil James

19:30 - 21:00 13 February 2014
Prof. Phil James, Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University Lecture: Star formation and supernova explosions in nearby galaxies Supernovae are the violent…

Nazi Elite Schools and International Exchange

17:00 - 19:00 13 February 2014
A lecture from the seminar series YOUNG IN DANGEROUS TIMES: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN GLOBAL HISTORY The Napolas (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten) were the most prominent type of…

Barça and Catalan Culture in Manchester

10:00 - 15:00 18 February 2014
A day of lectures on sport and culture, plus music, food and a language taster session. 10am - inaugural remarks and welcome: Professor Keith Brown, Vice-President and Dean of the…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Brian Dillon (Royal College of Arts) "Ruin Lust"

17:00 - 19:00 18 February 2014
Ruins are paradoxical things. Fragments of classical architecture predict the end of our own civilization as clearly as they speak of past glories. Modern urban or industrial decay…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 19 February 2014
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 19 February 2014
If you are unable to come to one of our University open days, you can join us for a guided visit of the campus on a Wednesday afternoon. Guided visits include a presentation on the…

Language Testing of Asylum Seekers

18:00 - 20:00 19 February 2014
Language Analysis for Determination of Origin (LADO) is a new branch of applied linguistics, used by governments in processing asylum seekers who are applying for refugee status. As…

'Southern NGO to an INGO: A Personal Reflection' - A lecture by Dr Imran Matin

16:30 - 18:00 21 February 2014
Dr Imran Matin is Director of International Programmes at Save the Children International, overseeing programme design and implementation in more then 30 countries. Prior to this role…

'Sir Arthur Lewis - A Biography', guest lecture and book launch by Paul Mosley

16:30 - 18:00 24 February 2014
Why are poor countries poor? How can they get out of the poverty trap? Sir Arthur Lewis (1915-1991) was the first person to answer these questions in a systematic way. He was also…

The structure of illegal firearm acquisition networks in Quebec

16:00 - 18:00 24 February 2014
Presented by the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice and Illicit Markets Research Group, this lecture presents the first results from a recently completed survey of incarcerated…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 26 February 2014
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 26 February 2014
If you are unable to come to one of our University open days, you can join us for a guided visit of the campus on a Wednesday afternoon. Guided visits include a presentation on the…

Pilkington Visiting Lecturer

17:15 26 February 2014
Pilktington Visting Lecturer: Charlemagne and the Image Politics of the Body

Children of the Russian Revolution: Politics and Experience in 1917

17:00 - 19:00 27 February 2014
part of the seminar series YOUNG IN DANGEROUS TIMES: CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN GLOBAL HISTORY The role of children in the transformation of society was extensively celebrated in Soviet…

Pilkintgon Visiting Lecturer: Professor Horst Bredkamp

17:15 - 19:15 27 February 2014
Pilkintgon Visiting Lecturer: Herrenhausen and the Landscaped Garden: Two Routes to Modernity

Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning: Evidence from a Large Public Programme in India - Lecture by Vegard Iversen

16:30 - 18:00 27 February 2014
India has a national policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women. We use this to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Tom Safley (History, University of Pennsylvania) ‘What Ruin? Of Insolvency and Scandal, Fortunes and Families in Early Modern Economic Life’

17:00 - 19:00 4 March 2014
Can we speak of "ruin" in economic life and activity? Surely, businesses fail, wealth disperses and individuals suffer. In premodern society, the consequences could be dire: debtor's…

Guided Visits for Schools and Colleges

13:30 - 15:30 4 March 2014
We run regular campus visits throughout the year for groups of students in Year 10 and upwards. Activities include a welcome presentation, a question-and-answer session with a panel…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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