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Alistair McClymont, artist: "The Fragility of Art as Science"

17:00 - 18:30 2 October 2014
McClymont makes his own ‘science machines’ with beguiling outcomes: like a raindrop that never falls. http://www.alistairmcclymont.com/

Ehrhardt Seminar: Ben Williams (JRRI) - Early Modern Jewish and Christian Readers of Midrash

14:00 - 16:00 2 October 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

History Research Seminar - Chris Wickham, ‘Administrators’ Time: the social memory of the early-medieval state in Iraq and China

16:15 - 18:30 2 October 2014
History Department Research Seminar, 2014-15 All Welcome! Chris Wickham (Oxford), ‘Administrators’ Time: the social memory of the early-medieval state in Iraq and China

Kat Molesworth (Manchester): 'Perception and Self-depiction in Lycophron’s Alexandra.'

16:55 - 18:30 2 October 2014
University of Manchester, Classics and Ancient History Research Seminars. Samuel Alexander Bdg, S2.9, Thursday 4.55pm. Everyone is invited to join the speaker for drinks and dinner…

Katan Alder (Manchester) - "Power and Empowerment: Hinduism, Nationalism and Seva (Service) in Contemporary India"

16:00 - 17:30 2 October 2014
The Religions and Theology seminar series.

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 2 October 2014
Challenging beliefs about cloud computing and big data Speaker: Anne-Charlotte Perrigaud, Catholic University of Rennes

HCRI Speaker Series with Jane Cocking

14:00 - 16:00 7 October 2014
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Speaker Series is a regular student-focused forum that draws on the expertise of a range of academics, researchers and practitioners…

Manchester Postcolonial Atelier with Professor Neil Lazarus: 'Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature'

17:00 - 18:30 7 October 2014
Atelier Series 2014: 'Development' The fifth Manchester Postcolonial Atelier offers the opportunity for the research community to enter into conversation with Professor Neil Lazarus…

History Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Chris Manias: The Lost Beasts: International Palaeontology and the Evolution of the Mammals, 1880-1950

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2014
History Department Lunchtime Seminars 2014/15 Dr Chris Manias: The Lost Beasts: International Palaeontology and the Evolution of the Mammals, 1880-1950

WW1 Star Lecture (for schools): "British Propaganda and the First World War – Imagining a United Nation"

12:30 - 14:30 8 October 2014
A talk by for Y11 and Sixth Form students by Dr Chris Godden (Department of History) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of…

Chris Baker (Chester) - "Belonging, Becoming and Participation: New Spaces of Religious Citizenship and Progressive Urban Localism in a Post-secular Global Economy"

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2014
Religions and Theology seminar series.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Thomas Yoder Neufeld (Waterloo) - Killing Enmity: The Enigma of Violence in the New Testament

14:00 - 16:00 9 October 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Peter Morton (Edinburgh): ‘Social decay in Sicily? Going beyond slavery in the Second Sicilian Slave War.’

16:55 - 18:30 9 October 2014
University of Manchester, Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar. Samuel Alexander Bdg, S2.9, Thursday 4.55pm. Everyone is invited to join the speaker for drinks and dinner at…

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 9 October 2014
Machine Translation: how much can statistics help? Speaker: Adria de Gispert, University of Cambridge & SDL Research

'The Sensory War 1914 - 2014' An exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery

11 October 2014 - 22 February 2015
The Sensory War, 1914-2014 exhibition opened in October at the Manchester Art Gallery. It is the result of a four-year curatorial partnership between Dr Ana Carden-Coyne (Centre for…

Manchester Literature Festival: Hong Ying - The Good Children

13:00 - 15:00 12 October 2014
A decade on from her internationally acclaimed memoir Daughter of the River, bestselling Chinese author Hong Ying returns to work the fertile ground of her own past with The Good Children.…

Cultivating Research: Rethinking Auteur and Artisan in Film and Theatre Historiography

17:15 - 19:00 14 October 2014
Coming from different disciplines, Hayley Bradley (theatre history) and Felicia Chan (film and cultural studies) will explore questions arising from their current research into “forgotten”…

Out of synch: José Luis López Vázquez, performance and sound in Spanish film

17:00 - 18:30 15 October 2014
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese Seminar Series Until the 1970s, Spanish film used postsynchronised sound, in which actors would dub their own voices during postproduction. Quite…

CIDRAL Research Seminar: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford): Differently Queer: Sexuality and Aesthetics in Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante

16:00 - 19:00 16 October 2014
Research Seminar with Professor Manuele Gragnolati (Somerville College, Oxford) 4-7pm, 16 October 2014 University Place 3.211 (organised by Dr Francesca Billiani, Italian). Abstract:…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dominika Kurek-Chomycz (Liverpool Hope) - Ancient Associations of Athletes and Performers, and Translocal Links in the Early Christian Movement

14:00 - 15:50 16 October 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

History Research Seminar - Richard Huzzey: ‘Faith in Free Labour: morality, self-interest and the economic culture of abolitionism c.1787-1833’

16:15 - 19:00 16 October 2014
History Department Research Seminar, 2014-15 All Welcome! Richard Huzzey (Liverpool) ‘Faith in Free Labour: morality, self-interest and the economic culture of abolitionism c.1787-1833’

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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