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'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…

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’

John Zavos (Manchester) - "Religion and Social Action in a City of Posts"

16:00 - 17:30 16 October 2014
Religions and Theology Seminar Series

Lizzie Pearson (Manchester): ‘Centralised Military Administration in the Mid-Republic.’

16:55 - 18:30 16 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…

Patrick Baty, Colour Historian and Architectural Restorer: "Paint Detective"

17:00 - 18:30 16 October 2014
Through in depth paint analyses of houses, bridges and more, Baty digs up surprising stories of architecture and the past.

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 16 October 2014
Eating our words? Food, translation, mobility Speaker: Michael Cronin, Dublin City University

'Pablo Neruda in Spain: The Turning-Point'

13:00 - 14:30 17 October 2014
A talk by Adam Feinstein, biographer of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Samuel Alexander, A113

Workshop: Christian Responses to the Holocaust

09:30 - 16:00 20 October 2014
Holocaust Workshop sponsored by the Centre for Jewish Studies and the Imperial War Museum North. A one-day conference entitled 'Christian Responses to the Holocaust'. Free, but booking…

Classic Japanese Cinema with Benshi Performance by Ichiro Kataoka

18:00 - 21:00 21 October 2014
Classic Japanese Cinema with Benshi Performance by Ichiro Kataoka In the 1920s no screening of a film was complete without a narrator: Katsudo benshi or simply benshi were stars that…

CIDRAL Two Day Event: Commemoration Fever: Anatomizing the Habits of Collective Remembrance

22 - 23 October 2014
Co-organizers: Dr Ana Carden Coyne (History) and Prof Laura Doan (EAC) Two-day event. 5pm, John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre "Centenaries: What Are They Good For?”…

CLACS Seminar: 'Fieldwork as déjà vu: writing up to give up familiarity’

17:00 - 18:30 22 October 2014
Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies seminar series. Venue: Samuel Alexander Building A214

History Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Max Jones: 'In Triumph and Disaster: The Rise and Fall of the British Hero’

13:00 - 14:00 22 October 2014
History Lunchtime Seminars 2014/15 Dr Max Jones: 'In Triumph and Disaster: The Rise and Fall of the British Hero’

WW1 Open Lecture Series: Germany and the Approach of War in 1914

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2014
A talk by Prof Matthew Jefferies (Department of German Studies) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of WW1". Although a number…

A Clash of Empires: The Battle of Çaldiran (1514) and 500 Years of Turco-Iranian Relations

17:00 - 19:30 23 October 2014
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) & MIHAN present: "A Clash of Empires: The Battle of Çaldiran (1514) and 500 Years of Turco-Iranian Relations" 2014 has been seeing many…

Fiona Murphy (TCD): ' "There’s a time for love, a time for marriage – and a time for cutting it out." – Gender and sexuality in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae.’

16:55 - 18:30 23 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…

Manson Memorial Lecture: Adela Yarbro Collins (Yale) - "Paul's Spiritual Body and Debates about Resurrection"

14:00 - 15:50 23 October 2014
The annual Manson Memorial Lecture organised by the Centre for Biblical Studies.

To Publish or not to Publish? A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Politics, Ethics and Economics of Ancient Artefacts

10:00 - 16:45 25 October 2014
Speakers include: Roberta Mazza (University of Manchester), David Gill (University Campus Suffolk), Neil Brodie (University of Glasgow), Stuart Campbell (University of Manchester),…

CLACS seminar series: '"Our delivery consists in appointing good ministers": corruption and the dilemmas of appointing government officials in early eighteenth-century Spanish America'

17:00 - 18:30 29 October 2014
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies seminar series. Venue: Samuel Alexander Building A214. The paper analyses changing understandings of corruption in the early modern…

Cultivating Research: The agency of the spectator in the individualized society

17:15 - 19:00 4 November 2014
Leading sociologists, such as Zygmunt Bauman and Ulrich Beck, have been defining global capitalism as the age of ‘institutionalised individualization’ since the early 1990s, yet such…

HCRI Speaker Series with Dr Bernard Manyena

14:00 - 16:00 4 November 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…

Professor Yamada Masahiro - The Real Story Behind Japan’s Marriage Crisis - Last days for the ‘Parasite Singles’

16:00 - 17:30 4 November 2014
Japanese Studies (SALC) and the Japan Foundation [London] are pleased to announce a lecture by the Sociologist and media opinion-maker: Professor Yamada Masahiro The Real Story Behind…

History Lunchtime Seminar: James Connolly - 'The French Experience of German occupation in northern France during the First World War'

13:00 - 14:00 5 November 2014
History Lunchtime Seminar All welcome! James Connolly - 'The French Experience of German occupation in northern France during the First World War'

WW1 Open Lecture Series: What difference does a war make? - The political impact of the First World War

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2014
A talk by Dr Henry Miller (Department of History) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of WW1". Before the First World War,…

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