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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…

CLACS seminar: 'Mobilising identity for power: the struggle over indigeneity and the Isiboro Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), Bolivia'

17:00 - 18:30 5 November 2014
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies seminar series. Venue: Samuel Alexander Building S1.7

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,…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Marx (with Bob Jessop, Lancaster)

12:00 - 14:00 6 November 2014
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The time for this event is 12-2pm as listed here online (not 2-4pm as listed on poster). Theory Intensive on Marx with Bob Jessop (Lancaster) This theory intensive…

CJS Seminar - David Hirsch (Goldsmiths): "Contemporary struggles over defining antisemitism and how it is related to criticism of Israel"

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2014
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar series continues.

Danielle Frisby (Manchester) 'Make sure they see it in the cheap seats': Polyneices' dramatic sword flourish and how not to be Achilles in Statius, Thebaid.

16:55 - 18:30 6 November 2014
The Department of Classics & Ancient History runs a regular research seminar, which meets weekly during termtime throughout the academic year. Papers are given by local speakers (including…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Gerald Downing (Manchester) - Identifying God/Identifying Israel in the Jewish Canon

14:00 - 15:50 6 November 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

History Research Seminar - Henrietta Harrison: ‘Rethinking the Qianlong Emperor’s Response to Lord Macartney: the early 20thc. sources of popular ideas of the Chinese world order’

16:15 - 19:00 6 November 2014
History Department Research Seminar, 2014-15 All Welcome! Room A215, Samuel Alexander Building Henrietta Harrison (Oxford) ‘Rethinking the Qianlong Emperor’s Response to Lord Macartney:…

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 6 November 2014
Transmitting voices, translating trauma: David Boder's 1946 interviews with Holocaust survivors Speaker: Beate Müller, Newcastle University

Understanding Ebola

17:30 - 19:30 6 November 2014
**This event is now sold out, however you can access the live stream online** View the live stream here: http://www.hcri.manchester.ac.uk/news-and-events/understanding-ebola/ We will…

Visual Dialogues: Love Hotel

18:00 - 20:00 10 November 2014
In conversation with documentary film-maker Phil Cox Screening and Q&A Screening of Phil Cox's "Love Hotel" 6pm on Monday Nov 10th with the director Phil Cox in Roscoe Theatre B (please…

Legacies of Socialist Solidarity

16:30 - 18:30 11 November 2014
HCRI is delighted to host the book launch for Dr Tanja Müller's newly released book "Legacies of Socialist Solidarity - East Germany in Mozambique", Lexington Books (2014). Dr Tanja…

CLACS Seminar: 'Risk perceptions and responses in disaster prone contexts: unsettling the binary between 'experts' and 'laypersons' in Cochabamba, Bolivia’

17:00 - 18:30 12 November 2014
Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies seminar series. Venue: Samuel Alexander Building S1.7

Developments in Contemporary Art in 21st Century China

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2014
China's art scene is one of the largest and most prolific in the world. This talk outlines the development of art in China in the past ten years. The discussion will include the cultural…

Eleanor K. Jones: 'Abaixo a Prostituição! Viva Moçambique!: Sex Work and Sex in Mozambican Independence Discourse'

17:00 12 November 2014
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese seminar series. Time: 5pm. Venue: Samuel Alexander W3.13 Abstract: Based on archival fieldwork conducted in Maputo in summer 2014, this paper explores…

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

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2014
History Lunchtime Seminar James Connolly, 'The French experience of German occupation in northern France during the First World War'

WW1 Open Lecture Series: The Archaeology of the Great War

17:00 - 18:00 12 November 2014
A talk by Dr Melanie Giles (Department of Archaeology) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of WW1". Archaeology can provide…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alan Garrow (Sheffield) - Streeter’s ‘Other’ Synoptic Solution: The Matthew Conflator Hypothesis

14:00 - 15:50 13 November 2014
Identifying God/Identifying Israel, in the Jewish Canon

Elizabeth Howie, Art Historian: "The Condemned Man and the Corpse: Barthesian Madness and Roger Ballen’s ‘Outland’"

17:00 - 18:30 13 November 2014
The daughter of a psychoanalyst, Howie takes on the Roger Ballen’s controversial black and white photography, with a focus on his pictures of Plattelanders, the socially and economically…

Peter Liddel (Manchester) 'The dynamics of decrees in fourth-century Athens'

16:55 - 18:30 13 November 2014
The Department of Classics & Ancient History runs a regular research seminar, which meets weekly during termtime throughout the academic year. Papers are given by local speakers (including…

Robert Beckford (Canterbury Christ Church) - "Is David Starkey right? Or has the Jamaican Bible Movement lost its mind? Language, Theology and Pedagogy"

16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2014
Religions and Theology seminar series.

The Myth of American Omnipotence: Strength and Limits of US Influence in Iran during the Johnson Administration (1963-1969)

17:30 - 19:00 13 November 2014
MIHAN - The Manchester Iranian History Academic Network presents an International Guest Lecture. American involvement in the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in August…

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 13 November 2014
Independent publishing and translation Speaker: Jim Hinks, Comma Press & Phd candidate Edge Hill University

Research Seminar: 'Nationalism and Political Culture in Symbols and Myths in Putin’s Russia: 1999-2010'

16:30 - 18:00 17 November 2014
Dr Yuri Teper (Bar-Ilan University & the Israeli Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies) This presentation analyses official representations of Russian identity during Putin's rule.…

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