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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…

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.…

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

17:00 19 November 2014
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series.

The Tensions of Modernity: Arts and politics in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina

17:45 - 20:00 19 November 2014
This exhibition will explore cultural and political responses to the driving force of modernity in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Argentina between 1909 and 1945. It will offer a range of…

WW1 Open Lecture Series: Irishmen in No Man’s Land: Ambivalent Allegiances in Sebastian Barry’s A Long Long Way (2005) CANCELLED*

17:00 - 18:00 19 November 2014
*** We regret that due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has to be cancelled.*** A talk by Dr Liam Harte (Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing) - part…

AHVS Seminar with James Cahill, Theorist in Cinema Studies: "Edible Beauty: Painlevé and Hamon’s kino-mouth"

17:00 - 18:30 20 November 2014
A lecture by James Leo Cahill Assistant Professor in Cinema Studies Institute and Department of French, University of Toronto « La beauté sera comestible, ou ne sera pas. » —Salvador…

Deborah Kamen (Washington) 'Prostitutes, maidservants and slave boys: Manumission and sexuality in ancient Greece

16:55 - 18:30 20 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: George Brooke (Manchester) - Zedekiah, Covenant and the Scrolls from Qumran

14:00 - 15:50 20 November 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Gary Keogh (Manchester) - "Science and the Freedom of Nature: A Theological Perspective"

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2014
Religions and Theology seminar series.

History Research Seminar - Kevin Passmore: ‘The Reception of Fascism in France’

16:15 - 19:00 20 November 2014
History Department Research Seminar, 2014-15 All Welcome! Room A215, Samuel Alexander Building Kevin Passmore (Cardiff) ‘The Reception of Fascism in France’.

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 20 November 2014
Emotion perception and the translation process Speaker: Severine Hubscher-Davidson, Aston University

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Stefan Collini (Cambridge): No Accounting for Quality: Universities and Society

17:00 - 19:00 25 November 2014
Stefan Collini is Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature. After degrees at Cambridge and Yale, he taught at the University of Sussex before moving to a post in the…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Derrida (with Rachel Fensham, Melbourne)

14:00 - 16:00 26 November 2014
Led by Rachel Fensham (Melbourne) Readings: Jacques Derrida, ‘Introduction’ and ‘Theses’, Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Trans. Eric Prenowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago…

Critical Mass & Visual Dialogues: Writing Jazz History - The Biography of Dexter Gordon

17:00 - 19:00 26 November 2014
In Conversation with Maxine Gordon Writing Jazz History: The Biography of Dexter Gordon Interview with Maxine Gordon: http://irockjazz.com/2013/09/maxine-gordon-the-life-of-dexter-gordon/…

History Lunchtime Seminar: Anna Carlson-Hyslop - 'Consumer politics and energy use in British council housing, 1920-1970'

13:00 - 14:00 26 November 2014
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Anna Carlson-Hyslop - 'Consumer politics and energy use in British council housing, 1920-1970'

Manchester and Liverpool Art Group (MALAG) Workshop: Perspectives on Ford Madox Brown’s Work

13:00 - 16:00 26 November 2014
‘Perspectives on Ford Madox Brown’s Work’ examines one of the most important paintings produced in the second half of the nineteenth century. This dazzling picture has been identified…

David Langslow (Manchester) 'Wackernagel’s lectures on syntax, published and unpublished'

16:55 - 18:30 27 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: Kimberley Slack (Manchester) - Interpreting the "Exegesis on the Soul" within a Fourth-Century Collection: The Ascent of the Soul and the Pachomians

14:00 - 15:50 27 November 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Scott Midson (Manchester) - "Technology and the 'Ends' of the Substantive Human: Evolutionary and Critical Posthumanism in Theological Perspective"

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2014
Religions and Theology seminar series

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 27 November 2014
What does it mean to interpret into a B language? Speaker: Clare Donovan, OECD/ESIT, Paris

Afghanistan: The transition - public exhibition

1 December 2014 - 14 February 2015
Afghanistan: The transition - public exhibition Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)'s photography exhibition, in collaboration with documentary photographers Andrea…

CIDRAL / SALC Book Launch

17:30 1 December 2014
The next CIDRAL book launch will take place on: Monday 1st December 2014 at 5.30pm at Blackwell's (Oxford Rd) These book launches have been very enjoyable in the past and we look…

CIDRAL Research Seminar: Rachel Fensham (Melbourne): Dancing Nature: Scientific Thought and the Ecological Choreography of Modern Dance

17:00 - 19:00 2 December 2014
Rachel Fensham is Head of School of Culture and Communication and a dance and theatre scholar. Her publications include the monograph "To Watch Theatre: Essays on Genre and Corporeality"…

Cultivating Research: Naturalism and the Problem of Homosexuality

17:15 - 19:00 2 December 2014
Naturalist theatre was a movement that placed the highest priority on representing the contemporary world, exposing social problems, and drawing on the latest scientific thinking to…

HCRI Speaker Series - Film screening of "Rising from Ashes" followed by discussion with Rony Cohen

14:00 - 16:00 2 December 2014
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) are proud to host the film screening of "Rising from Ashes". The screening and discussion has been scheduled to honour the 20th…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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