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History - The Sensory War - artwork by Sophie Jodoin

'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…

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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/…

Medieval coloured print, Cologne, 15th century, © Chetham’s Library. Kölnische Chronik

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David Langslow (Manchester) 'Wackernagel’s lectures on syntax, published and unpublished'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

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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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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CLACS Seminar: ‘Sexual Violence in War and Peace: Gender, Power and Postconflict Justice in Peru’.

17:00 - 18:30 3 December 2014
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series. Guest speaker: Dr. Jelke Boesten (KCL), Senior Lecturer at the International Development Institute, King’s…

Japanese Studies: Kyoko Mimura (PhD candidate, Ochanomizu University) Automatic GE chairs & images of Japanese women

14:00 - 16:00 3 December 2014
Kyoko Mimura (PhD candidate, Ochanomizu University) University Place 6.210 Automatic GE chairs & images of Japanese women In this presentation, I'm going to talk about socio-cultural…

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Live Chinese Art Demonstration

02:00 - 15:30 3 December 2014
Zheng Shenglong at Manchester Art Gallery In Conversation with KOSTYA NOVOSELOV, chaired by Karen Wang Art meets Science – Explore the common ground of art and science by witnessing…

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WW1 Open Lecture Series: Russia's First World War - the view from above and from below

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2014
A talk by Prof Peter Gatrell (Department of History) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of WW1". Russia's First World War…

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CIDRAL Two Day Event: Prefiguration in Contemporary Activism

4 - 5 December 2014
Two day event: Keynote:  Marianne Maeckelbergh (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University, Netherlands, and co-founder of Global Uprisings) For…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Sarah Whittle (Edinburgh) - Law and Love in Pauline Hermeneutics

14:00 - 15:50 4 December 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Medieval coloured print, Cologne, 15th century, © Chetham’s Library. Kölnische Chronik

History Research Seminar - Len Scales ‘Images of Power and their Enemies in 14th c. Europe’

16:15 - 19:00 4 December 2014
History Department Research Seminar, 2014-15 All Welcome! Len Scales (Durham) ‘Images of Power and their Enemies in 14th c. Europe’.

Jonathan Mair (Manchester) - "Ethics Across Borders"

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2014
Religions and Theology Seminar Series

Roberta Mazza (Manchester) 'Christianity in late antique Egypt: Old and new Papyri in the John Rylands collection'

16:55 - 18:30 4 December 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…

Japanese Studies: Damian Flanagan talks about his most recent book: Who Killed Yukio Mishima? Time and Destiny in the Life and Work of Japan's Master Author and Playwright

16:00 - 18:00 8 December 2014
Japanese Studies: author Damian Flanagan talks about his most recent book: Who Killed Yukio Mishima? Time and Destiny in the Life and Work of Japan's Master Author and Playwright.…

Medieval coloured print, Cologne, 15th century, © Chetham’s Library. Kölnische Chronik

History Lunchtime Seminar: Stephen Mossman, 'The Lithuanian Poetry of Venetian Byzantium and the Lost Cultural Heritage of Greater Manchester'

13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2014
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Stephen Mossman, 'The Lithuanian Poetry of Venetian Byzantium and the Lost Cultural Heritage of Greater Manchester'

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