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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…

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 Event: Traditional/Digital Humanities and cultural criticism

14:00 - 17:00 10 December 2014
Traditional/Digital Humanities and cultural criticism Wednesday 10 December 2:00-5:00 G19 Mansfield Cooper Prof. Marilyn Deegan (King’s College, London and Simon Visiting Professor)…

Dr Alexis Grohmann: “Nace (y muere) el héro cansado. El húsar, de Arturo Pérez-Reverte”

17:00 10 December 2014
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese PG Training and Research Seminar. Sam Alex W3.13 En la primera obra narrativa publicada de Arturo Pérez-Reverte, la novela corta (o nouvelle) El…

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'

WW1 Open Lecture Series: Homeric Mud in the Trenches

17:00 - 18:00 10 December 2014
A talk by Dr Emma Griffiths (Department of Classics and Ancient History) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of WW1". The…

An assembly of Old Men and New Men: the Senate in late Pahlavi Iran

17:30 - 19:00 11 December 2014
Considering the Iranian revolution in 1979 a pivotal and unanticipated event, Western research often engaged in an almost teleological historiography of the second Pahlavi period as…

Anastasia Valassopoulos (Manchester) - "Constructing the Refugee: ‘Biblical Time’ and ‘Scriptural Geography’ at work in the Visual Culture of the Holy Land (1946- 1949)"

16:00 - 17:30 11 December 2014
Religions and Theology Seminar

Ehrhardt Seminar: Campbell Price (Manchester Museum) - Art and Religion in Ancient Egypt (with walking visit to the Egyptology collection at the Museum)

14:00 - 15:50 11 December 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Stephen Fitzsimons (Manchester) 'Aporie and the Persian Kings in Herodotus' Histories'

16:55 - 18:30 11 December 2014
The Department of Classics & Ancient History runs a regular research seminar, which meets weekly during term time throughout the academic year. Papers are given by local speakers (including…

William Burroughs at 100: Part 1 'Nothing is True...'

18:00 - 22:30 13 December 2014
An evening of spoken word, poetry, live experimental music and audio visual cut up live performances featuring: CP. Lee, Michael Horovitz and Vanessa Vie, Lauren Bolger and David McLean,…

William Burroughs at 100: Part 2 'Everything is Permitted...'

12:00 - 18:00 14 December 2014
A day of William Burroughs inspired talks, discussions and presentations to celebrate William Burroughs' 100th anniversary. This day event features special guest speakers recognised…

Hidden Histories of disabled veterans and the first world war - A talk by Dr Ana Carden-Coyne

17:00 - 19:00 17 December 2014
Hidden Histories of disabled veterans and the first world war: A talk by Dr Ana Carden-Coyne, Senior Lecturer in War and Conflict at the University of Manchester and leading disability…

CLASH event: mini presentations by MA students in AHVS, Drama, Music and ICP

16:15 - 19:30 22 January 2015
This CLASH event featuring mini presentations by MA students in AHVS, Drama, Music and ICP. Students will present aspects of their work and seek to foster dialogue across disciplines.…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies - Prof. Christopher Browning (North Carolina): "Agency in the Holocaust: Perpetrators, Survivors, Rescuers"

27 - 29 January 2015
The Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies. See www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bogdanow-lectures-2015/ for further information. Open to all. Room TBC.

Dr. Rachel Herrmann (Southampton) “A Great Dish of Blood”: Victual Warfare in the Revolutionary South.

17:00 - 18:30 28 January 2015
Dr. Rachel Herrmann (Southampton) “A Great Dish of Blood”: Victual Warfare in the Revolutionary South.

Drama in the Gutter

17:30 - 18:45 28 January 2015
Manchester Classical Association Lecture. Most people nowadays associate Roman comedy with the plays of the celebrated playwrights Plautus and Terence, who influenced generations of…

The Invitation to Imagine: Spaces of Memory in Post-Dictatorship Argentina

17:00 - 18:30 28 January 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: 'Latin America: The Potential of the Global South?' Venue: Arthur Lewis Boardroom

Ehrhardt Seminar: Visit to Manchester City Art Gallery with Meg Parnell

14:00 - 15:30 29 January 2015
Meet at 2:10 at Infromation Desk in atrium on Mosley Street.

The Native Voice in the Roman Near East

16:55 - 18:30 29 January 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Are we Charlie?

17:00 - 19:00 30 January 2015
A round-table to contextualise the recent Paris killings and their consequences. Academic presentations followed by open debate. Guest speaker: Olivier Cyran (Paris-based free-lance…

Nowhere to Call Home - Tibet Film Screening and Director Q&A

17:00 - 20:00 3 February 2015
The University of Manchester's Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) and the British Inter-university China Centre (BICC) present Nowhere to Call Home, a film by Jocelyn Ford (in Tibetan,…

CIDRAL Roundtable: Adam Phillips: Psychoanalysis, Morality and the Senses

15:30 - 17:30 4 February 2015
Adam Phillips (Psychoanalyst and Writer) with Dr Monica Pearl (Lecturer in 20th Century American Literature, EAC, UoM) and Professor Ian Parker (psychoanalyst, Manchester Psychoanalytic…

Dr Irena Hayter, Leeds University - 'The Cinema, the Department Store, the Mannequin Girl: Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan'

16:00 - 18:00 4 February 2015
Japanese Studies first visiting lecturer of the semester: Dr Irena Hayter, Leeds University - 'The Cinema, the Department Store, the Mannequin Girl: Gender and Visuality in Interwar…

Kids on Film: Responses to Sarah Wright's The Child in Spanish Cinema (2013)

17:00 - 18:30 4 February 2015
Sarah Wright's The Child in Spanish Cinema (2013) explores the child on screen as a potent motif for the loss of historical memory in Spain’s religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror',…

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