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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…

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',…

Afghanistan in Transition: Humanitarian Action in a Fragile Context

17:30 - 19:30 5 February 2015
Afghanistan in Transition: Humanitarian Action in a Fragile Context (roundtable discussion) Afghanistan is currently going through political, economic, security and humanitarian transitions.…

David Law - "The 'Prophethood' of Jesus: Islamic Inclusivism in Said Nursi's Risale-i-Nur"

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2015
The Religions and Theology seminar series continues.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Michael Flowers - "Josephus' 'Ambiguous Oracle'"

14:00 - 15:30 5 February 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

History Research Seminar: John Foot: The end of the asylum. Radical psychiatry and institutions in Italy in the 1960's and 70's

16:15 - 18:30 5 February 2015
History Research Seminar 2014-15 John Foot (Bristol) The end of the asylum. Radical psychiatry and insitutions in Italy in the 1960's and 70's

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Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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