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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 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

To Como then I came: on writing the modern biography of an ancient Roman

16:55 - 18:30 5 February 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 5 February 2015
Diaspora: Multilingual and intercultural communication across time and space Speaker: Zhu Hua, Birkbeck College, University of London

Careers in Humanitarianism 2015

09:00 - 17:00 6 February 2015
3rd Annual Careers in Humanitarianism Day, hosted by the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Considering a career in the humanitarian sector? Join us for a day of…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive on Spivak (with Anastasia Valassopoulos, EAC)

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2015
All welcome, no booking required. CIDRAL Theory Intensive on Spivak with Anastasia Valassopoulos (EAC, Manchester) Readings pdfs available here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/16ahmgl5th2cj7h/AADAcwjk…

CJS Seminar: David Newman (Ben Gurion University) - "Rethinking Borders: Deterritorializing the Two State Solution"

16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2015
Centre for Jewish Studies seminar

English Literature Research Seminar: Daniel Katz (Warwick), 'As it is now, Just a little different: On Ben Lerner'

17:00 - 18:30 11 February 2015
English Literature Research Seminar 2014-15 Daniel Katz (Warwick) 'As it is now, Just a little different: On Ben Lerner'

Informal settlements and housing provision: where are Latin American governments heading?

17:00 - 18:30 11 February 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: 'Latin America: The Potential of the Global South?' Co-organised with the Global Urban Research Centre (GURC). Venue: University Place 4.212

Lunchtime Seminar: Paul Oldfield: 'The Tyrant Kings of Medieval Sicily'

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2015
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Dr Paul Oldfield: 'The Tyrant Kings of Medieval Sicily' Feel free to bring your lunch.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Gergely Juhász (Liverpool Hope): Early-Modern English Afterlife Beliefs and Exegesis: The Debate between William Tyndale and George Joye on Translation 'Resurrection'

14:00 - 15:30 12 February 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

Gregory Scott (Edinburgh) - "Destructing and Reconstructing Buddhist Sacred Places in Modern China"

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2015
The Religions and Theology seminar series continues.

Ovid’s Sibylline Visions

16:55 - 18:30 12 February 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 12 February 2015
Translation and creativity Speaker: Kirsten Malmkjaer, University of Leicester

Resistance to Zionism as Educative Practice

17:00 - 18:00 16 February 2015
A Talk on Resistance to Zionism as Educative Practice - Part of Middle Eastern Studies Departmental Seminar Series, 2014-2015. In analysing the relations between Jewish-Israeli society…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Denise Riley (UEA): On the Lapidary Style

17:00 - 19:00 17 February 2015
All welcome, no booking required. 'The lapidary style' suggests a manner of writing which runs close to working a material – carving lettering into rock, cutting a gem into fine facets.…

Jesús Gómez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): 'La comicidad dialógica de Sancho Panza en el Quijote de 1615' (in Spanish)

17 February 2015
Part of our Spanish and Portuguese Seminar Series. Abstract: Algunas diferencias entre las dos partes del Quijote. La reacción de la escritura cervantina frente al apócrifo de Avellaneda.…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On the Affect of Language (with Denise Riley)

10:00 - 12:00 18 February 2015
All welcome, no booking required. CIDRAL Theory Intensive On the Affect of Language with Denise Riley (UEA), Jackie Stacey (CIDRAL) and Janet Wolff (EAC) Readings: Riley, Denise,…

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