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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 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,…

Dr Christopher Storrs (Dundee): 'Rethinking the Dark Age of Spanish Historiography, 1665-1746'

17:00 18 February 2015
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese Research Seminar. The session starts at 5 pm in room W3.13 in the Samuel Alexander Building. Dr. Christopher Storrs is Reader in History in the…

English Literature Show and Tell with Liam Harte, Rebecca Pohl, and Janet Rogerson

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2015
English Literature Show and Tell with Liam Harte, Rebecca Pohl, and Janet Rogerson

AHVS Seminar with Esther Teichmann, artist: "Fractal Scars, Salt Water and Tears"

17:15 - 18:30 19 February 2015
Through photographs, film and paint, Teichmann erotically travels inside caves, storms, grottoes, women and seashells, like a phenomenologist inside a waking dream.

CJS Seminar - Sarah Hirschhorn (Oxford): "The Origins of the Redemption in Occupied Suburbia? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and the Jewish-American Makings of the West Bank Settlement of Efrat, 1973-2014"

16:00 19 February 2015
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar series continues

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Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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