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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…

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

Demagogues and demos in Athens

16:55 - 18:30 19 February 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Harvey - "Another Reading of the Conflict in Galatians"

14:00 - 15:30 19 February 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar: David Harvey - More ''Timē'' for the Agitators: Another Reading of the Conflict in Galatians For staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

History Research Seminar: Jan Georg Deutsch - 'Agamben in Ungoni. Colonialism and Violence in German East Africa'

16:15 - 18:30 19 February 2015
History Research Seminar 2014-15 Jan Georg Deutsch (Oxford) 'Agamben in Ungoni. Colonialism and Violence in German East Africa'

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 19 February 2015
Conference Interpreting: Managing expectations Speaker: Ebru Diriker, Bogazici University, Turkey

"The Mill and the Cross" - film screening with filmmaker Lech Majewski

18:00 - 21:00 20 February 2015
Russian and East European Studies and the University of Manchester Polish Student Society are hosting a meeting with the Polish artist, filmmaker, poet and stage director Lech Majewski…

Trends in the Constructions of Masculinities in Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema

18:00 - 19:00 23 February 2015
A Middle Eastern Studies Departmental Seminar by Dr Nacim Pak Shiraz - University of Edinburgh

English Literature Research Seminar: Cathy Shrank (Sheffield), 'Shakespeare's Poems and Acts of Memorialisation'

17:00 - 18:30 25 February 2015
English Literature Research Seminar Cathy Shrank (Sheffield) 'Shakespeare's Poems and Acts of Memorialisation'

Lunchtime Seminar: Henry Miller, 'Popular politics before democracy: the culture of petitioning in Manchester, 1780-1914'

13:00 - 14:00 25 February 2015
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Dr Henry Miller, 'Popular politics before democracy: the culture of petitioning in Manchester, 1780-1914' Feel free to bring your lunch.

Translation and Interpreting - Career paths and opportunities

13:00 - 17:30 25 February 2015
If you're considering a postgraduate course in translation or interpreting or just want to find out more about the professions and the opportunities open to people like you, join us…

Women on the Walls

17:30 - 18:45 25 February 2015
Manchester Classical Association Lecture

Between men and gods: gift-giving in Ancient Greece

16:55 - 18:30 26 February 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Dan Garner - "Assessing Post-Holocaust Theologies of Image: Melissa Raphael's Fraught Theology of Divine Powerlessness"

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2015
The Religions and Theology seminar series continues.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Richard Britton - "Truth or Trick: Is Hermeneutics Ever Possible?"

14:00 - 15:30 26 February 2015
Ehrhardt seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

Music Research Seminar: 'It is not the houses. It is the spaces in between the houses.'

16:15 - 18:00 26 February 2015
Speaker: Christopher Fox (Brunel) 'It is not the houses. It is the spaces in between the houses.' (James Fenton, 'A German Requiem') Some reflections on spaces for music and the spaces within music.

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 26 February 2015
Crazy Japanese subtitles: Impact caption and viewer experience Speaker: Ryoko Sasamoto, Dublin City University

Whitworth Studies Film Screening: 'Full' by Carol Mavor and Megan Powell

19:00 - 20:30 26 February 2015
Followed by in conversation with Maria Balshaw.

Arabic Cross-dialectal Conversations with Implications for the Teaching of Arabic as a Second language

17:00 - 18:00 2 March 2015
Language variation is a universal linguistic phenomenon which has attracted research work in many languages. The level of variation in the Arabic language is quite high. This is due…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive on McLuhan

14:00 - 16:00 4 March 2015
All welcome, no booking required. CIDRAL Theory Intensive on McLuhan: H Marshall McLuhan: the last futurist with Vincenzo Susca (Paris Descartes Sorbonne University) and Claudia Attimonelli…

Elizabeth Ewart (Oxford): 'Categories and consequences: hunting for legalism in Amazonia'

17:00 - 18:30 4 March 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.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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