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Cultivating Research: “Not Quite Urban?”

18:00 - 19:30 10 March 2015
In this session, Manchester colleagues will present short papers on related themes of post-industrial place, space, and the performance of local identity. Followed by open seminar discussion.…

The Manuscript Collection of John Hutton and its Provenance

10 March 2015
In 1842, the collection of 50 Islamic manuscripts belonging to John Hutton of Marske in Yorkshire were presented to Christ’s College, Cambridge. This paper traces the provenances…

Brad Epps: 'The Unbearable Lightness of Bones: Memory, Emotion, and Pedagogy in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, la memoria obstinada and Nostalgia de la luz'

17:00 - 18:30 11 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.

CIDRAL / MFTN Theory Intensive on Queer Theory (with J. Jack Halberstam, USC)

10:00 - 12:00 11 March 2015
CIDRAL Theory Intensive on Queer Theory with J. Jack Halberstam (USC) Organised by Manchester Feminist Theory Network (MFTN) and sponosored by the North West Consortium Doctoral Training…

CJS Seminar: Jan Lorenz - "Pathways to Jewishness: Jewish Proselytes and Conversion Programmes in Contemporary Poland"

15:00 - 16:30 11 March 2015
Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar

Classics@Manchester

13:00 - 16:30 11 March 2015
You are warmly invited to the University of Manchester on Wednesday 11 March 2015 for an afternoon (1.00-4.30 p.m.) exploring a wide range of classical topics. We are planning talks…

Lunchtime Seminar: Eloise Moss, 'A policeman in every home: Britain’s three-digit emergency number and the commercialization of domestic surveillance internationally, 1937-1991.'

13:00 - 14:00 11 March 2015
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Eloise Moss, 'A policeman in every home: Britain’s three-digit emergency number and the commercialization of domestic surveillance internationally,…

‘Roundtable on Colour’ with Nicholas Gaskill (Rutgers) and Regina Blaszczyk (Leeds)

17:00 - 18:30 11 March 2015
‘Roundtable on Colour’ with Nicholas Gaskill (Rutgers) and Regina Blaszczyk (Leeds)

Ehrhardt Seminar: Walter Houston - "Justice and Righteousness: A Concept and Its Contexts"

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

Families and dictatorships, Italy and elsewhere, 1917-1945

17:00 - 18:15 12 March 2015
All are warmly invited to the Herford Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies with the collaboration of History Professor Paul Ginsborg (University of Florence) will deliver a lecture…

Geoffrey Cantor (Leeds) - "Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851"

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

Herodotus’ last logos: the end of the Histories and the end of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars

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

Music Research Seminar: 'Roger Marsh: in conversation'

16:15 - 18:00 12 March 2015
Speaker: Roger Marsh (University of York) In conversation with Kevin Malone about his new work for Vaganza (to be premiered on 13 March)

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 12 March 2015
Before we even begin:The challenges of gaining ethics approval for interpreting research Speaker: Jemina Napier, Heriot-Watt University

Visual Dialogues: O!PLA -The Polish Festival of Animation

18:00 - 20:00 12 March 2015
Screening and Skype conversation with O!PLA organiser Piotr Kardas and animator Anna R?kas. O!PLA is a non-profit project to promote the art of animation in Poland and abroad. It…

Whitworth Studies seminar: Viktor Wynd

17:15 - 18:30 12 March 2015
In his recent book, Viktor Wynd’s Cabinet of Wonders, the filmmaker John Waters comments: ‘An insanely delightful how-to guide on becoming a mentally ill, cheerily obsessive eccentric…

¡Viño español! Vinho lusófono!

15:00 - 16:30 13 March 2015
We would like to invite all final year students to a special edition of the Café en español/Café Lusófono: ¡Viño español! Vinho lusófono! Please come along on this coming Friday,…

The Manuscript Collection of John Hutton and its Provenance

18:00 - 19:00 16 March 2015
In 1842, the collection of 50 Islamic manuscripts belonging to John Hutton of Marske in Yorkshire were presented to Christ’s College, Cambridge. This paper traces the provenances of…

Between Joyce and Remembrance - Film Screening and Director Q&A

15:00 - 17:00 17 March 2015
This film screening is hosted by the Humanitarian and Development Research Group. The screening will be followed by a Skype debate with the Director. Between Joyce and Remembrance…

CIDRAL Roundtable: Susan Stewart (Princeton): Poetry, Thinking, and the Senses

17:00 - 19:00 17 March 2015
All welcome, no booking required. With John McAuliffe (CNW), Anke Bernau (EAC) and Stephen Parker (German) Readings: from Stewart, Susan, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (Chicago:…

"They should speak Latin and no other language": the pains (and pleasures) of learning Latin in the Renaissance

17:30 - 18:45 18 March 2015
Manchester Classical Association Lecture

English Literature Research Seminar: David Shuttleton (Glasgow), 'Seminal Weakness and Steel’d Nerves: Male sexual disorders in Dr William Cullen’s "Consultations" (1760-1790)'

17:00 - 18:30 18 March 2015
English Literature Research Seminar David Shuttleton (Glasgow) Seminal Weakness and Steel’d Nerves: Male sexual disorders in Dr William Cullen’s ‘Consultations’ (1760-1790)

Neiva Vieira de Cunha (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro): 'New conflicts in the margins of the city: public policies in the favelas in Rio de Janeiro'.

17:00 - 18:30 18 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

New conflicts in the margins of the city: public policies in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro

17:00 - 18:30 18 March 2015
Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies seminar series 2014-15 Latin America: the potential of the Global South?

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 19 March 2015
Public Service Interpreting and its humanitarian roots: Archive research on refugee reception and resettlement in mid-late 20th century Britain Speaker: Rebecca Tipton, University of Manchester

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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