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Allusion and Context: Reading Gigantomachy in Statius’ Thebaid 10 and Silius Italicus’ Punica 12

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

CJS Seminar - Rebecca Steinfeld (Stanford): "War of the Wombs: The Politics of Abortion in Israel"

16:00 - 17:30 19 March 2015
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar series continues.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mi Ja Wi - "Is the Responses Humans Give to the Offer of Salvation Necessary? Reflections on Luke 7 and 15

14:00 - 15:30 19 March 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

History Research Seminar: Peregrine Horden - 'Periodisation in Mediterranean History'

16:15 - 18:30 19 March 2015
History Research Seminar 2014-15: All Welcome! Peregrine Horden (Royal Holloway) 'Periodisation in Mediterranean History'

Music Research Seminar: ‘Modernism, truth, and other naughty words’

16:15 - 18:00 19 March 2015
Speaker: J.P.E. Harper-Scott (Royal Holloway, London) ‘Modernism, truth, and other naughty words’

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

'Mediating Africa in Lisbon'

14:30 - 17:00 20 March 2015
Colloquium Supported by Instituto Camões-Cátedra Sophia de Mello Bryener and by LBAS-LIS Research Events Fund – University of Manchester. Friday 20 March 2015. 2.30 pm – 5 pm Samuel…

Polish AS and A2 Workshops

09:45 - 16:30 21 March 2015
Polish AS and A2 Workshops PROGRAMME Samuel Alexander Building A104, A113, A114, A115, A116 9.45 – 9.55 Registration 10.00 – 10.50 Welcome and Introduction Ewa Ochman…

Migratory Birds: Poetry and Perceptions of Climate Change

15:00 - 19:30 25 March 2015
Roundtable A panel of literary scholars and climate change and bird species experts will address the following questions: - How does poetry represent birds and our relationship…

The Animal and the Archive: Revisiting Human-Other Animal Relations in Cultural history

09:30 - 18:30 27 March 2015
"Everywhere animals disappear. In zoos they constitute the living monument to their own disappearance" Berger, ‘Why Look at Animals’ (1977), p. 26. 9.30 – registration (coffee…

Cultural and Spatial Implications of the Popular Cairene Coffeehouse

17:00 - 18:00 13 April 2015
A Middle Eastern Studies Departmental Seminar by Dr Dalia Mostafa

Whitworth Studies seminar: Catherine Jolivette, Art Historian: "Promoting Power: The Visual Rhetoric of Britain’s First Nuclear Power Stations"

17:15 - 18:30 13 April 2015
In 1956, ‘Operation Switch’ opened up the world’s first atomic power station and gave birth to a new nuclear visual culture at once utopian and terrifying.

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Charles Zika (Melbourne, Australia,): The History of Emotions as a Window on the Past: Early Modern Witches and their Dances

17:00 - 19:00 14 April 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Charles Zika is a cultural historian of late medieval and early modern Europe. He is Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical…

Palaver Festival 2015 - Musical Chitchat

19:30 - 21:30 14 April 2015
Music and Drama at The University of Manchester present MUSICAL CHITCHAT An innovative and contemporary concert exploring the voice as an instrument. An eclectic mix from a-cappella…

CIDRAL masterclass: Charles Zika (Melbourne): The History of Emotions and Visual Culture

10:00 - 12:00 15 April 2015
All welcome, no booking required. With Sasha Handley (History) and Jenny Spinks (History) Readings for Masterclass: 1. Nicole Eustace, Eugenia Lean, Julie Livingston, Jan Plamper,…

David Martin-Jones (Glasgow): 'Remembering Cold War States of Exception in Recent Latin American and Asian Documentary Film'

17:00 - 18:30 15 April 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: 'Latin America: The Potential of the Global South?' Venue: Samuel Alexander A101. Speaker: David Martin-Jones…

Inventing ‘Cultural Heritage’ In 19th Century Turkestan: Governor-General Konstantin Von Kaufmann At The Interface Between Imperial Russia And The Persianate World

16:00 - 18:00 15 April 2015
Gen. Konstantin von Kaufmann (1818-1882) used to be referred to by his contemporaries as the ‘creator of Russian Turkestan’ who’s first Governor-general he was from 1867 until 1881.…

Lunchtime Seminar: Christian Goeschel, 'Italian Fascism and Nazism before 1933'

13:00 - 14:00 15 April 2015
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Christian Goeschel, 'Italian Fascism and Nazism before 1933' Feel free to bring your lunch.

Roman Hispania

18:00 - 19:00 15 April 2015
A joint lecture organised by the Manchester Branch of the Classical Association and the Instituto Cervantes, Manchester. The history of Roman Hispania (“the land of rabbits”) is little…

AHVS Seminar with Allison Connolly. French Literature and Film Scholar: " Emptiness as a Creative Force"

17:15 - 18:30 16 April 2015
Pondering the empty bed shared by Colette and her lover, Connolly takes us through a tour of emptiness (including Mallarmé’s obsession with the blank page, Ying Chen’s novel Ingratitude…

Ehrhardt Seminar 50th Anniversary: Yvonne Sherwood (Kent) - "The ‘Hagaramic’ as a Provocation for European Provincialism: Surrogate, Rogue, Resident Alien, Foreign Body"

14:00 - 15:30 16 April 2015
Join us to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Ehrhardt Seminar!

Music Research Seminar: ‘Extracting music from scientific data’

16:15 - 18:00 16 April 2015
Speaker: Trevor Wishart (University of Durham) ‘Extracting music from scientific data’

Palaver Festival 2015 - Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg Des Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht

19:30 16 - 21:30 18 April 2015
The University’s German Society presents DER AUFHALTSAME AUFSTIEG DES ARTURO UI by Bertolt Brecht 1930s Chicago: Bertolt Brecht’s allegorical satire in which Adolf Hitler’s rise to…

The Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne), 'Changing Faces: The Dynamics of Facial Expression and Emotion in Middle English Literature'

17:30 - 19:00 16 April 2015
The Brook Lecture, part of the English and American Studies seminar series, honours the memory of G.L. Brook, Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at Manchester…

The Pregnant Body in the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms

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

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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