Exhibitions, Lecture

B.15:45 Architecture modelmaking exhibition: Celebrating 45 years of the B.15 modelmaking workshop

1 September 2014 - 31 December 2015
2015 marks 45 years of the Kantorowich B.15 modelmaking workshop at The University of Manchester. The B.15:45 exhibition is a retrospective look at the last 45 years of modelmaking…

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…

Later-Day Saints

23 January - 28 June 2015
Our ancestors often relied on their beliefs to make sense of their world - is there an equivalent in our modern world of celebrity and material culture? Later-Day Saints brings the…

Making Monuments on Rapa Nui. The Statues from Easter Island

1 April - 6 September 2015
1 April-6 September 2015 Free entry The monumental stone statues of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by European explorers) in the Pacific are some of the most widely recognised archaeological…

Merchants of Print: from Venice to Manchester

29 January - 21 June 2015
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Aldus Manutius (1449 – 1515), an Italian humanist scholar who founded the Aldine Press at Venice. His publishing legacy includes scholarly…

Romuald Hazoumè: Dance of the Butterflies

14 February - 29 July 2015
Dance of the Butterflies is a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists Romuald Hazoumè. It features swarms of multicoloured ‘butterflies’ which will take…

What’s the Weather Like Today?

12 March - 28 June 2015
The weather is fascinating. We can hardly avoid talking about it and how it makes us feel. This exhibition uses items from the Library’s collections to explore descriptions, reflections,…

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…

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…

Annual Harry Street Lecture: New Union: New Constitution?

17:30 - 19:30 20 April 2015
The United Kingdom’s territorial constitution has changed beyond recognition since 1997. Yet the pace of reform continues to accelerate, not least as the Union state struggles to respond…

Free Public Talk on China - China and the West

13:00 - 14:00 22 April 2015
In modern history, the West (Europe and the USA) has been a source of inspiration for some in China and a source of threat for others. Not so simple as a split between radicals and…

International Law and WWI | The Laws of War at Sea - The 1907 Hague Conventions and the Great War

17:30 - 20:00 22 April 2015
International Law and the First World War The Laws of War at Sea - The 1907 Hague Conventions and the Great War The Laws of War at Sea are these days not the focus of a great deal…

Cornelia Parker Lecture – at the Whitworth

18:00 - 19:30 23 April 2015
Cornelia Parker Lecture Thursday 23 April, 6pm Venue:The Whitworth – Grand Hall *Tickets: FREE - Booking is essential, tickets are currently SOLD OUT - please see below for details.…

In conversation with Michael Mansfield QC - The tales of a radical lawyer

18:00 - 21:00 27 April 2015
The first in a series of lectures hosted by the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in conjunction with the School of Law's Advocacy and Mooting Society. We will be speaking to barrister…

International Teacher’s Programme 2015: Sharing best practices in Teaching and Learning

14:00 - 15:30 27 April 2015
The International Teacher’s Programme gives academics an opportunity to share best practice and reflect on their own teaching during two residential modules. Two MBS academics will…

Sherman Lectures 2015 - Amy-Jill Levine: "Jesus in his Jewish Context: The Importance of Recovering History"

17:15 - 19:00 27 April 2015
Jesus and his first followers were Jews, thoroughly grounded in Jewish Scripture, Jewish ethics and theology, and Jewish hopes. To understand the New Testament materials is thus to…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elisabeth Bronfen (Zurich): Gendering War Dispatches: Martha Gellhorn, Lee Miller and Margaret Bourke-White on the WWII front lines

17:00 - 19:00 28 April 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New…

Sherman Lectures 2015 - Amy-Jill Levine: "The Mistakes Jews and Christians make about each other"

17:15 - 19:00 28 April 2015
Although both Jews and Christians share a common ancestry in the Scriptures of Israel, the parting of the ways between Synagogue and Church has led to ignorance and stereotyping of…

Larger than Life: The Malek ol-Tojjar family at the interface between Russia and Iran during the long Nineteenth century

17:00 - 19:00 29 April 2015
Part of the Lecture Series on Russia-Iran interactions co-organised by MIHAN and REES. The story of Russian-Iranian relations is essentially the tale of neighbours who, on a national…

Sherman Lectures 2015 - Amy-Jill Levine: "Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic?"

17:15 - 19:00 29 April 2015
What does the New Testament say about Jews and Judaism? Is it appropriate to call it “Anti-Semitic” or “Anti-Jewish”? What are the major problematic passages, and what explanations…

John Rylands Research Institute Annual Lecture, 2015.

18:00 - 19:30 30 April 2015
The Institute is honoured to welcome Prof. Dr. Emile G. L. Schrijver as its host of the 2015 Institute Annual Lecture on 30 April 2015. Lecturing extensively across Europe, Israel…

Public Lecture: Jahan Ramazani (Virginia), 'Close Reading, Distant Reading?: The Transnational Migration of Poetic Form'

17:00 - 19:00 30 April 2015
Public Lecture by Jahan Ramazani, Professor of English at University of Virginia, author of Poetry and its Others: News, Prayer, Song and the Dialogue of Genres (Chicago, 2013), A Transnational…

Sherman Lectures 2015 - Amy-Jill Levine: "Messianic Judaism, Conversion to Christianity, Intermarriage, Inter-religious Households: Disputes for the Sake of Heaven"

17:15 - 19:00 30 April 2015
Jews who believe in Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and Saviour have, from the first-century to the present, been regarded by the majority Jewish community as best misguided and, at worse,…

Give Your Car a Rest - Information Event

11:00 - 15:00 6 May 2015
Come along to the Give Your Car a Rest event on the ground floor of University Place (drum area) on Tuesday 12th May 11am to 3pm. Here you will be able to find out more about the travel…

From Epic to Gnostic: Observations on Dynamics of Change in Persian Poetry

17:00 - 19:00 7 May 2015
A Talk Organised by MIHAN - The Manchester Iranian History Academic Network As we know it today, Persian literature emerges in the tenth century CE with a dominant discourse that tends…

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