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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

News of Modernity

09:00 - 17:00 17 April 2015
This workshop proposes to investigate the role of news in mercantile networks in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic World. The importance of news for business…

The Hajj as a Mirror: Past, Present and Future

18:00 - 19:00 20 April 2015
The Hajj is rich with ritual: there are circumambulation, running, throwing of stones, sermonising, and standing, to name just a few. But behind all these stands memory: memory of past…

"Interpreting songs from Latin America: reading, translation, performance"

17:00 21 April 2015
Tuesday, 21 April, in the Samuel Alexander Building, room A7, 5pm. Insights from a collaborative project involving students of Music, Translation Studies and Spanish and Latin American…

English Literature Research Seminar: Anke Bernau (Manchester) 'Curious Aesthetics'

17:00 - 18:30 22 April 2015
English Literature Research Seminar Anke Bernau (Manchester) 'Curious Aesthetics'

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…

‘No One Ages In Magadan’ The Fate Of The Iranian Community In The Soviet Great Terror

17:00 - 19:00 22 April 2015
(UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JOINT LBAS-LIS SEMINAR FUND 2014-2015) The Great Terror in the Soviet Union not only affected hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens but also tens of thousands…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College): "What does Aaron do to help? Re-evaluating the role and function of Aaron in Numbers 12:1-16"

14:00 - 15:30 23 April 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

History Research Seminar: Maria Fusaro (Exeter)

16:15 23 April 2015
History Research Seminar 2014-15: All Welcome! Maria Fusaro (Exeter)

Music Research Seminar: 'New Sounds from Manchester'

16:15 - 18:00 23 April 2015
Camden Reeves, Philip Grange, Richard Whalley and the Quatuor Danel on the process of making their CD together, ‘New Sounds from Manchester’

The Cynegetica once attributed to Oppian

16:55 - 18:30 23 April 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Whitworth Studies seminar: Cornelia Parker, Visiting Pilkington Professor and Honorary Professor

18:00 - 20:00 23 April 2015
Cornelia Parker is a sculptor and installation artist. She will be exhibiting her work for the reopening of the Whitworth. When Parker had the British Army blow up a garden shed and…

William Ray Macauley (Manchester) - "Blossoming Flowers and Beating Hearts: The Aesthetics of Wonder in Irwin Moon's Film Series 'Sermons from Science'"

16:00 - 17:30 23 April 2015
The Religions and Theology seminar series continues.

Self and the City Conference: Political Theology and Urban Identities

09:00 24 - 17:00 25 April 2015
Bringing together theologians, social theorists and political activists, this two-day conference considers the relationship between cities and self-identity. Read through the lens of…

John McAuliffe reading

14:30 - 15:30 25 April 2015
John McAuliffe, co-Director of the Centre for New Writing and award winning poet will be reading from his forthcoming collection The Way In on Saturday, 25 April at the John Rylands…

Between Power and Beauty: Preliminary Reflections on Egyptian Karate Communities

18:00 - 19:00 27 April 2015
The history of karate in Egypt is not long, and yet it has established firm roots in youth culture. Karate is the second most popular sport in Egypt after football. This paper explores…

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…

CJS Seminar - Shimon Redlich (Ben Gurion University) - "A New Life in Israel: Autobiography in Historical Context"

15:00 - 16:30 28 April 2015
Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar

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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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