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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…

CIDRAL masterclass: Elisabeth Bronfen (Zurich)

10:00 - 12:00 29 April 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Elisabeth Bronfen with Ana Carden-Coyne (History) Readings: Elisabeth Bronfen, ‘Introduction’, ‘Reporting the War’, and ‘War’s Sustained Hauntings’…

Julio Dávila (UCL): 'Targeting urban inequalities through infrastructure: Reflections on Colombia'

17:00 - 18:30 29 April 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

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…

Lunchtime Seminar: Luca Larpi, 'Professional identities in early Middle Ages (ss. VIII-XI). The case of the Italian medici'

13:00 - 14:00 29 April 2015
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Luca Larpi, 'Professional identities in early Middle Ages (ss. VIII-XI). The case of the Italian medici' Feel free to bring your lunch.

Masterclass on Transnational Poetics with Jahan Ramazani

15:00 - 17:00 29 April 2015
Masterclass with Jahan Ramazani, Professor of English at University of Virginia, based on readings from the introduction and first chapter of his book Poetry and its Others (2013) and…

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…

Targeting urban inequalities through infrastructure: reflections on Colombia

17:00 - 18:30 29 April 2015
Centre for Latin American & Caribbean Studies seminar series 2014-15 Latin America: the potential of the Global South?

Ehrhardt Seminar: Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt) - Sherman Lecture Feedback Session

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

Making Fabricius take the cash: traditional exempla and the problem of modernity

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

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,…

Roundtable with Jahan Ramazani

15:00 - 17:00 1 May 2015
Jahan Ramazani is visiting the Division of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing as the John Edward Taylor Fellow. He is author of Poetry and its Others: News, Prayer, Song…

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