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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…

CJS Seminar - Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton): "German-Jewish emigration to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. The sea voyage as a transitory experience in the migration process"

16:00 7 May 2015
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar series continues.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Elizabeth Shively (St Andrews) - "How Apocalyptic Discourse Functions as Social Discourse in the Gospel of Mark"

14:00 - 15:30 7 May 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

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…

History Research Seminar: Yanni Kotsonis 'Taxes and Modernity: Fiscal Regimes in Russia, Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries'

16:15 - 18:30 7 May 2015
History Research Seminar 2014-15: All Welcome! Yanni Kotsonis (New York University) 'Taxes and Modernity: Fiscal Regimes in Russia, Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries'

Music Research Seminar: ‘Music and Auschwitz’

16:15 - 18:00 7 May 2015
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (London) with David Fanning (Manchester) and Katia Chornik (Manchester) ‘Music and Auschwitz’

Theos Aniketos/Deus Invictus: Alexander the Great and Ruler Cult

16:55 - 18:30 7 May 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Beyond Speech conference

8 May 2015
Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers to be delivered in English for the international and interdisciplinary conference Beyond Speech: Silence and the Unspeakable across Cultures,…

Monday Lunchtime Talks on China: Ahead of the Curve - New China from China

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2015
Direct from China, this ground-breaking exhibition showcases contemporary ceramics and glass from emerging and established Chinese artists at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.…

'Responding to language diversity: the role of partnerships', in collaboration with Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

14:00 - 17:00 12 May 2015
Multilingual Manchester are hosting an event on 'Responding to language diversity: the role of partnerships', in collaboration with Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation…

Capital accumulation, public debt and social policy - debunking 'paradoxes' of the Mozambican 'miracle'

16:30 12 May 2015
A development@manchester seminar series event. Apparent paradoxes in the growth 'miracle' of Mozambique - fast growth, increasing inefficiency in transforming growth into poverty reduction,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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