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'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,…

CIDRAL Public Lecture and Roundtable: Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary): Winnicott, Psychoanalysis and Cinema

17:00 - 19:00 12 May 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Sensing the Arts: CIDRAL Public Lecture: Winnicott, Psychoanalysis and Cinema With Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary) Followed by Roundtable on Little Madnesses:…

Cultivating Research: 'For better or for worse? A tale of two cultures and the new scientists' by Professor Nicola Shaughnessy (University of Kent)

17:30 - 19:00 12 May 2015
This presentation draws upon my experience of interdisciplinary research practices, exploring the challenges, costs and values of collaborations between arts and science. The allusion…

AHVS Seminar with Malcolm Bull, Visiting Pilkington Professor: "On Corruption: political agency in a depoliticised society"

17:15 - 18:30 13 May 2015
Join in for a seminar-style session, assigned reading TBA soon.

CJS Seminar - Yuval Sinai (Yale Law School): "Jewish Law in Israel: Law, Religion and State"

16:00 - 17:30 14 May 2015
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar series continues.

Whitworth Studies seminar: Malcolm Bull, Visiting Pilkington Professor: ‘Postmodernism Revisited, or, the Decline of Decadence’.

17:15 - 18:30 14 May 2015
Malcolm Bull has been University Lecturer in Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford since 1992. His most recent books are Anti-Nietzsche (Verso, 2011); The Mirror…

American Studies Programme conference, 2015

15 May 2015
The Annual American Studies Postgraduate Conference at the University of Manchester is now a firm fixture in our academic calendar, this being the sixth year that it has been held.…

Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan’s Anti-British Alliance and Russian Expansion in the Caucasus (1797-1813)

17:15 - 19:00 15 May 2015
British consolidation in South Asia at the turn of the 19th century witnessed the resistance of Tipu Sultan, the renowned ruler of Mysore. His call for an anti-British alliance, among…

Lawrence of Arabia and Beyond - Other Lawrences and the other Lawrence

10:00 - 16:30 15 May 2015
2015 makes the 80th anniversary of the death of T. E. Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia'. This one-day workshop brings together scholars to discuss aspects of Lawrence's career and reputation…

Symposium: LifeWriting and the Historiography of the Persianate World 1794-1989

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2015
3.30 – 4.30 Formal presentations (20 minutes each plus 10 minutes of dedicated discussion) 1) 3.30 – 4.00 The historical prosopography of Modern Iran (1848-1979) in the age of Digital…

Sexuality Summer School: Public Lecture with Gavin Butt (Goldsmiths): "Anti-Gravitas: Queer Importance in Art and Performance"

12:00 - 14:00 18 May 2015
These public events accompany the Sexuality Summer School, a five-day event for postgraduates, organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the University…

Sexuality Summer School: Screening of Fig Trees (John Greyson, 2009) and roundtable with John Greyson, Lisa Henderson & Richard Dyer

17:00 18 May 2015
5-6.30pm “Why Sing?” Roundtable with clips. Filmmaker John Greyson (York, CA) in conversation with Richard Dyer (Kings) and Lisa Henderson (UMass Amherst) 6.45-8.30pm Screening of…

Sexuality Summer School: Performance lecture with Del LaGrace Volcano: “INTER*ME: Give me an L! G! B! T! I! Q! or How I Lived (Through) my Acronymous Identities”

17:00 - 19:00 19 May 2015
All Sexuality Summer School events are free with no booking required. First come first served: arrive early to avoid disappointment. These public events accompany the Sexuality Summer…

Sexuality Summer School: Performance by David Hoyle of "I, Victim"

20:00 - 22:00 20 May 2015
These public events accompany the Sexuality Summer School, a five-day event for postgraduates, organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the University…

Sexuality Summer School: Public Lecture with Sarah Schulman (CUNY): “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair”

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2015
“It is not only that we may not choose with whom to cohabitate, but that we must actively preserve the unchosen character of inclusive and plural cohabitation; we not only live with…

Art, Culture and Ethics in Black and White: 100 Years of The Birth of a Nation

19:00 - 21:30 28 May 2015
The second symposium of the network, Art, Culture and Ethics in Black and White: 100 Years of The Birth of a Nation takes place on May 28-29 at the Whitworth Art Gallery of the University…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Dick Hebdige (Art Institute, UC Santa Barbara): High and Dry: The Desert Studies Project

17:00 - 19:00 2 June 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Co-sponsored by: ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) A cultural critic and theorist, Hebdige has published widely on youth…

CIDRAL Masterclass: Dick Hebdige (Art Institute, UC Santa Barbara): 40 Years in the Labyrinth: Reflections on Doing Cultural Studies

10:00 - 12:00 3 June 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Readings: Alfred Gell, ‘Vogel's Trap: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps’ in The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams, edited by Eric Hirsch,…

Food - Keeping it Local

08:00 - 09:30 16 June 2015
Rylands Breakfasts are our cafe series of debates addressing important sustainability issues in an interesting and thought provoking way. Each speaker will give a 5 minute provocation…

Getting beyond the fir tree, or how to look for art in Renaissance prints

18:00 - 20:00 22 June 2015
A talk by Professor Patricia Emison, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Hampshire. In conjunction with the British Academy-sponsored study day Investigating Marcantonio…

Practical Approaches to Tibullus the Idealist

14:00 25 - 18:00 26 June 2015
The 'forgotten man' of Augustan poetry, Albius Tibullus needs assessment beyond elegy proper and etymology, to see how the wallflower wins through to immortality. Many moderns have…

Transnational Cultures of Petitioning symposium

11:30 29 - 15:00 30 June 2015
Two day symposium on petitioning in the modern period in a transnational perspective. Keynote by Prof. David Zaret (Indiana) on 'Petition and Response in Pre-Modern Eurasia' on Monday…

Women Life-Writing: Migration, Language and Identity

10:30 - 18:00 29 June 2015
Programme: Narrating Place, Migration and Language: from Anna’s Perspective Máiréad Nic Craith, Heriot-Watt University Signatures in the Feminine: Women’s oblique autobiographies…

"On the Practice of Humanistic Buddhism from the Perspective of the Heart Sutra" by Ven. Hsin Ting. Reception followed by lecture

18:00 - 20:15 30 June 2015
You are warmly invited to a lecture on the Heart Sutra from the perspective of modern 'humanistic Buddhism' that will take place next Tuesday at the University of Manchester Department…

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