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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…

Minimus and the Hunger for Latin

18:30 - 19:30 30 June 2015
Barbara Bell, the author of Minimus, the world-leading primary school Latin course, and founder and director of the Minimus Project, is speaking at the last of our Manchester Classics…

Humanities Teaching & Learning Showcase

10:00 - 15:30 2 July 2015
The Faculty of Humanities will hold its 10th Teaching and Learning Showcase on Thursday 2 July 2015, 10.30am-3.30pm in Manchester Business School East. This summer's Showcase is hosted…

International Conference: Inequality, Peace and Conflict

10 - 11 September 2015
Day 1: Thursday 10 September, 2015, 08.30-17.30 (19.00 onwards join us at the Kro Bar, first floor, 325 Oxford Road) Day 2: Friday 11 September, 2015, 09.00-17.15 Registration in the…

Democracy and Elections research seminar

14 September 2015
Two half hour presentations: one by Andrew Rynham – Politics MA student on his dissertation research on deliberative democracy in the UK and the other by by Jiaqi Hou, PhD student at…

International Conference: A Quest for Humanitarian Effectiveness?

14 - 16 September 2015
Jointly organised by the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and Save the Children’s Humanitarian Affairs Team (HAT), this conference will reflect on the evolution and…

Meet the Authors: Deng Xiaoping - A Political Biography

13:00 - 14:00 21 September 2015
Professor Michael Dillon, one of the UK’s leading authorities on modern China, presents an original and full biography of this charismatic leader who has played a huge role in China's…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Dan Moore (University of Birmingham) ‘“A New Order is Being Created”: Domestic Modernism in 1930s Britain’

17:00 - 19:00 30 September 2015
Dan Moore (University of Birmingham) ‘“A New Order is Being Created”: Domestic Modernism in 1930s Britain’

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