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Reconstructing gender and migration in the Arab world: the case of migrant domestic workers in Qatar

17:00 - 18:00 13 October 2015
Prof Jawad Syed is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Diversity Management at the University of Huddersfield. His main academic interests include gender, diversity, international…

Anthony Floyd - "Creativity: Gordon Kaufman's Reconstruction of God as Father"

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2015
Religions and Theology research seminar - all welcome!

Ehrhardt Seminar: Walter Houston - "Justice Divine and Royal: the Usage and Ideology of 'Justice and Righteousness' in the Hebrew Bible

14:00 - 15:30 15 October 2015
Ehrhardt seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Andrea Dennis (University of Georgia), 'Call-and-Response: The Constant Dialogue between America’s Black Music and Criminal Justice State'

17:00 - 19:00 15 October 2015
Andrea Dennis (University of Georgia), 'Call-and-Response: The Constant Dialogue between America’s Black Music and Criminal Justice State'

Eternal time in later Greek epic

16:55 - 18:30 15 October 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Subtitling Documentaries: Audiovisual Translation Meets Specialised Translation, by Louisa Desilla, UCL

14:00 - 15:30 15 October 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: The aim of this interactive seminar is to provide an overview of the particularities of documentary…

Prosecuting Rap Workshop

16 October 2015
Violent rap lyrics are increasingly used as evidence in criminal cases in the US and (to a lesser extent) UK. Prosecutors are eager to use rap verses penned by defendants because the…

Residence Abroad briefing for second year students

17:00 - 18:30 16 October 2015
The students will receive crucial information on the residence abroad process, study destinations for both Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, and they will have the opportunity…

Telling Tales - Manchester Science Festival 2015 exhibition

19 October - 19 November 2015
'''Host:''' School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' ''Telling Tales'' is a collaboration between members of the Language Development and Disorders Research Group,…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Theory Intensive: Simone Weil

12:00 - 14:00 20 October 2015
This event is part of CIDRAL's regular Theory Intensives series. Dr Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick) will run a seminar on the work of Simone Weil entitled 'Intellectual Action…

The God Seth Animal: Real Egyptian Chimera or True African Creature?

17:00 - 18:00 20 October 2015
You are invited to the first archaeology research seminar of the academic year 2015-16 All Welcome

Democracy and Elections Seminar: Andrew Rynham and Jiaqi Hou

15:30 - 17:00 21 October 2015
Two 30 minute presentations from our student members – one by Andrew Rynham – Politics MA student on his dissertation research on deliberative democracy in the UK and the other by Jiaqi…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Molly Geidel (UoM) ‘The Rise and Fall of the Development Melodrama’

17:00 - 19:00 21 October 2015
Molly Geidel (UoM) ‘The Rise and Fall of the Development Melodrama’

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Ghosts in the Machine: 9/11 and Music Technology"

17:30 - 18:30 21 October 2015
A talk by Dr Kevin Malone (Department of Music) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". Since 2001, Kevin Malone has composed…

Samuel Llano (Manchester): ‘Sounding Marginality and Social Disorder: The battle for Madrid's soundscape, 1850-1930’

17:00 21 October 2015
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese Research Seminar Series. Venue: Sam Alex A4.

Examples of exceptional convergence between the earliest Arabic translation of the Hippocratic Aphorisms and glosses attributed to Paul of Aegina in the Syriac Lexicon of ?asan bar Bahlul

16:55 - 18:30 22 October 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Histories of Translation: An Anthology of Arabic Discourse, by Myriam Salama-Carr, University of Manchester

14:00 - 15:30 22 October 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: The presentation will focus on an ongoing research project (2015-2017) aiming at producing…

Manson Memorial Lecture: Marcus Bockmuehl (Oxford) - "The Personal Presence of Jesus in the Writings of Paul"

14:00 - 15:30 22 October 2015
Professor Bockmuehl presents the prestigious Manson Memorial Lecture for 2015.

Levenshulme Language Day

24 October 2015
Levenshulme Language Day is an event organised to celebrate the rich linguistic and cultural diversity found in Levenshulme, Manchester, and its surrounding area. The event will be…

HCRI Speaker Series, with guest speakers from Children of Uruzgan (CoU) Programme at Save the Children

14:00 - 16:00 26 October 2015
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Speaker Series is a regular student-focused forum that draws on the expertise of a range of practitioners, academics and researchers…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Dani Caselli (UoM) ‘Dante’s Pilgrimage in Dorothy Richardson: A Lesson in Political Economy’

17:00 - 19:00 28 October 2015
Dani Caselli (UoM) ‘Dante’s Pilgrimage in Dorothy Richardson: A Lesson in Political Economy’

Ignacio Aguiló (Manchester): 'Photography and indigeneity in the Gran Chaco: From Anthropometrics to Aesthetics'

17:00 - 18:00 28 October 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Arthur Lewis Building G.019

Andrew Crome - "God and Pony Show? Religious Controversy, Pathologization, and the Consistency of Imagined Worlds in My Little Pony Fandom"

16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2015
Religions and Theology research seminar - all welcome!

Ehrhardt Seminar: Katharina Keim - "Joshua in the Samaritan Traditions in the Gaster Collection"

14:00 - 15:30 29 October 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

PI: Dissecting Language

10:30 - 16:00 29 October 2015
The Division of Linguistics and English Language will be putting on a day-long showcase of language science, titled Dissecting Language, at the Manchester Science Festival

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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