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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

Spontaneous Generation after Aristotle

16:55 - 18:30 29 October 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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,…

Launch: HCRI Disaster Dialogue series, with David Alexander and Kathy Oldham

17:30 - 19:30 4 November 2015
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) is pleased to launch its new Disaster Dialogue series. The Disaster Dialogue series, hosted by HCRI, is a regular multi-disciplinary…

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Tales from the diaspora: Language and identity in second-generation South Asian Britons"

17:30 - 18:30 4 November 2015
A talk by Sheena Kalayil (University Language Centre) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". My target group are professional…

Researching Latin American Cities - CLACS/GURC Postgraduate Workshop

11:00 - 17:15 5 November 2015
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Global Urban Research Centre at the University of Manchester invite applications to participate in a workshop that will explore…

Translations of the Arabian Nights, by Robert Irwin, Times Literary Supplement

14:00 - 15:30 5 November 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: Translators of Beowulf, Proust, J.K. Rowling, and motor-car maintenance manuals have it easy,…

Regional Research Network in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Cinema 'NEW CONTEXTS FOR SPANISH CINEMA'

10:00 - 14:30 7 November 2015
This event, organised and funded by University of Manchester with Manchester Metropolitan University, is timed to coincide with the ¡Viva! New Spanish Cinema Weekender and brings together…

HCRI Speaker Series - Dr Suda Perera, “Bermuda Triangulation: ‘Messy Truths’ and ‘Simple Lies’”

14:00 - 16:00 9 November 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…

Spectacular structures from the summer: examining the findings of fieldwork in Ardnamurchan and Herefordshire

17:00 10 November 2015
You are cordially invited to the next archaeology research seminar of the academic year 2015-16 All Welcome

The Aesthetics of Death and the Poetics of Rituals in Shia Lamentation Poetry

17:00 - 18:00 10 November 2015
Yafa Shanneik is Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of South Wales. Her research focuses on Sunni and Shia women in Europe and their transnational networks to the Middle East.…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Theory Intensive: David Harvey

12:00 - 14:00 11 November 2015
This event is part of CIDRAL's regular Theory Intensives series. Dr David Alderson (English, American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester) will run a seminar on…

Dr Tom Tunstall Allcock (University of Manchester) ‘Rethinking Modernization: Lyndon Johnson and Latin America’

17:00 - 18:30 11 November 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Arthur Lewis Building G.019

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Inventing the Tudors"

17:30 - 18:30 11 November 2015
A talk by Dr Jerome De Groot (Department of English) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". This talk looks at the way we…

The oldest war crime in the book? Humanitarian aid under fire after the airstrikes on the Kunduz hospital

17:30 - 19:30 11 November 2015
Hospital and medical structures around the world are under fire today. Did the airstrikes on the MSF Kunduz hospital change anything? How do the laws of war apply today? Can the humanitarian…

"The Greeks had a word for it”: mapping the non-Indo-European component of the Greek vocabulary

16:55 - 18:30 12 November 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

CIDRAL Public Event at the People's History Museum: Finance and the Market: Assessing Boundaries

17:00 - 19:00 12 November 2015
Join Professor Jeremy Gilbert, author of Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism, for a public lecture exploring the cultural consequences of financial…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mary Mills (Liverpool Hope) - "Locating the Prophet: Political Geography in Jeremiah 26-28"

14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Translating Oral Narratives in the Japanese Colonial Context, by Nana Sato-Rossberg, SOAS

14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: Among Translation Studies scholars, the situation during Japanese colonialism and post-colonialism…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Event: Seminar with Professor Jeremy Gilbert

10:00 - 12:00 13 November 2015
This event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Finance and the Market. Professor Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London) will hold…

Piotr Goldstein: "Without the Foreigners, Without the State: Can civil society groups in Serbia manage without external funding?"

16:30 - 18:00 16 November 2015
All are welcome to attend the next talk in the Russian and East European Studies Research Seminar Series. Our speaker is Piotr Goldstein, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow based at…

PLO Cultural Activism: Liberation as image and discourse

17:00 - 18:00 17 November 2015
Dina Matar is Associate Head, Centre for Media Studies. She works on cultural activism, political communication, social and political movements and cultural politics in the Arab World…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Iain Bailey (UoM) ‘Modernism’s Connoisseurs’

17:00 - 19:00 18 November 2015
Iain Bailey (UoM) ‘Modernism’s Connoisseurs’

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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