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"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.

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,…

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’

Mark Goodwin (Manchester): ‘Is It For Real?: An analysis of the extent to which recent, mainstream Spanish cinema is considered as “realist” and associated implications for the Spanish student’

17:00 - 18:30 18 November 2015
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese Research Seminar Series. Venue: Sam Alex A4.

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Modern Dictatorships? Museums and Heritage at National Socialist Sites in Eastern Germany"

17:30 - 18:30 18 November 2015
A talk by Dr Matthew Philpotts (Department of German Studies) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". In this lecture, I will…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Stefania Slivestri - "The Medieval Hebrew Bible from Sepharad: Production and Patronage"

14:00 - 15:00 19 November 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Esther Gomez Sierra - "A Unique Time: Converso Intellectuals in 15th-Century Spain"

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2015
Religions and Theology research seminar - all welcome! Room TBC.

Helen and the Trojan War in Greek Historiography

16:55 - 18:30 19 November 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Translating Values: The Case of Sacred and Devotional Texts, by Piotr Blumczynski, Queen’s University

14:00 - 15:30 19 November 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: Culture revolves around values: they hold the cultural community together and underpin mutual…

Confucius Institute Monday Lunchtime talks: The Economic Thought in Ancient China

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2015
This talk will provide an overview of some of the “economic” ideas that emerged during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (c. 770-226 BC) from different “schools” of thought…

The Echo Chamber: Results, Management, and the Humanitarian Effectiveness Agenda

17:30 - 19:30 23 November 2015
Juliano Fiori, Head of Humanitarian Affairs at Save the Children UK, will be talking about humanitarian effectiveness. He leads Save the Children’s Humanitarian Affairs Team (HAT) which…

Transitional (Poetic) Justice in Tunisia

17:00 - 18:00 24 November 2015
Transitional (Poetic) Justice in Tunisia - A Lecture by Mohamed-Salah Omri, University of Oxford. Part of the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar series.

Chinese Studies Seminar Series: 'Queer As Catachresis: Beijing Queer Film Festival in Cultural Translation’

17:00 - 18:30 25 November 2015
All are welcome to attend the next talk in the Chinese Studies Seminar Series. Next week, Dr Hongwei Bao will be delivering the talk: 'Queer As Catachresis: Beijing Queer Film Festival…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: James Paz (UoM) 'Slow Scholarship and the Craft of Old English Translation'

17:00 - 19:00 25 November 2015
James Paz (UoM) 'Slow Scholarship and the Craft of Old English Translation'

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Integration and Racism in the French Republic"

17:30 - 18:30 25 November 2015
A talk by Dr Barbara Lebrun (Department of French Studies) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". The January 2015 terrorist…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Philip Alexander - "Narrative and Counter-Narrative: The Jewish Anti-Gospel (the Toledot Yeshu) and the Christian Gospels"

14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2015
Ehrhardt seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Meet the author - Michela Wrong talks about her debut novel, Borderlines

17:00 - 19:00 26 November 2015
Award-winning journalist Michela Wrong’s books on contemporary Africa have always spoken to both general readers and experts in the field. Borderlines, her first novel, is both a compelling…

The Limits of Obscenity: Looking for Bad Language in Ancient Greek

16:55 - 18:30 26 November 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Triangulating Methodologies: An Example from Ongoing Research on Interpreting for Deaf Jurors, by Jemina Napier, Heriot-Watt

14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: Mixed-methods research draws on different methodologies in order to test or explore the same…

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