School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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…

Workshop: 'Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow of Jewish-Polish Relations'

13:30 - 16:00 30 November 2015
Workshop on Jewish-Polish Relations, 'Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow of Jewish-Polish Relations', under the auspices of the Israeli Information Center, the Polish Consulate General in Manchester…

Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow of Jewish - Polish Relations

13:00 - 16:00 30 November 2015
All are welcome to attend a half-day workshop: ‘Yesterday – Today – Tomorrow of Jewish - Polish Relations’. The workshop is part of a programme promoting a new exhibition entitled 'Righteous…

CIDRAL Book Launch

17:30 - 19:30 1 December 2015
CIDRAL hosts regular book launches to showcase books by SALC research staff. They give academic staff an opportunity to tell others about their work, and provide an occasion for us…

Martin Willis: ‘From Vimeiro to Waterloo… A Forgotten Man…’.

17:00 - 19:00 2 December 2015
Memorial and Lecture in the Honour of Professor R. C. Willis. Part of the Spanish and Portuguese Research Seminar Series. Venue: Samuel Alexander Building, A215.

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Humanitarianism: Can we prevent disasters?"

17:30 - 18:30 2 December 2015
A talk by Dr Gemma Sou (Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". What causes a disaster…

Claire Dwyer (UCL) - "Making Suburban Faith: Design, Material Culture and Popular Creativity in Suburban Faith Communities"

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2015
Religions and Theology research seminar - all welcome!

Ehrhardt Seminar: Jessica Keady (Chester) - "The Role of Female Impurity in Rape Culture Discourse: A Gendered Perspective on Genesis 34"

14:00 - 15:30 3 December 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

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