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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.

Framing fearful symmetry: tigers, representation and repetition in Statius’ Thebaid

16:55 - 18:30 3 December 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Learning to Manage Emotions within PSI: A Critical Analysis of Emotional Labour, by Frederique Guery, MMU

14:00 - 15:30 3 December 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary.

CIDRAL Workshop: Women, Religion & Violence

15:00 - 19:00 4 December 2015
This workshop is part of the CIDRAL programme for 2015-16. The day will be made up of a workshop from 3-5pm and a film screening from 5-7pm (Both in University Place 5.206). Please…

CRES Seminar: 'In the cross-fire of integration: Ukraine, the EU and Russia' - Kataryna Wolczuk

16:30 - 18:00 7 December 2015
All are welcome to attend the next talk in the Russian and East European Studies Research Seminar Series. Our speaker is Kataryna Wolczuk from University of Birmingham and her talk…

Working for the Emperor. Archaeological research at the Roman Imperial Estate at Vagnari (Italy)

17:00 8 December 2015
Archaeology Research Seminar

Chinese Studies Seminar Series: 'Taiwan's 2016 elections; what will change?’

17:00 - 18:30 9 December 2015
All are welcome to attend the next talk in the Chinese Studies Seminar Series. Dr Jonathan Sullivan will be delivering the talk: 'Taiwan's 2016 elections; what will change?’ Time:…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Fred Schurink (UoM)

17:00 - 19:00 9 December 2015
Fred Schurink (UoM) ‘Plutarch in Renaissance England: Politics, Literature, Lives’

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Ford Madox Brown: Picturing Manchester, Making History Public"

17:30 - 18:30 9 December 2015
A talk by Dr Colin Trodd (Department of Art History & Visual Studies) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". How do artists…

POP-UP ARCHAEOLOGY DAY

9 December 2015
Have you ever wanted to find out what exactly an Archaeologist does? The types of materials they study? The issues they investigate? Or what it’s like to work on excavations of different…

Disaster Dialogue: Gender in Disaster Risk Reduction

17:30 - 19:30 10 December 2015
The Disaster Dialogue series, hosted by HCRI, is a regular multi-disciplinary forum that responds to the urgent challenges posed by disaster events, including their interface with climate…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Matt Collins (Chester) - "Abandoning the Quest for the Historical Teacher: History and Ideology in the Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls"

14:00 - 15:00 10 December 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

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