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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.

One-seed, two-seed, three-seed? Reassessing ancient theories of generation

16:55 - 18:30 10 December 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

The Impact of Researching the History of World War I in the Middle East and the Persianate World

15:00 - 16:15 11 December 2015
A panel of 'Practioners' joining us from a variety of UK Government bodies will discuss the impact that academic research on the history of World War I in the Middle East has on the…

“This war will not remain local” How the First World War came to the Middle East

16:30 - 18:00 11 December 2015
Keynote Lecture for the "Expectations and Realities: How the First World War arrived in the Middle East and the Persianate World" conference convened by Dr Oliver Bast (SALC, History)…

Socio-Cultural Implications of Post-2011 Literature, Cinema and Media in Egypt and the Arab World

09:30 - 17:30 12 December 2015
Join us for a free workshop supported by the SALC Research Networking Fund and the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies Events include: Keynote: "The Prefigurative Politics…

The Medicine Cabinet – Unlocking Manchester's Medical History

11:00 - 16:00 12 December 2015
The Medicine Cabinet – Unlocking Manchester's Medical History Saturday 12 December 2015 11am – 4pm Chetham's Library, M3 1SB MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies students from the University…

A Quest for Solidarity in a Fractured Europe

17:30 - 19:30 15 December 2015
This roundtable event will include commentaries from speakers, and an engaged discussion with the audience. Register for this event here: https://mediterranean-refugee-crisis.eventbrite.co.uk…

Fleur Houston - "Thinking Theologically about Asylum and Refugees"

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

Grattius' Cynegetica and Augustus

16:55 - 18:30 17 December 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mary Poovey: Some Lessons of History: Why Economists Failed to Anticipate the Great Recession

17:00 - 19:00 13 January 2016
Professor Mary Poovey will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Finance and the Market. This lecture explores the relationship…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Event: Seminar with Professor Mary Poovey

10:00 - 12:00 14 January 2016
This event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Finance and the Market. Professor Mary Poovey (New York University) will hold a seminar…

Political Parties in the Middle East: Past, Present and Future Perspectives

11:00 28 - 19:00 29 January 2016
This international conference, kindly made possible by sponsorship from the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), aims to make sense of past, present and future perspectives…

An Evening with Jackie Kay: Asylum, Refuge, Migration

18:00 - 19:00 29 January 2016
The Northern Postcolonial Network in collaboration with the University of Manchester and the University of Salford is delighted to host the Chancellor of the University of Salford,…

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