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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,…

Meet the Authors - Jonathan Geldart: 'The Thoughts of Chairmen Now'

13:00 - 14:00 1 February 2016
An interactive presentation and discussion on the paradox that China remains to be. Jonathan Geldart, author of The Thoughts of Chairmen Now and Notes from a Beijing coffee shop (a…

CRES Seminar: The Anatomy of the Russian Elite

17:00 - 18:30 2 February 2016
All are welcome to attend the next Cross-Disciplinary Russian and Eurasian Studies Network (CRES) Research Seminar with Professor Peter Rutland (Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University…

Dr Katia Chornik (University of Manchester): 'Music and Human Rights Liaisons: Interviewing Álvaro Corbalán, a Singer-Songwriter and Top Agent of Pinochet’s Secret Police'

17:00 3 February 2016
Organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Venue: Arthur Lewis Building, Boardroom [3rd Floor]

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: John Connor (Colgate University) ‘Romantic Woolf’

17:00 - 18:30 3 February 2016
John Connor (Colgate University) ‘Romantic Woolf’

CTIS Research Seminar: Conference Interpreting and the Hegemonic Forces at Work in the Field

14:00 - 15:30 4 February 2016
Guest speaker: Cornelia Zwischenberger, Center for Translation Studies, University of Vienna Instead of analyzing the various hegemonic forces conference interpreters sustain with…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Gerald Downing - "Re the 're-' in 'reconciliation': A Conciliatory Conclusion"

14:00 - 15:30 4 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

The Syriac Galen Palimpsest: A New AHRC-Funded Project

16:55 - 18:30 4 February 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Careers in Humanitarianism 2016

09:00 - 17:00 5 February 2016
Are you considering a career in Humanitarian sector? Interested in finding out what options are available to you? Join us at the 4th annual Careers in Humanitarianism Day, hosted by…

Transverberations: Iberian Mysticism in a Global Context

5 - 6 February 2016
Transverberations: Iberian Mysticism in a Global Context is a two-day conference to be held over the 5th and 6th of February 2015 in the SALC Graduate School, University of Manchester.…

HCRI Speaker Series: More than a T-shirt: how ordinary people can prevent human rights abuses (some of the time)

16:00 - 18:00 8 February 2016
Title: More than a T-shirt: how ordinary people can prevent human rights abuses (some of the time) This interactive session will explore how ordinary people can deter violence in areas…

Five years after the January 2011 Uprising: How did the Uprising affect people's lives and aspirations in poor communities in Egypt?

17:00 - 18:30 9 February 2016
Solava Ibrahim is Deputy Programme Director, MSc in Poverty, Inequality and Development Studies and a lecturer in International Development here at the University of Manchester's Institute…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Cecile Sandten (Chemnitz) ‘Postcolonial Invocations: The Poetics of Location and Dislocation in a Selection of Bombay Poems’

17:00 - 18:30 10 February 2016
Cecile Sandten (Chemnitz) ‘Postcolonial Invocations: The Poetics of Location and Dislocation in a Selection of Bombay Poems’

CTIS Research Seminar: The Paradox of Poetry: Soviet Translators and the Rendering of Poetic Form

14:00 - 15:30 11 February 2016
In this paper I examine Soviet translations of English poetry published between the 1930s and 1980s, and consider what we might deduce from them about the guiding principles of the…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mika Pajunen (Helsinki) - "On he Paths of Judgment and Salvation: Prophetic Fulfilment and Anticipation in the Psalms of Solomon and the Barkhi Nafshi Hymns"

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

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