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CIDRAL Public Lecture: François Hartog: Towards a New Historical Condition

17:00 - 19:00 17 February 2016
Professor François Hartog will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. Might recent and unfolding…

CIDRAL Workshop: Unmentionables: Conversations about the Obscene

14:00 - 17:00 17 February 2016
This event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. Concern over the social appropriateness or offensiveness…

Krasnoiarsk, 1917: Revolutionary power in the Russian provinces, reconsidered (CRES Research Seminar)

17:00 - 18:30 17 February 2016
All are welcome to attend the next Cross-Disciplinary Russian and Eurasian Studies Network (CRES) Research Seminar: 17 February 2016 5pm-6.20pm, Roscoe building, Room 4.8 Dr Alistair…

Prof. Saúl Sosnowski (Maryland): 'And when they got back….: Literature and the Return from Exile in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay'

17:00 - 18:30 17 February 2016
Organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Venue: Arthur Lewis Boardroom [3rd floor].

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Prof. Jackie Pearson (Manchester), ‘Speaking with the Supernatural in Early Modern England’

17:00 - 19:00 17 February 2016
Annual Stachniewski Memorial lecture hosted by the Division of English, American Studies, and Creative Writing in association with UMUCU. Prof. Jackie Pearson (Manchester), ‘Speaking…

Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar: Roman Vater (Oxford) - "National Alternatives to Zionism: The Case of the Young Hebrews, 1939-1976"

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2016
Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar

CIDRAL Postgraduate Event: Seminar with François Hartog

10:00 - 12:00 18 February 2016
This event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. Professor François Hartog (EHESS) will hold a seminar for…

CTIS Research Seminar: Bringing the Message to LGBT Youth around the World? Online Activism, Translation, Cultural Work

14:00 - 15:30 18 February 2016
In this talk, I reframe debates on the global emergence of LGBTQ+ movements as questions about translation. I return to theorisations of power within Translation Studies to push against…

Diodorus Siculus’ ‘Slave War’ narratives: writing social commentary in the Bibliotheke

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

Ehrhardt Seminar: Richard Britton - "From Semiotics to the Sword: Islamic Extremism and the Violence of Christ"

14:00 - 16:00 18 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

Masterclass with Prof. Jackie Pearson (Manchester)

10:00 - 12:00 18 February 2016
A masterclass with Prof. Jackie Pearson (Manchester) connected to her lecture on 17 February on 'Speaking with the Supernatural in Early Modern England’. Post-Graduate and advanced…

Translating Feminist Literary Theory into Arabic

12:00 - 13:30 18 February 2016
A public lecture within the framework of a British Academy funded partnership between the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at Manchester and the Department of English…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Ferdinand de Saussure Inside and Outside Linguistics

12:00 - 14:00 24 February 2016
This seminar is part of CIDRAL's Theory Intensives series. Professor Nigel Vincent (Linguistics, University of Manchester) will lead a Theory Intensive seminar on the work of Ferdinand…

Anna Strhan (Kent) - "The Agency of Children and the Study of Religion"

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2016
The second seminar in the Religions and Theology research seminar series.

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

17:00 - 19:30 25 February 2016
Co-sponsored by Art History & Visual Studies and the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series 5.00pm Alex Metcalfe, Lancaster University 'From memory to written record:…

CIDRAL Public Event at the Whitworth Art Gallery: Screening and Discussion of Isaac Julien's 'Kapital'

19:00 - 21:00 25 February 2016
This public event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Finance and the Market. Presented by CIDRAL and The Whitworth Art Gallery, the…

CTIS Research Seminar: Critical Approaches to Translation Technology

14:00 - 15:30 25 February 2016
Much contemporary thought on technology in general, and translation technology in particular, is characterized by defeatism, determinism and a tendency towards universalism. Such comment…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Peter Oakes - "Nine Types of Church in Nine Types of Space in the Insula of the Meander at Pompeii"

14:00 - 16:00 25 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

Fear, honour and profit? Revisiting the 'balance sheet' of Greek imperialism.

16:55 - 18:30 25 February 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Immersed in Lithics

25 - 26 February 2016
A conference on chipped and ground stone artefacts, 25th -26th February 2016, hosted at The University of Manchester and The Manchester Museum. This conference has been organised by…

Communism, Iranian Style: The Tudeh Party, 1946-53

17:00 - 18:30 1 March 2016
This talk is part of the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies seminar series, convened by Dr Lauren Banko.

CIDRAL Workshop and Lecture: The Ends of Nature: Latin American Modernity and the Crisis of Landscape

13:00 - 19:00 2 March 2016
This event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. It is presented in association with the Centre for Latin…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Peter O’Connor (UoM) ‘Part Jacobin Part MacBeth? Thomas Jefferson's British Legacy 1800-1861’

17:00 - 18:30 2 March 2016
Peter O’Connor (UoM) ‘Part Jacobin Part MacBeth? Thomas Jefferson's British Legacy 1800-1861’

Science and Technological Innovation: Can Russia Compete? CRES Research Seminar with Prof. Peter Rutland

17:00 - 18:30 2 March 2016
All are welcome to attend the next Cross-Disciplinary Russian and Eurasian Studies Network (CRES) Research Seminar: Wednesday, 2 March 2016, 5.00 - 6.20pm, Mansfield Cooper 2.04 Prof.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Yoonjong Kim - "'We Were Reconciled to God through the Death of His Son': Reconciliation in Romans in the Light of Interdependence Theory"

14:00 - 16:00 3 March 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

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