Lecture

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…

Global Development Institute Launch - Winnie Byanyima

17:00 - 18:30 17 February 2016
Please join us to celebrate the launch of the Global Development Institute on 17 February 5.00-6.30, at The University of Manchester. The launch will feature a keynote lecture on addressing…

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…

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…

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:…

Lecture : Stephen Gill, York University, Toronto, and Hallsworth Visiting Professor, The University of Manchester

17:00 - 18:30 25 February 2016
The Political Economy Institute and Global Political Economy research cluster at The University of Manchester are very pleased to announce the following public lecture: Stephen Gill,…

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’

Public Lecture Professor Susana Narotzky ‘’Autonomy, dependence and solidarity : grassroots responses to structural adjustment in Spain’’

16:00 - 18:00 2 March 2016
PUBLIC LECTURE Faculty of Humanities Visiting Hallsworth Professor Wednesday 2nd March 2016 Susana Narotzky, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona…

Lovell lecture: The formation of stars and planets – new insight from the Herschel Space Observatory

19:30 - 21:00 3 March 2016
Prof Derek Ward-Thompson University of Central Lancashire The Herschel Space Observatory was an ESA space telescope which flew from 2009 until 2013 and collected a huge archive of…

Star Lecture: Amy Hughes, Health care in Humanitarian Emergencies

19:00 - 20:30 3 March 2016
How do we provide healthcare for populations affected by humanitarian emergencies? What infrastructure is needed to strengthen local health capacity and assist foreign medical teams…

Toller Lecture: Prof. Clare Lees (King's College London), 'Women Write the Past: Old English, New Literature and the Romance of Scholarship'

18:00 - 19:30 7 March 2016
The Annual Toller Lecture in Anglo-Saxon. Prof. Clare Lees (King's College London), 'Women Write the Past: Old English, New Literature and the Romance of Scholarship'

Just Sustainabilities: Re-imagining e/quality, Living Within Limits

16:30 8 March 2016
SEED Social Responsibility Annual Lecture, 2016 You are warmly invited to the SEED Annual Social Responsibility Lecture, delivered by Professor Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and…

Learning from North African women’s experiences of FGM

12:00 - 13:00 8 March 2016
FGM/C is child abuse and contravenes the UN Convention on the rights of the child; it is also a global problem affecting 100 - 140 million women worldwide. Due to migration many women…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Dirk Van Hulle (Antwerp) 'Modern Manuscripts and Intertextuality'

17:00 - 18:30 9 March 2016
Dirk Van Hulle (Antwerp) 'Modern Manuscripts and Intertextuality'

Pilkington Lecture in Art History

18:00 - 20:00 10 March 2016
Giles Waterfield, former Director, Dulwich Picture Gallery: 'The People’s Galleries'

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

17:30 16 March 2016
Douglas Brine, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 'Jan van Eyck and the shield of St George'

The EU referendum: An academic perspective

18:00 16 March 2016
The Mancunion Live and the University of Manchester Politics Society present "the European Union referendum: An academic persective" in collaboration with Manchester Students for Europe…

Brook Lecture: Prof. Patricia Ingham (Indiana University Bloomington), 'Curious Novelties'

17:30 - 19:00 17 March 2016
The Brook Lecture honours the memory of G.L. Brook, Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at Manchester University, 1945–77. We are pleased to welcome as this…

Globalization, migration and the future of the middle classes

16:30 - 18:00 22 March 2016
Branko Milanovic will discuss recent changes in global income distribution, the creation of a “global middle class”, stagnation of median incomes in the West and propose Kuznets cycles…

'Living the Weather: a study in the socio-atmospherics of everyday life' - BSA conference stream plenary

09:30 - 10:30 7 April 2016
Professor Jennifer Mason is giving the plenary session of the Families and Relationships stream at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, held at Aston University, 6-8 April 2016.

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen), 'Southern Studies/American Studies with/without "the South"'

17:00 - 18:30 13 April 2016
English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Martyn Bone (University of Copenhagen), 'Southern Studies/American Studies with/without 'the South': Morrison, Eggers, Lalami and Literary Geographies of Scale'

John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'American Studies as Accompaniment'

17:00 - 19:00 19 April 2016
John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'American Studies as Accompaniment'

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