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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.…

Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar: Alan Craig (Leeds) - "EU-Israel Relations: Sanctions by any other name?"

16:00 - 17:30 3 March 2016
Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar. Please note change from usual venue!

CTIS Research Seminar: 'Liberte to al Britane': Translating Tacitus in Scotland (1531-36)

14:00 - 15:30 3 March 2016
The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. From debates over the rights of women to the sources of Shakespeare’s plays, the Greco-Roman historians played a…

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.

Ferguson Lecture: Prof. Janet Martin Soskice (Cambridge) - "And the Name of God is...? Revelation and Philosophy after Sinai"

16:00 - 17:30 3 March 2016
The new book by Pope Francis is entitled "The Name of God is Mercy", but what’s in a name, and what’s at stake in naming God? Moses famously asked God for a name at the burning bush,…

The Roman Mother-in-Law

16:55 - 18:30 3 March 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

¡Vino español! Vinho lusófono!

16:30 - 18:00 4 March 2016
FINAL YEAR STUDENTS: Come and practice your Spanish and/or your Portuguese with staff from SPLAS… and enjoy a glass of wine (or juice) on us! Samuel Alexander foyer (old entrance) Friday 4 March 1630-1800

HCRI Speaker Series - The Syrian Uprising and Refugees from Syria

16:00 - 18:00 7 March 2016
This event has two parts: Hafsah Naib is an independent filmmaker. In this Speaker Series event Hafsah will introduce her short film “Departing: Arrivals”. Shot in Manchester, the…

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'

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'

CTIS Research Seminar: Translation, Transmission and the Book

14:00 - 15:30 10 March 2016
Speaker: Dr Anna Strowe, University of Manchester

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dalit Rom-Shiloni (Tel Aviv) - "Hebrew Bible Theology: A Jewish Descriptive Approach"

14:00 10 March 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

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