Campus visit/tour, Lecture

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'

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

18:00 - 20:00 19 April 2016
Sponsored by the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series Margit Thofner, University of East Anglia 'Picturing Music in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Marten de Vos's motet prints'

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Jing Wang: The Makers Are Coming! China’s Long Tail Revolution

17:00 - 19:00 19 April 2016
Professor Jing Wang will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. This event is presented in collaboration…

Friends of Tabley AGM and a Talk by Dr Charles Foster of Arley Hall

17:00 19 April 2016
Following the AGM there will be an illustrated talk by Charles Foster about the shopping habits of the Warburtons of Arley Hall in the eighteenth century. The archive at Arley Hall…

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'

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Kath Burlinson (Authentic Artist) ‘"Iterated jingles": Christina Rossetti from page to stage’

17:00 - 18:30 20 April 2016
Kath Burlinson (Authentic Artist) ‘"Iterated jingles": Christina Rossetti from page to stage’

Herford Memorial Lecture: Charles Burdett: Italy, Islam and the Islamic World from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2016
The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as Italy’s second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has generated an intense and often polarized debate that…

John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), "From Plessy to Ferguson: The Racialization of Time and Place"

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2016
Professor George Lipsitz "From Plessy to Ferguson: The Racialization of Time and Place" Public lecture (all welcome) Book through Eventbrite: http://plessytoferguson.eventbrite.co.uk…

Lecture by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education

18:00 - 20:30 21 April 2016
Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) will welcome Dr Kishore Singh, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education is to Manchester in order to deliver a lecture on "Social…

Teaching and Learning Seminar - Increasing student engagement in surveys

12:30 - 13:30 21 April 2016
Professor Mark Elliot, Chair of Data Sciences, School of Social Sciences, will be talking about how challenging it is to encourage PGT students to complete experience surveys. The students…

Politics Peace Lecture 2016: Srdja Popovic - How To Topple Tyranny

15:00 - 16:30 25 April 2016
Join the University of Manchester’s Politics department for an afternoon with one of the world’s renowned nonviolent democracy campaigners. Srdja Popovic led the Serbian nonviolent…

Campus Visit (Year 10)

26 April 2016
An exciting opportunity for pre-16 learners to visit the University Campus, experience a welcome talk from a member of staff at the University and a campus tour from current Student…

French Studies Guest Lecture: "'Freedom of expression or freedom from Islam? The emergence of secularism in French political debate since the 1980s"

17:00 - 18:00 26 April 2016
Professor Olivier Esteves, Université de Lille (chaired by Dr Barbara Lebrun, French Studies) In 2016, secularism (laïcité) continues to be harnessed by French politicians and the…

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

17:30 - 19:30 27 April 2016
Jonathan Harris, Birmingham City University 'The Global Contemporary Art World; Anatomy and Prescription'

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Frank Towers (Calgary), 'Two Civil Wars: Slavery, Nation, and the Time Scales of 19th Century U.S. History'

17:00 - 18:30 4 May 2016
Frank Towers (Calgary), 'Two Civil Wars: Slavery, Nation, and the Time Scales of 19th Century U.S. History'

Sherman Community Lecture in Jewish Studies 2016: Dr. Yulia Egorova (Durham University) - "Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: History, Experience, Context"

19:30 - 21:00 8 May 2016
The annual Sherman Community Lecture

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