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Art History and Visual Studies Talks

16:00 - 19:00 5 May 2016
Co-sponsored by Art History & Visual Studies and the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series 4.00pm Rose Marie San Juan, University College London 'Cannibal Matter' 5.15pm…

CIDRAL Film Screening and Discussion: What Is Psychoanalysis?

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2016
What is psychoanalysis? Is it weird? Why? The College of Psychoanalysts recently funded a project by the Freud Museum in London to make four short films, less than ten minutes each.…

Critical MASS: History of the Book Workshop

02:00 - 03:30 5 May 2016
Professor Barbara McCaskill (University of Georgia) will discuss her new book Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory. She will explain what…

Ehrhadt Seminar: Dominika Kurek-Chomyez - "The King's Fragrance and the Spiritual Sense of Smell: Reading Cant 1:3-4 and 1:12 with Origen and Gregory of Nysaa"

14:00 - 16:00 5 May 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

How Immanuel Kant inspired the first "Critique" of Lu Xun - Centre for Chinese Studies Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 5 May 2016
Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) 2015-2016 Seminar Series presents: Susan Daruvala (University of Cambridge) "How Immanuel Kant inspired the first "Critique" of Lu Xun" 5 May, 5pm-6.30pm University Place room 4.212

Rajbharat Patta (Manchester) - "Subaltern Public Theology"

16:00 - 17:30 5 May 2016
The fourth Religions and Theology research seminar of the semester.

The Thirty Tyrants in Lysias 12 Against Eratosthenes: counting, accounting, recounting

16:55 - 18:30 5 May 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

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

CIDRAL Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 10 May 2016
CIDRAL hosts regular book launches to showcase books by SALC research staff. They give academic staff an opportunity to tell others about their work, and provide an occasion for us…

Richard Cleminson (Leeds): ‘Eugenics, Race and “Miscegenation” in Portugal, c. 1925-1960.’

17:00 - 18:30 11 May 2016
Part of our Spanish and Portuguese research seminar series.

Celebration of Religions and Theology at Manchester

14:15 - 15:45 12 May 2016
You are warmly invited to join us from 2.15 - 3.45 pm on 12 May 2016 in Lecture Room D, Simon Building for a special event celebrating Religions & Theology in Manchester. Members of…

China in Britain 1760- 1860: Key note speech by Dame Helen Ghosh

15:00 - 17:00 12 May 2016
The British-Inter University China Centre (BICC) and the Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) invite you to this keynote speech-public talk with Dame Helen Ghosh, Director-General of the…

Poet's Corner

19:00 - 22:00 12 May 2016
Chetham's Library transforms after dark as part of Manchester After Hours on Thursday 12th May. Chetham’s library, MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies and MA Arts Management, Policy and…

Critical MASS Postgraduate Conference in American Studies

12:00 - 17:30 13 May 2016
Keynote speaker: Professor Zoe Trodd "The Antislavery Usable Past: Protest Memory and the Movement Against Contemporary Slavery" Zoe Trodd is Professor of American Literature in the…

Critical MASS: Postgraduate Conference

12:00 - 17:30 13 May 2016
Keynote speaker: Professor Zoe Trodd “The Antislavery Usable Past: Protest Memory and the Movement Against Contemporary Slavery” Zoe Trodd is Professor of American Literature in…

Masterclass: Susan Stanford Friedman (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘A Manifesto for Planetarity and Its Discontents’

11:00 - 13:00 16 May 2016
Northern Modernism Seminar: A Research Day with Susan Stanford Friedman Masterclass (open to all MA and PhD students, NWCDTP) ‘A Manifesto for Planetarity and Its Discontents’ Suggested…

Mediator of Cultures: Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and His Heritage

16 May 2016
International conference.

Susan Stanford Friedman (Wisconsin-Madison), 'Modernist Studies: Why Planetary? How Planetary?'

16:00 - 18:00 16 May 2016
Northern Modernism Seminar: A Research Day with Susan Stanford Friedman OPEN LECTURE (everyone welcome) Modernist Studies: Why Planetary? How Planetary? The lecture will discuss…

Sexuality Summer School: Film Screening: Carol (Haynes, 2015)

18:00 23 May 2016
Dir Todd Haynes/US GB 2013/118 mins Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson Adapted by Emmy nominated screenwriter Phyllis Nagy from Patricia Highsmith’s best-selling novel The Price…

From Etelaati to Eslahtalabi: Said Hajjarian, Political Theology and the Politics of Reform in Post-Revolutionary Iran

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2016
Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) research seminar

Sexuality Summer School: Professor Patricia White (Swarthmore), Public Lecture: "Lesbian Reverie: Carol as History and Fantasy"

18:00 24 May 2016
Rather than a forward-looking lesbian representation, Todd Haynes’s Carol, an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, looks to images and affective…

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