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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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Freddie Rokem: Reading Kafka/Staging Kafka

17:00 - 19:00 25 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** The lecture is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies, Drama…

Sexuality Summer School: Richard Fung Double Bill: Sea in the Blood (2000) and Re:Orientations (Preview)

25 May 2016
In 1984 Richard Fung released his first documentary, Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians. This was the first documentary on the experiences and perspectives of diasporic queer Asians…

A first critical edition of a late Latin medical text: the Latin Alexander Trallianus

16:55 - 18:30 26 May 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

CIDRAL Symposium: Freddie Rokem: The Ludic Logic of Tragedy

10:00 - 12:00 26 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** This symposium is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies,…

Sexuality Summer School: Penny Arcade: Longing Lasts Longer

20:00 26 May 2016
Penny Arcade is a force of nature. Longing Lasts Longer is the Edinburgh Fringe’s double award-winning show from New York’s undisputed queen of the underground, which turns contemporary…

Greek into Arabic, Arabic into Latin, and reinterpretation of what constitutes Western Civilization

12:00 - 13:30 27 May 2016
A seminar by Prof. Greg Crane, Professor of Digital Humanities at Leipzig University, editor-in-chief of the Perseus Digital Library, and currently S.T. Lee Visiting Professor at Institute of Classical Studies, London.

Literature Live: Jennifer Nansubaga Makumbi and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

18:30 - 20:00 1 June 2016
The latest in the Literature Live series welcomes Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. This event will be chaired by Centre for New Writing senior lecturer Geoff Ryman.…

CIDRAL Public Event at the Manchester Art Gallery: Round Table discussion of 'The Imitation Game' exhibition

16:00 - 19:30 2 June 2016
This public event part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. Inspired by Manchester’s rich history of computer science,…

Craft in Medieval and Early Modern England

2 June 2016
This one-day conference will consider different ways in which the term ‘craft’ helps us to think through and articulate our approach to the medieval and early modern sources (in a range…

Manchester Histories Festival: Snapshot

3 - 12 June 2016
Join Manchester Histories’ digital treasure hunt to discover and share images and stories of Greater Manchester’s hidden histories through Twitter and Instagram. Simply play for fun…

Manchester Histories Festival: Discovering Little Italy (in Italian)

17:00 - 18:00 4 June 2016
The Italian community established itself in Ancoats, which by the end of the 19th century was known as Little Italy. This community thrived in the early 20th century, but encountered…

Manchester Histories Festival: Manchester Central Library and Civic Pride

14:00 - 15:00 9 June 2016
Manchester Central Library was opened amid great pomp and ceremony by George V on 17 July 1934. Costing almost £600,000, the library accommodated one million volumes and seated over…

Manchester Histories Festival: Manchester Soldier, Manchester Historian

15:00 - 17:00 9 June 2016
Mark Hovell died in the trenches in 1916 aged only 28. He was a historian who left behind a manuscript that, when published, transformed our understanding of key moments in Britain’s…

Slavery and social exclusion: Christian advice to late Roman landowners

16:55 - 18:30 9 June 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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