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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…

Manchester Histories Festival: What the Dickens? Perspectives on poverty in Manchester Since Victorian Times

18:00 - 20:00 9 June 2016
Wood Street Mission has been giving out food, clothes and toys to struggling families since the 1870s. Located in Spinningfield's business district, on a narrow side street once notorious…

Slavery and social exclusion: Christian advice to late Roman landowners

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

Manchester Histories Festival: Celebration Day

10:30 - 16:00 11 June 2016
MHF’s Celebration Day provides a focus for the festival bringing together histories and heritage groups from across Greater Manchester and providing a wide range of activities to entertain,…

Manchester Histories Festival: Discovering Little Italy (in English)

17:00 - 18:00 11 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: Friendless or Forsaken? Child Emigration from Manchester to Canada, 1870-1930

13:00 - 13:45 11 June 2016
In the late nineteenth-century, philanthropists and reformers in Manchester wanted to improve the lives of the many orphans and abandoned children in the city. One strategy was to send…

Manchester Histories Festival: Michael Wood - The Seven Ages of Manchester

15:00 - 16:00 11 June 2016
Historian and broadcaster Michael Wood brings the Seven Ages of Manchester alive in this illustrated talk taking you on a journey through the Roman settlement, the Anglo-Saxon burh,…

Manchester Histories Festival: Families, money and death: inheritance disputes amongst trading families in Industrial Revolution Manchester

15:00 - 16:00 12 June 2016
Examining men and women ‘in trade’ in Manchester during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The death of the head of household, and the subsequent transfer of wealth…

MA Conference Interpreting Open Afternoon

14:00 - 16:30 15 June 2016
Do you have a passion for languages and a heart for challenges? Have you ever considered becoming a conference interpreter? Are you curious about life as a professional interpreter?…

Who will get Harmonia’s necklace? Eriphyle, tragedy and inheritance in Classical Athens

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

Translated/ing Voices and Selves: Interpreting for survivors of abuse and violence in domestic contexts and conflict zones

10:00 - 16:00 17 June 2016
A one-day event hosted by the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies (CTIS) at the University of Manchester for new and experienced interpreters, supporting professional development…

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