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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: 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: 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…

CIDRAL Workshop: Neoliberalism and History

16:00 - 18:00 21 June 2016
PLEASE NOTE THE DATE AND ROOM CHANGE FOR THIS EVENT CIDRAL Workshop Prof. Patrick Joyce on ‘Neoliberalism and ‘History’ Tues 21st June 2016, 6pm – 6pm Ellen Wilkinson, Room A3.6…

Arabs at Home and Abroad: Politics, Society, and Art

10:30 - 15:30 27 June 2016
Arabs at Home and Abroad: Politics, Society, and Art Seminar - Monday 27 June 2016 10.30am – 3.30pm Venue: Room 2.05 Williamson Building The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures…

Debates within Iranian Socialism: Historiography, Ideology and Praxis after the Second World War

15:00 19 - 17:00 20 July 2016
Co-organised by Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (University of Manchester) and Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (University of Manchester) Provisional Programme – Subject to Change. Please…

The Manchester Anthology 2016 launch

18:30 - 20:00 8 September 2016
The Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester launches its annual anthology of new writing (fiction and poetry) from the Creative Writing MA class of 2015/16. Copies of…

Mobilities, Peace, and Conflict: Conference

15 - 16 September 2016
Fifth Annual Conference of the International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies and the ECPR Standing Group on Critical Peace and Conflict Studies 15-16 September 2016 Dublin…

Cervantes Reborn: textual reception and authorial resurrection

09:30 - 17:00 27 September 2016
Symposium in commemoration of the 400 anniversary of Cervantes Programme: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nks0ik4h3gi06f5/Cervantes%20Reborn%20poster%20and%20abstracts%20final.pdf?dl=0 Tuesday,…

Dora Marsden Lecture: Laura Marcus (Oxford), ‘Modernism and the "new language of rhythm": art, literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century’

17:00 - 18:30 28 September 2016
Laura Marcus (Oxford), ‘Modernism and the "new language of rhythm": art, literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century’

Socrates as Bully: Indictment and Defence

16:55 - 18:30 29 September 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Mediating the Refugee Crisis: HCRI Landmark Lecture - Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE)

17:30 - 19:30 3 October 2016
This HCRI Landmark Lecture will be given by Lilie Chouliaraki: Professor of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has written extensively…

Seminar with French alumnus Christopher Stone

16:00 - 17:00 4 October 2016
Seminar with French alumnus and successful businessman Christopher Stone Chris graduated in 1985 with a BA(Hons) in French Studies (First), with interests in medieval French literature…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Yangwen Zheng, ‘Timeless China’

13:00 - 13:50 5 October 2016
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Yangwen Zheng, ‘Timeless China’

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. George Brooke (Manchester/Chester), ‘English Observations on German Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship'

14:00 - 16:00 6 October 2016
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public, with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute…

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