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CTIS Seminar: Dr Ting Guo, Exeter University, "New Knowledge, Better Knowledge?: Translating Homosexuality into Chinese in Republican China (1911-1945)"

14:00 - 15:30 27 October 2016
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. J. Keith Elliot (Leeds), ‘Novum Testamentum editum est’: The Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Erasmus’s New Testament'

14:00 - 16:00 27 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…

History Research Seminar: Philippa Hetherington (UCL) on ‘Imperial Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against the International “Traffic in Women,” 1880-1914’

16:15 - 17:30 27 October 2016
History Research Seminar: Philippa Hetherington (UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies), ‘Imperial Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against…

Homeless Sculpture

10:00 - 17:00 27 October 2016
How to break the isolation of the sculptural object? Sculpture in the modern and post-modern periods has been characterized by its homelessness. Although developments within site-specific…

Giacometti's Sculpture: Masterclass with Professor Alex Potts

11:00 - 13:00 28 October 2016
Professor Alex Potts, Visiting Pilkington Professor of Art History, will be teaching a masterclass on the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Alex Potts is the Max Loehr Collegiate…

Giacometti’s Sculpture: The Figure in Space and Time

17:30 - 19:00 28 October 2016
Professor Alex Potts, Visiting Pilkington Professor of Art History, will be speaking on the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Alex Potts is the Max Loehr Collegiate Professor…

Art History Careers Day

10:30 - 16:00 29 October 2016
This year’s AAH Careers Day will be hosted by the University of Manchester in the newly refurbished Whitworth Gallery. This event is aimed at recent graduates, undergraduates, sixth-form…

What’s in it for us? The economic and legal causes of the Social War (91-88 BC)

16:55 - 18:30 3 November 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Visualising the Nation

10:00 - 16:00 4 November 2016
The goal of this workshop is to bring together specialists in different regions to explore the contribution of visual analysis to the understanding of national identities and nationalist…

Anne Kirkham - Hark the Herald: Angels in the John Rylands Library’s Book of Hours

7 November 2016
Dr Anne Kirkham discusses Angels in the John Rylands Library’s Book of Hours

'A River Runs Through It': Cultural landscapes of the 19th century London landscape

18:00 8 November 2016
PhD Talk

'A Storm in a Cup Mark': Experiences of weather and weathering at rock art sites

18:00 8 November 2016
PhD Talk

English Literature Research Seminar: Edna Longley, (Queen’s Belfast) 'Edward Thomas and Great War Poetry'

17:00 - 18:30 9 November 2016
Edna Longley, (Queen’s Belfast) 'Edward Thomas and Great War Poetry'

Insight into Art History and Visual Studies (Study Day for Sixth Form Students)

10:00 - 15:30 9 November 2016
Held at the University and at the Whitworth Art Gallery This day is aimed at aspiring undergraduate students who are interested in the subject area, but who may not yet know exactly…

CTIS Seminar: Dr Fruela Fernandez, Newcastle University, "‘Politics is a task of translation’: Translation and the evolution of the Spanish Left after the 15M/Indignados"

14:00 - 15:30 10 November 2016
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Gergely Juhasz (Liverpool Hope) - 'Erasmus and the New Testament'

14:00 - 16:00 10 November 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…

History Research Seminar: Stephen Legg (Nottingham), ‘Conferencing the International: Making India in London during the Round Table Conferences, 1930-32’

16:15 - 17:30 10 November 2016
History Research Seminar: Stephen Legg (Nottingham), ‘Conferencing the International: Making India in London during the Round Table Conferences, 1930-32’

Translating Antiquity: Hunayn Ibn Ishaq’s 9th-century translation of Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms.

16:55 - 18:30 10 November 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Towards Modernity: The success of a touring British art exhibition in China

13:00 - 14:00 14 November 2016
As UK regional museums are increasingly negotiating social, cultural and economic changes, museum leaders, curators and policy makers must continuously reassess their organisation’s…

Ellen Sampson - Worn: Touch, Attachment and the Effects of Wear

13:00 - 15:00 15 November 2016
Ellen Sampson, the London-based artist, researcher, curator and maker of shoes, will be giving a lecture on her work entitled 'Worn; touch attachment and the affects of wear'. Using…

The Archaeology of literacy: Accounting and writing in rural Babylonia, c. 1500 BC

18:00 15 November 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

Gustavo Hernández Sánchez (U. of Liverpool / U. de Salamanca), ‘Power, Culture and Daily Life in Ibero-American Universities during the Baroque Period: New Historiographical Approaches’

17:00 - 18:30 16 November 2016
Venue: Sam Alex A114

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Hannah Barker, ‘ Grocers in love’

13:00 - 13:50 16 November 2016
Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Hannah Barker, ‘ Grocers in love’

CTIS Seminar: Prof. Henrietta Harrison, University of Oxford, "Becoming a Faithful Interpreter: The story of Jacobus Ly and the 1793 Macartney embassy to China"

14:00 - 15:30 17 November 2016
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Adrian H.W. Curtis - ‘Novum Testamentum editum est’: The Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Erasmus’s New Testament'

14:00 - 16:00 17 November 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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