Lecture

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…

Inaugural Lord Morris of Manchester Memorial Lecture

18:30 - 21:00 3 November 2016
Alf Morris (1928-2012) dedicated his parliamentary career – as the Labour Co-op MP for Wythenshawe 1964-1997 and then as a Life Peer – to challenging the barriers imposed by society…

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

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'

GDI Lecture series: Elizabeth Lunstrum – Capitalism and Conservation in the Age of Security

17:00 - 18:30 9 November 2016
The Global Development Lecture Series brings together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing…

Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 10 November 2016
This year's Harry Street Lecture will be delivered by Bishop James Jones, Chairman of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. Bishop Jones was a member of the House of Lords from 2003…

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…

Edmund de Waal : The Annual Pilkington Lecture

18:00 - 20:00 10 November 2016
Edmund de Waal: The Annual Pilkington Lecture Thursday 10 November, 6.30pm (Wine reception, 6pm) ‘Give it shadow enough: Art and memory’ Edmund de Waal is an artist and writer.…

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’

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 Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture: 'Can democracy and growth coexist in sub-Saharan Africa?' - Prof Nicolas van de Walle

16:30 - 18:00 16 November 2016
Barrington Moore’s landmark book 'The Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy' is 50 years old this year. Leading expert on democratic development, Cornell University's Nic van…

Baseball Arbitration to Resolve International Law Disputes: Nudging States to ‘Step Up To the Plate’.

17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2016
MILC is proud to welcome Professor Joost Pauwelyn (Graduate Institute, Geneva & Georgetown Law), who will deliver a lecture on the following topic: States and international tribunals…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Harold James: 'The Euro as a Battle of Ideas'

16:00 - 17:30 17 November 2016
This event is co-organised by History and CIDRAL. This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for Winter 2016, 'Possible Worlds'. Why is Europe’s great monetary endeavour, the Euro,…

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…

Critical MASS Seminar: Seth Fein, ‘Our Neighbourhood: How a book about US TV Propaganda in Latin America during the 1960s became a film and how and why a historian (thinks he) became a filmmaker’

17:00 - 18:30 23 November 2016
Seth Fein, ‘Our Neighbourhood: How a book about US TV Propaganda in Latin America during the 1960s became a film and how and why a historian (thinks he) became a filmmaker’

GDI Lecture series: Dr Saleemul Huq – The Magic Number: 1.5°C or 2°C Limit on Warming. But, what does this actually mean for Least Developed Countries

17:00 - 18:30 23 November 2016
The Global Development Lecture Series brings together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing…

The Name Giorgione: Crowe and Cavalcaselle’s Connoisseurship

17:00 - 19:00 23 November 2016
Dr Luke Uglow, Lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester, will be discussing his research on nineteenth-century connoisseurship and the historiography…

CTIS Seminar: Prof. Dr Heidi Salaets, KU Leuven, "Interpreter Mediated Questioning of Minors (ImQM): From theory to practice, from research to society"

14:00 - 15:30 24 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…

History Research Seminar: Craig Griffiths (Manchester Metropolitan) ‘The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Gay Politics in 1970s West Germany’

16:15 - 17:30 24 November 2016
History Research Seminar: Craig Griffiths (Manchester Metropolitan) ‘The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Gay Politics in 1970s West Germany’

The WTO Law in international (dis)order

17:00 - 19:00 28 November 2016
The Manchester International Law Centre is happy to welcome Mr. Victor do Prado, who is currently the Director of the Council and Trade Negotiations Committee Division in the WTO to…

Royal Economic Society - 2016 Annual Public Lecture

17:30 - 20:00 30 November 2016
'In Search of the Perfect Match – the economics of picking our partners and jobs' - Professor Philipp Kircher (The University of Edinburgh)

CTIS Seminar: Prof. Helle V. Dam and Prof. Karen Zethsen, Aarhus University, "The Translator as the Central Figure – a realistic or an idealistic model?"

14:00 - 15:30 1 December 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…

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum