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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’

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…

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…

From “Proxenoi of” to “Proxenoi at”: Measuring Centrality in Greek Polis Networks

16:55 - 18:30 17 November 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Between Neighborhoods: A Screening and Discussion with Seth Fein

18:00 - 20:00 22 November 2016
Historian and Filmmaker Seth Fein will screen his audiovisual installation Between Neighborhoods. Comprised of original and archival footage, Between Neighborhoods transhistoricizes…

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’

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…

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

14:00 - 16:00 24 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: 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’

Nunc est Edendum: Alimentary Imagery in Statius’ Thebaid

16:55 - 18:30 24 November 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Alessandro Schiesaro: 'Arduus ad solem'

17:00 29 November 2016
PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION OF THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE MAIN SAMUEL ALEXANDER LECTURE THEATRE. This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for Winter 2016, 'Possible Worlds'.…

Star Carr – the end!

18:00 29 November 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

Dr. Rebecca Jarman: Bolivarian Landslides: Disaster, Revolution and the Future in New Venezuelan Narratives

17:00 - 18:30 30 November 2016
Venue: Arthur Lewis, G0.19

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Kristy Ironside, ‘ “Workers long-held dream”: the Cold War and the abolition of taxes in the Soviet Union 1959-1962’

13:00 - 13:50 30 November 2016
Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Kristy Ironside, ‘ “Workers long-held dream”: the Cold War and the abolition of taxes in the Soviet Union 1959-1962’

What next for Syria? Civil War and the New Cold War

17:30 - 19:00 30 November 2016
On 20th September 2016, and despite a ceasefire that came into effect on 12th September, a UN aid convoy in Aleppo, Northern Syria, was attacked killing at least 20 people and destroying…

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