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Adriana Bausells-Espín (University of Manchester), ‘Audio-Description as a Learning- Enhancement Tool in the Foreign Language classroom’

17:00 - 18:30 14 December 2016
Adriana Bausells-Espín (University of Manchester), ‘Audio-Description as a Learning-Enhancement Tool in the Foreign Language classroom: Integrating Linguistic Skills, Transferable Skills…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Grace Allen, ‘Secretaries and political knowledge in the late Italian Renaissance’

13:00 14 December 2016
Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Grace Allen, ‘Secretaries and political knowledge in the late Italian Renaissance’.

Marina Warner - Sanctuary: Places of safety, zones of exclusion

17:30 - 19:00 14 December 2016
Prof. Marina Warner discusses "Sanctuary: Places of safety, zones of exclusion"

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Kimberley Fowler (CNRS/Aix-Marseille), ‘Citizenship in the Epistle to Diognetus'

14:00 15 December 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…

“A new kind of martyrdom”: The symbolic sacrifice of menstruating virgins

16:55 - 18:30 15 December 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Fighting Ebola with Information

14:00 - 16:00 24 January 2017
In December 2013, a little-known viral hemorrhagic fever was detected in a forest region of Guinea. Within months, the Ebola virus disease would become a global outbreak. To contain…

Centre for Jewish Studies Annual Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies: 'The Church and the Holocaust'

18:00 30 - 19:30 31 January 2017
This annual public lecture series has been made possible as a result of the generous bequest to the University by Fanni Bogdanow (1927-2013), a former Professor of French and Medieval…

Children's Lives in Wartime Japan

1 February - 31 March 2017
This exhibition displays 50 entries from picture diaries made by Japanese primary school children in 1944-1945. It gives a vivid insight into the school lives of Japanese children…

Meetup of the Don Quijote reading group

17:00 - 18:30 1 February 2017
‘The Don Quixote Virtual Reading Group in the ‘Cervantes Reborn’ project: meetup and discussion of approaches to Cervantes in 2017’ Wednesday 1 February 2017, 5-7 pm, room A112, Samuel…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Walter J. Houston (Manchester), 'Folly at Bethel: Amos on Religion

14:00 - 16:00 2 February 2017
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…

Encrypted Inscriptions: A Paradoxical Praxis

16:55 - 18:30 2 February 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Cultures of Anti-Racism

09:00 - 18:00 3 February 2017
This conference aims to explore anti-racist ideas and practices in the domain of cultural production in order to investigate how cultural producers approach questions of race and racism…

Dr. Deborah Toner: Pulque and pulquerías in Mexican history and heritage

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2017
Venue: Arthur Lewis G0.19

EAC Department Seminar Series: Bashir Abu-Manneh (KENT), "Palestinian Trajectories: Novel and Politics since 1948"

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2017
Bashir Abu-Manneh (KENT), "Palestinian Trajectories: Novel and Politics since 1948"

CTIS Seminar: Klaus Kaindl, "Fiction as a Source of Knowledge for Translation Studies"

14:00 - 15:30 9 February 2017
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. Philip R. Davis (Sheffield), The Bible and the Spade: Some Thoughts on 'Biblical Archaeology'

14:00 - 16:00 9 February 2017
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…

Pastoral Song in Ovid's Metamorphoses

16:55 - 18:30 9 February 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Povinelli: Primitive Accumulation and Original Precarity: Vulnerability Outside Settler Geontopolitics

17:00 - 19:00 10 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Elizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University) will deliver a public lecture entitled…

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