Lecture

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…

"Of Buying Many Books There is No End”: Towards a History of the John Rylands Library's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts.

18:00 - 19:30 2 February 2017
Rare are the manuscripts in Arabic script that do not bear a mark attesting to their past, be it a mention of the patron for whom the manuscript was produced, an act of pious donation,…

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"

GDI Lecture Series: Designing Interventions in Developing Water-Energy-Food Systems

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2017
Designing Interventions in Developing Water-Energy-Food Systems Professor Julien Harou (The University of Manchester). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of the Roscoe Building…

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…

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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Freddie Rokem: Before the Stage: Staging Kafka's Words

16:00 - 18:00 14 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Co-Organised by CIDRAL, LIS, Drama, German Studies and the Centre for Jewish Studies Freddie Rokem (Professor in…

GDI Lecture Series: “Too close for comfort, relatively speaking? Development NGOs’ dependence on home government funding in comparative perspective”

17:00 - 18:30 15 February 2017
“Too close for comfort, relatively speaking? Development NGOs’ dependence on home government funding in comparative perspective” with Professor Lauchlan T. Munro (Ottawa University)…

CTIS Seminar: David Orrego-Carmona, "What Do Users Think? Exploring the reception of non-professional subtitling"

14:00 - 15:30 16 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…

CIDRAL Film Screening and Q&A: Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind: In the Future, they Ate from the Finest Porcelain

12:30 - 14:15 21 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind will be presenting their latest (2016) film In the Future, they Ate from the Finest…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Jennifer Richards (NEWCASTLE), 'Talking Books in the Age of Print'

17:00 - 18:30 22 February 2017
Jennifer Richards (NEWCASTLE), 'Talking Books in the Age of Print'

GDI Lecture Series: Predatory states and Economic development

17:00 - 18:30 22 February 2017
Predatory states and Economic development Professor Mehrdad Vahabi (University of Paris) The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of the Roscoe Building The Global Development…

Art History Seminar - Nic Cullinan (National Portrait Gallery)

17:30 - 19:00 23 February 2017
Nic Cullinan, National Portrait Gallery (Whitworth Teaching Suite, 5.30-7pm)

CTIS Seminar: Frank Austermühl, "Don't Mind the Gap: Using Technology to Empower English L2 Translators"

14:00 - 15:30 23 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…

Legitimacy in international law: The case of international investment arbitration

17:00 - 19:00 28 February 2017
With the different contestation of legitimacy, this lecture will discuss the legitimacy debate with respect to the investment regime. Guest speaker Alexis Galan, Bocconi University,…

Art History Seminar: Olivia Horsfall Turner - "Reading and writing architecture in early modern England"

17:30 - 19:00 1 March 2017
Olivia Horsfall Turner (V&A) Reading and writing architecture in early modern England (Samuel Alexander A.112, 5.30-7pm)

EAC Department Seminar Series: Emily Rohrbach (MANCHESTER), “‘Without you, I would have been somebody else’: On Contingency and the Counterfactual Imagination in Austen and Dickens”

17:00 - 18:30 1 March 2017
Emily Rohrbach (MANCHESTER), “‘Without you, I would have been somebody else’: On Contingency and the Counterfactual Imagination in Austen and Dickens”

CTIS Seminar: Loredana Polezzi, "Monolingual Performances and Multilingual Selves: Rethinking the translation continuum"

14:00 - 15:30 2 March 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…

The Ferguson Lecture 2017: A Wisdom of Surprise - Thought, Action, and Amazement at God

16:00 - 18:00 2 March 2017
2017 Samuel Ferguson lecturer: Prof. David Ford (University of Cambridge) Please consider yourself warmly invited to attend the 2017 Ferguson Lecture to be held in the Department of…

Energy installations at sea

12:00 - 14:00 3 March 2017
Manchester International Law Centre is proud to welcome Professor Maria Gavouneli (University of Athens), who will deliver a lecture on energy installations at sea. Professor Gavouneli…

Art History Seminar: Rebecca Wade - The Making (and Remaking) of Leeds Art Gallery

16:30 - 19:00 7 March 2017
Rebecca Wade (Henry Moore Institute) will be speaking on "The Making (and Remaking) of Leeds Art Gallery: A Civic Collection in Context"

Revisiting the new international economic order

17:30 - 20:30 7 March 2017
We are pleased to announce the first Gillian White Lecture, entitled 'Revisiting the new international economic order: On law, development and economic process'. Professor Gillian…

EAC Department Seminar Series: James Riley (CAMBRIDGE), "Of Unknown Origin: William Burroughs and Electronic Voice Phenomena"

17:00 - 18:30 8 March 2017
James Riley (CAMBRIDGE), "Of Unknown Origin: William Burroughs and Electronic Voice Phenomena"

FBMH International Women's Day Celebration

13:00 - 17:00 8 March 2017
FBMH International Women's Day Celebration. **Wednesday 8 March from 12:30pm** - Engendering Change International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural…

GDI Lecture Series: Gender, Urbanisation and Poverty: Principles, Practice, and the Space of Slums

17:00 - 18:30 8 March 2017
Gender, Urbanisation and Poverty: Principles, Practice, and the Space of Slums Professor Sylvia Chant (London School of Economics). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of…

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