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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…

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…

CIDRAL Symposium: Games and Culture

14:00 - 18:00 10 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. This event will consider history, games and culture, with contributions from two of the leading scholars in this area…

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…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Deleuze and Minor Literatures

12:00 - 14:00 14 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme, 'Precarity'. Professor Margaret Littler (German Studies) will lead a seminar for postgraduate students and staff entitled Deleuze…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Seminar: Professor Freddie Rokem: The Dramaturgical Imagination

10:00 - 13:00 15 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Freddie Rokem (Professor in the Department of Theatre, Tel Aviv University) will lead a seminar for postgraduate students…

EAC Department PGR Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:00 15 February 2017
Annie Dickinson ‘Gendering the Early Modern Malcontent’ Laura Swift ‘Our Scene is London: Analogy and Authority in James I’s Royal Entry (1604)’ Kat Lowe ‘Ye shall find them very…

Manchester Cathedral and the Making of a Medieval Town

18:00 - 19:30 15 February 2017
Join Andy Hardman (Belle Vue Productions/MMS) for an Archaeological-Architectural Tour of Manchester Cathedral: the Making of a Medieval Town Manchester Medieval Society

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Philip Esler (Gloucestershire), 'New Light on Babatha and Her Final Days'

14:00 - 16:00 16 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…

Was the Greek Polis a state?

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

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'

HCRI Seminar: Out of sight, out of mind, out of bounds - The Failure of Maritime Sanctions Enforcement against North Korea

15:00 - 17:00 22 February 2017
For this HCRI Seminar we will be joined by Bob Huish, Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, and the Ron Lister Fellow in the Department of…

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Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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