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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…

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…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Andrew T. Lincoln (Gloucestershire), 'The Reception of Jesus in John'

14:00 - 16:00 23 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…

Jabs for the Nation: Public Health and the Politics of Mass Immunization in Twentieth-Century China

18:00 23 February 2017
The Second World War made vaccination a cornerstone of public health in China. When Japan invaded eastern China in 1937, the Nationalist government moved its wartime capital to Chongqing,…

Plutarch and Roman exemplary ethics

16:55 - 18:30 23 February 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

THE MODERNISM@MANCHESTER RESEARCH GROUP DAY SYMPOSIUM: Proletarian Modernism

13:00 - 17:00 24 February 2017
Modernism@Manchester is a Research Group based in the Division of English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. We are interested in addressing power…

John McAuliffe “In Conversation” with Mohsin Hamid

19:00 - 20:30 27 February 2017
Manchester Literature Festival presents an In Conversation with award-winning author Mohsin Hamid. Born and raised in Lahore, Hamid currently divides his time between Pakistan, London…

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”

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Paul Oldfield, ‘The power of ‘brain drain’ in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily’

13:00 - 13:50 1 March 2017
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Paul Oldfield, ‘The power of ‘brain drain’ in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily’

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Meredith Warren (Sheffield), 'The Transmission of Divine Knowledge through Taste: A Sensory Analysis of Rev 10:8-10'

14:00 - 16:00 2 March 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…

Loans vs inheritance: the influence of Latin on the languages of Europe

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

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"

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"

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