Lecture

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…

A life of a woman in politics

17:00 - 19:00 9 March 2017
The School of Law is delighted to welcome the Right Honourable Dame Margaret Hodge to deliver the annual Pankhurst Lecture. Margaret Hodge was the first elected Chair of the Public…

CANCELLED: CTIS Seminar: Ruth Bush, "African Literature and the Post-capitalist Imaginary: Reading Tram 83"

14:00 - 15:30 9 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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Joseph Vogl: Financial Governance

17:00 - 19:00 9 March 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Joseph Vogl (Professor of Modern German Literature, Cultural, and Media Studies, Humboldt-University Berlin) will…

Silvanos Mudzvova: Acting Up in Zimbabwe

18:00 - 19:30 9 March 2017
Silvanos Mudzvova is a Zimbabwean playwright, theatre director, filmmaker and activist. Through a range of different creative strategies, he has for several years been involved in…

Vital Topics: Cyber Security - Five dominating trends

17:45 - 20:00 9 March 2017
Can you trust your digital footprint anymore? In recent times, high profile email hacks have ruptured reputations and caused tremors which have, without exaggeration, altered the course…

Fighting for Europe

14:00 - 15:00 12 March 2017
A special event co-organised by the Manchester JMCE, Manchester for Europe and the UoM European Affairs Society Professor Grayling is the Master of the New College of the Humanities…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Maxine Peake in conversation about Shakespeare and politics

17:15 - 19:00 14 March 2017
* PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT! * PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE The 2017 Stachniewski Memorial Lecture will take place on the 14 March, 2017. Maxine Peake will be…

The IMF and the Eurozone Crisis: troublemaker or trouble-shooter?

16:00 - 17:30 14 March 2017
You are cordially welcome to this JMCE special event: The IMF and the Eurozone Crisis: troublemaker or trouble-shooter? A special JMCE event Dr. Jeffrey Franks Director of…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Mike Savage: The Politics of Social Inequality in the 21st Century

17:00 - 19:00 15 March 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Mike Savage (Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics) will deliver a lecture entitled 'The…

Art History Seminar: Prof Bette Talvacchia - Michelangelo's Ignudi

17:30 - 19:00 16 March 2017
Prof Bette Talvacchia (University of Oklahoma) Michelangelo's Ignudi: from Florentine Tradition to Roman Subversion

CTIS Seminar: Charlotte Bosseaux, "Translating Voices in GBV Documentaries"

14:00 - 15:30 16 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…

EAC Department PGR Keynote Event

17:00 - 19:00 16 March 2017
WILL DAVIS (University of Reading), ‘’An Anthropomorphic Insolence of Short Duration’: Samuel Beckett’s Watt and the Fiction of History’

A Victorian Woman Ventures Securely into Men’s Realms: Journalism, Politics, and Radical Advocacy Tracy C. Davis

18:00 - 19:30 22 March 2017
Of the 241 Victorian theatre critics known to have written for the popular press, only one is known to be a woman; she, Pearl Craigie (1867-1906), daughter of an American millionaire…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Alan Bowman

17:00 - 19:00 22 March 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Professor Alan Bowman (University of Oxford) will give a talk on 'Humanities and Humanitas, New Horizons?' Professor…

GDI Lecture Series: Resilience, Development and Global Change: Resistance, Rootedness and Resourcefulness

17:00 - 18:30 22 March 2017
Resilience, Development and Global Change: Resistance, Rootedness and Resourcefulness Professor Katrina Brown (University of Exeter). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of…

2017 MICRA Annual Public Lecture – Ready for Ageing Now?

17:30 - 19:00 23 March 2017
2017 MICRA Annual Public Lecture Ready for Ageing Now? Lord Geoffrey Filkin CBE, Chair of the Centre for Ageing Better From MICRA and the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub In 2013, the…

Art History Seminar - Nicholas Penny, Visiting Pilkington Professor

17:30 - 19:00 23 March 2017
Nicholas Penny, Visiting Pilkington Professor (Whitworth Teaching Suite, 5.30-7pm)

CTIS Seminar: Joss Moorkens, "The Impact of Machine Translation on Translators: Perception vs. Reality"

14:00 - 15:30 23 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…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Danielle George

19:30 - 21:00 23 March 2017
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Danielle George, Vice Dean for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering at…

Memory, Vision and Cognition: Deciphering Ancient Documents in the Digital Age

18:00 - 19:30 23 March 2017
Professor Alan Bowman Vice-President (Humanities) of the British Academy will deliver this public lecture. Professor Bowman's research interests include: Greek and Latin Papyri from…

Whitworth Studies: Sir Nicholas Penny - Raphael’s Rebirth

17:30 - 21:00 23 March 2017
Whitworth Studies aims to encourage and support a wide range of research projects between the Whitworth and Art History and Visual Studies (AHVS), artists, other parts of the University…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Natalia Cecire (SUSSEX), "The Cell, the Shell, and the Death Drive: Marianne Moore and the Open Secrets of the Natural World"

17:00 - 18:30 29 March 2017
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