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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…

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…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Loveday Alexander (Sheffield), 'Orality and the Gospels'

14:00 - 16:00 9 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…

History Research Seminar: Charles West (University of Sheffield) ‘“A long and a dark tale” – Clerical Exemption before Becket.’

16:15 - 17:45 9 March 2017
Charles West (University of Sheffield) ‘“A long and a dark tale” – Clerical Exemption before Becket.’

The four-legged getaway car: donkeys and their owners in papyri from Roman Egypt

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

CIDRAL Symposium: Precarity, Spectrality, and Hauntology

16:00 - 18:00 14 March 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Hauntology, a term originated by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx in relation to the simultaneous and continuous…

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…

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…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Katia Chornik, 'Collecting and archiving music histories from political detention centres in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1990)'

13:00 - 13:50 15 March 2017
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Katia Chornik, 'Collecting and archiving music histories from political detention centres in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1990).'

Molly Geidel (Manchester), ‘From salvage ethnography to development melodrama: Bolivian cinema in the Revolutionary period’.

17:00 - 18:30 15 March 2017
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminars, 2016-2017. Room A215, Samuel Alexander Building

Syrian Galen Palimpsest Project: Research Day

09:30 - 14:00 15 March 2017
Syriac Galen Palimpsest Research Day IV: This research day showcases the current state of research in the Syriac Galen Palimpsest project. It begins with a report on the identification…

Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms Project: Research Day

09:30 - 15:00 16 March 2017
Aphorisms Research Day: This research day showcases current research by members of the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms project and invited guest speakers in the area…

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’

Ehrhardt Seminar: Sarah Whittle (St. Andrews), Romans 1:4 and the Iconography of Imperial Apotheosis

14:00 - 16:00 16 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…

Slavery in the classical Athenian economy and the question of legal rights

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

Kaye Mitchell "In Conversation" with George Saunders

18:30 - 20:00 17 March 2017
Waterstones Deansgate, in conjunction with The University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing, is delighted to host an evening with the acclaimed American short story writer, George…

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…

EAC Department PGR Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:00 22 March 2017
Hilary White ‘’Forms Forming Themselves’: Visual Technique and Modes of Indisicipline in the Novels of Christine Brook-Rose, Brigid Brophy and Ann Quin’ Imogen Durant ‘The Progressive…

Music in the City, Musicians as Citizens

14:00 - 17:00 22 March 2017
Calling all music lovers and Francophiles of the North West! This workshop, led by final-year French Studies students, will encourage participants to think critically about the tensions…

TOUCH, IMAGINE, TELL: Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop

14:00 - 17:00 22 March 2017
Bridge the gap between past and present; East and West; be inspired by this unique opportunity to handle objects from Manchester Museum’s Chinese collection. Come along to Manchester…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Charlotte Naylor Davies (Heythrop College), TBA

14:00 23 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…

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