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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…

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…

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…

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…

History research seminar: Evelyn Welch 'Smelling Men in Early Modern Europe.'

16:15 23 March 2017
Evelyn Welch (King’s College London) 'Smelling Men in Early Modern Europe.'

Gender and Culture in Contemporary Saudi Society

10:30 - 12:30 24 March 2017
Dr. Hatoon Alfassi (University of Qatar) "Gender Debates in Saudi Arabia: Power and Resistance" Fatima Al-Banawi (Social Development Consultant, Writer, and Artist) "The Other Story…

Literature Live: Rory Gleeson, Alys Conran and Joey Connolly

19:00 - 20:30 28 March 2017
Reading by three début writers, novelists Rory Gleeson and Alys Conran, and poet Joey Connolly. Roddy Doyle wrote of Gleeson’s debut, ‘Rockadoon Shore is terrific’, while Conran’s novel…

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
Critical MASS event

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Tom Tunstall-Allcock, ‘Black-tie balls and barbecues: presidential diplomacy during the Cold War’

13:00 - 13:50 29 March 2017
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Tom Tunstall-Allcock, ‘Black-tie balls and barbecues: presidential diplomacy during the Cold War’

Art History Study Afternoon: Magic + Art

30 March 2017
Study Afternoon: Magic + Art (Whitworth Teaching Suite)

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dwight Swanson (Nazarene Theological College), Exegesis of Scripture in the Gospel of Matthew: A Close-up

14:00 - 16:00 30 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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