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School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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)

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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: 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…

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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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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.'

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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…

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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…

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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

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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)

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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…

Meeting with Juanma Carrillo

17:00 - 18:30 30 March 2017
Spanish film director, videoartist and photographer Juanma Carrillo will deliver an audiovisual presentation on his experience as an independent artist and co-founder of the audiovisual…

Classics and Ancient History (CLAH) frieze in restoration

Written on paper or carved in stone? – The impact of different types of evidence on the study of Roman collegia.

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

Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath

10:00 31 March - 15:30 1 April 2017
This conference will explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen media has responded to the recent economic crisis. Since 2008, the economic context of precariousness and its…

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Monday Lunchtime Talk: The Melbourne Controversy; Jai Zhangke and the Melbourne International Film Festival, 2009

13:00 - 14:00 3 April 2017
In 2009, the famous independent Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke withdrew his films from the Melbourne International Film Festival in protest at the invitation to Rebiya Kadeer, the leader…

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HCRI Seminar: Ending the Cycle of Famine in Ethiopia

15:00 - 16:00 19 April 2017
‘Citizen humanitarians’ and ‘Refugee Helpers’ in Europe – what does this tell us about the international humanitarian sector. During 2015 and 2016 1.3 million refugees and asylum…

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CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Judith Walkowitz: Feminism and Prostitution in the 1980s: A Tale of North and South

17:00 - 19:00 25 April 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Organised in collaboration with History at the University of Manchester. Sponsored by Modern British History Research…

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Hip Hop and the Fight for Educational Equality in America

17:00 - 18:30 25 April 2017
Education in post-civil rights America continues to be defined by racial, social class, and gender inequality. Serious debates about failing schools have been obscured both by "post-racial"…

NEW TIME: Of Arab Invasions, the Aryan Race, and other Iranian Nationalist Myths

17:15 - 18:30 25 April 2017
An Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Seminar: This talk discusses the work of Fath’ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian…

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Chinese Garden Workshop

15:30 - 17:00 26 April 2017
Be part of creating the Confucius Garden at Hulme Community Garden Centre! The Confucius Institute has partnered up with Hulme Community Garden Centre to run a series…

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100 Days of Trump: American Studies Perspectives

15:30 - 17:00 27 April 2017
A roundtable and discussion about the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency. Dr Travis Gosa (Cornell University) will contextualise and make sense of Trump's victory, Dr Molly…

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Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Mary E. Mills (Newman University), 'City as Sustainable Enviroment'

14:00 - 16:00 27 April 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…

Medieval coloured print, Cologne, 15th century, © Chetham’s Library. Kölnische Chronik

History Research Seminar: 27 April – Judy Walkowitz ‘The Spatial Politics of Reading in the Archives: A Memoir’

16:15 - 17:45 27 April 2017
Judy Walkowitz (Johns Hopkins) ‘The Spatial Politics of Reading in the Archives: A Memoir’

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Israel Studies Seminar - Brian Klug (Oxford), 'Words of Fire: Ahad Ha'am and the Jewish Future'

16:00 - 17:30 27 April 2017
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar programme has an Israel Studies theme. Our seminar programme is open to all (for free) and there is no need to book. Ahad Ha'am (the pen name…

Classics and Ancient History (CLAH) frieze in restoration

Lysias and Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus

17:00 - 18:30 27 April 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar. Towards the beginning of Plato’s Phaedrus, Phaedrus reads to Socrates a speech attributed to Lysias (230e-234c). In the speech, as Phaedrus…

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