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Art History Study Afternoon: Magic + Art

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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’

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…

Joint MANCASS/Medieval Society Lecture: A. Breeze 'The Nordic Arthur and the Volcanic Winter of 536/7'

18:00 - 19:30 27 April 2017
Joint MANCASS/Medieval Society Lecture: A. Breeze 'The Nordic Arthur and the Volcanic Winter of 536/7'

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…

Translation, Travel and Children's Literature

10:15 - 17:15 28 April 2017
For this Symposium and round table discussion, we are delighted to welcome three guest speakers: Speakers: Kiera Vaclavik, Queen Mary College, London (http://complit.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/complit/people/t…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Lauren Berlant on Precarity

10:00 - 12:00 3 May 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme, 'Precarity'. Professor Jackie Stacey (English, American Studies and Creative Writing) will lead a seminar for postgraduate students…

EAC Department PGR Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:00 3 May 2017
Julie Casanova 'The Chronotope and the Feminine in Rosamund Marriott Watson's Poetry’. Laura Ryan ‘‘You are white, yet a part of me’: D. H. Lawrence and the Harlem Renaissance’

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Keith Brown, TBA

13:00 - 13:50 3 May 2017
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Keith Brown, TBA

Masterclass: Judith Walkowitz

10:00 - 12:00 3 May 2017
Judith Walkowitz (Professor Emerita History, Johns Hopkins University and Simon Visiting Professor 2017) will lead a masterclass. All MA and PhD students in the School welcome, on…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Paul Middleton, 'Confronting Violence in the Apocalypse: Reading Revelation through the Brick Bible'

14:00 - 16:00 4 May 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: 4 May - Stefan Hanß ‘Hair, Social Order and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Germany’

16:15 - 17:45 4 May 2017
Stefan Hanß (The University of Cambridge) ‘Hair, Social Order and Cultural Encounters in Early Modern Germany’

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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