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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…

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…

Art History Seminar: Prof David Lomas - Imaging Art and Medicine

17:30 - 19:00 4 May 2017
Prof David Lomas (University of Manchester): Imaging Art and Medicine: A Skeleton in My Cupboard

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’

Roman interiors: how to reconstruct the furniture and furnishings of the Roman house

17:00 - 18:30 4 May 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

The G. L. Brook Memorial Lecture in Middle English

17:30 - 19:00 4 May 2017
Prof. Daniel Wakelin (Oxford), ‘Healing the scab: resisting materials in late medieval books’. Prof. Wakelin is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford and the author of Scribal Correction…

William Blake: The Man from the Future

12:30 - 16:30 5 May 2017
William Blake, the most protean figure in British culture, is always in the process of being re-born, re-worked and re conceived. It is simply a fact of historical life that he is an…

The University of Manchester’s Dragon Boat Race

10:30 - 16:30 6 May 2017
On 6th May 2017 the Confucius Institute at The University of Manchester will host the annual Dragon Boat race amongst North West Universities at Helly Hansen Watersport Centre, Salford…

British Colonialism and Shi‘i Activism in Iraq: State Formation, Resistance, and Disenfranchisement

16:30 - 18:00 9 May 2017
This talk addresses Shi‘i activism as it relates to British imperialism in Iraq during and after World War One. Research for this paper is based on the writings of Shi‘i clerics and…

Chinese Garden Workshop

15:30 - 17:00 10 May 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…

CIDRAL Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 10 May 2017
This event is part of the CIDRAL programme for Winter 2016 with the theme Precarity. Discover more about colleagues' work in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures with the launch…

CIDRAL Masterclass: Erik Reinert: The History of Economic Policy: A Long Run Perspective in the Age of Trump and Brexit

10:00 - 12:00 10 May 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme, 'Precarity'. Erik Reinert will lead a masterclass entitled The History of Economic Policy: A Long Run Perspective in the Age of…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Prof. Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College, USA), 'Burying Bertha: Race & the Ungravable Body in Jane Eyre'

17:00 - 18:30 10 May 2017
Prof. Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College, USA), 'Burying Bertha: Race & the Ungravable Body in Jane Eyre'

HCRI Speaker Series: Abuse of Human Rights in Conflict Situations – a Legal Perspective

14:00 - 16:00 10 May 2017
For this HCRI Speaker Series we are joined by Bethany Shiner, Associate Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University. Bethany Shiner is a qualified solicitor who spent almost four years…

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