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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…

Art History Seminar: Matthew Walker - Antiquarian Writing on Roman Architecture in C17 Britain

17:30 - 19:00 11 May 2017
Matthew Walker (Oxford) Antiquarian Writing on Roman Architecture in C17 Britain

CIDRAL Public Roundtable: Erik S. Reinert: "Does Mercantilism have a future? History and Policy in the Age of Trump”

17:00 - 19:00 11 May 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Organised in collaboration with History at the University of Manchester. Professor Erik S. Reinert (Tallinn University…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Ariel Feldman, Maria Cioat?, and Charlotte Hempel, "Is There a Text in This Cave? Studies in the Textuality of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of George J. Brooke"

14:00 11 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…

Israel Studies Seminar - Amnon Aran (City University London), 'Framing and Foreign Policy: Israel’s Response to the Arab Uprisings'

16:00 - 17:30 11 May 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.

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Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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