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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…

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.

'Poems of Repossession' and 'The Coast Road'

18:00 - 19:30 13 May 2017
The Irish World Heritage Centre and The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester are delighted to bring to Manchester a unique and exciting poetry event, showcasing the…

PG Symposium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

16 May 2017
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Manchester would like to invite PhD students working in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the Universities of Manchester,…

EAC Department PGR Keynote Event

17:00 - 19:00 17 May 2017
Lucy Rowland (University of Leeds), ‘“Tortured Ecologies”: Environmental Disaster and Climate Discourse in Contemporary Women’s Fiction’

Rubén Peinado Abarrio (Manchester), ‘Trauma and Exile in the Works of Roberto Bolaño and Aleksandar Hemon’

17:00 - 18:30 17 May 2017
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminars, 2016-2017, Semester 2 Room A213A, Samuel Alexander Building

Spectacles and Spectatorship: An American Studies Symposium

09:00 - 19:00 18 May 2017
10:30-11 Coffee/Tea IN SAMUEL ALEXANDER A4 11-11.50 Presentation and discussion of paper by Natalie Zacek, "The Spectators and Spectacle of Horse-Racing in Nineteenth-Century America"…

Aid, Conflict and Peace: collaborative research symposium

19 May 2017
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute is hosting ‘Aid, Conflict and Peace: collaborative research symposium’. This multidisciplinary conference will bring together researchers…

From Shore to Shore

19 - 20 May 2017
Three stories, three lives, three journeys to find a place to call home. Cheung Wing is escaping from war, Mei Lan’s had enough of the potato peeler and Yi Di wants the impossible;…

Histories of Humanitarian Action

17:30 - 20:30 19 May 2017
This HCRI Event brings together three authors who have recently published works on the history of humanitarian action: <b>Martin Barber</b>, former UN Official, speaking about his…

Meet The Author - Qaisra Shahraz

13:00 - 14:00 22 May 2017
Join Qaisra Shahraz, a critically acclaimed, prizewinning international author, winner of the National Diversity ‘Life time achiever’ award, celebrate the publication of her best selling…

Sexuality Summer School Public Lecture: Robyn Wiegman (Duke) in discussion with Clare Hemmings (LSE): “The Problem with Heteronormativity”

12:00 - 14:00 22 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Our Public Events Programme is now confirmed! All Welcome. Student Prices available. Monday 22nd May 12-2pm Public…

Sexuality Summer School Public Lecture: Laura Doan (Manchester): “Inventing Normal Sex: An Un/natural History”

12:30 - 14:00 23 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Our Public Events Programme is now confirmed! All Welcome. Student Prices available. Monday 22nd May 12.30-2pm…

Sexuality Summer School Public Performance Lecture: Holly Hughes: Dyke Interrupted

20:00 - 21:30 23 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Holly Hughes is an internationally acclaimed lesbian performer whose work has been challenging normative ideas about…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Jessica Valdez (Hong Kong University), 'Anthony Trollope’s “Newspaper Scribblers”: Forms of Public Opinion'

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2017
Jessica R. Valdez holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to joining HKU, she was a lecturer at New York University Shanghai. Her research interests…

Sarah Wright (Royal Holloway)

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2017
Room A213A, Samuel Alexander Building Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminars, 2016-2017, Semester 2

Israel Studies Seminar - Stacey Gutkowski (King's College London), 'Jewish Atheists in Foxholes? Phenomenologies of Violence and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'.

15:00 - 16:30 25 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. Unpacking and problematizing…

The 34th Annual STIMW Symposium (Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World)

10:45 - 17:00 26 May 2017
STIMW offers a forum for the discussion of papers on varied aspects of Indian religions. Papers have been presented by leading scholars in the field as well as by research students.…

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