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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.…

EAC Department PGR Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:00 31 May 2017
David Hartley ‘Part of the Gang: Authenticity and Autism in Ensemble Science Fiction Characters’ Fatema Abdoolcarim Title TBA

Film Screening: I Am Not Madame Bovary

18:00 - 20:00 1 June 2017
I Am Not Madame Bovary is a caustically comic contemporary fable from superstar director Feng Xiaogang (Aftershock). Li Xuelian and her husband Qin Yuhe stage a fake divorce to secure…

Wars of Position: Marxism and Civil Society International Conference

8 - 10 June 2017
‘In Russia’, wrote Antonio Gramsci, ‘the State was everything’ and ‘civil society primordial’; in the highly-developed West, civil society formed ‘permanent fortifications’ which the…

Public Lecture: Ian Alan Paul: The Conditions of Possibility: Democracy, Security, and Futurity in Post-Coup Cairo

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 Semester 2 programme on Precarity. Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice encompasses experimental…

Home Is…

12:00 19 - 12:00 23 June 2017
What does it mean to be “home”? An exhibition with an interactive and homely layout that discusses the ideas of what it means to be at home and to lose such security, as well as moving…

Migration and the Modern City: Four Short Films

14:00 - 16:00 19 June 2017
Michael Wood, the University of Manchester's Professor of Public History, will introduce the first public screening of four short documentary films made by MA students from the University's…

Refugee Cultural Festival

16:00 - 20:30 23 June 2017
Our Refugee Week programme culminates with the annual Manchester Refugee Week celebration event organised in conjunction with Manchester Refugee Support Network (MRSN), a celebration…

Conference: ISLAMIC PSYCHOANALYSIS / PSYCHOANALYTIC ISLAM

26 - 27 June 2017
ISLAMIC PSYCHOANALYSIS / PSYCHOANALYTIC ISLAM University of Manchester, 26-27 June 2017 This international conference organised by the College of Psychoanalysts – UK with the support…

Monday Lunchtime Talk: How is Social Media changing China?

13:00 - 14:00 26 June 2017
In this talk, Prof Lifen Zhang, journalist, author and broadcaster will explain why, in his view, social media, the national obsession and blessing, presents a dilemma to the government…

Year 12 Modern Foreign Languages Day - LEAF (Language Education Alevel and Further)

09:00 - 15:00 26 June 2017
This free event gives Y12 pupils an opportunity to sample life as a language student at the University of Manchester. Students will undertake sessions in language and cultural topics…

Religions and Theology Insight Day (for Year 12)

27 June 2017
This event gives students interested in Religions and Theology an opportunity to sample life as an undergraduate of this discipline at the University of Manchester. Pupils will undertake…

Insight into Linguistics and English Language at University (for Year 12)

28 June 2017
This event gives Y12 pupils an opportunity to sample life as an English language/ linguistics student at the University of Manchester. Pupils will undertake subject taster sessions,…

International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response Insight Day (Fully booked - waiting list registrations still open)

09:30 - 15:30 29 June 2017
This event is now fully booked. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please fill in the booking forms (see links under "further reading") and we will notify you if places…

Dr Howard Booth (Manchester), Burgess at Manchester

17:00 - 18:30 3 July 2017
As part of the Anthony Burgess Centenary Conference, SALC will host a lecture by Dr Howard Booth (EAC) on Burgess’s time at Manchester on Monday, July 3rd at 5pm in the Arts Lecture…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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