All events

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…

Onward and Upward!

05:30 - 19:00 12 July 2017
The concept of the ‘family holiday’ is a recent one. For much of the last century, the vast majority of families could not afford an annual get-away and many children never experienced…

Stroke/Ceramics: a research conversation and exhibition

18:00 - 20:00 24 July 2017
This event brings together University of Manchester researchers from the Faculty of Medicine, the Institute for Cultural Practices, and the Whitworth Art Gallery in conversation with…

The University of Manchester New Writing Anthology Launch Event

18:30 - 21:00 7 September 2017
This event marks the publication of a brand-new collection bringing together the exciting and varied work of new writing talent from the Centre's Master's class of 2016-17. Featuring…

Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Manchester

18:00 14 September - 18:00 14 October 2017
An exhibition sharing the story of the Atlantic Slave Trade and its legacies in Manchester and around the world, with original artefacts, contemporary artworks and new research from…

Bringing participatory development into conflict analysis – experience from Rakhine state, Myanmar

17:00 - 18:30 26 September 2017
Students and colleagues are invited to join us for HCRI's opening Speaker Series for the 2017/18 events programme. The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Speaker Series…

An Evening with Chris Kraus

19:00 - 20:30 27 September 2017
Waterstones Manchester Deansgate are thrilled to welcome the wonderful Chris Kraus to the store to celebrate the publication of her latest book, After Kathy Acker. Join us on Wednesday…

SPLAS reception at Cervantes Institute.

18:30 - 20:00 27 September 2017
A reception for our incoming students at the Instituto Cervantes, in Manchester City Centre. It will provide the opportunity to meet and chat with staff, get to know the Institute,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Peter Oakes (Manchester), “George Brooke’s The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament: Towards an Agenda for Future Research”

14:00 - 16:00 28 September 2017
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Taster Week at the Confucius Institute

2 - 6 October 2017
The Confucius Institute is opening its doors to all new and returning students to explore China. Try your hand at Chinese paper cutting or see if learning Mandarin could be your next…

The Strength of Amalgamation - Chai Zushun’s Mental Imagery Art

15:30 - 17:00 2 October 2017
This talk on Mental Imagery Art will focus on the harmony in Eastern and Western cultures. To provide a better understanding of the Chinese way of thinking, he will share his philosophical…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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