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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 Russian Revolution and Contemporary Russian Studies

17:00 - 19:00 2 October 2017
The Russian Revolution shook the world in 1917. Its circumstances and consequences have been debated ever since. In this roundtable, senior and junior scholars at the University of…

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…

CIDRAL Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 3 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Join us for a glass of wine to hear about new research published by colleagues…

Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

12:00 - 16:00 4 October 2017
Come and celebrate China’s second biggest annual festival with the Confucius Institute! Fun and informal drop-in activities like paper folding, costumes, dance performances and moon…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Massimo Fusillo: 'Negative Empathy, Fear, Catharsis: An Intermedial Itinerary'

17:00 - 19:00 5 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Massimo Fusillo (University of L'Aquila) will deliver a public lecture entitled…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Mary E. Mills (Newman), “Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Their Scrolls”

14:00 - 16:00 5 October 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…

Public History Seminar “Hearts and Minds Humanitarianism"

16:00 - 17:30 5 October 2017
History Research Seminar presented by Dr. Emily Baughan (Sheffield): “Hearts and Minds Humanitarianism: Saving Children at the End of Empire, c.1948-1960”

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Kevin Storer, "Soren Kierkegaard’s Up-building Use of Scripture"

16:00 - 18:00 5 October 2017
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

CIDRAL Seminar: Massimo Fusillo: 'The Object-Fetish: From Memory to Alterity'

11:00 - 13:00 6 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Massimo Fusillo (University of L'Aquila) will lead a seminar entitled 'The Object-Fetish:…

Creative Visions: Hong Kong Cinema 1997 – 2017

7 - 26 October 2017
2017 marks twenty years since Hong Kong was handed back to China. Timed with this anniversary, the Chinese Film Forum UK is pleased to collaborate with Create Hong Kong and the Hong…

Mara Keire (Oxford), "Dr Strangelove's Legacy: Herman Kahn, Scenario Planning, and Apocalyptic Narratives, 1960-2016"

17:00 - 19:00 11 October 2017
A research seminar sponsored by English Literature, American Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester

Sonic Cultures Research Group -- ‘Listening to Okinawa: exploring sound as a memory of place through film.’ [Film and discussion]

16:00 - 18:00 11 October 2017
Dr Rupert Cox (Senior Lecture, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester) Rupert will present a recently completed 50-minute film (funded by a Toyota arts award) about the acoustic…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elisabeth Lebovici: ‘Precious Liquids’

17:00 - 19:00 12 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Elisabeth Lebovici will be at the University of Manchester for a two-day research…

Manson Memorial Lecture: Prof Helen Bond (Edinburgh), “The Death that he Deserved? Reading the Demise of the Markan Jesus as the End of an Ancient Biography”

14:00 - 16:00 12 October 2017
The Centre for Biblical Studies endowed annual lectureship. T.W. Manson was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at Manchester from 1936 until his death in 1958. Each…

CIDRAL Seminar and Roundtable: Elisabeth Lebovici: ‘Interdisciplinarity as Resistance’

10:00 - 12:00 13 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Elisabeth Lebovici will be at the University of Manchester for a two-day research…

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