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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…

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…

CANCELLED: Monday Lunchtime Talks: Are Happy Students better Performers?

13:00 - 14:00 16 October 2017
Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances this Lunchtime talk had to be cancelled. We hope to reschedule in due course!

Time and Space in China: The Urban World of Beijing in Photographs

16 October - 10 November 2017
This photographic exhibition present the on-going changes of Beijing; changes that not only refer to the surface of urban space, but also many aspects of people’s daily life and their…

Art History & Visual Studies Insight Day (for KS5 pupils)

10:00 - 15:30 18 October 2017
This Insight Day for pupils in Year 12 or 13 is hosted by the University of Manchester's Art History and Visual Studies Department and the Whitworth Gallery. The event will be an opportunity…

ART HISTORY: Dr Alixe Bovey (Courtauld Institute of Art), 'Giants and the City: Mythic History as Material Culture in Medieval London'

17:30 18 October 2017
Alixe Bovey is a specialist in the art and culture of the later Middle Ages, with particular interests in illuminated manuscripts, pictorial narrative, and the relationship between…

CTIS Seminar: Louise Fryer, "Audio Description and the Psychology of Immersion"

14:00 - 15:30 19 October 2017
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Andrew T. Lincoln (Gloucestershire), 'The Reception of Jesus in John 21'

14:00 - 16:00 19 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 “Towards a Social History of Money in Modern Life"

16:00 - 17:30 19 October 2017
George Gosling (Wolverhampton) “Paying the Hospital and Other Stories; or, Towards a Social History of Money in Modern Life”

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: William Barylo, "Studying Young Muslims in Europe: French Theories, Anti-Utilitarian Sociology and Religion as an Ecosystem"

16:00 19 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.

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