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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…

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…

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…

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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Alejandro Tantanian: 'Private and Public Cultural Management in Argentina: Complementary or Opposing Models?'

17:00 - 19:00 19 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Alejandro Tantanian (Artistic Director of the Teatro Cervantes – the Argentine…

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.

Les réfugiés francophones en Angleterre: Soirée d'histoire et de poésie

18:00 - 19:30 20 October 2017
Siobhan Brownlie, Lecturer in Translation Studies, will be doing a talk (in French) about the Huguenots (French refugees who came to England in the 17th century) and about the Congolese…

Nigella Lawson in conversation with Jeanette Winterson- Part of Manchester Literature Festival SOLD OUT

19:00 - 20:30 20 October 2017
PLEASE NOTE: This event is Sold Out 'Our lives are formed by memories, and the focus of mine is the food I’ve cooked and the people I’ve cooked for, the people who have sat at my table,…

Shami Chakrabarti – Of Women - Part of Manchester Literature Festival

15:00 - 16:30 22 October 2017
Britain’s leading human rights campaigner takes aim on the oldest and most pervasive injustice of all: gender inequality. Shami Chakrabarti was the Director of Liberty from 2003 to…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Tim Ingold: 'The Creativity of Habit'

17:00 - 19:00 24 October 2017
This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled in the new year.

Responding to Emergency Crises - Personal Reflections

17:00 - 18:30 24 October 2017
For this seminar, we are joined by Gareth Owen from Save the Children. We are experiencing an era of great global uncertainty and staggering inequality where the most marginalised…

All Aboard the Baltimore Poo Poo Choo Choo: Human Waste, the Environment, and Injustice in Neoliberal America

17:00 - 19:00 25 October 2017
Research seminar by Graham Mooney, associate professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University

CIDRAL Performance-Lecture: Judaica Project: 'Bodies of Song'

16:30 - 19:00 26 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. The Judaica Project is an AHRC-funded project that proposes and tests a new method…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Enrico Terrinoni: 'Awaking the “plultiple”: translating Joyce’s Finegans Wake into Infinitalian'

14:00 - 15:30 26 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Enrico Terrinoni (Professor of English Literature, Università per Stranieri di…

CTIS Seminar: Enrico Terrinoni, "Awakening the ‘Plultiple’: Translating Joyce’s Finnegans Wake into Infinitalian"

14:00 - 15:30 26 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: Mi Ja Wi (MWRC/Nazarene), “What Must We Do?: The Path to Salvation in Luke’s Gospel?”

14:00 - 16:00 26 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 “Humanitarian relief, internationalism and child refugees"

16:00 - 17:30 26 October 2017
Joy Damousi (Melbourne) “Humanitarian relief, internationalism and child refugees: The Spanish Civil War and the global campaign of Esme Odgers”

World on the Move: Migration, Societies and Change

30 October - 1 November 2017
The University of Manchester’s Migration Lab invites proposals for papers, workshops, exhibitions and performances which respond to the theme of ‘migration in the context of uncertainty…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Charles Forsdick: 'Exoticism now: historical precedents, contemporary perspectives'

14:00 - 16:00 1 November 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool) will…

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