School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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…

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…

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”

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…

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…

Avoiding Apocalypse - Responding to the DPRK - US nuclear crisis

17:15 - 18:15 6 November 2017
Public meeting about the nuclear stand-off and crisis between North Korea and the US, organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Guest speaker is Dr. Jenny Clegg, a former…

Invitation to inaugural lecture with Professor John McAuliffe

17:00 - 18:00 8 November 2017
You are invited to attend John McAuliffe's professorial inaugural lecture. The title of the lecture is: “Out of Time: The Future of the Lyric” The lecture will look at the secular…

Sonic Cultures Research Group: 'Increase the Pressure?: Leftist Strategies in Music After Modernism'

16:00 - 18:00 8 November 2017
What is to be done when it’s all been done before? From a socialist/leftist perspective, this question demands urgent attention because those of us who would press for social change…

CTIS Seminar: Caroline Summers, "‘No speech is speech if it is not heard’: The author as a subaltern voice in literary translation"

14:00 - 15:30 9 November 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: Todd Klutz (Manchester), Title TBD

14:00 - 16:00 9 November 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Henk Alting, "The Design Argument and What’s Wrong with it"

16:00 - 18:00 9 November 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.

ESRC Festival of Social Science: "Linguistics research and the language classroom: a discussion"

19:30 - 21:30 10 November 2017
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, the University of Manchester is hosting a panel discussion and workshop for teachers of Modern Foreign Languages, PGCE students, tutors,…

What Inspires Humanitarian Action?

18:00 - 21:00 10 November 2017
Project Trust and The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), invite you to participate in debating what inspires Humanitarian Action. The event…

Research Seminar: The Politics of Gothic

12:00 - 13:30 15 November 2017
Xavier Aldana Reyes, 'Spirits in the Labyrinth, or Why the Civil War Continues to be Spain's Favourite Gothic Tale' Emily Rohrbach, 'Voice and Dispossession: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein…

‘João Canijo at the University of Manchester’, a screening and conversation with film director João Canijo

17:00 - 19:00 15 November 2017
João Canijo (born 1957) is a Portuguese film director. His film Get a Life was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[1] His 2011 film Blood of…

Monday Lunchtime Talk: Craftsmanship, Inheritance and Innovation in China – A filmmakers' experience documenting traditional Chinese culture

13:00 - 14:00 20 November 2017
In July 2017, two students had the opportunity to spend two weeks in China as part of the Looking China Youth Film Project 2017, aiming to capture enchanting aspects of Chinese culture.…

Applying behaviour change-based health promotion strategies across the disaster cycle, a HCRI Seminar with Nancy Claxton (International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, IFRC)

17:00 - 18:30 21 November 2017
Nancy Claxton is the senior officer of health promotion in the community and emergency health department of International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent (IFRC) in Geneva, and…

Bivalve Poetics: Sympathetic Entrainment in the Late Nineteenth Century

17:00 - 18:30 22 November 2017
EAC Research Seminar. "Bivalve Poetics: Sympathetic Entrainment in the Late Nineteenth Century" Ewan Jones (Cambridge).

Invitation to inaugural lecture with Professor Susan Rutherford

17:00 - 18:00 22 November 2017
You are invited to attend Susan Rutherford's professorial inaugural lecture. The title of the lecture is:“'Perfect Day', or the History of Singing in Britain in One Song”. The lecture…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Stephen Barton (Manchester/Durham), "Jesus on Justice, Mercy, and Social Wellbeing in Constitutional Perspective"

14:00 - 16:00 23 November 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Jonathan Dunn, "Inaugurated Eschatology as a Basis for Ethics in North American Evangelical Theology"

16:00 - 18:00 23 November 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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