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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…

Global Development Institute Annual Lecture with Prof Dani Rodrik

17:00 - 18:30 26 October 2017
The Global Development Institute is pleased to present Prof Dani Rodrik of Harvard University to present the Global Development Institute Annual Lecture. Prof Rodrik will discuss the…

Public lecture: Casualty! A Twentieth Century History

18:00 - 19:30 26 October 2017
Thanks to the long-running TV show Casualty and the more recent Casualty 1900s, the British viewing public is familiar with the very different look and feel of hospital casualty departments…

MARG Lecture Series - Marcos Coronel, PICO - Proyecto de Interés Comunal

13:00 - 14:30 27 October 2017
Marcos Coronel, PICO - Proyecto de Interés Comunal (Communal Interest Project), “Social Empowerment Infrastructures: Contingent Devices for Collective Transformation in Emerging Contexts” - introduced by Leandro

Pilkington Lecture 2017 with Frances Morris: "A safe place for unsafe ideas"

18:00 - 20:00 2 November 2017
Frances Morris has played a key role in the development of Tate, joining as a curator in 1987, becoming Head of Displays at Tate Modern (2000–2006) and then Director of Collection,…

Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture: Science Policy Under Thatcher

18:00 - 21:30 3 November 2017
The 2017 Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture will be delivered Jon Agar, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at University College London on 3 November 2017. The lecture will…

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…

Arthur Lewis Lecture

18:00 - 19:15 9 November 2017
This year's Arthur Lewis Lecture will be given by acclaimed author and Guardian journalist Gary Younge, and will be followed by a wine reception. Click the 'Book your ticket' link on…

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…

Lives of Letters Network: Curating Correspondence

17:00 - 18:30 9 November 2017
The Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network is a newly established, interdisciplinary network which draws together academics and library professionals working on the study and curation…

Lovell Lecture: Exploring the Cool Universe from the Andes with the ALMA Telescope

19:30 9 November 2017
The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-mm Array (ALMA) telescope is a revolutionary array telescope located 5000m above sea-level in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Comprising 66 individual…

School of Law Hamlyn Lecture

18:00 - 19:00 9 November 2017
On Thursday,9 November 2017 the School of Law will host one of this year's Hamlyn Lectures, to be delivered by Professor Andrew Burrows Professor Burrows will speak on "The Interaction…

Professor David Johnson Inaugural Lecture

13:00 - 14:00 15 November 2017
Professor David Johnson Inaugural Lecture - "Life in Earth: Why soil biodiversity matters for ecosystem functioning" Professor David Johnson is the newly appointed N8 Chair in Microbial…

Antibiotic Drug Resistance: a focus on the environment

17:30 - 19:45 16 November 2017
The University Flagship Programme ‘One Student, One Campus, One Life – Action on Antibiotic Drug Resistance’ will explore ‘Antibiotic Drug Resistance: a focus on the environment’ to…

GDI Lecture: Prof AbdouMaliq Simone on collective operations in urban settings

14:00 - 15:30 17 November 2017
The Global Development Institute and the Manchester Urban Institute are pleased to present Prof AbdouMaliq Simone, (University of South Australia) to discuss how urban residents increasingly…

Annual Melland Schill Lecture

17:30 - 19:00 21 November 2017
Manchester International Law Centre has the immense privilege of welcoming Sir Michael Wood to deliver this year's Melland Schill Lecture, with the title: 'The UN International Law…

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…

HCRI Landmark Lecture with Pierre Carli - The 2015 Paris Terrorist Attacks: Medical Management and Lessons Learned

17:30 - 19:30 23 November 2017
HCRI is pleased to welcome Pierre Carli as the guest speaker at our 2017 Landmark Lecture. In 2015, the city of Paris was the target of a number of terrorist attacks, including a series…

GDI Lecture: Prof William Ferguson on collective action, inequality and development

17:00 - 18:30 29 November 2017
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof William Ferguson, Grinnell College to deliver the Adrian Leftwich Annual Lecture. Prof William Ferguson will…

Invitation to inaugural lecture with Professor Caroline Bithell

17:00 - 18:00 29 November 2017
You are invited to attend Caroline Bithell's professorial inaugural lecture. The title of the lecture is: "Bridges and Brokers: Musical Renaissance and the Politics of Heritage in…

Royal Economic Society 2017 Annual Public Lecture

15:30 - 18:00 29 November 2017
The Royal Economic Society will be hosting one of the countries’ most inspiring economists, Professor Stephen Machin, to give the next RES Annual Public Lecture this autumn at The University…

Art History Seminar: 'Hazlitt on Turner and Blake' - T.J. Clark (Professor Emeritus in Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley)

17:30 - 19:00 30 November 2017
Visiting Pilkington Professor in Art History, T.J. Clark (Professor Emeritus in Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley), will present a lecture entitled: '"I have said to the…

CTIS Seminar: Samuel Läubli, "Post-editing in Theory and Practice"

14:00 - 15:30 30 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…

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