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CTIS Seminar: Jan Van Coillie, "Nibble, nibble like a mouse/ Who is nibbling at/ the source text’s house? Fairy tales in translation"

14:00 - 15:30 8 February 2018
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: Dr. Peter Oakes and Dr. Todd Klutz (Manchester): CBS Project Committee Meeting: Discussion of Collaborative Projects for Funded Research Bids

14:00 - 16:00 8 February 2018
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…

How can we better manage disasters? A discussion with HCRI and EWB

17:30 - 19:00 8 February 2018
Join Engineers Without Borders (EWB) for a panel discussion in collaboration with the Humanitarian Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). The event will consist of two-three 15-20 minute…

Zheng He -When the Dragon Ships Came

10:00 - 11:00 13 February 2018
Manchester Confucius Institute is very delighted to bring an award winning show from Karin Schäfer of Figuren Theatre to Manchester that blends puppetry, video and animation. Zheng…

CTIS Seminar: Morven Beaton-Thome, "‘Brexit means Brexit’. The Role of Interpreters in Framing Discourse on Europe"

14:00 - 15:30 15 February 2018
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 15 February 2018
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…

History Seminar "Simon de Montfort and England’s First Revolution: family identity and the forging of reputation, 1208-65"

16:15 - 17:30 15 February 2018
History Research Seminar presented by Dr Sophie Ambler (Lancaster): "Simon de Montfort and England’s First Revolution: family identity and the forging of reputation, 1208-65"

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Scott Midson, "Images of Love amongst Images of Humans"

16:00 - 17:30 15 February 2018
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.

Chinese New Year Art & Craft Workshops

17 - 18 February 2018
Chinese New Year is undoubtedly Manchester’s most bright and colourful annual celebration as the streets of Manchester will be awash in a sea of red lanterns, with lots of things to…

HCRI Research Seminar Series - “Charitable Donations to Disaster Victims: Case Studies from Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia”

16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2018
The HCRI Research Seminar Series is open to HCRI staff and students, and other University of Manchester colleagues and students for whom the topic of the seminar is relevant. Andrew…

Monday Lunchtime talk: China's One-Child Policy from a wider East Asian perspective

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2018
The so-called one-child policy, introduced in 1979 and gradually phased out since 2015, is known as one of China’s most radical population policies in recent history. It is also well…

Chinese New Year Film & Pizza: Godspeed

18:00 - 21:00 20 February 2018
Celebrate Chinese New Year at HOME with 'Godspeed' one of the best recent films from Taiwan. When Na Do, a youthful slacker looking to make some money by transporting drugs, reluctantly…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Peter Burke, 'An Endangered Species? The Polymath in the Age of Specialization'

17:00 - 19:00 20 February 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Peter Burke (Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge), will…

CTIS Seminar: Carol O'Sullivan, "‘A Splendid Innovation’: The Invention of Subtitling in the US and UK"

14:00 - 15:30 22 February 2018
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: Guided Tour of Reformation Exhibition at the John Rylands Library

14:00 - 16:00 22 February 2018
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Typically, seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session with…

CTIS Seminar: Sameh Hanna, "Negotiating ‘sacredness’ and constructing identities in the Arabic translation of the Gospels"

14:00 - 15:30 1 March 2018
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. Bernard Jackson (Liverpool Hope/Manchester), "Ruth and Ezra-Nehemiah in Dialogue"

14:00 - 16:00 1 March 2018
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…

History Seminar "Virtuous banking: ‘economical reform’ at the late 18th-century Bank of England"

16:15 - 17:30 1 March 2018
History Research Seminar presented by Dr. Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire): “Virtuous banking: ‘economical reform’ at the late 18th-century Bank of England”

Samuel Ferguson Lecture: Prof. John Milbank (Nottingham), "Theology and the Idea of a University"

16:00 - 17:30 1 March 2018
The Religions & Theology endowed annual lecture. Inaugurated in 1976, the annual Samuel Ferguson Lecture provides an opportunity for a senior theologian to present on a theological…

Postgraduate Symposium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies

2 March 2018
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Manchester would like to invite PhD students working in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the Universities of Manchester,…

CIDRAL Roundtable: Nicola Gardini, 'The Hidden Source: Delving Into Ovid's Imagination'

17:00 - 19:00 5 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Nicola Gardini (Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Keble…

Lecture "Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of World Musical Revolution"

17:00 - 18:30 5 March 2018
Taylor Fellow Lecture by Professor Michael Denning (Yale)

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Alexia Yates on Karl Polanyi: ‘Polanyi: On Markets and their Limits’

15:00 - 16:30 6 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Alexia Yates (University of Manchester) will lead…

Lecture "Laboring Life: Reconsidering the Meanings of Work"

17:00 - 18:30 7 March 2018
Joint Taylor Fellow and Raymond Williams Society Lecture by Professor Michael Denning (Yale)

Ehrhardt Seminar: Caroline Kaye (MMU), "William Holman Hunt’s The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1860): Biblical Interpretation and Protestant Aesthetics"

14:00 - 16:00 8 March 2018
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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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