Lecture

Baroness Hale gives the 2018 Christabel Pankhurst Lecture

17:30 - 19:30 8 February 2018
The 2018 Pankhurst Lecture will be delivered by The Right Honourable The Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE PC FBA and is entitled: 2018 – A Year of Anniversaries 2018 is the anniversary…

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…

EAC Research Seminar: 'George Eliot in the Biblioteca Magliabechiana', Dr. Ruth Abbott (Cambridge)

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2018
EAC Research Seminar: Dr. Ruth Abbott (Cambridge) will present a lecture entitled 'George Eliot in the Biblioteca Magliabechiana.' Dr. Abbott will be introduced by PhD candidate in…

Celebrating the life and work of Julia Segar: Making Anthropology Count

16:30 - 19:00 15 February 2018
Julia Segar was a valued member of the School of Health Sciences, who died earlier this year. On Thursday 15th Feb 2018 colleagues, friends and the wider staff of The University are…

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…

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…

Innovation and Technology - Art or Science?

17:30 - 20:00 21 February 2018
In his lecture Dr Harter will discuss the role of “art” in innovation and technology including not only the aesthetic but also craft, design, skill, invention and intuition. Andy 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…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: David Matthews

17:00 - 18:30 22 February 2018
EAC Professorial Inaugural Lecture: David Matthews, 'Wyclif in Manchester.' The John Rylands Library, 5pm

The Cross Street Lecture: 'Byronic Legacies in Elizabeth's Gaskell's Fiction and Screen Adaptations of Her Work', Sarah Wootton (Durham)

17:00 - 18:30 28 February 2018
The Cross Street Lecture, 'Byronic Legacies in Elizabeth's Gaskell's Fiction and Screen Adaptations of Her Work', will be given by Sarah Wootton (Durham). Presented by the 18th/19th…

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…

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)

Annual Bragg Lecture - Towards a New Understanding of the Quantum Universe

14:30 - 16:00 7 March 2018
Sir Lawrence Bragg was Langworthy Professor at the University of Manchester from 1919 to 1937. From 2016, the School of Physics and Astronomy has presented an Annual External Bragg…

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)

Towards a new understanding of the quantum universe

14:30 - 15:30 7 March 2018
Join us for our annual Bragg Lecture, by Dr Nigel Lockyer. Sir Lawrence Bragg was Langworthy Professor at The University of Manchester from 1919 to 1937. From 2016, the School of…

Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities

14:00 - 15:00 8 March 2018
The lecture "Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities" mines how Alvar Aalto’s architecture and its international reception were impacted by the circulation of photographs, publications, and…

CTIS Seminar: David Katan, "Stealth Translation: A Blueprint for More Accessible Translation"

14:00 - 15:30 8 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…

MARG Lecture Series: Elective Affinities, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

14:00 - 15:30 8 March 2018
Find out more about this lecture at: http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/marg/events/architecture_of_the_land.pdf

Future Dams Lecture with Michael Hanemann: Why the economics of water are so hard

12:00 - 13:30 9 March 2018
The Future Dams project is pleased to present Professor Michael Hanemann, Arizona State University to discuss why the economics of water are so hard. Economists typically analyse water…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Pierpaolo Antonello, 'Bruno Munari’s Peritextual Playground'

17:00 - 19:00 12 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, St…

EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard'

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2018
EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard.' The lecture will take place on 12 March at 5pm in Sam Alex A7. All welcome!

EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard'

CIDRAL Roundtable: Pierpaolo Antonello, 'From Futurism to Arte di Stato: The Aesthetics of Politics and The Politics of Aesthetics'

13:30 - 15:30 13 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, St…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Daniela Caselli

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2018
(EAC) Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Daniela Caselli, 'The Modernist Child' 5pm, Sam Alex Lecture Theatre

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