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Applied GIS and network analysis for social science applications

11:00 1 - 15:00 2 March 2018
This two-day course uses a series of accessible hands-on practical activities and short lectures to introduce participants to sophisticated spatial data analysis tools within a GIS.…

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…

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…

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)

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: Literature Live: Joe Dunthorne and Luke Kennard

19:30 - 21:00 5 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea, South Wales. His first novel, Submarine, was translated into sixteen languages and adapted for film…

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

CTIS Seminar: Rosario Martín Ruano, "Legal Translation and the Challenges of Recognition"

14:00 - 15:30 15 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…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Matthew Cobb

19:30 - 21:00 15 March 2018
Is there Life on Mars? (or anywhere else apart from Earth) by Professor Matthew Cobb Join the University of Manchester’s Professor Matthew Cobb at our Spring lecture and discover if…

Confucius Institute Talk: The Great Industrial Revolution of China

15:00 - 16:30 16 March 2018
The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Michelle M. Wright, 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject'

17:00 - 19:00 19 March 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Michelle M. Wright (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English, Emory University), will deliver…

EAC Research Seminar and CIDRAL Lecture: Michelle M. Wright (Emory) 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject'

17:00 - 18:30 19 March 2018
Michelle M. Wright (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English, Emory University) will present a lecture entitled 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject.' The…

EAC Research Seminar: 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject', Michelle M. Wright (Emory)

17:00 - 18:30 19 March 2018
EAC Research Seminar: 'Temporal Tyrannies: Linear Time and the Black Subject', Michelle M. Wright, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English (Emory) 5pm, Sam Alex A113, All…

CTIS Seminar: Francis Jones, "Collaborative Translation of Poetry: The PoetTrio Experiment"

14:00 - 15:30 22 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…

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