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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Art History Lecture - Cristina González, Oklahoma State University

17:30 - 19:30 22 March 2018
As part of the ‘Foreign Bodies’ research project, Dr Cristina González (Oklahoma State University) will be delivering a lecture: 'Conventual Bodies and the Body of Christ: The Power…

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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2018 Dorothy Emmet Lecture

16:00 - 18:00 17 April 2018
The Philosophy Department at the University of Manchester is proud to present the 2018 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Professor Marya Schechtman (University of Illinois at Chicago) "The way…

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CIDRAL Roundtable: 'The Culture of Business in the Middle Ages: Themes, Approaches and Sources'

17:00 - 19:00 18 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity This roundtable will include Georg Christ (History, University of Manchester), Rory Naismith (History,…

SEED Sixth Form Lecture: How does accent change our identity? Can it decide our future?

16:30 - 18:00 18 April 2018
Dr Alex Baratta presents an insightful lecture about how we change our accent and language to fit the environment we are in, and how this could be beneficial or detrimental to our identity.…

Brook Lecture: Prof. Anthony Bale (Birkbeck), ‘Some Medieval English Pilgrims’ Books’

17:00 - 18:30 19 April 2018
The Annual Brook Lecture will this year be delivered by Prof. Anthony Bale (Birkbeck) on the topic, ‘Some Medieval English Pilgrims’ Books’.

Economic Growth: Geopolitical game or addressing global inequalities? Public Lecture by Lord Meghnad Desai

18:00 - 19:30 19 April 2018
Lord Professor Meghnad Desai will give a free public lecture at The University of Manchester followed by a Q&A with the University's Professor Diana Mitlin - academic lead for the Global…

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Brexit and the North West

13:00 - 14:00 22 April 2018
Wajid Khan became Labour’s newest North West Member of European Parliament in June 2017. In European Parliament Wajid sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs; the Subcommittee on Human…

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CIDRAL Public Lecture: Judith Walkowitz, 'Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in the 1980s: A Tale of North and South'

17:00 - 19:00 24 April 2018
This event is co-hosted by History at the University of Manchester and CIDRAL. Judith Walkowitz (Professor Emeritus in History, Johns Hopkins University), will deliver a public lecture…

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NHS Confederation public lecture - NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives

18:00 - 20:00 24 April 2018
To mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS, Dr Stephanie Snow, Project Director ‘NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives’, will be giving a special lecture exploring the social history of the…

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Art History Seminar: Dr Bernard Vere "Body Politics: Sport and the Avant-Garde Between the Wars"

17:30 - 20:00 25 April 2018
Dr Bernard Vere (Program Director, MA Fine and Decorative Art and Design, Sotheby's Institute of Art) specializes in art from the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. His work…

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Peter Knight Inaugural Professorial Lecture - "Everything is Connected"

17:00 - 18:00 25 April 2018
Peter Knight Professor of American Studies ‘Everything is Connected’ One of the central assumptions of conspiracy theories is that ‘everything is connected’. Conspiracy narratives…

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Youth Mobilisation and the (anti)-Brexit Campaign: where next?

18:00 - 20:00 27 April 2018
Youth Mobilisation and the (anti)-Brexit Campaign: where next?

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CIDRAL Public Lecture: Michael North, 'Connected Oceans: Seas as Media of Global Exchange'

17:00 - 19:00 2 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity. Hallsworth Visiting Fellow, Michael North (Professor of Modern History, University of Greifswald),…

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GDI Lecture with Dr Sara Dorman: Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism

16:30 - 17:30 2 May 2018
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Dr Sara Dorman, The University of Edinburgh, to discuss Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism Zimbabwe’s…

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Lecture "Hieroglyphics of Blackness"

17:00 - 18:30 2 May 2018
Henry "Box" Brown Inaugural Lecture in American Studies by Dr Ivy Wilson (Northwestern)

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Joint lecture with MANCASS: Michael Wood ‘The Lady of the Mercians: Aethelflaed (d. 918), daughter of Alfred the Great’

18:00 - 19:30 3 May 2018
Joint lecture with MANCASS: Michael Wood ‘The Lady of the Mercians: Aethelflaed (d. 918), daughter of Alfred the Great’

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CIDRAL Masterclass: Michael North, 'Cultural Exchanges'

10:00 - 12:00 8 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity. Hallsworth Visiting Fellow, Michael North (Professor of Modern History, University of Greifswald),…

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