All events

Confucius Insitute Talk: Everyday Matters - Urbanisation and Sanitation in China

13:00 - 14:00 16 April 2018
This talk is about the different ways in which every day hygiene practices in urban China influence how long-term residents, newcomers from the rural countryside and other groups in…

Doctors Worldwide in conversation at HCRI

16:30 - 18:00 16 April 2018
Join HCRI for a discussion with Mr Ibrar Majid and Dr Shazaad Ahmad, trustees of Doctors Worldwide, to hear about their experience in medical humanitarian work and why they remain committed…

CIDRAL Masterclass: Stefano Ercolino: 'The Dialectic of Realism'

10:00 - 12:00 17 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, 'The Constraints of Creativity' Stefano Ercolino (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yonsei University's Underwood International…

CI Film Club

14:00 - 16:00 18 April 2018
The Confucius Institute Film Club forms part of their intercultural activities for students and provides a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural discussions on a wide variety…

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,…

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’.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. David Law (Manchester), "Moses at the Movies"

14:00 - 16:00 19 April 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 ‘“11-13” Paris: A transdisciplinary research program about memory of terrorist attacks’

16:15 - 17:30 19 April 2018
History Research Seminar presented by Prof. Denis Peschanski (Paris I): ‘“11-13” Paris: A transdisciplinary research program about memory of terrorist attacks’

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Rachel Muers, "The Un/Deserving Poor: Social Class and Theological Ethics"

16:00 - 17:30 19 April 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.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting The World

15:00 - 18:00 20 April 2018
The Society for Anglo Chinese Understanding invites to a panel discussion on China’s Belt and Road - or 21st Century Silk Road - Initiative, which has been hailed as “the greatest economic…

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…

HCRI Research Seminar Series - Billy Tusker Haworth: Volunteered geographic information and community disaster resilience

16:30 - 18:00 23 April 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. Billy…

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…

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…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Sarah Roddy on Max Weber: ‘Money and Religion: Revisiting the Protestant Ethic’

10:00 - 12:00 25 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Sarah Roddy (University of Manchester) will lead a theory intensive for postgraduate…

Dr Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway): 'Recreating “Reconquista” in Family Histories in Seventeenth-Century New Spain'

17:00 - 18:30 25 April 2018
Location: Arthur Lewis Boardroom (2nd Floor)

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…

Seminar: Where is British History Now?

17:00 - 19:30 25 April 2018
Where is British History Now? A Seminar Organized by the Modern British History Network with CIDRAL Over the past twenty years intellectual debate, politics and culture have questioned…

CIDRAL Workshop: Stefania Sini: '1924, “Lenin’s Language”: Russian Formalism at a crossroads between self-defence, delimitation and extension of research territory'

10:00 - 12:00 26 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, 'The Constraints of Creativity'. Stefania Sini (Università del Piemonte Orientale) will lead a workshop entitled, '1924, “Lenin’s…

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

Search