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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…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Katharina Keim (Manchester), "Gaster and the Samaritans"

14:00 - 16:00 26 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…

Literature Live: Jesmyn Ward

19:00 - 21:00 27 April 2018
Manchester Literature Festival are thrilled to present a rare UK event with acclaimed American author Jesmyn Ward. Based in Mississippi, Jesmyn is the author of the memoir Men We Reaped…

The White Review

19:00 - 20:30 30 April 2018
The White Review’s editors Željka Maroševic and Francesca Wade introduce an evening of readings from recent contributors to the literary magazine described by Deborah Levy as ‘nothing…

CIDRAL Roundtable: Marx Matters – What can we learn from Marx in 2018?

16:00 - 19:00 1 May 2018
This event is part of the CIDRAL 2017/18 programme, Constraints of Creativity A Roundtable hosted by CIDRAL, Economic Humanities Research Group, History @UoM and AMBS Participants…

American Studies Seminar with Ivy Wilson (Northwestern)

12:00 - 14:00 2 May 2018
An interactive lunchtime seminar with Ivy Wilson. Dr Wilson will lead a discussion, in preparation for which it would be helpful to read Kodwo Eshun's article “Further Considerations…

CI Film Club

14:00 - 16:00 2 May 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 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),…

Lecture "Hieroglyphics of Blackness"

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

Ehrhardt Seminar: Joshua Bloor (Nazarene Theological College/MWRC), "he Picture of Dorian Gray: Cosmological Defilement in Hebrews 9:23"

14:00 - 16:00 3 May 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 ‘Senses at the Altar: Affect, Touch, and Memory in Late Medieval Liturgical Practice’

16:15 - 17:30 3 May 2018
History Research Seminar presented by Dr. Matthew Champion (Birkbeck): “Virtuous banking: ‘economical reform’ at the late 18th-century Bank of England”

History Seminar: Postgraduate Research Showcase

16:15 - 17:30 3 May 2018
Sihong Lin – The Empire Strikes Back: Byzantine Diplomacy in the Age of Constans II (641–668) Tom Wroblewski – Symptoms of demonic possession in early modern England Xuan Zhao – Cameralism,…

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’

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Frances Knight (Nottingham), "From City to Garden City: Religion and the City in the Victorian and Edwardian Age"

16:00 - 17:30 3 May 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.

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