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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.

Rodrigo Cacho (University of Cambridge): ‘Locating Early Modern Spanish American Poetry’

16:30 - 18:00 3 May 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series.

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),…

CIDRAL Masterclass: Michael North: Cultural Exchanges

10:00 - 12:00 8 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, Constraints of Creativity. Michael North (Professor in Early Modern History, University of Greifswald and Beijing Normal University)…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Pierpaolo Antonello: 'Bruno Munari’s Political Aesthetics'

17:00 - 19:00 8 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity. Pierpaolo Anontello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge) will deliver…

CIDRAL Symposium: 'Contemporary Enchantments: A Workshop on Art and Magic Today'

14:00 - 18:00 10 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Convened by Dr Charlie Miller (Art History and Visual Studies, University of Manchester)

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Dominika Kurek-Chomycz (Liverpool Hope), "God and Jealousy in the Septuagint"

14:00 - 16:00 10 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…

Whitworth Studies: Contemporary Enchantments - Workshop on Art and Magic Today

15:00 - 17:00 10 May 2018
"Contemporary Enchantments: A Workshop on Art and Magic Today" Speakers include: Dr Jonathan Allen (artist and curator); Dr Betti Marenko (Central St Martins); Dr Charlie Miller (University of Manchester)

Cities of Strangeness, 1350-1700 conference

11 May 2018
strangers / estrangement / becoming-strange. The period spanning the years 1350-1700 saw a massive expansion in urban populations, transforming social formations. Changes and developments…

Join us at the annual CI Dragon Boat Race

12 May 2018
This year UCLAN Confucius Institute will organise the annual Dragon Boat race amongst North West Universities at Preston Marina. 6-8 teams will once again compete for the top spot,…

Can an Art Museum be Useful?

16:00 - 17:30 16 May 2018
Emerita Professor Helen Rees Leahy in conversation with Alistair Hudson, Director, Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth, Honorary Professor in Useful Art, University of Manchester.

HCRI's 10-Year Anniversary Official Launch: Film Screening Event

18:30 - 21:30 16 May 2018
In honour of our ten year anniversary, you are warmly invited to the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute for a film screening of PILI. This is the launch event for a series…

Manchester American Studies Conference

09:00 17 - 17:30 18 May 2018
This two-day conference will showcase the work of our postgraduate students, as well as the work of staff and students in American studies at Brown University, University of Copenhagen,…

Modern Iranian Art and Architecture in the Shadow of the Classical Persian Past

17 - 18 May 2018
We are pleased to announce a conference on Persian and Iranian art hosted by the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. The Department of Middle Eastern…

University Histories Seminar: Emily Rutherford and John Taylor

16:00 - 17:30 17 May 2018
The Research Group on University History promotes and coordinates research and teaching on the history of The University of Manchester and of universities more generally. Through its…

A practical introduction to digital scholarly editing with TextLab - part of DH Week

12:00 - 16:00 18 May 2018
This workshop will be a practical introduction to digital scholarly editing with TextLab. TextLab is a web-based application that matches transcriptions of manuscripts in TEI-XML to…

Changing the Narrative: Older Women and the Cultural Sector

18 May 2018
The starting point for this conference is the lived experience of women now in their 50s, 60s and 70s. With the benefit of access to education and contraception, their lives have been…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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