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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…

Public Lecture: Scott Herring, 'Queer Longing: Some Thoughts on Longevity'

12:00 - 14:00 21 May 2018
This event is co-hosted by the Sexuality summer School and CIDRAL. Scott Herring (James H. Rudy Professor of English, Indiana University), will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Senior…

Public Lecture: Scott Herring, 'Queer Longing: Some Thoughts on Longevity'

Toller Lecture 2018 (MANCASS)

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2018
'Lay Vernacular Literacy in the Court of Edward the Confessor: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle C and the Vision of Leofric.' Professor Elizabeth Tyler, University of York. The annual Toller…

CIDRAL Seminar: Scott Herring, 'The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture'

14:00 - 16:00 22 May 2018
This event is co-hosted by the Sexuality summer School and CIDRAL. Scott Herring (James H. Rudy Professor of English, Indiana University), will lead a seminar entitled 'The Hoarders:…

HCRI PhD Symposium

22 May 2018
HCRI’s PhD Symposium is a full-day event of panels with presentations from our PhD students. This will be a lovely opportunity to acknowledge students’ passion about their research…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Andrew McGettigan: 'The politics & policy of English HE in 2018: why is another review under way?'

17:30 - 19:30 24 May 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity. In this talk, Andrew McGettigan (University of the Arts London), author of The Great University Gamble:…

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