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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…

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…

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:…

Confucius Institute Talk: White-collar Beauties: Gender, Sexuality and Power in Urban China

13:00 - 14:00 24 May 2018
This talk is about the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization,…

Launch of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2018
We are pleased to welcome you to the launch of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. The schedule for the launch event is as follows: 4.15pm: Drinks reception 5.00pm:…

Good Grief: Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Mourning

25 May 2018
Good Grief: Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Mourning University of Manchester, 25 May 2018 Proposals are invited on constructions of grief and the means of consolation…

Tom Whittaker (Warwick University), ‘'Deviant speed: Mapping la Ruta del Bakalao'

13:30 - 15:00 30 May 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series.

Conference: The Role of Extracurricular Activities in Language Teaching

1 June 2018
“Extracurricular work in foreign languages comes frequently under the initiative of language tutors and is often unrecognised. Considering the paramount contribution of extracurricular…

Manchester Histories Festival: Celebration Day

12:00 - 16:00 10 June 2018
The magnificent Manchester Histories Celebration Day returns for a fun filled day for all the family at its new venue for 2018: Manchester Central Library. The University will take…

Manchester Histories Festival Debate Day ‘Capitalism and its discontents’

14:00 - 15:30 11 June 2018
Manchester is both the cradle of capitalism and a city that has shaped efforts to imagine a new, post-capitalist, world. In this, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx,…

CI Film Club

14:00 - 16:00 13 June 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…

CI Film Club

14:00 - 16:00 27 June 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…

Touching the Past: the Materiality of Text 1400-1700

4 July 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS Communities of Print, a project based at Manchester Metropolitan University and run in conjunction with Chetham’s Library and John Rylands Library, is hosting a conference…

Resistance Under the Crown: Black Education and Radical Activism in Britain, 1965-1988 feat. Dr. Richard D. Benson II

16:00 - 18:00 10 July 2018
A public talk delivered by Dr. Richard D. Benson II (Spelman College) titled 'Resistance Under the Crown: Black Education and Radical Activism in Britain, 1965-1988.' This event is…

CI Film Club

14:00 - 16:00 11 July 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…

Creating, Documenting and Using Archives of Spontaneous Memorials: Building an International Network

20 - 21 September 2018
This 2-day international workshop, which is funded by the British Academy, will bring together practitioners, researchers and organisations involved in archiving and studying recent…

Confucius Institute Taster Sessions 2018

18:00 24 - 19:00 27 September 2018
Come along to our free taster sessions, get to know our native teachers, find out which class would be the right one for you and learn about our approach to teaching Mandarin. We look…

Welcome Film & Pizza: The Great Buddha

18:00 - 21:00 25 September 2018
We are welcoming everybody back to the new academic year with 'The Great Buddha'. Pickle works as a security guard at a Buddha statue factory. Urged by his best friend, he grabs his…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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