School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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…

Confucius Institute Public Talk: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Food Therapy & Well-being

18:00 - 19:00 26 September 2018
Chinese herbal medicine is concerned with the correction of internal imbalances as opposed to simply responding to symptoms and patients are encouraged to actively participate in the…

Gadamer, Truth and Method Reading Group

17:00 - 18:30 26 September 2018
Gadamer’s Truth and Method is one of the key critiques of historical, literary and art-related scholarship of the 20th century. We will read the book in instalments over the academic…

Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration

14:00 - 17:00 26 September 2018
Come and celebrate China’s second biggest annual festival with the Confucius Institute! Fun and informal drop-in activities like Chinese calligraphy, costumes, dance performances, tea…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Paul Middleton (Chester), "The ‘Noble Death’ of Judas Iscariot: Reconsidering Suicide in the Bible and Early Christianity "

14:00 - 16:00 27 September 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Andrew Crome (MMU), “Cosplay in the Pulpit and Ponies at Prayer: Christian Faith and Lived Religion in Fan Culture”

16:00 - 17:30 27 September 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.

Student Friends of the Whitworth: Launch Party

18:00 - 20:30 27 September 2018
Come and spend an evening getting to know the Whitworth Art Gallery. Bring your Student Friend card, collect a glass of wine on the Upper Promenade and meet curators and members of…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Peter Oakes (Manchester), "Revelation 17.1-19.10: A Prophetic Vision of the Destruction of Rome"

14:00 - 16:00 4 October 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…

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