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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…

'Food, Religion & Communities in Early Modern Europe,' History Research Seminar: Dr. Chris Kissane

16:15 - 17:30 4 October 2018
Chris Kissane (LSE) ‘Kitchens & Neighbours: Food, Religion & Communities in Early Modern Europe?’ followed by a comment by Rachel Winchcombe (History).

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…

Global Black Freedom Movements

13:30 - 17:00 5 October 2018
This Black History Month join us on Friday 5 October at the University of Manchester for the Global Black Freedom Movements symposium. This event brings together leading scholars in…

Becoming-Archaeologist: challenging neoliberalism, diversifying the profession and rethinking Archaeological Pedagogy in the 21st century

17:00 9 October 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar Semester 1

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Antoine Burgard & Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps

16:00 - 18:00 9 October 2018
HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate…

SPLAS Cine club: 'El secreto de sus ojos' (J. J. Campanella, 2009)

18:00 - 20:00 9 October 2018
First film of the 2018-19 SPLAS cine club. Samuel Alexander A112

CI Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 10 October 2018
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from October! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural discussions…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Paul Warde: 'The Invention of Sustainability, 1500-1870: The Early Modern History of a Modern Idea'

16:00 - 18:00 10 October 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2018 Autumn Programme. Dr Paul Warde (Reader in Environmental History, University of Cambridge) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Invention…

CROSS STREET LECTURE: SARAH WOOTTON (DURHAM) 'BYRONIC LEGACIES IN GASKELL’S FICTION & SCREEN ADAPTATIONS OF HER WORK'

17:00 - 18:30 10 October 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 10 OCTOBER, CROSS STREET LECTURE: SARAH WOOTTON (DURHAM) 'BYRONIC LEGACIES IN GASKELL’S FICTION & SCREEN ADAPTATIONS OF HER WORK' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

CTIS Seminar: Legal Translation and the Challenges of Recognition

14:00 - 15:30 11 October 2018
Translation is often depicted as a safeguard of the egalitarian ideals multilingualism purportedly guarantees, as an activity of prime importance in the development of healthy multicultural…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Todd Klutz (Manchester), "From Temple to Desert: Contextualising Apocryphon of John 1.17-20"

14:00 - 16:00 11 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Karen O'Donnell (Durham), “Stretchy Flesh: Theological Anthropology for Digital Humans”

16:00 - 17:30 11 October 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.

Manchester Literature Festival: Mary Jean Chan, Xi Chuan & Jennifer Lee Tsai

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2018
MLF and the Confucius Institute are delighted to present an inspiring afternoon of poetry from three exciting voices of Chinese heritage. Xi Chuan is a multi-award-winning poet, essayist,…

After the cut: Re-cutting the seventeenth-century Mughal miniature painting - Fatema Abdoolcarim

15 October 2018
As part of the Art History and Cultural Practices seminar series, Fatema Abdoolcarim delivering a seminar entitled: "After the cut: Re-cutting the seventeenth-century Mughal miniature…

Rumours of a great stone: Archaeological Exploration and Settlement Development at Tell Nabasha

17:00 16 October 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar

Manson Memorial Lecture: Prof Francis Watson (Durham), "What to Do with Judas: Some Early Proposals"

14:00 - 16:00 18 October 2018
The Centre for Biblical Studies endowed annual lectureship. T.W. Manson was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at Manchester from 1936 until his death in 1958. Each…

‘The Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,’ History Research Seminar: Dr. Christopher Bannister

16:15 - 17:30 18 October 2018
Christopher Bannister (Manchester) ‘The Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939’ followed by a comment by Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío (Manchester Metropolitan University).

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