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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).

CI Cookery Classes - Chinese Stir Fry

14:30 - 17:30 19 October 2018
The first of 3 fun and hands-on cookery classes hosted by the Confucius Institute and led by Cracking Good Food open to anyone that would love the chance to make their own authentic…

CIDRAL Event: 'Manchester Reads Frankenstein: A Multidisciplinary Symposium'

17:00 - 19:00 22 October 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Academics from across disciplines will take part in a multidisciplinary discussion of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the year…

MANCHESTER READS FRANKENSTEIN: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM

17:00 - 18:30 22 October 2018
22 OCTOBER, MANCHESTER READS FRANKENSTEIN A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM W/ JENNY BRYAN (CLASSICS), DAVID KIRBY (SCIENCE COMMUNICATION), SCOTT MIDSON (RELIGIONS & THEOLOGY), HOLLY MORSE…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Eric Lepp & Jenny Chapman

16:00 - 18:00 23 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…

Afro-Cuban percussion demonstration

15:30 - 17:00 24 October 2018
A live demonstration of Afro-Latin percussion with the participation of Christian Weaver, percussionist with La Timbala (see: https://www.globalgrooves.org/team/christian-weaver/).

CI Film Club

15:00 24 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…

Dr. James Scorer (U. of Manchester): 'Mediocre Painter and Naïve Leftist?: Ciro Bustos and the Sketches of Che Guevara's Guerrillas'

17:00 - 18:30 24 October 2018
Joint event by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Manchester.

Taller de lectura y escritura en español para estudiantes

14:30 - 16:00 24 October 2018
Primera sesión del taller de lectura y escritura creativa para estudiantes. El programa completa de las cuatro sesiones puede encontrarse online.

CTIS Seminar: Translation in Museums: A Geosemiotic Analysis

14:00 25 October 2018
Multimodality has received considerable critical attention in translation studies over the last decades. However, how translations interact with or within three-dimensional material…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Five Minute Papers by Prospective Contributors to the Centre for Biblical Studies’ Project entitled Love, Boundaries and Sacred Texts"

14:00 - 16:00 25 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. Carl Kilcourse (MMU), “Instruments of God or Blasphemous Impostors? Protestant Missionaries and Their Changing Perceptions of the Taiping Rebels, 1852-62”

16:00 - 17:30 25 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.

Confucius Institute Talk: Chinese Gardens - How a British botanist opened China to the West

18:00 - 19:00 30 October 2018
At a time when the world was opening up to trade and exploration, on the lookout for valuable commodities, in particular plants — not least tea, the highly prized crop that originated…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Creative Economy'

10:00 - 12:00 31 October 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Ismail Ertürk (Senior Lecturer, Alliance Manchester Business School) will lead a Key Ideas seminar on the Creative Economy. Creative…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Stefan Reif (Jerusalem/Cambridge): "Attitudes to Non-Jews Reflected in Old Jewish Prayer Books"

14:00 - 16:00 1 November 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…

Myths and Methods: Creative Approaches to Researching Arts and Cultural Policy

10:00 - 21:00 1 November 2018
Please join us on a one-day interdisciplinary workshop on creative methods for researching the cultural sector, on 1 November at the University of Manchester. This event brings together…

STP&A2018: Culture, Democracy and the Arts – Rights Here, Right Now

1 - 3 November 2018
This major international conference, the oldest for arts management and cultural policy, comes to Manchester for the first time in November 2018. The conference is organized by the…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Daniel Everett: 'How Language Began: 60,000 Generations of Humans Talking'

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Daniel Everett (Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, Bentley University) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'How Language…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Catherine Arthur & Anna Vainio

16:00 - 18:00 6 November 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…

Uphill Battles: Conceptualising communities in the Zagros-Mesoptamian interface

17:00 6 November 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar

CI Film Club

15:00 7 November 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 Key Ideas Seminar with Daniel Everett:'‘A Survey of the Semiotic Progression Towards Language in the Archaeological and Physiological Records'

13:00 - 15:00 7 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Daniel Everett (Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, Bentley University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar entitled 'A…

EAC Research Seminar: DOUGLAS CLARK (ENGLISH, MANCHESTER) AND EDWARD CLOUGH (AMERICAN STUDIES, MANCHESTER)

17:00 - 18:30 7 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 7 NOVEMBER, DOUBLE FEATURE SEMINAR DOUGLAS CLARK (ENGLISH, MANCHESTER) EDWARD CLOUGH (AMERICAN STUDIES, MANCHESTER) 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

Serenity and strife: modernism and maternity in Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Forms’ - Kathryn Pallant

17:00 - 18:30 7 November 2018
As part of the Art History and Cultural Practices seminar series, Kathryn Pallant, PhD Candidate at the Centre for New Writing, The University of Manchester, will be discussing "Serenity…

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