School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Werner Sombart's "Modern Capitalism"'

10:00 - 12:00 8 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Dr Philipp Roesnner (Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Manchester) will lead a Key Ideas seminar on Werner Sombart's…

CTIS Seminar: "I will try to speak in German": Filip Müller’s Testimony to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the Problem of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 8 November 2018
Filip Müller (1922-2013) was one of the key witnesses at the trial of former Auschwitz guards, held in Frankfurt 1963-65. A Slovak Jew who was deported on one of the early transports…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Roberta Mazza (Manchester), "Merchants in the Temple: The Contemporary Market in Biblical Manuscripts"

14:00 - 16:00 8 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Rachel Muers, "The Un/Deserving Poor: Social Class and Theological Ethics"

16:00 - 17:30 8 November 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.

SPLAS cineclub: “La isla mínima” (Alberto Rodríguez)

18:00 8 November 2018
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3253930/videoplayer/vi530823705?ref_=tt_ov_vi Location: Samuel Alexander A112

‘Genres of popular economics in 1970s America: economic democracy, labour activism and the tax revolt,’ History Research Seminar: Dr. Tiago Mata

16:15 - 17:30 8 November 2018
Tiago Mata (UCL) ‘Genres of popular economics in 1970s America: economic democracy, labour activism and the tax revolt’

Dr. Niamh Thornton (University of Liverpool) 'Violence on Screen: Desecrated Bodies and Popular Imaginings of Mexico'

17:00 14 November 2018
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar.

EAC Research Seminar: RACHEL E. HOLMES (UCL) 'WHAT'S IN A SOURCE? SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL POETICS'

17:00 - 18:30 14 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 14 NOVEMBER, RACHEL E. HOLMES (UCL) 'WHAT'S IN A SOURCE? SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL POETICS' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

CTIS Seminar: Interpreting in the 21st Century: How the use of technologies has revolutionised the interpreting world

14:00 - 15:30 15 November 2018
Interpreting dates back from antiquity when interpreters were used as mediators between different languages and cultures. Until the mid-1970s, interpreting was occurring solely in a…

Lee Lozano: Breakdown - Jo Applin

17:00 - 18:30 15 November 2018
As part of the Art History and Cultural Practices seminar series, Dr Jo Applin will be discussing the work of Lee Lozano. Jo Applin is a Reader in the History of Art at The Courtauld…

‘Hidden from History: Women of Aktion in the German Revolution 1918/19’

18:00 - 20:00 15 November 2018
A talk by Dr Corinne Painter and Prof Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds) 6pm on 15 November 2018 In: University Place 2.219 Followed by a wine reception Corinne Painter and Ingrid…

'Women of Aktion!' - A play by Mick Martin, performed by Bent Architect

19:30 - 22:00 16 November 2018
7.30pm on 16 November 2018 At Partisan Collective, 19 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M4 4FY There is a mini-film about the play: https://vimeo.com/293756641 The full tour dates can…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mouri Yoshitaka: 'Lukewarm Nationalism: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Social Media and Affective Communities'

16:00 - 18:00 20 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Mouri Yoshitaka (Professor in Sociology and Cultural Studies, Tokyo University of Arts) will deliver a public lecture entitled…

Curating Celts: views from an exhibition

17:00 20 November 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar

EAC Research Seminar Series: BILL SCHWARZ (QMUL) 'STUART HALL'S LEGACY'

17:15 - 18:30 20 November 2018
20 NOVEMBER, BILL SCHWARZ (QMUL) 'STUART HALL'S LEGACY' 5:15PM, SAM ALEX A101

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI

16:00 - 18:00 20 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…

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

17:00 21 November 2018
Fatema Abdoolcarim, PhD Candidate with The Center for New Writing and Art History and Cultural Practices at The University of Manchester will be delivering her research paper entitled…

CI Film Club

15:00 21 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…

EAC Research Seminar: SARAH RAFF (POMONA COLLEGE) 'MANSFIELD PARK’S GUARDIANS AND THE ERRANT DELEGATES OF MEASURE FOR MEASURE'

17:00 - 18:30 21 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 21 NOVEMBER, SARAH RAFF (POMONA COLLEGE) 'MANSFIELD PARK’S GUARDIANS AND THE ERRANT DELEGATES OF MEASURE FOR MEASURE' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

Professor Craig Brandist, University of Sheffield: "Soviet Indology, Socialism and the 'Buddhist Revival': Two Radical Indian intellectuals in the USSR 1917-1940"

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2018
The paper will focus on the work of two Indian socialist intellectuals: Dharmanand Kosambi (1876-1947, father of the founder of Indian Marxist historiography, D.D. Kosambi) and Rahul…

CTIS Seminar: Translator Styles - Do they exist and do they matter in the digital age?

14:00 - 15:30 22 November 2018
Translation is a complex cognitive activity and – like any other human activity – is characterised by individuality and diversity. Do translators differ in the way they actually translate?…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Loveday Alexander (Sheffield), "Social Networks, Legal Aliens, and the Shape of the Church in Acts"

14:00 - 16:00 22 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Matthias Revers, "Who Can Say What, About Whom, and How? The Informal Regulation and Politics of Speech"

16:00 - 17:30 22 November 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.

‘Sunil Janah, the famine holocaust, and the development of a modern ocular aesthetic 1943-56,’ History Research Seminar: Dr. Emilia Terracciano

16:15 - 17:30 22 November 2018
Emilia Terracciano (Ruskin School of Art, Oxford) ‘Sunil Janah, the famine holocaust, and the development of a modern ocular aesthetic 1943-56’

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Patrick O'Brien: 'Britain's Wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and their Contribution to the Consolidation of the First Industrial Revolution'

16:00 - 18:00 28 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme in association with History and Economics and with financial assistance from The Manchester School (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679957).…

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