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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).…

Dr Ilya Yablokov (Leeds University) will present his new book "Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World".

16:15 - 17:30 28 November 2018
Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War, but Russian politics are rife…

Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (Kent): 'Contradictory Solidarity: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo, and South-South Cultural Relations'

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series. Venue: Uni Place 3.209. Contradictory Solidarity: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo, and South-South Cultural Relations…

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

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 28 NOVEMBER, JO TAYLOR (MANCHESTER) 'DEEP MAPPING THE LAKE DISTRICT WITH LITERARY GIS' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Peter Oakes: "New Testament, Empire and Economics - From archaeology via audience lives to interpretation of texts."

17:00 - 18:00 28 November 2018
Economics offers a route into understanding the New Testament as a set of texts written for non-elite audiences in the first century Roman empire. “Let every person be subject to the…

CTIS Seminar: Shared Texts - The Role of Literal Theatre Translations in the Performance Process

14:00 - 15:30 29 November 2018
‘Literal translation’ is a problematic term that tends to be associated with word-for-word translation and regarded as a lower level of translation activity. In English-speaking theatre,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Philip Alexander (Manchester), "The Problem of Philo and the Epistle to the Hebrews Revisited"

14:00 - 16:00 29 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…

CI Cookery Classes - Chinese Dim Sum

14:00 - 17:00 30 November 2018
The second 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…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Jessica Field

16:00 - 18:00 4 December 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…

PhD Talks

17:00 4 December 2018
Linnea Kuglitsch, “Music, Flowers, [and] Open Air”: An Archaeology of Natural World at the American Lunatic Asylum, c. 1840-1914 Emma Tollefsen, The Clue is in the Bone: Curating the Iron Age Dead in Britain

SPLAS Cine Club: 'Suite Habana' (Pérez, 2003)

18:00 - 20:00 4 December 2018
On week 11 we will be screening the Cuban film Suite Habana as part of the SPLAS Cine Club. Everyone is welcome, especially students on the Cultures of Revolution module, as this is…

Chinese Film Forum UK presents: Looking for Lucky

18:00 - 20:00 5 December 2018
Hoping to get on at University, graduate student Guangsheng agrees to look after his Professor’s dog Lucky. As the film’s title suggests, Lucky goes missing and Guangsheng enlists his…

CI Film Club

15:00 5 December 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…

DORA MARSDEN LECTURE: CATHERINE CLAY (NOTTINGHAM TRENT) '"MEN AND BOOKS" AND FEMALE CRITICS: TIME AND TIDE AND THE INTELLECTUAL WEEKLIES (1920-1939)

17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2018
5 DECEMBER, DORA MARSDEN LECTURE: CATHERINE CLAY (NOTTINGHAM TRENT) '"MEN AND BOOKS" AND FEMALE CRITICS: TIME AND TIDE AND THE INTELLECTUAL WEEKLIES (1920-1939)' 5PM, SAM ALEX A112

Livestream of TEAMs EU: European ‘Emergency Medical Teams’ (EMTs) initiative

17:30 - 18:30 5 December 2018
The TEAMS consortium will report on the work they are undertaking on the design, development, delivery and evaluation of the TEAMS project. The project, funded by DG ECHO, aims to create…

Methodologies for Comparative and Connected Global History

14:30 - 17:00 5 December 2018
Hosted at the Northern Cluster for Global and Transcultural Studies, 1450-1750. At the cluster's first workshop we will explore the current intellectual environment for global and…

No Recourse! Project Launch and Graduation

17:00 - 19:00 5 December 2018
In celebration of our Peer Researchers completing their training and to officially launch the new partnership project between WAST (Women Asylum Seekers Together) and Dr. Jenna Murray…

'Neo-Tories. British Conservatives in rebellion against democracy and political modernity, 1929-39,' History Research Seminar: Dr. Bernhard Dietz

16:15 - 17:30 6 December 2018
Bernhard Dietz (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): New Approaches to the History of Conservatism: Dr. Dietz will present his new book Neo-Tories. British Conservatives in rebellion…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Benedict Kent (Manchester), "Jesus as God’s Broker in Romans 8"

14:00 - 16:00 6 December 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. Scott Midson and Dr. Holly Morse, "Creating Desire: Gender, Mythology, Posthumanism"

16:00 - 17:30 6 December 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.

Whitworth Studies: Art(ist) as Witness: displacement, trauma, resistance and memory - Jenna Ashton

17:00 - 18:30 6 December 2018
As part of the Whitworth Studies series Dr Jenna Ashton, Lecturer and Programme Director of Heritage Studies at The University of Manchester will being delivering a seminar entitled:…

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