School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Adam Rutherford: In Conversation

19:00 - 20:30 17 January 2019
The AHRC Double-Helix History project and Manchester Literature Festival are delighted to present an evening with self-proclaimed ‘author, broadcaster, scientist, geek’ Adam Rutherford.…

Confucius Institute Talk: China's Changing Consumer Markets

18:00 - 19:00 22 January 2019
How fashion manufacturers and retailers react on an ageing society in China Accessing the Chinese consumer involves understanding the unique platforms and drivers of purchases. Over…

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Between East and West

13:00 24 - 15:30 27 January 2019
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic rediscovery of the music of Mieczys?aw Weinberg (1919–1996), the Polish-born composer who twice escaped from Nazi invasions and finally settled…

Conference: Comics and Social Inequalities in Latin America

09:30 - 17:00 25 January 2019
The event is free but registration is essential. Click here to sign up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-and-social-inequalities-in-latin-america-tickets-52953286706 0930-1000:…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof John Healey (Manchester), ‘The Syriac Bible and Its Status in Different Context’

14:00 - 16:00 31 January 2019
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…

Chinese New Year 2019

5 - 10 February 2019
Celebrate the Year of the Pig with the Confucius Institute! Chinese New Year is undoubtedly Manchester’s most bright and colourful annual celebration as the streets of Manchester will…

"Picturing the Chinese Dream" - Ros Holmes

17:00 - 18:30 6 February 2019
As part of the Whitworth Studies Seminars series, Dr Ros Holmes (Art History, Univeristy of Manchester) will be delivering a paper entitled "Picturing the 'Chinese Dream': Urban Imaginings…

Chinese New Year film screening: Men on the Dragon

20:30 - 22:30 6 February 2019
A heartfelt, feel-good Hong Kong comedy about a group of middle- aged men who join a dragon boat team to avoid layoffs and rediscover their lust for life. Screenwriter Sunny Chan’s…

EAC Research Seminar: Sean Silver (Rutgers), ‘Is form a category mistake? Jane Austen's Mansfield Park’

17:00 - 18:30 6 February 2019
Sean Silver teaches the literature and culture of the British Enlightenment. Related interests include complex systems, the history of science, the origins of the museum, cognitive…

Professor Andrew Morrison’s Inaugural lecture

17:00 - 19:00 6 February 2019
Dead Letter Office? Making Sense of Greek Letter Collections Professor Andrew Morrison’s inaugural lecture will explore some of the most important Greek letter collections, such as…

CTIS Seminar: Stealth Translation: A Blueprint for More Accessible Translation

14:00 - 15:30 7 February 2019
With the increasing understanding of the need for accessibility, it should become apparent to translators that translating, in the narrow sense of the term, is not effective. Widening…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Ben Pugh (Cliff College), ‘Pictures of Atonement: Atonement Metaphors from the Standpoint of Pentecost’

14:00 - 16:00 7 February 2019
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…

Chinese New Year Cookery Class

13:30 - 16:30 9 February 2019
The Confucius Institute is hosting a fun and hands-on cookery class led by Cracking Good Food, open to anyone that would love the chance to make their own authentic Chinese dish! During…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Karl Polanyi' led by Pat Devine

13:00 - 15:00 13 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Pat Devine (University of Manchester) will lead a key ideas seminar on the work of Karl Polanyi. The…

EAC Research Seminar: Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam), ‘Of pride and joy no common rate’: Family, Finance and Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (1883)’

17:00 - 18:30 13 February 2019
Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam), ‘Of pride and joy no common rate’: Family, Finance and Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (1883)’

Laura Lewis (Southampton): Afro-Mexicans/Afro-Mexican Americans

17:00 - 18:30 13 February 2019
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Sam Alex A215

CTIS Seminar: Retranslating Zola in Stereo: Working with/against Vizetelly

14:00 - 15:30 14 February 2019
French ‘naturalist’ writer Émile Zola (1840-1902) published his novel La Joie de vivre, the 12th in the 20-volume cycle about the fictional Rougon-Macquart family during the Second…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Todd Still (Baylor University), ‘Paul and ‘the Good’’

14:00 - 16:00 14 February 2019
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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Margaret Hillenbrand (Oxford): ‘Public Secrecy in Contemporary China: Ducking the Firewall’

17:00 - 19:00 19 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Margaret Hillenbrand (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Wadham College,…

'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto and Calvino-Turcismus in Antwerp’s Dominican Church' - Adam Sammut

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Adam Sammut (PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art, University of York) will be presenting his paper: 'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: ‘Waste, Precarity and the Artwork in China’ led by Margaret Hillenbrand

13:00 - 15:00 20 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Margaret Hillenbrand (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Wadham College,…

EAC Research Seminar: Rosie Knight (Sheffield) 'Infant-feeding and Inequality: Motherhood, Race, and Breastfeeding in the Antebellum South'

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
Rosie Knight (Sheffield) 'Infant-feeding and Inequality: Motherhood, Race, and Breastfeeding in the Antebellum South'

CTIS Seminar: Technical Translation in 19th-Century Japan: Historicising and Decentring Notions of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 21 February 2019
The social and material conditions under which translation was carried out in late nineteenth-century Japan differ radically from our contemporary norms. Consequently, the concept of…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Dwight Swanson (Nazarene Theological College), ‘Conflicting Eschatologies: Jesus and the Mahdi (Christian and Shi’a apocalyptic expectation)’

14:00 - 16:00 21 February 2019
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: Mr. Amin Ehteshami (University of California, Berkeley) ‘The Pivot to Canonization: Scripturalist Hermeneutics in Premodern Iran’

16:00 - 17:30 21 February 2019
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.

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