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Chinese Cookery Class: Sushi

14:30 - 17:30 1 March 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 dish! During the…

"The Many Lives of Leonardo" - Luke Uglow

14:00 - 15:00 2 March 2019
Dr Luke Uglow, Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester will give an illustrated lecture about the legends and myths of the artist’s afterlife from the 16th to 21st century.…

Using a portable luminescence reacher

17:00 - 18:00 5 March 2019
Dr Abi Stone (University of Manchester) will be giving a talk on 'Using a portable luminescence reader: Making sand glow out in the field, or back in the lab, to unravel site stratigraphies…

'Spratt’s Flaps: Using Books and Learning Midwifery in the Early Nineteenth Century' - Rebecca Whiteley

17:00 - 18:30 6 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Dr Rebecca Whiteley (The John Rylands Research Institute), will be presenting a paper entitled: 'Spratt’s Flaps: Using Books and…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘On Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement’ led by Zoë Svendsen (Cambridge)

13:00 - 15:00 6 March 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Zoë Svendsen (Lecturer in Drama and Performance, University of Cambridge) will lead a key ideas seminar…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 6 March 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from February! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

CTIS Seminar: Translators as ‘Committed People Helping Others’: Responsibilization and the Role of For-Profit Institutions in Framing Discourses on Volunteer Translators

14:00 - 15:30 7 March 2019
Increasing global connectivity and transnational mobility of people and commodities have underlined the importance of translation taking place in institutional settings. Within Translation…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Fleur Houston - ‘Asylum Crisis? An Examination of Isa 16.1-5’

14:00 - 16:00 7 March 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…

George Adamson 'The co-production of El Niño and society: a history of the El Niño Southern Oscillation’

7 March 2019
Thursday 7 March - 4:15pm, Sam Alex A113. George Adamson (King's College, London)‘The co-production of El Niño and society: a history of the El Niño Southern Oscillation’.

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture: Professor Kathryn Tanner (Yale University) - ‘Grace and the Temporalities of Capitalism’

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 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.

Flamenco Sin Fronteras

19:00 - 20:30 8 March 2019
This is a performance which has been created to highlight the fact that authentic, pure flamenco has a universal appeal and as such has won World Heritage status. The participating…

Chinese Brush Painting

18:00 - 20:00 12 March 2019
Join us for our Chinese painting drop-in sessions, a new initiative with brush painting artist Stephen Woolley. Whether you would like to learn a new skill or are more experienced but…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Sophie Roborgh and Nat O'Grady

16:00 - 18:00 12 March 2019
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…

Prof Andrew Jones (University of Southampton) Making a Mark: Image and Process in Neolithic Britain and Ireland

17:00 - 18:00 12 March 2019
Using digital imaging techniques the Making a Markproject examined Neolithic decorated portable artefacts from three key regions (Southern England/East Anglia; the Irish Sea region;…

'Pieter Bruegel's Political Paintings' - Jamie Edwards

17:00 - 18:30 13 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Dr Jamie Edwards (Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham) will be presenting a paper entitled:…

Confucius Institute Talk: China in Drag - Travels with a Cross-dresser

18:00 - 19:00 13 March 2019
Michael Bristow, BBC World Service’s Asia and Pacific editor will talk about his eight-year stay in Beijing and why he decided to write about the country’s modern history. To assist…

Diana Cullell Teixidor (Liverpool) and Chris Perriam (Manchester): 'Spanish poetry and its audiences today'

17:00 - 18:30 13 March 2019
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminar Series.

From Shore to Shore - a powerful new drama with great food and live music

18:00 - 20:00 13 March 2019
The Confucius Institute extends an invitation to an exclusive showing of the From Shore to Shore play on campus. Three stories, three lives, three journeys, to find a place called…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Daniela Caselli, 'The Modernist Child'

17:00 - 19:00 13 March 2019
The child is a familiar figure in Romantic and Victorian studies but is much less visible in early twentieth-century literature criticism. This lecture will argue that there is much…

CTIS Seminar: Evangelising 19th-Century Italy? Translation and the Transnational Migration of Cheap Religious Tracts

14:00 - 15:30 14 March 2019
Translation scholars have so far studied religious texts largely in relation to the transnationalisation of the Scriptures in the traditional book format. Religious publishing, however,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Mika Pajunen - ‘Models of Textual Development and the Dead Sea Scrolls‘

14:00 - 16:00 14 March 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…

Henry Box Brown Lecture: Darnell Hunt (University of California Los Angeles)

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2019
The 2019 Hollywood Diversity Report: Old Story, New Beginning Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of California,…

PG day in Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2019

10:00 - 19:30 14 March 2019
Our annual PGR symposium for Latin Americanists working at Manchester and Liverpool. Supported by NWSSDTP and NWCDTP. Programme 10.00: 11.30: Panel 1 Gabriel Cambraia Neiva: Back…

“QUEER LEONARDO: an afternoon of performance, spoken word and music”

15:00 - 17:00 16 March 2019
“QUEER LEONARDO: an afternoon of performance, spoken word and music” Manchester Art Gallery, 15.00-17.00 + FLoK, 18.00-21.00, 16 March 2019 It is widely accepted that Leonardo da…

SPLAS CINE CLUB: Cronos

18:00 - 20:00 19 March 2019
Next Tuesday (19th of March) at 18.00 at Samuel Alexander A112, we will show “Cronos”, a film by Guillermo del Toro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy1CSVv_i7c&t=3s which Valentino will briefly introduce.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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