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How do you induce a sense of revelation? Wassily Kandinsky’s adaptation of techniques from Persian paintings

17:00 - 18:30 2 October 2019
Emily Christensen, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London How do you induce a sense of revelation? Wassily Kandinsky’s adaptation of techniques from Persian paintings

'A European obsession with vengeance: reclaiming ngozi spirits from the ethnographic record'

16:00 - 17:30 3 October 2019
History Department Research Seminar Diana Jeater (University of Liverpool) 'A European obsession with vengeance: reclaiming ngozi spirits from the ethnographic record'

Ehrhardt Seminar: Love, Boundaries & Sacred Texts Group Discussion and Planning

14:00 - 16:00 3 October 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…

The Heart of the Home: The Design and Material Culture of the Modern Kitchen

18:00 - 19:30 3 October 2019
Association for Art History Annual Public Lecture A Whitworth Studies Event Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor of Design History and Theory, Plymouth University The Heart of the Home: The…

Valerie Fraser (Essex): 'Gordon Brotherstone's contribution to Latin American Studies'

4 October 2019
Ramsden Gybbon-Monypenny Commemorative Lecture, organised jointly by Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

CI Cookery Class

14:00 - 17:00 5 October 2019
We are hosting three fun and hands-on cookery classes led by Sam Sin from Koi Kitchen. Each class will have a different focus, allowing you to create a variety of authentic dishes.…

Global Harmonies Pop-up Choir

17:30 - 19:00 7 October 2019
As part of our Singing and Wellbeing initiative we invite you to join our new choir! An opportunity to explore thrilling rhythms and uplifting harmonies from around the world – from…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elizabeth Stephens (Queensland): The Optimised Self: A Brief History of Time Management and the Quantified Body

17:00 - 19:00 8 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Optimised Self: A Brief History…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Critical Genealogy as Method: Led by Elizabeth Stephens and Peter Cryle (Queensland)

14:00 - 16:00 9 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Elizabeth Stephens and Peter Cryle (University of Queensland) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Critical Genealogy…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Wiktor Marzec (Warsaw): From Cotton and Smoke: Lodz – the Industrial City and Discourses of Ansynchronous Modernity

17:00 - 19:00 9 October 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Co-hosted by the Russia and Eastern European Studies Seminar. Wiktor Marzec (University of Warsaw) will deliver a public…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 9 October 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students, once again from October 2019! The club provides a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

Spatial History: Mapping the Past/Literary GIS: Close Reading with Digital Maps - Digital Humanities Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2019
Luca Scholz (Lecturer in Digital Humanities) and Jo Taylor (Presidential Academic Fellow in Digital Humanities) will be discussing aspects of their research.

Digital Humanities Manchester Surgery

02:30 - 17:00 10 October 2019
Pragmatic Adventures in Open Scholarship This surgery will consist of two presentations, followed by discussion and consultation. The first talk, “Some Contexts and Pragmatics for Open…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Mary Mills (Newman University) “Memorialising Jeremiah’s Jerusalem: Walking the City with Walter Benjamin.”

14:00 - 16:00 10 October 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: Dr. Kerry Pimblott (Manchester) “Beyond De-Christianization: Rethinking the Religious Landscapes and Legacies of Black Power in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter”

16:00 - 17:30 10 October 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.

Helping Refugees Past and Present (part of Journeys Festival International)

16:00 - 17:30 11 October 2019
A platform to understand why people engage in refugee work, what specific areas they’ve addressed, the challenges they encounter, but importantly, what keeps them going. The event will…

Chen Qiufan and Xia Jia at Manchester Literature Festival

14:00 - 15:00 12 October 2019
We are delighted to welcome two of China’s most acclaimed science fiction writers to MLF. Chen Qiufan (aka Stanley Chan) is the author of Waste Tide. Set in the world’s largest e-waste…

Literature Live: Emilie Pine & Sinéad Gleeson

16:30 - 17:45 13 October 2019
Women’s bodies are the site of continued discussion, speculation and law-making, but in their outstanding essay collections, Notes to Self and Constellations, Irish writers Emilie Pine…

HCRI Research Seminar - Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa: Notes on Publics, Commons and Networks

16:00 - 19:00 15 October 2019
HCRI's second research seminar of the new term will be with guest speaker Professor Madhu Krishnan. Event title: Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa: Notes on Publics, Commons…

Bethan Fisk (Leeds): 'Slavery and sacramental politics between Colombia’s two coasts'

17:00 - 18:30 16 October 2019
Conceptually the sacrament of baptism was a key tool in colonial governance of slavery in the Iberian world, yet the ways in which the ritual was practiced were contingent on the age,…

Modern Architecture Through the Lens of Antisemitism, and Vice Versa

17:00 - 18:30 16 October 2019
Leslie Topp, Birkbeck College, University of London Modern Architecture Through the Lens of Antisemitism, and Vice Versa Respondent: Matthew Jefferies, German Studies, The University…

US Content at A-Level – Free CPD Workshop for teachers

16:00 - 18:30 16 October 2019
For teachers of A-level History, English Literature and/or Film Studies The University of Manchester’s American Studies programme is delighted to announce a workshop for teachers…

CTIS Seminar: Leading the Translational Dance: Music as Instrument of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 17 October 2019
This talk will explore how music not only undergoes different forms of translation but how it can be a model for and an instrument of translation, aesthetically, socially and emotionally.…

Manson Memorial Lecture - Prof. Andréas Dettwiler (University of Geneva) ‘Pauline Churches as “Learning Spaces” – Colossians and Ephesians as a Test Case’

14:00 - 16:00 17 October 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…

Global Harmonies Pop-up Choir

17:30 - 19:00 21 October 2019
As part of our Singing and Wellbeing initiative we invite you to join our new choir! An opportunity to explore thrilling rhythms and uplifting harmonies from around the world – from…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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