School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra): Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics and False Confessions in the Age of “True Crime”

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra University) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 6 November 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…

Niall HD Geraghty (UCL/ILAS): 'Repaying evil with a blessing: León Ferrari’s illustrated Nunca más and beyond'

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2019
León Ferrari (1920-2013) was and remains one of the most provocative visual artists in twentieth-century Argentina. His artistic practice (incorporating painting, collage, sculpture,…

Roundtable with New Doctoral Students in Art History

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2019
Florrie Badley and Kylie Gilchrist, Doctoral Candidates in Art History and Cultural Practices Roundtable with New Doctoral Students in Art History

'Race and respectability in mid-twentieth-century London'

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2019
Rob Waters (Queen Mary) 'Race and respectability in mid-twentieth-century London'

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Ideologies of Violence: Threatening Language Ideologies vs. Threatening Language Realities: Led by Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra)

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled 'Threatening Language Ideologies vs.…

CTIS Seminar: Against Translation as Creative Writing: Risks and Opportunities of the Commodification of Literature

14:00 - 15:30 7 November 2019
In this presentation I make two, related, arguments. First, that literary translation is a hybrid art from, combining elements of both literary and performing arts. This claim is made…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Meredith J. C. Warren (University of Sheffield) “Human and Divine Justice in the Testament of Abraham.”

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 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 (& Jewish-Muslim Research Network): Prof. Aaron Hughes (University of Rochester) “The Sh??a are the Jews of Our Umma”: Rethinking Alterity in Medieval Islam

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 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.

CI Cookery Class

14:00 - 17:00 9 November 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.…

Confucius Institute Talk: Wellbeing - The Chinese Approach

18:00 - 19:00 11 November 2019
What really is wellbeing and do we need to look at the wellbeing of the Chinese nationals in our communities differently? This talk will explore these questions by arguing that Chinese…

Dr Ali A K Ali. Displacement as a Process of Coercive Disruption Examples from Occupied Baghdad (2003-2019)

17:00 - 18:30 12 November 2019
The seminar analyses displacement as a process consisting of coercive disruptions. It questions the prevalent conflation of displacement, forced displacement, and forced migration.…

HCRI Research Seminar - Outstanding BSc Student Dissertations

16:00 - 19:00 12 November 2019
HCRI's fifth research seminar of the new term will be with recent UG graduates Isabelle Kidder, Julia Kiemle-Gabbey and Jennifer Small, who will present on their BSc dissertations.…

CIDRAL Event: Colin Grant in conversation with Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

18:00 - 20:00 14 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester and the Centre for New Writing. Colin Grant…

CTIS Seminar: Developing ColloCaid, a Text Editor for Improving Vocabulary and Fluency of Academic Writing

14:00 - 15:30 14 November 2019
It is widely acknowledged that people less accustomed to academic writing may struggle to employ collocations which more experienced academic writers habitually use, like increase IN…

Curating SOLD! Dealers, Museums & the Art Market

17:00 - 18:30 14 November 2019
A Whitworth Studies Event Mark Westgarth, University of Leeds Curating SOLD! Dealers, Museums & the Art Market The Whitworth, Study Centre

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Benedict Kent and Prof. Peter Oakes (University of Manchester) “Enabling Public Understanding of Social Diversity among New Testament Audiences.”

14:00 - 16:00 14 November 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…

From Seeing to Discovering - A unique exploration of the interplay between art and mathematics

16:00 - 17:00 14 November 2019
Our civilisation has been developed based on modern knowledge and tradition, or oriental and occidental, but there is an important third source which has been often been largely neglected:…

Annual Toller Lecture: Professor Susan Irvine (UCL), Title TBC

16 November 2019
Annual Toller Lecture: Professor Susan Irvine (UCL), Title TBC Time tbc

Discovering Caribbean Family Memories: Part of the Being Human Festival

10:00 - 17:00 16 November 2019
Manchester is home to a vibrant and diverse Caribbean community and during this workshop you can discover and become the keeper of your Caribbean family memories. Family histories…

All the World’s a Stage: Henry Box Brown in Manchester

13:00 - 14:30 18 November 2019
Research Talk by Dr Hannah-Rose Murray about famed abolitionist Henry 'Box' Brown. Please join us for sandwiches from 12.30 in the lobby outside the room (Sam Alex SG.16) All Welcome.

Global Harmonies Pop-up Choir

17:30 - 19:00 18 November 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: David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan): The Drop Outs Are Anticipating Future Economic Policy: Work, Class and Countercultural Legacies

17:00 - 19:00 20 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. This event is co-sponsored by the Raymond Williams Society. David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) will…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 20 November 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…

From Figures to Figurations. For a Cultural Critique of Tagging - Nicola Bozzi, Salford University

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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