School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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

Marisol Verdugo (Manchester): 'Neoliberal feminisms? Hopes of social mobility and ordinary feminisms among Chilean youths'

17:00 - 18:30 20 November 2019
In 2017, when the so-called fourth wave of feminism in Chile was about to erupt in large feminist strikes across the country a year later, school-aged young women in the city of Concepción…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Countercultural Legacies: Led by David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan)

14:00 - 16:00 21 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Countercultural Legacies.…

CTIS Seminar: Knowledge Transfer and Technical Translation in Mid-19th Century China: The Work of Scottish Missionary-Scholar Alexander Wylie (1815-1887)

14:00 - 15:30 21 November 2019
Alexander Wylie was one of the leading members of a unique concentration of Missionary-Scholars and who lived and worked in Shanghai in the second half of the 19th Century. He was one…

Discovering Emigrant Children

17:30 - 19:30 21 November 2019
This event offers the unique chance to learn about the 90,000 orphaned British children who forcibly emigrated from the North-West of the UK to Canada between the 1860s and 1920s, as…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. George J. Brooke (University of Chester) “Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls.”

14:00 - 16:00 21 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: Dr Thomas Harvey (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies) “Back to the Future: Xi Jinping, Civil Society and Religious Policy”

16:00 - 17:30 21 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.

Negotiating empire: women, economic practice and colonialism

10:30 - 17:00 23 November 2019
The thirtieth annual workshop of the Economic History Society Women’s Committee will take place at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester on Saturday, 23rd November 2019.…

HCRI End of Term Lecture - Homelessness: Creating Solutions

16:00 - 19:00 26 November 2019
Our End of Term lecture is dedicated to an important humanitarian issue we face in our own community. A growing number of people in the UK, including in Manchester, are sleeping rough.…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Insurgent Empire: Shades of Resistance: Led by Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge)

14:00 - 16:00 27 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge)…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge): The Idea of Decolonization

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge)…

Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille: Queer, Black, and Disabled Emerge from the Archive--CANCELLED

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2019
Research seminar in the American Studies programme's Critical MASS series followed by wine reception. All welcome! CANCELLED

Humour and the Commodification of Suffering: Humour as Aesthetic Strategy in Sites of ‘Crisis’

17:00 - 18:30 27 November 2019
Chrisoula Lionis, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, The University of Manchester Humour and the Commodification of Suffering: Humour as Aesthetic Strategy in Sites of ‘Crisis’ Mansfield Cooper Building, 2.03

'Professional, Regimented and Aggressive: Social class, masculinity and the experiences of Parachute Regiment soldiers during and after the 1982 Falklands War'

16:00 - 17:30 28 November 2019
Helen Parr (Keele University) 'Professional, Regimented and Aggressive: Social class, masculinity and the experiences of Parachute Regiment soldiers during and after the 1982 Falklands War'

CANCELLED: CTIS Seminar: Game Localisation: Translating Gaming Experience across Cultures

14:00 - 15:30 28 November 2019

CIDRAL Event: Richard Seymour in conversation with Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

14:00 - 16:00 28 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Richard Seymour, who runs the blog Lenin's…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Josh Bloor (Nazarene Theological College) “Jesus' Earthly and Heavenly Offerings in the Epistle to the Hebrews: An Engagement with Recent Scholarship.”

14:00 - 16:00 28 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…

The Complete Works: Kamila Shamsie

18:45 28 November 2019
Part of: The Complete Works: Year 1 – Hope & Resistance Editor, critic & broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE curates and presents a brand-new series of in-depth interviews at HOME,…

Dragon Boat paddling

10:00 - 12:00 30 November 2019
Students will have the opportunity to take part in regular dragon boat paddling sessions with Paddlers for Life at Debdale Outdoor Centre. If you can swim at least 50 metres and have…

Global Harmonies Pop-up Choir

17:30 - 19:00 2 December 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: Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson

17:00 - 19:00 3 December 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times for the Straight Book:…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge: Led by Christina Lupton (Copenhagen)

14:00 - 16:00 4 December 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Michel Serres, The Troubadour…

CTIS Seminar: Shifting Characterisations of the ‘Common People’ in English Retranslations of Thucydides: A Corpus-based Analysis

14:00 - 15:30 5 December 2019
Characterisation is the process through which readers may distinguish from each other the various actors depicted in a narrative and develop an understanding of their individual traits…

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