School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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…

Display It Like You Stole It

17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2019
A Whitworth Studies Event Alice Procter, independent tour guide for ‘The Uncomfortable Art’ Tours and historian of material culture at UCL Display It Like You Stole It The Whitworth, Study Centre

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Adrian Curtis (University of Manchester) “Weeping at Bethel: An Old Idea Revisited.”

14:00 - 16:00 5 December 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…

Fugitive Words: Deep Learning and the Deep Past in Australia - Michael Falk, University of Kent

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar

‘New Directions in the Study of (pre-modern) Empire’

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2019
‘New Directions in the Study of (pre-modern) Empire’ Research event organised by Stephen Mossman (with Domantas Audronis and Ben Pope).

CI Cookery Class

14:00 - 17:00 6 December 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.…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed (Calem Institute, Marseille): Islam and the Diversity of Gender and Sexuality

14:00 - 16:00 11 December 2019
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Islam and the Diversity of Gender and Sexuality As a queer French Muslim who is trained in cognitive sciences, social psychology, anthropology, and also…

HCRI Christmas Party

19:00 - 21:00 11 December 2019
We are delighted to invite you to our Christmas party. We have a feeling the party will be bigger and better than ever before! The evening will provide HCRI colleagues and students…

Instrumental Change Exhibition

10:00 - 16:00 11 December 2019
"Instrumental Change" is an 1-day, pop-up exhibition, taking place on Wednesday 11th December, 10am-4pm at the Manchester Central Library (Performance Space). The exhibition is organised…

CIDRAL Event: Dina Nayeri in conversation with Ellah Wakatama Allfrey

14:00 - 16:00 12 December 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Dina Nayeri, novelist and author of A Teaspoon…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Todd Klutz

14:00 - 16:00 12 December 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 16 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…

The Complete Works: Christina Lamb

18:45 - 20:00 16 December 2019
Editor, critic & broadcaster Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE presents a brand-new series of in-depth interviews at HOME, in partnership with the University of Manchester, with a line-up…

A literary evening with Maryam Hessavi and Usma Malik (part of MACFEST 2020)

18:30 - 19:30 13 January 2020
Join us for an exciting literary evening of readings from new work by two Muslim writers, Maryam Hessavi and Usma Malik. Maryam Hessavi is a British, Manchester-based poet and critic,…

Chinese New Year celebrations with Manchester Confucius Institute

24 - 26 January 2020
Chinese New Year is undoubtedly Manchester’s most bright and colourful annual celebration. The streets of Manchester will be awash in a sea of red lanterns, with plenty of things to…

Remembering Biafra: Public History for Community Empowerment

10:00 - 16:30 25 January 2020
January 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-1970). The Nigerian civil war invites profound questions on issues like the legacies of British colonialism,…

Chinese New Year Film Screening & Pizza: Girls Always Happy

18:00 - 21:00 27 January 2020
Welcome in the Year of the Rat with a screening of Chinese drama ‘Girls Always Happy’ on 27 January. This engaging portrait of the often tense relationship between mother and daughter…

Global Harmonies Choir

17:30 - 19:00 27 January 2020
The Confucius Institute Global Harmonies Choir is returning Monday 27 January. With rehearsals every Monday, our Choir showcases songs from around the world and is a wonderful way to…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 28 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 29 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

Bogdanow Masterclass in Holocaust Studies 2020

14:00 - 16:00 29 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University). As part of the annual lecture series…

Juan del Nido (Manchester): 'Uber and gladiatorial truths: the moral traction of popular choice in Global South late capitalism'

17:00 - 18:30 29 January 2020
Abstract: Based on my fieldwork into the logics, rhetoric and affects surrounding the Uber conflict in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I will examine how the middle class’ conviction that…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Kimberley Fowler (Durham University) ‘Asceticism in Late-Antique Egypt as told through the Book of Thomas the Contender (NHC II,7)’

14:00 - 16:00 30 January 2020
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…

PN Review 250 Launch Party

18:30 3 February 2020
Please join us in the atmospheric setting of Christie's Bistro in Manchester to celebrate the 250th issue of PN Review, with readings from contributors Parwana Fayyaz, Jane Yeh, John…

Seminar: Fugitive Words: Deep Learning and the Deep Past in Australia

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2020
Digital Humanities Seminar to be given by Dr Michael Falk, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kent. Dr Falk is a digital humanist and scholar of eighteenth-century…

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