School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

CANCELLED: Ramsden Gybbon-Monypenny Commemorative Lecture: Val Fraser (Essex) on Gordon Brotherston

16:00 - 18:00 13 May 2020
Ramsden Gybbon-Monypenny Commemorative Lecture jointly organised by Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Val Fraser…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'The Idea of Decolonization': Led by Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge)

11:00 - 13:00 13 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'The Idea…

(Postponed) CI Cookery Classes

14:00 - 17:00 16 May 2020
Manchester Confucius Institute is hosting three fun and hands-on cookery classes led by Sam Sin from Koi Kitchen. Each class will have a different theme and focus, allowing you to create…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Brian Klug (Oxford), 'Unasking the Jewish Question'

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Brian Klug (University of Oxford) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Unasking the Jewish…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Defining Antisemitism: The IHRA Definition': Led by Brian Klug (Oxford)

14:00 - 16:00 22 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Brian Klug (University of Oxford) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'Defining Antisemitism:…

CIDRAL/SALC Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 2 June 2020
Colleagues from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures will present their new publications.

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College): 'Complicity, Dissent, and the Palestinian Intellectual'

17:00 - 19:00 8 June 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Complicity, Dissent,…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique': Led by Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College)

12:00 - 14:00 9 June 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'Queer Palestine and…

BASEES Polish Studies Group 2020 event Roundtable: ‘Best Ways of Achieving Academic and Social Impact’

11:00 - 13:00 17 June 2020
Key Question: ‘What are our strategies of disseminating research on Poland?’ With: Janek Gryta, (University of Bristol) and Samantha K Knapton (University of East Anglia) Key Question:…

HCRI Pride event: Documentary and Discussion

16:00 - 17:00 30 June 2020
It's Pride month! While we're excited to celebrate, it's also important to reflect on how Pride started as a movement of protest and resistance. Join us for a short, virtual screening…

History Course Unit Fair

8 - 22 July 2020
Virtual History Coure Unit Fair 2020 (for next academic year's L2, L3 students)

Maite Conde (Cambridge): TBC

8 September 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This is an online event. Details on how to access it will follow soon.

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Prof. Melissa Raphael (Gloucestershire) “The (Dis)appearing Feminine: Jewish Feminist Art and the Liberation of Women and God..."

16:00 - 17:30 17 September 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

HCRI PhD Conference

12:00 - 17:30 25 September 2020
HCRI's annual PhD Conference is going virtual! Join HCRI for an afternoon of discussion, hearing about a variety of different issues central to humanitarian affairs: from the complexities…

Ian McGuire: The Abstainer (Online Blackwell's Event)

19:00 - 20:00 1 October 2020
Join acclaimed North Water author Ian McGuire at an Blackwell's online event, as he talks about his new novel, The Abstainer - an epic story of revenge and obsession. About this Event…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Nijay K Gupta (Northern Seminary, Illinois) - “Reconstructing Junia's Imprisonment: Examining a Neglected Comment in Romans 16:7”

16:00 - 17:30 1 October 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Siobhán Jolley (University of Manchester) ‘Asking for it? Lessons from Mary Magdalene in a culture of sexual violence.’

14:00 - 16:00 8 October 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Online Talk: The Wellbeing Benefits of Indoor Plants

15:00 - 16:00 13 October 2020
Join us to discover simple steps of growing plants indoors and find ways of using our natural environment to combat stress and worries, one seedling at a time. Becoming a student often…

Imagined avant-gardes in Latin American literature: a posthegemonic outlook

16:00 - 17:00 14 October 2020
This presentation traces the presence of fictional avant-garde artists in Latin American literary works from the 1970s onwards, aiming to redefine the notion of a Latin American avant-garde…

Q&A with Professor Craig Clunas

17:15 - 18:30 14 October 2020
Q&A with Professor Craig Clunas 'The Modernity of Chinese Art in the Early Twentieth Century' Professor Clunas will discuss his lecture on 'The Modernity of Chinese Art in the Early…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr James Sedlacek (Nazarene Theological College) ‘Is the Perfect Tense in the Pauline Corpus a ‘Front-grounding’ Tense or a ‘Backgrounding’ Tense?‘

14:00 - 16:00 15 October 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Kristin Aune (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry) - “Religious Student Societies in Universities – Division and Cohesion”

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

"Exploring Blockchain in the Cultural Sector" Conference

16 October 2020
Blockchain is an open, decentralised and distributed technology, which is often associated to cryptocurrencies. However, blockchain is more than a digital money infrastructure and it…

Eithne Quinn (University of Manchester), ‘Manchester Murder Rap: Prosecution Gang Narratives and the Use of Black Youth Expressive Culture in Creating a Joint Enterprise Case’

17:00 - 19:00 20 October 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

Nádia Farage (IFCH - UNICAMP): Comrades: naturism and pacifism in Lima Barreto

17:00 - 18:30 21 October 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar. This talk will be online: https://zoom.us/j/93328853287 Meeting ID: 933 2885 3287 Nadia Farage graduated…

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