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History Course Unit Fair

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

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Water Research at Manchester - Hydrological Change and Society's Response

15:00 - 16:45 22 July 2020
Manchester Environmental Research Institute will be hosting a webinar on the 22nd July to showcase water-related research from across the university and discuss hydrological change…

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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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"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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Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. George Brooke (University of Manchester, University of Chester) ‘Esoteric Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

14:00 - 16:00 22 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.…

HCRI Landmark Lecture: When Wounds Travel

15:00 - 17:00 22 October 2020
Join Dr Omar Dewachi (Rutgers University) and chair Dr Stephanie Sodero (HCRI) virtually, for a fascinating discussion on the movement of wounds: physical, social and political. Decades…

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In Conversation with David Olusoga: Making History in the age of #BlackLivesMatter

17:30 - 18:30 22 October 2020
Join us for our online event with David Olusoga, Historian and Broadcaster and Professor of Public History at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester.…

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Women's Suffrage in the Americas

17:00 - 18:30 22 October 2020
A talk by Stephanie Mitchell (Carthage College) with a response from Rebecca Fraser (University of East Anglia). Open to all. Contact Natalie Zacek for Zoom details.

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Daisy Johnson and Sophie Mackintosh in conversation with Jeanette Winterson

12:00 - 13:00 23 October 2020
Two rising stars of the UK literary scene, both Daisy Johnson and Sophie Mackintosh excel in creating atmospheric tales centred around women and girls. Sophie’s dystopian Blue Ticket…

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Maaza Mengiste In conversation with Kamila Shamsie

16:00 - 17:00 23 October 2020
These aren’t the days to pretend you’re only a wife or a sister or a mother, she says. We’re more than this. In her stunning Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Shadow King, Maaza…

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Romalyn Ante, Will Harris & Nina Mingya Powles

12:00 - 13:00 24 October 2020
Three exciting young poets read from their debut collections. What unites the work of all three is their exploration of the self, what it means to be multi-heritage in today’s world,…

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Tayari Jones & Brit Bennett n conversation with Ellah P. Wakatama

16:00 - 17:00 24 October 2020
How do you live with the kind of secret that could explode someone’s entire life? In Tayari Jones’ Silver Sparrow, Dana and her mother have always known that James, their father and…

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Ali Smith in conversation with Kamila Shamsie

14:00 - 15:00 25 October 2020
Well, that’s what art is, maybe. Something that impresses mysteriously on you and you don’t know why. Over the past four years, Ali Smith has created both a work of art and a chronicle…

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