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American Studies Research Seminar: Race and Sexuality in 19th Century Baltimore

17:00 - 18:30 4 November 2020
Paige Glotzer (University of Wisconsin) and Katie Hemphill (University of Arizona) in conversation about race and sexuality in 19th and 20th century Baltimore, hosted by Natalie Zacek. Open to all.

Live Tutorial: The 8 Brocades of Qigong – a 10min feel-good routine to start your day

13:00 - 14:00 4 November 2020
Join us for a live tutorial of this easy to follow physical and spiritual routine of an ancient Chinese exercise! Qigong, also known as Chinese yoga is a gentle form of exercise that…

Robert Spencer and Anastasia Valassopoulos (EAC), ‘New Directions in Postcolonial Studies’

12:00 - 14:00 4 November 2020
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminars

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham) ‘The Community Rules: Florilegia from a Forthcoming Commentary’

14:00 - 16:00 5 November 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 and UK-MED: A partnership to tackle growing humanitarian need

18:00 - 19:00 10 November 2020
Today, more people are in need of humanitarian assistance than ever before. An increasing number of disease outbreaks, natural disasters and conflict is placing additional strain on…

Vision and Value: Cotton and the Materiality of Race

12:00 11 November 2020
This talk examines the visual relationship between the cotton trade and the representation of the black body in American culture, using historical case studies and contemporary art.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Richard Burridge (King’s College, London) ‘Is “NT Ethics” A Genre Mistake? Methodological Reflections in debate with Gustafson and Hays’

14:00 - 16:00 12 November 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: Rob Kanter (University of Manchester) “Interactions between British Converts to Islam and Anglo-Jewry, c.1900-39”

16:00 - 17:30 12 November 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…

Research Seminar: Putin's Human Rights

15:00 - 17:00 12 November 2020
Join Sergei Nikitin (former Director of the Amnesty International representative office in Russia) and chair Dr Luke Kelly (HCRI) for a virtual seminar covering difficulties faced by…

Sarah Price (University of Sheffield), ‘Crisis or Evolution? The Continuing Challenge of Finding Audiences for Classical Music’

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

Sheena Kalayil (Modern Languages), ‘Being a Writer of Colour in the UK Literary Industry’

16:00 - 18:00 18 November 2020
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminars

The Book of Shanghai: Chen Danyan & Wang Zhanhei in conversation

14:00 - 15:00 18 November 2020
Join us for a literary exploration of the city of Shanghai as part of a very special event, showcasing Comma's city anthology The Book of Shanghai, which features ten contemporary Chinese…

CTIS Research Seminars 2020-2021 | Media Accessibility: New environments, New Hybrid Audiovisual Modalities by Anna Matamala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

13:00 - 14:30 19 November 2020
Media Accessibility: New environments, New Hybrid Audiovisual Modalities This session will consist of two parts, both of which aim to illustrate how integrating knowledge from other…

Age assessment and asylum: Laura Gibbons & Gulwali Passarlay in discussion

16:00 - 17:30 23 November 2020
One of the greatest difficulties for asylum seeking children can be proving they are under 18 and therefore legally a child. Under this status, they have (or should have) access to…

Race, Roots and Resistance: The Black 14

18:00 - 19:00 23 November 2020
Over fifty years ago, fourteen Black football players from the University of Wyoming took a principled stand against racial injustice at great personal cost. Join us for our online…

Diana G. Maynard (University of Sheffield), ‘Monitoring Violations Against Journalists’

17:00 - 19:00 24 November 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

Humour and the Commodification of Suffering: Strategies of Cultural Resilience in Contemporary Art About this Event

17:15 - 18:30 25 November 2020
Framed by discussion of how humour in contemporary art differs to ‘everyday’ visual forms (memes, graffiti etc.), this talk considers how humour is used as a political strategy by artists…

Strangers in a Strange Land: Anglophone Black Musicians in Spain (1960-1980)

17:00 - 18:00 25 November 2020
While a number of Afro-Spanish musicians enjoy considerable commercial success nowadays – including on an international scale in the case of singer Concha Buika and rapper El Chojín…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Walter Houston (University of Manchester) ‘One God, One People: Reflections on a Reconciled and Reconciling Pentateuch’

14:00 - 16:00 26 November 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 Charles S. Pemberton (University of Durham) “Food Banks and Theology”

16:00 - 17:30 26 November 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…

Ainhoa Montoya (London): Dispossession through Juridification: Irregular Uses of Law and the Defense of Territory in Honduras

17:00 - 18:00 2 December 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. This talk will…

American Studies PGR event with Lindsay Reckson (Haverford College)

17:00 - 18:30 2 December 2020
PGR seminar co-hosted by the English department at Oxford University. A Zoom event, open to all but directed at postgraduate students. Contact Natalie Zacek for link.

Georg Christ (History), ‘The Inevitability of Crisis – Can We Escape Decline?’

12:00 - 14:00 2 December 2020
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminars

CTIS | Research Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 3 December 2020
Translation as Circumspection: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Heidegger It is common in Translation Studies to worry a lot about theory. A perennial question from students…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Helen Jacobus (University of Manchester) ‘A Response to the Alleged "Fallacy of Jaubert's Hypothesis" and the Flood Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

14:00 - 16:00 3 December 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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