School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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…

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.…

Seminar With Lindsay Reckson (Haverford College)

17:00 - 18:30 3 December 2020
Discussion of pre-circulated chapter from Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press 2020), co-hosted by Gordon Fraser (University of Manchester)…

Literature and Racism Panel Discussion (part of MACFEST)

17:00 - 18:00 7 December 2020
Join MACFEST for an exciting panel on Legacies of colonialism: Reading and Writing as a Resistance with Emily Zobel Marshall and Leyla Aboulela. A reader in Postcolonial Literature…

Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky): ‘“It’s Not Just the Same”: How Rituals and Religions Cope with Crises’

17:00 - 19:00 8 December 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

“O Alienista": The Quixotic Science

17:00 - 18:00 9 December 2020
This paper aims to examine notions of science and madness in O Alienista (1881) by Machado de Assis. It focuses on how the plot structure of the novella satirises the progressive philosophy…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Nicholas Kay (King’s College, London) ‘The Concept of ‘ir in 11Q19: Spatiality’

14:00 - 16:00 10 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.…

End of term Lecture: Historical Revisionism and Genocide Denial

15:00 - 17:00 10 December 2020
EXACT DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED. Join Remembering Srebrenica, a charity memorialising the Bosnian genocide in 1995, along with a survivor from the genocide and a leading academic in…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Andrew Boakye (University of Manchester) “Apostles Behaving Badly: Peter, Paul and Black Lives Matter”

16:00 - 17:30 10 December 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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