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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…

SALC Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 15 December 2020
SALC Book Launch

Online Talk: Discover China's popular winter food with Sam Sin

18:00 - 19:00 16 December 2020
Find out how people in China celebrate the Christmas season and what foods are eaten at this time of year. Following our successful face-to-face and virtual Chinese cooking tutorials,…

Queering the Gay Anthology: Edward Carpenter’s Ioläus

14:00 - 15:30 17 December 2020
This paper explores the central role played by translation in the gay liberation movement, focusing on the anthology as a privileged, although understudied, cultural form in minoritarian…

Debating Buddhist Translations in Cyberspace: The Buddhist Online Discussion Forum as a Discursive and Epitextual Space

13:00 - 14:30 21 January 2021
Recent research in contemporary Buddhist studies has evinced a growing interest in how Buddhism is constructed and performed in the digital space (Grieve and Veidlinger 2015), and how…

Letters to a President - A National Writing Competition for School Pupils

21 January - 30 April 2021
This spring the University of Manchester’s programme in American Studies is asking UK school students in Years 9- 13 to write “Letters to a President”, to the incoming US presidential…

Pablo Hernandez Sau (Manchester): tbc

26 January 2021
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/93328853287 Details to follow soon.

The 8 Brocades of Qigong – an easy to follow feel-good routine

14:00 - 15:00 27 January 2021
Join us for a live tutorial of this easy to follow physical and spiritual routine of an ancient Chinese exercise! Last November, we held a Zoom exercise class introducing the 8 Brocades…

Bogdanow Online Holocaust Event 2021

18:00 - 19:00 9 February 2021
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the 2021 Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies will be delivered by Oscar-winning film director László…

Bogdanow Masterclass 2021 'Film in the Face of Historical Crisis' - for University of Manchester students and staff

14:00 - 16:00 10 February 2021
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the 2021 Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies will be delivered by Oscar-winning film director László…

Nicole Bonino (UoM): “Cities on the Edge: Urban Migration, Art, and Eco-Hybridity in the Southern Cone”

17:00 - 18:00 10 February 2021
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930…

TALK: Traditional Chinese New Year food with Sam Sin

16:00 - 17:00 10 February 2021
Find out how people in China celebrate Chinese New Year and what foods are eaten at this time of year. Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is China's…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Justin Daneshmand (University of Manchester) ‘Vanishing Jesus Parallels: An Examination of Jesus’ Emmaus Disappearance (Luke 24:31b) and Literary Analogues’

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2021
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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