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CIDRAL Online Events - ‘Climate Emergency Music, Art and Activism: Artivism’

14:00 - 16:00 17 February 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Kevin Malone, ‘Climate Emergency Music, Art and Activism: Artivism’ Kevin Malone, Reader in Composition, participated…

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…

On The Origin of the Milky Way

17:15 - 18:30 17 February 2021
Professor Marcia Pointon On The Origin of the Milky Way (1637) by Peter Paul Rubens: Astronomy, Astrology and Mythology in early modern Europe Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbri…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Professor Philip Alexander (University of Manchester) ‘The Post-70 Jewish Apocalypses and Jewish Eschatological Hopes at the End of the First Century’

14:00 - 16:00 18 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.…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Leah Payne (George Fox University, Oregon) “Gender and Pentecostal Revivalism: Making a Female Ministry in the Early Twentieth Century”

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2021
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…

The Masculinities of Humanitarianism: Governing and Gendering Syrian Refugee Men

15:00 - 17:00 18 February 2021
Dr Lewis Turner, Newcastle University, will be sharing material from his latest book, and discussing questions of masculinity and gender in humanitarianism. Exact agenda tbh Speaker…

Centre for New Writing Macaronic Poetry Evening (part of International Mother Language Day)

17:30 - 18:30 19 February 2021
Join us online for an evening celebrating bilingual poetry and macaronic poetry, which uses a mixture of languages. There will be an opportunity to hear readings in English, but which…

Mandarin Taster Sessions (part of International Mother Language Day)

12:30 - 13:30 19 February 2021
Join a fun language taster session to find out what it is like to learn Mandarin from the comfort of your own home! You will have the chance to get an insight into our online teaching…

Mandarin Taster Sessions (part of International Mother Language Day)

12:30 - 13:30 22 February 2021
Join a fun language taster session to find out what it is like to learn Mandarin from the comfort of your own home! You will have the chance to get an insight into our online teaching…

Novel Voices: Meng Jin and J.A. Mensah

19:00 - 20:00 22 February 2021
Taking place between February and April 2021, Novel Voices is a five-part, online series featuring Ellah P. Wakatama in conversation with 10 debut authors who are helping to shape 2021's…

CIDRAL Online Events - Covid-19 and the Medicalization of Social Life

17:00 - 19:00 23 February 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries James Heartfield (Independent Researcher), ‘Covid-19 and the Medicalization of Social Life’…

Decolonising Mother Tongues (part of International Mother Language Day)

19:00 - 20:30 23 February 2021
Hear from a panel on decolonising translation, chaired by Dr. Kavita Bhanot, who writes on mother-tongue shame, translating across generations, and decolonising translation. Kavita…

Manchester American Studies Seminar: Duncan Faherty, 'Universal Emancipation'

17:00 - 18:30 24 February 2021
Part of Manchester American Studies Seminar Series. Discussing paper by by Duncan Faherty of Queens College, CUNY, "'Universal Emancipation!': New York’s Print Public Sphere and Haunting…

Patricio Simonetto (UCL): 'Queens between theatres and the streets. The global making of travestis’ popular culture and daily life technologies'

17:00 - 18:00 24 February 2021
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series. This talk will be online. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Megan Warner (Northern College) ‘Abraham and the World-View of Deutero-Isaiah’

14:00 - 16:00 25 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.…

“Manchester’s DNA” 1. Launch Workshop

14:00 - 15:00 25 February 2021
A virtual, recorded session engaging pupils from Manchester schools to explore the identity, language and ethnicity that makes Manchester so richly diverse. A toolkit of resources will…

Manchester’s DNA: 2. Poet in Residence Workshop (part of International Mother Language Day)

14:00 - 15:00 26 February 2021
Poetry can provide an insight into the richly diverse and dynamic communities that make up Greater Manchester. Newly appointed, award-winning ‘Poet in Residence’, Zaffar Kunial will…

Creative Writing Workshop (pupils Years 9-11) - supporting our Letters to a President writing competition for schools

16:00 - 17:00 1 March 2021
Join us for a free creative writing workshop on letter writing, offered in collaboration with the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing and supporting our American Studies…

CIDRAL Online Events - ‘China’s Mass Internment of the Uyghurs and the Role of Scholarship’

17:00 - 19:00 2 March 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries: Rian Thum (University of Manchester), ‘China’s Mass Internment of the Uyghurs and the Role…

Bombing Walls: Graffiti and Street Art in Conflict-Affected Spaces

15:00 - 17:00 4 March 2021
Join the ICCG for a discussion on 'Bombing walls: Perspectives on the functions of graffiti and street art in conflict-affected spaces' The International Consortium for Conflict Graffiti…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Joseph Brennan (Nazarene Theological College) ‘Sociopolitical Frameworks of the Ephesian Household’

14:00 - 16:00 4 March 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.…

Samuel Ferguson Lecture 2021: Dr Rowan Williams (University of Cambridge) “The Liturgy After the Liturgy: A Russian Approach to Social Theology in the Mid-20th Century”

16:00 - 17:30 4 March 2021
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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