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CIDRAL Online Events - Book Launch & Conversation

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2021
Book Launch & Conversation: The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (Organised by the Jewish-Muslim Research Network, University of Michigan)…

CIDRAL Online Events - Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Neuroscience

14:00 - 16:00 5 May 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Alex Samely, ‘Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Neuroscience’ ZOOM link - click on joining links Passcode: 741431

Grete Stern: modernist photography and indigeneity in Argentina

17:15 - 18:15 5 May 2021
Ignacio Aguiló (Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Manchester) Grete Stern: modernist photography and indigeneity in Argentina Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.c…

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Kazuo Ishiguro & Jackie Kay in Conversation

19:30 19 April - 12:00 17 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Mon 19 April 2021 and available to watch until 17 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Do you believe in the human heart?’…

Pablo Hernández Sau (UoM): "Mimesis at Spanish Louisiana. Colonial interaction in late eighteenth century Mississippi"

17:00 - 18:00 5 May 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930 ABSTRACT: In 1763, Bourbon…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Holly Morse (University of Manchester) ‘Falling for the Devil: Eve and the Witch’

14:00 - 16:00 6 May 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.…

CIDRAL Online Events - SALC Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 11 May 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) SALC Book Launch ZOOM Link - click on joining links Passcode: 489795

Diggers and Builders - Writers as community activists

20:00 - 21:00 11 May 2021
Linda Brogan, Shamshad Khan, Peter Kalu and Jonny Wright discuss 'Diggers and Builders - Writers as community activists' We often forget that a compelling story can be the result of…

Online Talk: Finding work in the UK - my personal story

18:00 - 19:00 13 May 2021
Many international students come to study in the UK with the aim to gain some work experience upon graduation. With the Graduate route becoming effective on 1 July, international students…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Isaac T. Soon (University of Durham) “Medicine to the Weak: Disability, Ecclesia, and Healing in Irenaeus' Adversus Haereses”

16:00 - 17:30 13 May 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…

Postgraduate Symposium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies

09:00 - 16:15 14 May 2021
Annual PGR symposium in Latin American Studies organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. It will include training sessions & presentations. All welcome, especially…

HCRI MSc Global Health webinar

13:00 24 May 2021
Our unique, online and part-time Global Health course, which has been developed in collaboration with the International Federation of the Red Cross, is one of our most popular courses…

Online Talk: Chinese Gardens - Design and Symbolism

18:00 - 19:00 27 May 2021
Join Manchester Confucius Institute and catch glimpses of the beloved blossoms and flowers of China during this time of year. Firstly, landscape architect Dr. Youcan Ren will hold this…

MSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response online programme: webinar

13:00 - 14:00 28 May 2021
Our MSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response distance learning course will enable you to develop the skills and knowledge needed to respond to and help prevent…

China in Bloom

29 May - 6 June 2021
Join Manchester Confucius Institute to catch glimpses of the beloved blossoms and flowers of China during this time of year! Following on from their online talk with Youcao Ren, and…

BASEES Polish Studies Group 2021 Workshop

11:00 - 15:00 2 June 2021
Presentation of Kobiety w Polsce 1945-1989 (Universitas 2020) by Katarzyna Stanczak-Wislicz, Piotr Perkowski, Malgorzata Fidelis, Barbara Klich-Kluczewska. Book presentation (Dr Katarzyna…

Rethinking the History of Violence, Health and Care in Wartime, c. 1860-2000s

09:30 - 17:40 4 June 2021
Join us for this online workshop exploring the history of violence against health and care, broadly conceived, in wartime. Panel sessions include: - Wartime Violence and the Politics…

Continuity & Resilience Series: Looking beyond Covid-19 Webinar

13:00 - 14:30 7 June 2021
In the unique and challenging world of a global pandemic, the continuity of services and organisational resilience has been critical to maintaining successful operations for both response…

HCRI LEAP Programme webinar

12:00 - 13:30 9 June 2021
The LEAP programme in Humanitarian Practice is a flexible master’s course designed by humanitarians for humanitarians, allowing you to study alongside working in the field. In collaboration…

Research and Libraries (Part of Festival of Libraries 2021)

17:00 - 18:00 9 June 2021
Hear from a distinguished panel about how archives are created, collated and used within research. Speaking in the historic reading room of the Rylands, publisher Michael Schmidt and…

Writing for Wellbeing Workshops

9 - 12 June 2021
Expressing yourself and crafting an object have long been studied and considered a way to relieve stress and emotional turbulence. We are told that “talking helps” and that making “something…

Screen & Talk

17:30 - 20:00 10 June 2021
The Screen & Talk event includes the screening of 'A collection of art and blood, the Goering catalogue ' followed by a Q&A panel with Jean-Marc Dreyfus, co-writer of the documentary.…

Ashton’s Radical Poets (Part of Festival of Libraries 2021)

14:00 - 14:45 11 June 2021
Presented by Jennifer Reid and Mike Sanders, this event focuses on two working-class poets, John Stafford and Joseph Chapman, who were active radicals and poets in Ashton-under-Lyne…

Exploring the role of art in communicating experiences of displacement

16:00 - 18:00 14 June 2021
How do artists use their practice to tell stories about displacement? How does their own experience of displacement influence their artistic practice? Join the Humanitarian and Conflict…

Israel-Palestine: Where is the UN?

13:00 - 17:00 15 June 2021
In recent months, Palestinians in the occupied territory have once again been feeling the devastating impact of a barrage of Israeli airstrikes, forced evictions, and mass arrests.…

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