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Ehrhardt Seminar: Anna Budhi-Thornton, University of Manchester Jesus the Model Man?: Ancient masculinities and the Jesus of the Johannine Passion Narrative

14:10 - 15:30 2 March 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Teresa Ko (Ursinus College): "Blackface and Black Press in 1920s Argentina"

17:00 - 18:30 3 March 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: This talk analyzes two sources…

LITERATURE LIVE! Nicole Flattery and Richard Milward in conversation

18:30 - 20:00 7 March 2023
We're delighted to be working with the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing to host Nicole Flattery and Richard Milward as part of their Literature Live series. Nicole…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mary Mills, Liverpool Hope University/Maryvale Institute, Landscape Transformation in Isaiah 34-5: Between Utopia and Dystopia

14:10 - 15:30 9 March 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Wordsworthian Tree Planting and the English Lake District

17:00 - 18:00 9 March 2023
William Wordsworth was a keen planter of trees—from the Dove Cottage garden to the grounds at Rydal Mount, to landed estates, friends’ houses, and the local churchyard—he planted a…

Ghosts and Monsters: Reconstructing Nature on the Site of the Berlin Wall

16:00 - 18:00 14 March 2023
In this presentation I seek to develop a larger argument from a small place that no longer exists. Since 2004 I regularly visited a wasteland or Brache, located on the site of the former…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Lynn Cohick, Northern Seminary, Topic: Judaism, Paul, and the Resurrection of the Body

14:10 - 15:30 16 March 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

'Let me tell you a story': story-telling as a tool for claiming trustworthiness in organisational settings

14:00 - 15:30 23 March 2023
CTIS Research Seminar 2 'Let me tell you a story': story-telling as a tool for claiming trustworthiness in organisational settings Narratives are primary means of constructing identity…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Hilary Marlow, University of Cambridge, The Land, the Poor, and the Rich: An Ecojustice Reading of the Book of Amos

14:10 - 15:30 23 March 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Jérémie Voirol (Geneva/UoM): Indigenous elegance in the city: Producing contemporary indigeneity through YouTube music videos in Otavalo, Ecuador

17:00 - 18:30 23 March 2023
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This talk will be ftf in Samuel Alexander A114 but can be also followed…

Notes on Bresson

30 - 31 March 2023
Marking 80 years since the wartime release of Robert Bresson’s first feature film Les Anges du Peche in 1943, and 40 years since the release of his final feature film L’Argent in 1983,…

NEVER WAS Book launch: H. Gareth Gavin in conversation with Andrew McMillan

18:30 - 20:30 17 April 2023
We're delighted to be working with the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing and Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture to host the launch of Honor Gareth Gavin's…

Andrew Redden (Liverpool): The Devil is a Jailbreaker: Graphic History and the Hermeneutics of the Unbelieved.

21:00 - 22:30 19 April 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Room: Samuel Alexander A114. This event can be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 …

Linguistic Diversity and Ethnobotanical Knowledge

16:00 - 18:00 19 April 2023
Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity also tend to be linguistically diverse, and languages reflect the relationship between their speakers and their natural environment.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: John Barton, University of Oxford, Suffering and the Problem of Evil in the Prophets

14:10 - 15:30 20 April 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Applied Creative Practice 1: What is the “applied” in applied creative research?

11:00 - 13:00 24 April 2023
This seminar is the first of a series of three linked workshops which will bring together researchers from a range of disciplinary fields in SALC to examine how different disciplines…

Research café: The cladding crisis - research and performance

12:00 - 13:30 26 April 2023
Join us for an informal research café lunch event exploring the politics of high-rise housing, the cladding crisis, performance and activism. We are looking to start a collaborative…

Can you count on interpreters to have “super-skills”? Professionalization and the interplay between education, practice, and research in Public Service Interpreting (PSI)

14:00 - 15:30 27 April 2023
CTIS Research Seminar 3 The talk explores factors that influence professionalization within Public Service Interpreting. From the vantage point of a general model of professionalization…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alison Jack, University of Edinburgh, Biblical Themes in Contemporary Crime Fiction

14:10 - 15:30 27 April 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Guardians of the Forest - Workshop by Francesca Cavallo (Kent) and Daiara Tukano (Indigenous artist and activist)

11:00 - 16:00 27 April 2023
Exploring ideas of guardianship and stewardship of borders within forests, this four-hour workshop will focus on risk, art, and the agency of local knowledge in defence of rainforests.…

Chloe Ireton (UCL): Tracing a History of Black Thought in 16th-century Sevilla.

17:00 - 18:30 3 May 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Race, Roots & Resistance Collective (R3). Room: Samuel Alexander A214. This…

SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO - Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation

18:30 - 20:00 3 May 2023
We're delighted to be working with the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing to host Jason Allen-Paisant as part of their Literature Live series. Jason will be reading from…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alison Salvesen, University of Oxford, Symmachus, ‘the translator of the Jews’: what a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible can tell us about religious life in early 3rd C Palestine

14:10 - 15:30 4 May 2023
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

CSSC Talk: Dr Monica Pearl, ' "Where is your rage?": AIDS Generations'

17:00 - 19:00 9 May 2023
This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the University of Manchester. Veteran ACT UP activist and scholar, Dr Monica Pearl, has written…

Trees and Forests in the Roman World (CIDRAL)

10:30 - 16:00 10 May 2023
The peoples of the ancient Mediterranean world relied heavily on wood for many purposes, from engineering works to cooking to artistry. Trees had huge commercial value, as well as strong…

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