School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

'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…

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…

Lecture with Professor David Olusoga for A level (Y12) students: ‘Why study History? Empire, Slavery, and Identity in Britain today’

14:30 - 16:30 10 May 2023
Join us at Manchester Cathedral for this lecture for students in Year 12. It is a great opportunity to hear from David Olusoga, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester,…

Paul Humphrey (Colgate University): "Oceanic Archives and Afrodiasporic Spirituality in Comics from the Caribbean Diaspora"

17:00 10 May 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 presentation analyses…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alan Garrow, St Peter's, Harrogate & Sheffield Centre for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, The Didache Discoveries: Two Texts Within One

14:10 - 15:30 11 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,…

Applied Creative Practice 2: Bringing applied creativity into teaching and learning.

11:00 - 13:00 15 May 2023
This seminar is the second 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…

BLUE NOW Screening (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

19:00 - 20:00 21 May 2023
The Sexuality Summer School students will begin by attending BLUE NOW, a live screening based on Derek Jarman’s 1993 film. This new event is directed by Neil Bartlett and performed…

Film Screening and Discussion: Sediments (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

18:00 - 20:00 22 May 2023
Six trans women travel to a small town in León where they will explore unusual landscapes, as well as the ins and outs of their own personalities. Looking for answers about what connects…

Prof Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (USC): 'Organs of War: Ecologies of Measurement and Dematerialization in Wangechi Mutu’s Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors’ (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

15:15 - 17:00 22 May 2023
This public lecture, co-sponsored by English, American Studies and Creative Writing and the NWCDTP, will be the opening public lecture of the 2023 Sexuality Summer School: '(Up) Against…

Live Performance Event in Partnership with Contact: TransMission: SissyTV (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

19:30 - 20:30 23 May 2023
So many things. What to do with them all? How to get inside? Where to find my forbidden desire? Nando Messias invites you into their Narnian closet, a trans archive of exquisite ephemera,…

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