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Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

11:00 - 13:00 20 August 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

Dr Monica Pearl at the Manchester Pride Candlelit Vigil

20:00 - 21:00 28 August 2023
Every year, the Candlelit Vigil concludes the four days of Manchester Pride. During the Candlelit Vigil, participants come together to honour those who are suffering, persecuted, and…

Queer and Radical? 'Beyond Radical' Network Launch with Cheddar Gorgeous

18:30 - 20:00 28 September 2023
Queer and radical: two words we often see together. But their meanings are far from straightforward. While ‘queer’ is a word put to use in an increasing range of contexts, it is often…

Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

13:00 - 15:00 29 September 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

More than a 'Foul Drain': Manchester's Water History

13:00 - 15:00 30 September 2023
Where does Manchester get its water from? How has the city used water over the centuries? And how has water shaped the Manchester we know now? Join us and get to know Manchester’s water…

Mandarin Corner (every Wednesday)

16:45 4 October - 17:45 13 December 2023
Practice your Chinese and develop an appreciation of Chinese culture at our weekly Mandarin Corner. These are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK…

The Dazzling Whiteness of an Early Tomfoolery: Sex Work and Racial Politics in Samuel Beckett and Nancy Cunard’s early 1930s work'

17:00 - 19:00 4 October 2023
Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture hosts this public lecture with Professor Daniela Caselli. The event is followed by drinks reception. Everyone is welcome!

Where the Wind Blows - Chinese film screening at HOME cinema

6 - 12 October 2023
We are delighted to continue our collaboration with HOME Cinema with the screening of "Where the Wind Blows". The film will be showing from Friday, 6th October until Thursday, 12th…

"The Book of Beijing" at the Manchester Literature Festival

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2023
The Confucius Institute is co-hosting a discussion as part of the Manchester Literature Festival with two authors from China. Gu Shi and Wen Zhen will be reading from and discussing…

For the Record: Songs as archive, and other entanglements

17:00 - 18:30 18 October 2023
This unique presentation is the latest in a series of Entanglements devised by theatre-makers Karen Christopher and David Overend. These informal, hybrid events weave text, film, music…

Nuno Pinto (Manchester): Better decision support for better urban governance: How decision-support knowledge and methods help different stakeholders, examples from Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador

17:00 - 18:30 18 October 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be face to face, in Samuel Alexander A116. But it can also be followed online:…

Ethics and Sustainability for Today's Translation Professional

13:00 - 14:30 19 October 2023
Abstract: While ethical issues have now long been an important concern for translation scholars, professionals, and students alike, the challenging contemporary environment that we…

ENSFR Annual Conference. Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality.

23 - 25 October 2023
This conference will aim to consider the relationship that the short story form has in its representations of temporality. It will also ask “does the short story form do things uniquely,…

More than a 'Foul Drain': Manchester's Water History

13:00 - 15:00 27 October 2023
Where does Manchester get its water from? How has the city used water over the centuries? And how has water shaped the Manchester we know now? Join us and get to know Manchester’s water…

Building Manchester: A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

13:00 - 15:00 28 October 2023
Red sandstone is Manchester’s native rock, but many of our buildings are clad in Portland Stone all the way from the South Coast- why? Join us to get the solid facts on why humans are…

Music and Sonic Art: Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight (MuSA 2023)

28 October 2023
We are delighted to announce the twelfth international conference on Music and Sonic Art: Seeing Sound, Hearing Sight (MuSA 2023), an interdisciplinary event supported by the Royal…

Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis

16:00 - 18:00 7 November 2023
Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which human beings are innately possessed of infinite desires and society must therefore facilitate endless growth and consumption…

EACW Research Seminar

14:00 - 16:00 8 November 2023
Lubaaba Al-Azami, UoM, 'Early Modern English Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean', and Amy Bride, UoM, book talk on Financial Gothic, just out from U of Wales Press A7, Samuel Alexander,…

Eduardo Restrepo (Temuco): '“Blancos” en un mundo negro: marcaciones raciales y distinciones de clase en Tumaco, Pacífico sur colombiano'

17:00 - 18:30 8 November 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: Tumaco es un poblado costero…

‘Bannockburn to Brexit 1314-2014’ – Philipp Roessner’s Inaugural Lecture

16:45 - 18:15 8 November 2023
For more than seven centuries Scotland has been part of Europe. Its links with Europe, including the German-speaking lands, have often been ignored, dismissed, and downplayed. Scotland…

From Chapter to Article: Article Writing Workshop Series - Meeting 1

13:00 - 16:00 9 November 2023
This is the first meeting in the Article Writing Workshop Series: From Chapter to Article, offered by artsmethods@manchester for PGRs. The series is designed to help you revise completed…

On the Ethics and Politics of (not)Understanding: Going beyond Language in Multilingual and Multimodal Research Entanglements

13:00 - 14:30 9 November 2023
This talk discusses the problematics of understanding in intercultural communication research. It poses questions such as what happens when researchers do not understand? Should we…

Annual Language Partner Event 2023

15:30 - 17:30 15 November 2023
We’ve heard that students are finding it a challenge to team up with native speaking language partners so we have created this unique opportunity to introduce Chinese learners to Chinese…

Carlos Halaburda (University of Cologne): A Cosmopolitan Uranism: Queer Networks of Scandal in the Global Nineteenth Century

17:00 15 November 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC). This event will be…

EACW Research Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 15 November 2023
José Francisco Fernández, University of Almería, ‘Beckett vs. Translation’ Ellen Wilkinson C1.18, followed by drinks at Kro

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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