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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

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…

From Chapter to Article: Article Writing Workshop Series - Meeting 2

13:00 - 16:00 16 November 2023
This is the second 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…

Queering the Clinamen: Unearthly Objects as Queer Forms in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

22 November 2023
Dr James Metcalf, Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century English Literature, is presenting his current project at the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture on Wednesday 22nd November,…

Queering the Clinamen: Unearthly Objects as Queer Forms in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

17:00 - 19:00 22 November 2023
Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture hosts this public lecture with Dr James Metcalf. The event is followed by drinks reception. Everyone is welcome!

Voices of our National Health Service: Building a national oral history archive of the NHS and Covid-19

14:00 - 15:00 23 November 2023
Between 2017 and 2022, the NHS at 70 and NHS Voices of Covid-19 projects, based at the University of Manchester worked with volunteers from all walks of life to record the stories of…

‘Ring in the True’: The evolution of independent press in Manchester

18:00 - 19:45 23 November 2023
Join us in the beautiful setting of our Historic Reading Room for a panel discussion on the evolution of independent press in Manchester from the 1960s through to the present day. In…

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

13:00 - 15:00 24 November 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 25 November 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…

EACW Research Seminar

17:00 - 18:30 29 November 2023
Anthony Capildeo, University of York, ‘The Stones Will Speak’ Ellen Wilkinson C1.18. Followed by a reception in the atrium. Ideas of reading place ‘vertically’ through time, and…

Rozane Rebechi (Rio Grande do Sul): “Small” comparable corpora for the retrieval of culture-related equivalents: advantages and limitations

16:00 - 17:30 29 November 2023
Part of the research seminar series of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. Abstract: This talk attempts to share findings of research I have carried out for the past years…

CTIS Research Seminar Series: How to Understand Intercultural Outcomes in Sojourner and Migrant Populations from an Interdisciplinary Perspective?

13:00 - 14:30 30 November 2023
This talk addresses the theoretical foundations and practical applications to understanding intercultural outcomes in sojourner and migrant populations from an interdisciplinary perspective,…

From Chapter to Article: Article Writing Workshop Series - Meeting 3

13:00 - 16:00 30 November 2023
This is the third 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…

The history and evolution of Chinese names

13:00 - 14:00 30 November 2023
Are you interested in the history of Chinese names? Do you teach or support Chinese students and want to know more about the tradition and culture behind their names? Are your classmates…

Carol Mavor- 2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass (1946-2021)

17:00 - 19:30 5 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

Carol Mavor- 2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: 'A patch of yellow, a coat of blue: inside my heart and Vermeer'

17:00 - 19:30 6 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

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