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School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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Calligraphy course

13:00 20 February - 14:00 19 March 2024
Looking for an activity to chase away the Winter blues? Try calligraphy at the Confucius Institute. Our calligraphy course is running again from 20 February, every Tuesday lunchtime…

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Faithful to the Salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India Company

16:30 - 18:00 29 February 2024
In 1818, the East India Company signed a treaty with the princely states of Jaipur and Jodhpur, offering British political and military protection in exchange for heavy cash tribute.…

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Mandarin Corner (on Wednesdays)

16:30 17 January - 17:30 27 March 2024
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…

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Unknotting Dürer's Jerome with Professor Alexander Marr

17:15 - 18:30 29 February 2024
This is a hybrid event taking place online and on the University of Manchester campus in the Mansfield Cooper Building G.22, you can find the exact location on this interactive map:…

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Low carbon Chinatown

18:00 - 19:00 4 March 2024
Come to Manchester CI's March public talk to hear from Singaporean artist and designer Ling Tan, who will talk about her projects on low carbon Chinese food and community participation.…

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Epistolary Archives and Sensibilities: Between the Personal and the Scientific in Women Mathematicians’ Correspondence

17:00 - 18:30 5 March 2024
Join us at the Rylands as Maria Tamboukou offers the notion of sensibility as a methodological move that she has deployed in conducting archival research, but also as an epistemological…

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Nat Ogle and Victoria Adukwei-Bulley, CNW Writer Fellows for Spring 2024

18:30 - 20:00 5 March 2024
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books, LitHub, and The Atlantic. She is the winner…

EACW Research Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:30 6 March 2024
Henry Knight-Lozano (Exeter) will deliver a paper entitled ‘William Bartram's Travels and Florida as Reptile Dominion’ . Discussion will follow

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The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University) - Lecture

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2024
The Samuel Ferguson Lecture—Thursday 7 March 2024 We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University). The focus…

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The Samuel Ferguson Lecture with Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University) - Presentation VENUE UPDATE

12:00 - 13:00 7 March 2024
The Samuel Ferguson Lecture—Thursday 7 March 2024 We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Samuel Ferguson lecturer is Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen (Copenhagen University). The focus…

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The Archive and Researching Women's Professional Careers in the Italian and UK Film Press

16:30 - 18:00 11 March 2024
This event on The Archive and Researching Women's Professional Careers in the Italian and UK Film Press, chaired by Dr. Silvia Angeli, comprises two presentations: Stella Scabelli:…

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THE SINGULARITY - Balsam Karam in conversation with Kaye Mitchell

18:30 - 20:00 11 March 2024
We're delighted to be welcoming Balsam Karam to Manchester to discuss her new novel THE SINGULARITY, a lyrical and devastating study of grief, migration and motherhood. Balsam will…

EACW Research Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2024
Coll Thrush (University of British Columbia), ‘Notes on an Entangled City: Lessons from Indigenous London’. This event is co-sponsored with the History Department

Kofi LeNiles (Towson University): "Learning from the Maroons: Leveraging Culture to Meet the Needs of Black Children"

17:00 13 March 2024
Part of the research seminar of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be online and can be followed here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166 Abstract: Dr.…

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CTIS Seminar: Dr Ashley Simpson, "Beyond façades of epistemological diversity? On the need of a dialectical approach for Intercultural Communication"

13:00 - 14:30 14 March 2024
Amidst calls for epistemological diversity and plurality within intercultural communication in this talk I contest the notion that the field has reached an epoch of criticality or that…

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Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object I

10:00 - 11:30 15 March 2024
The first workshop of Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Experience, Writing, and Emotion in Times of Conflict'. Each of three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims…

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Publishing Trade Books in History and Beyond

14:00 - 16:00 19 March 2024
Have you considered writing a trade book? What are the pros and cons of presenting academic research for a general readership, and what techniques of writing do you need to employ?…

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Spring Open Day at the Confucius Institute

13:30 - 16:45 23 March 2024
Always fancied learning a new language, but not sure what learning Mandarin is like? Interested in Chinese characters and want to try your hand at Chinese calligraphy? Come along to…

LITERATURE LIVE! Martina Evans and Declan Ryan in conversation

18:30 - 20:00 8 April 2024
We're partnering with Blackwell's bookshop Manchester to host Martina Evans and Declan Ryan as part of our Literature Live series. Martina and Declan will be reading from and talking…

Agathe Faure (LSE): Moving and settling in history: Indigenous Emberá people between the city and the rainforest

17:00 - 18:30 10 April 2024
Part of the research seminar of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. This event will be face to face, room Samuel Alexander A116. But it can also be followed online:…

Francesca Billiani's Inaugural Lecture – 'The Aesthetics of Modernisation: Italy and the Short Twentieth-Century'

16:00 - 18:00 10 April 2024
Throughout the Twentieth Century, Italy has struggled with the imperative of becoming a modern Nation-State. This lecture will focus on some key historical and political junctions –…

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Percival Everett in Conversation

19:00 10 April 2024
With my pencil, I wrote myself into being.’ In James, Percival Everett’s thrilling retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the enslaved Jim is allowed to tell his story for…

Employability Preparedness of International Students for an Era of Artificial Intelligence

13:00 - 14:30 11 April 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of work, potentially replacing human jobs, and risking many job categories (West, 2018; Poba-Nzaou et al., 2021). In higher education,…

CSSC Book Launch: The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature with Dr Sabine Sharp (Manchester)

17:00 - 19:00 15 April 2024
The Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture at the University of Manchester presents: BOOK LAUNCH: The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature (2024) Join us to celebrate the…

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The Humanitarian Archive in Historical Perspective

15:30 - 18:00 15 April 2024
This session will explore the constitution of a new archive of humanitarian records and how historians develop a synchronous way of engaging with very contemporary sources they are…

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