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Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Marion Turner (Oxford): 'Imagining Medieval Lives'

17:00 - 19:30 27 November 2024
Everyone is warmly invited to the Annual Brook Lecture in Middle English, to take place in: Ellen Wilkinson C1.18 at 5pm on Wednesday 27 November This year's lecturer is Marion Turner,…

Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Racial capitalism has become a widely used term—pointing to the intimate connections between processes of racialization and of capitalist organization. This talk will focus on an eighteenth-century…

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2024
Speakers: Dan Slater (Michigan) and Joe Wong (Toronto) Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular…

Inaugural Annual Healthier Futures Lecture Event

18:00 - 20:30 28 November 2024
The University of Manchester's Healthier Futures research platform is delighted to invite you to our inaugural annual lecture event, taking place at the Renold Innovation Hub, in Manchester's…

SCI Annual Lecture with Harriet Bulkeley: Governing with Nature

15:00 - 16:30 3 December 2024
We are delighted to announce that we are welcoming Professor Harriet Bulkeley for the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture 2024 on Tuesday 3rd December from 3pm in the blended…

Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance

15:00 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Speaker: Tom Lavers (GDI) After more than a decade, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology…

Professor David Alderson’s Inaugural Lecture – Beyond Subcultures: Populism, Hegemony and Cultural Production

16:30 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Alan Sinfield once distinctively theorised both the New Left generally and liberation movements individually as subcultures, but regarded these positively in the context of the defeats…

Welcome to the Sacrifice Zone(s): Fear and Militarism in Okinawa (Fear Research Network Seminar Series / East Asian Studies Seminar Series)

16:30 5 December 2024
American and increasingly Japanese militarism is an ever-present feature of people’s daily lives in Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa. Being located closer to Taiwan than to…

‘Solstice and Equinox’ Series with Jeanette Winterson CBE

18:00 - 19:30 5 December 2024
Award-winning writer, acclaimed author and Professor of New Writing at The University of Manchester, Jeanette Winterson returns to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library this…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr Lindsey Moore – ‘Taking the Suit for a Walk’: Re-imagining Urban Modernity before the Nakba

16:30 - 18:00 11 December 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing…

Could You Be the Next Great Scientist-Founder?- Scientist to Founder at Manchester

18:00 - 20:00 22 January 2025
If you're wondering: How do I turn my breakthrough science into a start-up? Am I addressing a problem with a large enough market? How do I recruit a team? Am I the right person to do…

The Albatross Lecture 2025: Dr Jared Margulies

11:00 - 15:00 23 January 2025
* **Please note this event is open to those both internal and external to The University of Manchester*** Join us on the 23rd January 2024 to hear a keynote presentation from Dr Jared…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), “I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You”: Introducing Walt Whitman and Your ‘Song of Myself’

16:00 - 17:30 29 January 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: “I Stop Somewhere Waiting for You”: Introducing Walt Whitman and Your ‘Song of Myself’…

The Harry Street Lecture 2025: Access to Life-saving Medication for All?

17:30 - 20:00 29 January 2025
Access to Life-saving Medication for All? Positive Obligations, Corporations, and Fundamental Rights Join us for the 37th Annual Harry Street Lecture as our guest speaker, Professor…

The British Academy Lecture Series: Peter Sellars - How to End a War: The Living and the Dead Working Together in Baroque Opera

18:00 - 19:30 4 February 2025
Join us for an extraordinary evening with one of the most influential theatre directors of our time, Peter Sellars. Hosted at The University of Manchester, this event promises to explore…

EACW research seminar: Dr. Ben Ware (KCL), 'Dialectics of Extinction: From Freud to Anti-Natalism'

17:00 - 18:30 5 February 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Ben Ware (KCL), 'Dialectics of Extinction: From Freud to Anti-Natalism' Venue: C1.18, Ellen Wilkinson Building…

GDI Film Screening and Panel Discussion: We Don't Do Charity

16:30 - 18:00 12 February 2025
Panel: Alan Braithwaite (Executive Producer) Amanda Campbell (Producer) David Campbell (Director) Join GDI and One World Together for a screening of ‘We don’t do charity’, a compelling…

Leverhulme Visiting Professor Lecture: Prof. Karen Karbiener (NYU), “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet

16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025
Leverhulme Visiting Professor Karen Karbiener (NYU) will deliver a public lecture on Walt Whitman: “I Am What I Am”: Walt Whitman, Good Gay Poet Venue: Sam Alex Lecture Theatre, Samuel…

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2025: 'The Terrorism Nobody is Talking About'

17:00 - 19:30 13 February 2025
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, best-selling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates reveals her two-year undercover…

David Conn: The miscarriages of justice following the Hillsborough disaster (Mark George Memorial Lecture)

17:30 - 19:00 13 February 2025
<strong>About the event</strong> David Conn will deliver the inaugural Mark George Memorial Lecture, which will reflect on the Hillsborough disaster, the families’ longstanding fight…

Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan

16:30 14 February 2025
Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities)…

EACW research seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester), 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal'

12:30 - 14:30 19 February 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing Research Seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester), 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal' 12.30pm:…

GDI Lecture: Do Courts Grant Indian Women Their Inheritance Claims?

16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2025
Despite inheritance law reform towards gender equality in India, families rarely transfer immovable property to women. Given this, do women use courts to claim their rights? If so,…

GDI Book Talk: City of Desire: Biography of the Largest Informal Settlement in Bangladesh

16:30 - 18:00 26 February 2025
Speaker: Tanzil Shafique (University of Sheffield) City of Desire, by Tanzil Shafique, is a portrait of the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh. It seeks to develop a Southern…

Lecture: Dr Michael Sappol (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet'.

17:30 - 19:00 4 March 2025
Dr Michael Sappol (Uppsala University, Sweden) 'Queer Anatomies: Aesthetics and perverse desire in the anatomical image; or The Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet'. Room 2.60,…

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