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Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 2 October - 17:30 4 December 2024
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities.…

Pedro Mendes Loureiro (CLAS, Cambridge): The prison consensus: incarceration, investment, and inequality in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 4 December 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in…

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…

Roundtable: New Approaches on the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2024
We welcome three guest speakers to our roundtable discussion of Claire Morelon’s new book 'Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague 1914-1920' (Cambridge University Press, 2024).…

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: What Is an Ancient Liturgy?

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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…

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…

Instruments in Chinese music: The guzheng

18:00 - 19:00 11 December 2024
We're delighted to invite you to the final talk in our "Chinese instruments in focus" series. The series features three talks hosted by Po Hang Yuen, each focusing on a different instrument.…

Language Café

12:00 - 14:00 11 December 2024
Language lovers, assemble. We have a perfect lunch date for you; at the Language Café, you can grab a free brew whilst meeting new people and practising your language skills! Whether…

Francisco Sánchez and Castellar Granados (Salamanca University): Race, Inequality, and Political Trust in Latin America

17:00 - 18:30 29 January 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 29 January 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be online via this…

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’…

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 4 February - 17:30 8 April 2025
HIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY between 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural…

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…

Language Café

12:00 - 14:00 5 February 2025
Language lovers, assemble. We have a perfect lunch date for you; at the Language Café, you can grab a free brew whilst meeting new people and practising your language skills! Whether…

CTIS Research Seminar - Exploring Communicative Practice and ‘Groupness’ in a Virtual Intercultural Intervention (Dr Milene Mendes de Oliveira, Newcastle University)

14:00 - 15:30 6 February 2025
Dr Milene will deliver an online talk, which is organised in a hybrid format. Please register for online participation here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfuCtrjIrH9OekN7fkoGmxRdY2Rn78Yc4.…

Brazilian Indigenous Art and Environmental Thought

16:30 - 18:00 11 February 2025
A round table about Indigenous art from the Brazilian Northeast and its connection with environmental questions and land struggle. The Indigenous peoples from the Northeast of Brazil…

Catherine Andrews (CIDE, Mexico). The Republic Needs a Man! The Plan of Guadalajara and the Debate about Dictatorship in Mexico, 1852-1853

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2025
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: This event can be followed online via this link: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166…

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…

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)…

History Research Seminar - The Place of History in US Civic Education: Teaching and Learning the Declaration of Independence in the Late Nineteenth Century

12:00 - 13:30 17 February 2025
Join us for the latest in the history external speaker seminar series. Drawing from a larger project on the history of civic education in the United States, this paper examines the…

Remembering Peasants: An Evening with Patrick Joyce

18:30 17 February 2025
Patrick Joyce – one of Britain's leading social historians, and Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester – celebrates the paperback release of 'Remembering Peasants':…

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:…

Language Café

12:00 - 14:00 19 February 2025
Language lovers, assemble. We have a perfect lunch date for you; at the Language Café, you can grab a free brew whilst meeting new people and practising your language skills! Whether…

Manchester in Translation 2025

17:30 - 19:30 19 February 2025
Comma Press, Department for Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies and Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies What does it mean to be translating in Manchester and in Arabic now?…

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