School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

HCRI PhD Conference

12:00 - 17:30 25 September 2020
HCRI's annual PhD Conference is going virtual! Join HCRI for an afternoon of discussion, hearing about a variety of different issues central to humanitarian affairs: from the complexities…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Nijay K Gupta (Northern Seminary, Illinois) - “Reconstructing Junia's Imprisonment: Examining a Neglected Comment in Romans 16:7”

16:00 - 17:30 1 October 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Siobhán Jolley (University of Manchester) ‘Asking for it? Lessons from Mary Magdalene in a culture of sexual violence.’

14:00 - 16:00 8 October 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr James Sedlacek (Nazarene Theological College) ‘Is the Perfect Tense in the Pauline Corpus a ‘Front-grounding’ Tense or a ‘Backgrounding’ Tense?‘

14:00 - 16:00 15 October 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Kristin Aune (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry) - “Religious Student Societies in Universities – Division and Cohesion”

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

"Exploring Blockchain in the Cultural Sector" Conference

16 October 2020
Blockchain is an open, decentralised and distributed technology, which is often associated to cryptocurrencies. However, blockchain is more than a digital money infrastructure and it…

Gabriel Neiva (Manchester): Amerindian traditions in fictional writings: A literary panorama of the Guianas

17:00 - 18:30 21 October 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This is an online event. Details on how to access it will follow soon.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. George Brooke (University of Manchester, University of Chester) ‘Esoteric Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

14:00 - 16:00 22 October 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

HCRI Landmark Lecture: When Wounds Travel

16:00 - 18:00 22 October 2020
Join Dr Omar Dewachi (Rutgers University) and chair Dr Stephanie Sodero (HCRI) virtually, for a fascinating discussion on the movement of wounds: physical, social and political. Decades…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Elizabeth Shively (University of St Andrews) ‘The Benefit of Applying a Multidimensional Cognitive Model to Gospel Genre Studies’

14:00 - 16:00 29 October 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Professor George Pattison (University of Glasgow) “Love Came Down at Christmas”

16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

Ainhoa Montoya (London): On Care for Our Common Home: Ecological Materiality and Sovereignty over the Lempa Crossborder Watershed

17:00 4 November 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This is an online event. Details on how to access it will follow soon.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham) ‘The Community Rules: Florilegia from a Forthcoming Commentary’

14:00 - 16:00 5 November 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Richard Burridge (King’s College, London) ‘Is “NT Ethics” A Genre Mistake? Methodological Reflections in debate with Gustafson and Hays’

14:00 - 16:00 12 November 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Rob Kanter (University of Manchester) “Interactions between British Converts to Islam and Anglo-Jewry, c.1900-39”

16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

Research Seminar: Putin's Human Rights

16:00 - 18:00 12 November 2020
Join Sergei Nikitin (former Director of the Amnesty International representative office in Russia) and chair Dr Luke Kelly (HCRI) for a virtual seminar covering difficulties faced by…

Maite Conde (Cambridge): tbc

17:00 - 18:30 18 November 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This is an online event. Details on how to access it will follow soon.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Walter Houston (University of Manchester) ‘One God, One People: Reflections on a Reconciled and Reconciling Pentateuch’

14:00 - 16:00 26 November 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Charles S. Pemberton (University of Durham) “Food Banks and Theology”

16:00 - 17:30 26 November 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

Research Seminar: Creative Engagement

16:00 - 18:00 26 November 2020
Join Professor Jenny Edkins (University of Manchester) and chair Dr Nat O'Grady (HCRI) for a virtual research seminar on creative engagement in response to disaster and atrocity. …

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Helen Jacobus (University of Manchester) ‘A Response to the Alleged "Fallacy of Jaubert's Hypothesis" and the Flood Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

14:00 - 16:00 3 December 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Nicholas Kay (King’s College, London) ‘The Concept of ‘ir in 11Q19: Spatiality’

14:00 - 16:00 10 December 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

End of term Lecture: Historical Revisionism and Genocide Denial

16:00 - 18:00 10 December 2020
EXACT DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED. Join Remembering Srebrenica, a charity memorialising the Bosnian genocide in 1995, along with a survivor from the genocide and a leading academic in…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Andrew Boakye (University of Manchester) “Apostles Behaving Badly: Peter, Paul and Black Lives Matter”

16:00 - 17:30 10 December 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Samuel Rogers ‘Black Lives Matter and the Bible: Use of the Bible in Discourse Surrounding the BLM Movement’

14:00 - 16:00 17 December 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

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