Events
Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)
Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more cultural activities and language practice. Mandarin Corners are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK 4-6) level that are designed to allow Mandarin learners to get together with fellow classmates, meet new friends and discuss Chine..
Spring Chinese Calligraphy Course (EVERY THURSDAY)
Learn the art of Chinese calligraphy this Spring Whether you are new to writing Chinese characters or have already had some tuition, this course will be a great option. It will focus on learning how to use Chinese brushes and ink, mastering the basic strokes that underpin Chinese writing and understanding the structure of Chinese characters...
Blind Spots, Gaps, and Archival Silences: Reconstructing Contestation in the Venetian State Archive
Venice boasts one of the largest early modern state archives. Produced by the Republic of Venice (797-1797), it has been mined for pioneering studies in political, economic, social, and cultural history. As Leopold von Ranke’s preferred sources, the records of the Venetian state arguably form the very foundation of history as a professional..
Estival Orchestra Concert
MUMS celebrate a great year of music-making and the end of exams with a diverse concert. Alongside Bizet’s Carmen Suites, the orchestra play a student composition and accompany songs by Rachel Burnett. Instagram: @uommusicsociety Facebook: Manchester University Music Society (MUMS)
Animals and the Archive
This one-day workshop brings emerging and established scholars together to explore how archival sources reveal relationships between animals and humans focusing on agency, cultural priorities and archival practices with regards to non-human subjects. This event is organised by Leah Astbury, Clara Dawson and Catherine Evans. It is being suppo..
East Asian Studies Seminar: Edward Boyle (Nichibunken, Kyoto, Japan) on 'Heritage Contestation and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific'
This talk will introduce the notion of Borders of Memory as a means to analyse contests over sites of heritage, and demonstrate its application through a series of contemporary examples from the Asia Pacific. Borders of Memory reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over the historical narratives that shape heritage si..
Empire and the Affective Archive: Understanding Bureaucracy, Emotion, and Activism in Records of the Colonial Object III
The third workshop of the Empire and the Affective Archive series is entitled 'Affective Archives and Activist Archiving'. Each of the three CIDRAL-funded one-day workshops aims to develop thinking on the still little considered area of emotion-centred histories of the imperial archive, exploring how feeling, sense, and emotion are archived -..
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