Events in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
'Activism and The Home' Workshop
For the AHRC-funded network 'Challenging Domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990', the University of Manchester will be hosting a workshop called ‘Activism and The Home’, in collaboration with The Pankhurst Centre on Friday 3 April 2020. Historians and heritage practitioners will be squaring up to the ideas of domesticity, activism and working-c..
Chorus UK: It’s a Swing Thing
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has now been cancelled. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/coronavirus-update--1-april-2020/
LITERATURE LIVE: An Evening with Hilary Mantel hosted by Kamila Shamsie
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Literature Live: Jessica Moor and Juliet Bates
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has now been cancelled. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/coronavirus-update--1-april-2020/
CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): 'Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson'
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson'. This paper reads Nelson's The Argonauts together with Michael Serres’s arguments for non-chronologic..
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge': Led by Christina Lupton (Copenhagen)
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge. This is the most pedagogical and in some sense most accessible text by philosopher Michel Serres. We'll be tackling it as..
Gabriel Neiva (Manchester): 'Amerindian traditions in fictional writings: A literary panorama of the Guianas'
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies seminar series. Abstract: The national literatures of the Guianas, when contrasted with Amerindian oratures, present some striking continuities. Departing from the recurrent use of the regionally specific Amerindian notion of kanaima, the analysis of chosen literary texts reveals the..
History lunchtime seminar: Misha Ewen - Women and the economy in the early modern English Empire
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Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire) 'Embracing change: 'economical reform' at the 18th-century Bank
4.15 - 5.30: 23 April (Uni Place_3.204) Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire) 'Embracing change: 'economical reform' at the 18th-century Bank of England'
Ehrhardt Seminar: David Bell (University of Manchester) ‘Mortality Patterns and Bereavement Language in 1 Thessalonians: the Impact of Children in the Community of the Text’
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits to follow. For more on the Center for Biblical Studies, please see our website at http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/religions-and-theology/research/centre-for-..