Events
Upcoming events in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC).
- 'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto and Calvino-Turcismus in Antwerp’s Dominican Church' - Adam Sammut (20 February 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: ‘Waste, Precarity and the Artwork in China’ led by Margaret Hillenbrand (20 February 2019 1pm-3pm)
- EAC Research Seminar: Rosie Knight (Sheffield) 'Infant-feeding and Inequality: Motherhood, Race, and Breastfeeding in the Antebellum South' (20 February 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- GDI Lecture Series: Blood Bricks: Untold Stories of Modern Slavery and Climate Change from Cambodia with Prof Katherine Brickell (20 February 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- The Adhesion of Love (20 February 2019 7pm-9pm)
- Yemen: Response and Representation of a War (20 February 2019 4pm-6pm)
- CTIS Seminar: Technical Translation in 19th-Century Japan: Historicising and Decentring Notions of Translation (21 February 2019 2pm-3.30pm)
- Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Dwight Swanson (Nazarene Theological College), ‘Conflicting Eschatologies: Jesus and the Mahdi (Christian and Shi’a apocalyptic expectation)’ (21 February 2019 2pm-4pm)
- Manchester Medieval Society Seminar: Anke Bernau, 'Late medieval knots: Pain, Delight, Mystery' (21 February 2019 6pm-7.30pm)
- Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Mr. Amin Ehteshami (University of California, Berkeley) ‘The Pivot to Canonization: Scripturalist Hermeneutics in Premodern Iran’ (21 February 2019 4pm-5.30pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Nicholas Ashton, piano: Wasserklavier (21 February 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- MUMS Opera Project (22 February 2019 7pm-9pm)
- MUMS Opera Project (23 February 2019 7pm-9pm)
- CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sander Gilman (Emory): ‘The Humanities Make You a Better Person! A Foundational Myth About Higher Education’ (26 February 2019 5pm-7pm)
- LITERATURE LIVE: MLF Tracey Thorn in conversation with Jeanette Winterson - SOLD OUT (26 February 2019 7.30pm-8.30pm)
- 'Home as a Site of Longing: Nazgol Ansarinia's Living Room (2005)' - Janelle Hixon (27 February 2019 5pm)
- CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘The Humanities and Professional Education: Fables and Fallacy’ led by Sander Gilman (Emory) (27 February 2019 1pm-3pm)
- Confucius Institute Film Club (27 February 2019 3pm-5pm)
- Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World (28 February 2019 7pm-8.30pm)
- CTIS Seminar: A Splendid Innovation’: The Invention of Subtitling in the US and UK (28 February 2019 2pm-3.30pm)
- Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Katie Edwards (The University of Sheffield) (28 February 2019 2pm-4pm)
- Nigerian Gospel Singing Workshop with Evanthia Patsiaoura (28 February 2019 2.30pm-4pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Daniel Hyunwoo Evans (Piano) (28 February 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- "The Many Lives of Leonardo" - Luke Uglow (2 March 2019 2pm-3pm)
- Ad Solem and The Cosmo Singers (2 March 2019 7pm-9pm)
- MANTIS FESTIVAL (2 March 2019 6pm-7.30pm)
- MANTIS FESTIVAL (2 March 2019 8pm-9pm)
- MANTIS FESTIVAL (3 March 2019 2pm-3pm)
- 'Spratt’s Flaps: Using Books and Learning Midwifery in the Early Nineteenth Century' - Rebecca Whiteley (6 March 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘On Amtiv Ghosh, The Great Derangement’ led by Zoë Svendsen (Cambridge) (6 March 2019 1pm-3pm)
- Confucius Institute Film Club (6 March 2019 3pm-5pm)
- GDI Lecture Series: Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa with Franklin Obeng-Odoom (6 March 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- Nation Branding in Taiwan - A Grassroots Perspective by Dr Adina Zemanek (6 March 2019 12pm-2pm)
- CTIS Seminar: Translators as ‘Committed People Helping Others’: Social Responsibility, Digital Labour and the Role of For-Profit Institutions in Framing Discourses on Volunteer Translators (7 March 2019 2pm-3.30pm)
- Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Fleur Houston - ‘Asylum Crisis? An Examination of Isa 16.1-5’ (7 March 2019 2pm-4pm)
- Northern Harmony Singing Workshop (7 March 2019 2.30pm-4pm)
- The Samuel Ferguson Lecture: Professor Kathryn Tanner (Yale University) - ‘Grace and the Temporalities of Capitalism’ (7 March 2019 4pm-5.30pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Northern Harmony (7 March 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- MUMS Lunchtime Concerts: Musica Lunchtime Concert (8 March 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra (9 March 2019 7.30pm-9pm)
- LITERATURE LIVE: Max Porter in conversation with Luke Brown (11 March 2019 7.30pm-9pm)
- HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Sophie Roborgh and Nat O'Grady (12 March 2019 4pm-6pm)
- 'Pieter Bruegel's Political Paintings' - Jamie Edwards (13 March 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- Confucius Institute Talk: China in Drag - Travels with a Cross-dresser (13 March 2019 6pm-7pm)
- Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Daniela Caselli, 'The Modernist Child' (13 March 2019 5pm-7pm)
- CTIS Seminar: Evangelising 19th-Century Italy? Translation and the Transnational Migration of Cheap Religious Tracts (14 March 2019 2pm-3.30pm)
- Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Mika Pajunen - ‘Models of Textual Development and the Dead Sea Scrolls‘ (14 March 2019 2pm-4pm)
- Henry Box Brown Lecture: Darnell Hunt (University of California Los Angeles) (14 March 2019 5pm-7pm)
- JRRI Annual Lecture 2019. Jenny Uglow: 'Walter Crane: Fairytales, Manchester and Utopian Socialism' (14 March 2019 5.30pm-7.30pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Trio Atem (14 March 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- MUMS lunchtime Concerts: World Music (15 March 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- The Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO) and Manchester University String Orchestra (MUSO) (16 March 2019 7.30pm-9pm)
- 'Extra-Illustrating the Macklin Bible' - Naomi Billingsley (20 March 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- GDI Lecture Series: Agrarian crises, institutional innovation and gender: Can group farming provide an answer? with Prof Bina Agarwal (20 March 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland: Galway), ‘The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing’ (20 March 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- The Washing Up (20 March 2019 4pm-5.30pm)
- CTIS Seminar: Claiming and Recognizing Expertise in Climate Science Internet Discourse: A Corpus-based Approach (21 March 2019 2pm-3.30pm)
- Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Svetlana Khobnya (Nazarene Theological College) - ‘The Reality of Faithfulness in 1 Peter: To What Extent Does Peter Create a Model of Faithful Living?’ (21 March 2019 2pm-4pm)
- HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Alison Howell (21 March 2019 4pm-6pm)
- Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Mr. Kevin Storer (University of Manchester) - ‘Kierkegaard on the Dialectic of Authority and Imagination: Reading the Bible as a Christian’ (21 March 2019 4pm-5.30pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Shakespeare Miscellany II: 'Music oft hath such a charm...' (21 March 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- Big Band (22 March 2019 7.30pm-9pm)
- MUMS Lunchtime Concerts: Baroque Orchestra: Music by Handel, Avison, Geminiani and the Earl of Kelly (22 March 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- Stockport Youth Orchestra (24 March 2019 3.30pm-5.30pm)
- 'Circulating Capital: Northern Ireland and the Politics of Heritage' - Sarah Feinstein (27 March 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- COMMONISM (27 March 2019 7pm-8.30pm)
- EAC Research Seminar: Peter Sabor (McGill) ‘Frances Burney d'Arblay and Hester Maria ('Queeney') Thrale Elphinstone: The Arc of a Sixty-Year Friendship’ (27 March 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Gergely Juhasz (Liverpool Hope University) - ‘From 1 Corinthians to Galatians: Unity and Discord as Hermeneutical Key for Protestant Self-Understanding in the Early Reformation’ (28 March 2019 2pm-4pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert with David Fanning (piano) (28 March 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- MUMS Lunchtime Concerts: Folk Concert (29 March 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- Quatuor Danel Evening Concert with Petr Prause (cello) (29 March 2019 7.30pm)
- Hallé Choral Academy Concert (30 March 2019 3pm-5pm)
- The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra (30 March 2019 7.30pm-9.30pm)
- CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mark Payne (Chicago): 'Occupation and Mentation in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction' (2 April 2019 5pm-7pm)
- CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘Theorizing Catastrophe’ led by Mark Payne (Chicago) (3 April 2019 1pm-3pm)
- EAC Research Seminar: John Plotz (Brandeis) 'Laughter is from Mars: Science Fiction as Satire and Game' (3 April 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- Brass Band (4 April 2019 7.30pm-9pm)
- Claire Bishop - "Information Overload: Research Based Art and the Politics of Attention" (4 April 2019 5pm)
- Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Dominika Kurek-Chomycz (Liverpool Hope University) - ‘The Wedded Wife of Romans 7:1-6’ (4 April 2019 2pm-4pm)
- Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Reverend Canon Professor John Rodwell (Honorary Research Fellow, Lincoln Theological Institute) - ‘From Curiosity to Commodity: Making Claims on Nature’ (4 April 2019 4pm-5.30pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Klezmer: The Michael Kahan Kapelye (4 April 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- A CELEBRATION FOR SIR JOHN MANDUELL (6 April 2019 2pm-4pm)
- A CELEBRATION FOR SIR JOHN MANDUELL (6 April 2019 7pm-9pm)
- MACBETH - Toil and Trouble (24 April 2019 1pm-2pm)
- MACBETH- Toil and Trouble: SOLD OUT (25 April 2019 10am-11am)
- 'Feminine Abstraction' - Jadranka Ryle (1 May 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- Confucius Institute Film Club (1 May 2019 3pm-5pm)
- GDI Lecture Series: The business of forced labour in global agricultural supply chains with Prof Genevieve Le Baron (1 May 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- Noorah al Gailani - "Uzbek Suzani embroideries" (2 May 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Carl Kilcourse (Manchester Metropolitan University) - ‘Conflict in the Heavenly Capital’ (2 May 2019 4pm-5.30pm)
- The G. L. Brook Memorial Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Corinne Saunders (Durham) (2 May 2019 5.30pm-7pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Stephen Richardson (bass) with David Fanning (piano) (2 May 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- CIDRAL Public Lecture: Dominique Rogers (Antilles): Between Racialization and Appropriation: Patterns of Belonging for Free People of Colour in Saint-Lucia, Martinique and French Saint-Domingue (7 May 2019 5pm-7pm)
- 'Drawing from Experience: The Surrealist Image in Theory and Practice' - Gregory Williams (8 May 2019 5pm-6.30pm)
- CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Led by Dominique Rogers (Antilles) (8 May 2019 1pm-3pm)
- GDI Lecture Series: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities with Edgar Pieterse (8 May 2019 4.30pm-6pm)
- Ehrhardt Seminar: Justin Daneshmand (University of Manchester) - ‘Visitation and Verdict: Reading the Lukan Nazareth Pericope as a Theoxenic Episode of Theophanic Judgement’ (9 May 2019 2pm-4pm)
- John Rylands Poetry Reading with Leontia Flynn and Zaffar Kunial (9 May 2019 5pm-7.30pm)
- Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Gamelan (9 May 2019 1.10pm-2pm)
- Confucius Institute Film Club (15 May 2019 3pm-5pm)