Past events
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Women in Egyptian Cinema: Shifting Narratives, Roles and Aesthetics
17:00 - 18:30 5 March 2026
Dr Dalia S Mostafa, University of Edinburgh/University of Manchester Host: Dr Ruth Abou Rached In this seminar, I aim to provide a historical context for the influential role that women played in the making of Egyptian cinema since the early decades of the 20th century. Egypt has the largest and oldest...
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UMDS: Juturna
19:00 - 20:40 5 March 2026
Cosmic scouting team Aeolus are the first to discover the mystical last planet in the universe. As the planet calls out to them, the crewmates begin to turn on one another. And then they hear a call; somebody else is already here.
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How (not) to translate a Christian emotion. Fear, Consolation, and Joy in the Sixteenth-century Jesuit Mission to Japan
10:00 - 12:00 4 March 2026
Dr. Linda Zampol D’Ortia (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) This talk considers the rarity of mentions of fear in the literature composed by the Catholic missionaries of the Society of Jesus from Japan, in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The mission, founded by future saint Francis...
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UMDS: Juturna
19:00 - 20:40 4 March 2026
Cosmic scouting team Aeolus are the first to discover the mystical last planet in the universe. As the planet calls out to them, the crewmates begin to turn on one another. And then they hear a call; somebody else is already here.
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Exhibition - Encountering Biblical Bodies: Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Women
3 - 26 March 2026
As part of the Centre for Biblical Studies’ CIDRAL-funded programme of events entitled Encountering Biblical Bodies, Creative Manchester are pleased to host works from artist Sarah Lightman’s Biblical Domestic and Menstrual Hystery series in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor. In these paintings,...
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