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05
Apr
2022
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16:42
Europe/London
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) will host its annual Careers in Humanitarianism Day on 29 April 2022 in University Place. It is set to be an exciting day, with a plethora of speakers from organisations such as Save the Children, UK-Med, Médecins Sans Frontières a ...
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17
Mar
2022
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17:49
Europe/London
A two-page leaflet developed from the experience of displaced Syrian parents living through the country’s civil war has been updated and translated into Ukrainian and other languages in the hope it will make a difference for families.You can download The University of Manchester leaflet in&nb ...
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15
Mar
2022
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10:58
Europe/London
As the world’s eyes fell on Ukraine following the Russian invasion of its borders, staff from The University of Manchester’s International Programmes Office (IPO) had to focus their gaze on getting our students back to the UK.At the time of the initial invasion the University had 14 Russian Stud ...
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24
Sep
2021
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15:47
Europe/London
Syriac ManuscriptsA selection of material from the John Rylands Research Institute and Library’s exceptional collection of Syriac manuscripts is now available to explore on Manchester Digital Collections for the first time. Dr Naima Afif has compiled expert descriptions of the Syriac manuscrip ...
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17
Sep
2021
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15:45
Europe/London
Greater Manchester humanitarian organisations benefited the lives of more than five million of the world’s most vulnerable people in 2020, it has been revealed.The impact of eight global organisations headquartered in the city was revealed at an event last night (THURSDAY) attended by regional ...
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14
Jul
2021
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11:02
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is a proud Silver Supporter of the Manchester International Festival, as such we are working collaboratively on a number of flagship events as part of MIF21. Both students and academics are involved in the Festival, which takes place from 1-18 July and spills across ...
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08
Jun
2021
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12:11
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute and Library holds the entire archive of the Manchester Guardian. In a series of livestreamed talks to mark the paper’s bicentenary, panels of special guests and experts have been invited to discuss an item from the archive, i ...
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23
Apr
2021
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09:00
Europe/London
Professor David Hulme, Global Development Insitute, The University of ManchesterThis week, the UK government sought to put itself firmly in the global driver’s seat for cutting carbon. The Prime Minister announced an amazingly ambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 78% from 1 ...
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02
Apr
2021
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00:00
Europe/London
ng to the team’s latest research, the most likely weapon was an axe rather than a knife as previously suggested.The killer could have been an Assyrian soldier, they say, though the axe was also a key weapon for the Egyptian army, so she may have fallen victim to one of her own people.Holding a ...
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20
Oct
2020
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16:40
Europe/London
39;s Passage in Postcolonial Hispaniola
Prof Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton University)
16 Feb 2021: Royal Authority in the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Representations and Realities
Dr Shana Zaia (University of Vienna)
9 Mar 2021: The Illicit Trade in Papyrus Manuscript ...
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