Seminar

Composers' Forum: Stefan Litwin

16:00 - 17:45 5 November 2013
Stefan Litwin (Hochschule für Musik Saar)

Deborah Shaw (Portsmouth) 'The relationship between European funding bodies and Latin American filmmakers: new forms of dependence or new partnerships?'

18:00 - 20:00 5 November 2013
Abstract European social funding bodies aligned with film festivals, have been instrumental through their support in developing the careers of some of the most high profile contemporary…

Distributional learning of syntax

16:00 - 18:00 5 November 2013
LEL Research Seminar talk. Abstract: "Recently some new techniques of grammatical inference have been developed, inspired by some old ideas of distributional learning from structuralist…

"Rebecoming analogue: Old Beats in the New World"

17:00 6 November 2013
This lecture by Rowan Oliver from the University of Hull is one of the American Studies "Critical Mass" series of seminars. These events are free and open to the public: all welcome!

“Eating People is Wrong: Notes on Law, and Controlling one’s own Death”.

14:00 6 November 2013
In this talk Dr Brassington (Lecturer in Bioethics) is looking at whether people who defend the legalisation of assisted dying by saying that people should be able to choose their preferred…

Composers' Forum: Gordon Delap

16:15 - 17:45 7 November 2013
Gordon Delap (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)

Ehrhardt Seminar: Reading 1 Samuel 18:1-4 in the Hellenistic Period - James Harding

14:00 - 16:00 7 November 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the latest Ehrhardt Seminar, with James Harding from Otago. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Plato, Plato's Epistles and Greek Fictional Letters

16:55 - 18:30 7 November 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Research Seminar - The Forgotten Criminalisation of Company Fraud in Victorian Britain - James Taylor

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2013
Autumn Term Research Seminars The Forgotten Criminalisation of Company Fraud in Victorian Britain James Taylor (Lancaster) All are welcome. Events end around 5:30pm followed by drinks with the speaker.

Secularity and Its Discontents: Religion and Cinema in Israel (CJS Seminar Series) - Yaron Peleg

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2013
Yaron Peleg (Cambridge) discusses a crucial theme in Israeli cinema. The third in the Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar Series. The lecture looks at the changing nature of Zionism and…

Museology Research Seminar: Locating Tibetan Art: The Ethics and Aesthetics of the Younghusband Mission to Tibet 1903-4

17:00 - 18:30 11 November 2013
Dr. Clare Harris, Reader in Visual Anthropology and Curator for Asian Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Focusing on the Younghusband Mission of 1903-4, this paper argues that…

Art and democracy in pre-Pinochet Chile

17:00 - 19:00 13 November 2013
During the decades preceding the 1973 coup Chile experienced a period of extraordinary creativity. Ideas emanating from Europe, the US and elsewhere in Latin America about art's potential…

CIDRAL Masterclass with Professor Li Wei (Birkbeck)

13:30 - 15:00 13 November 2013
With Professor Yaron Matras (Linguistics) There are two readings: 1. 'Moment Analysis and translanguaging space: Discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth…

Community consent and xenotransplantation

14:00 13 November 2013
Cesar will consider the ethical implications of community consent and xenotransplantation.

Joshua Davies from King's College London

17:00 13 November 2013
This event, part of the English department's weekly seminar series, will feature Joshua Davies from KCL, speaking on poetics. This event is free and open to the public: all welcome!

Lunchtime Seminar - 'Lyndon Johnson and Latin America', Dr Thomas Tunstall-Allcock

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2013
Lunchtime Seminar "Lyndon Johnson and Latin America" Thomas Tunstall-Allcock Manchester historians present their work in an informal setting. All welcome - and feel free to bring your lunch.

What would it mean for drugs policy to define it as a 'health issue'?

16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2013
The CCCJ Seminar Series welcomes Professor Susanne MacGregor, University of London

Athenaeus, the walking library? On the meaning of the Deipnosophistai

16:55 - 18:30 14 November 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Developing an Action Theory for Intercultural Communication: Evidence, Applications and Politics

14:00 - 15:20 14 November 2013
This seminar shall consider how reconstructed ethnographic narratives contribute to a social action theory for intercultural communication. The narratives demonstrate a level and type…

Ectoenzymes and the regulation of chronic inflammation and hepatic fibrosis

12:00 - 13:00 14 November 2013
This seminar event is part of the programme of seminars, Greater Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series

Ehrhardt Seminar: Martial Guidance in Joshua 1-14 - Mary Mills

14:00 - 16:00 14 November 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the latest Ehrhardt Seminar, with Mary Mills from Liverpool Hope. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Manchester and the Cairo Genizah (Religions and Theology Seminar Series) - Renate Smithuis

16:00 - 17:30 14 November 2013
Renate Smithuis continues the Religions and Theology seminars.

Musicology Forum: 'Music as Call of the Other'

16:00 - 17:45 14 November 2013
David Schwarz (University of North Texas), 'Music as Call of the Other'

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Listening in

14:30 - 15:30 14 November 2013
Issues of performance practice in Beethoven’s piano and string music, with Professor Barry Cooper and Finnish pianist Paavali Jumpannen.

Research Seminar - 'Runaway Woman, Pirate Queen: Life on the Margins of the Japanese Empire' - David Ambaras

17:00 - 19:15 14 November 2013
History Research Seminar 'Runaway Woman, Pirate Queen: Life on the Margins of the Japanese Empire' David Ambaras (North Carolina State University) Jointly hosted by Japanese…

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