Lectures and seminars

HCRI Annual Landmark Lecture: The Moral Legitimacy of Humanitarian Action

17:30 - 18:30 11 November 2013
The annual HCRI public lecture series is designed to provide a public forum for engagement and debate about broad reaching humanitarian issues. We are delighted to welcome David Rieff…

HCRI Landmark Lecture with David Rieff: The Moral Legitimacy of Humanitarian Action

17:30 - 20:00 11 November 2013
David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central…

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…

CIDRAL open event: Professor Li Wei (Birkbeck) "Cultural Encounters in Transnational Multilingual Families"

17:00 - 19:00 12 November 2013
For many transnational families, bilingualism and multilingualism mean different things to different generations: For the first generation migrant adults (parents), learning new languages…

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

Wounds and Utopia: Artist Sarah Jones, Photographer, Royal College of Art, on recent work

16:30 13 November 2013
Wounds and Utopia: Artist Sarah Jones, Photographer, Royal College of Art, on recent work

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…

Museology Research Seminar: 'Setting Direction: Letting the story lead'

17:00 - 18:30 18 November 2013
The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (MOSI) has existed in one form or another for about 50 years and is now celebrating its 30th year on its historic site on Liverpool…

Corpus-based conceptual onomasiology: diachronic shifts of metonymic construal

16:00 - 18:00 19 November 2013
LEL Research Seminar talk.

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Donna Haraway

15:00 - 17:00 20 November 2013
With Dr Mareile Pfannebecker (EAC) Required reading is: Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," (1991) Reading…

Freedom of Conscience and the Abortion Act of 1967

14:00 20 November 2013
Mark Campbell will discuss issues around conscience and the 1967 Abortion Act

ICON Lecture | Rheumatoid Arthritis | Molecular ‘Problem Solve’ or ‘Work in Progress’?

12:30 - 14:00 20 November 2013
'''Host:''' Institute of Human Development '''Speaker:''' Professor Iain McInnes, University of Glasgow '''About the event:''' Brought to you by the University of Manchester, supported…

RCC8: Connectedness and Euclidean Spaces

14:00 - 15:00 20 November 2013
RCC8 is a widely-studied formalism for describing topological arrangements of spatial regions, which are standardly understood as regular closed subsets of topological spaces. RCC8…

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