Seminar

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.

"Evaluating Obama's Foreign Policy"

17:00 20 November 2013
In this event, part of the American Studies "Critical Mass" series, John Dumbrell of the University of Durham discusses Obama's foreign policy.

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…

Development@Manchester Seminar: 'Platinum dreams: Corporate Social Responsibility and the ultimate entrepreneur' Dr Dinah Rajak, University of Sussex

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2013
The celebration of private sector development has been reconfigured in recent years, shifting its focus from the concentrated might of transnational corporations to the mass appeal…

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

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…

Composers' Forum: John Turner and Jeff Harrington

16:00 - 17:45 21 November 2013
A double bill: John Turner, 'On the Contemporary Recorder'; followed by Jeff Harrington ‘On Internet Publishing'

CTIS Research Seminar: Feminist Translation Studies in the 21st Century: A Narrowing Gap Between Theory and Practice?

14:00 - 15:20 21 November 2013
In the last few decades Feminist Translation Studies have become an increasingly popular subject in different academic contexts, being progressively incorporated to a number of Translation…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Walter Houston

14:00 - 16:00 21 November 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the Ehrhardt Seminar. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Research Seminar - Intoxicants and Early Modernity - an onotological cocktail, Angela McShane & James Brown

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2013
Autumn Term Research Seminar 'Intoxicants and Early Modernity – an ontological cocktail' Angela McShane (Victoria & Albert Museum/Royal College of Art) & James Brown (Sheffield)…

What Makes a Refugee? The case of Eritrean immigrants in Tel Aviv (CJS Seminar Series) - Tanja Müller

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2013
Tanja Müller (University of Manchester) discusses questions of immigration and the status of refugees as the Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar Series continues.

Writing culture: historiography, hybridity and the shaping of the past

16:55 - 18:30 21 November 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

TEM Analysis of Zirconium Alloys Using the "ChemiSTEM" Titan

15:30 - 17:00 26 November 2013
TEM analysis of Zirconium alloys using the “ChemiSTEM” Titan Under certain operating conditions, zirconium alloys used as cladding material in nuclear reactors show accelerated growth…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Stuart Hall

16:15 - 18:00 27 November 2013
With Prof. Jackie Stacey (EAC and CIDRAL) and Prof. Janet Wolff (EAC). Required: 1) 'Cultural Studies and its theoretical Legacies', Ch 13 in Stuart Hall <i>Critical Dialogues in Cultural…

MHS Faculty Research Series | Professor Gordon Jayson and Dr Ross Little

12:30 - 14:00 27 November 2013
'''Host:''' Institute of Cancer Sciences and Institute of Population Health '''Senior Presenter:''' Professor Gordon Jayson, Institute of Cancer Sciences, “Defining predictive biomarkers…

Ehrhardt Seminar: John Healey

14:00 - 16:00 28 November 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduate students. 90 minutes followed by coffee.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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