Events at The University of Manchester

Lectures and seminars

"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

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…

Prof. Laura Doan on 'Muscular Femininity': The Amazon and the Public during the First World War (WW1 Centenary Lecture Series)

17:00 - 18:00 20 November 2013
In this lecture, part of a series in commemmoration of the WWI centenary, Professor Laura Doan addresses the figure of the "amazon" during the First World War. This event is free, but…

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…

The Queen and the Constitution (and me)

17:00 - 19:00 20 November 2013
A presentation by Professor Rodney Brazier tracing the changes that have taken place to the Monarchy in its relationship to the Consitiution over the Queen's sixty and more years as a Sovereign.

Wounds and Utopia: The Bright Side of the Knife: Dismemberment in Medieval Europe and the Modern Imagination

16:30 20 November 2013
Wounds and Utopia: The Bright Side of the Knife: Dismemberment in Medieval Europe and the Modern Imagination

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…

Dr Fabian Drixler - 'Infanticide and a Demographic Revolution in Japan'

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2013
Japanese Studies and History present visiting speaker Dr Fabian Drixler; 'Infanticide and a Demographic Revolution in Japan' Around 1790, Eastern Japan's culture of reproductive…

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…

Peace Formation and Local Infrastructures for Peace

17:30 - 20:00 27 November 2013
Professor Oliver P. Richmond joined the University of Manchester in 2012 as a Research Professor in the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and the Department of Politics.…

Wounds and Utopia: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Fry's Cézanne

16:30 27 November 2013
Wounds and Utopia: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Fry's Cézanne

CTIS Research Seminar: Simultaneous Conference Interpreting: A Short History of Nearly Everything

14:00 - 15:20 28 November 2013
Simultaneous interpreting first saw the light of day in the early 1920s when E. Filene and A. Gordon-Finlay, using early telephone technology, developed the first so-called telephonic…

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.

Musicology Forum: 'Poverty and ‘Piracy’: Local music recordings and competing interests in Bolivia'

16:15 - 17:45 28 November 2013
This week's Musicology Forum is given by ethnomusicologist Dr Henry Stobart (Royal Holloway, University of London).

On Charity (Religions and Theology Seminar Series) - Charlie Pemberton

16:00 - 17:30 28 November 2013
Charlie Pemberton continues the Religions and Theology seminar series.

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