Lectures and seminars

Face Analysis in the Wild

13:00 22 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar Series

Research Centre for Radwaste & Decommissioning Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 22 January 2014
The following presentations (20 minutes) will be given: - Sam Shaw "Molecular scale studies of radionuclide incorporation into mineral phases" - Victoria Coker "Characterisation and…

Research Matters - Maximising the Impact of Our Research

12:00 - 13:30 22 January 2014
The aim of this first Research Matters session of 2014 is to consider the ways in which we can optimise the influence of MIE research on society, the economy, culture, public policy…

Hox genes and patterning brain development: A story in segments

14:00 - 15:00 23 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

Mechanistic models of T cell activation

12:00 23 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Greater Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series

Distributed decisions: new insights from radio-tagged ants

15:00 - 16:00 27 January 2014
Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology Seminar Series

Policy@Manchester New Researchers Network Forum - Shale Gas: A golden age or a gilded cage?

16:00 - 17:00 27 January 2014
Following the previous NRN presentation on economic methods for accounting for time in health care policy, this forum will discuss what policy researchers can learn from the case of…

Structural biology of the laminin network

13:00 - 14:00 28 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Plato and Foucault

13:00 - 15:00 29 January 2014
With Cinzia Arruzza (New School, NY, USA) Cinzia Arruzza is assistant professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She works on ancient philosophy and feminism and…

Globalisation and Sustainable Development: International Transport and Sustainable Development

16:00 - 17:00 29 January 2014
This seminar assesses the potential contribution for international shipping and long haul aviation to contribute to sustainable development (SD). It considers trade and development,…

HIV: The Battle for Immune Control

12:00 - 13:00 29 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Leaders in Science Seminar Series. …

Lighting fires

13:00 - 14:00 29 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Special seminar series. Teaching is commonly regarded as 'filling buckets' - filling students' heads with 'stuff'. I will discuss my approach to teaching…

Microtubules, cells sahpe and the regulation of plant form

13:00 29 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Technical Seminar Series "Despite the elaborate nature of plants and the amazing diversity of plant form, plants developments is a process of differential…

School punishment and security across the U.S

16:00 - 18:00 29 January 2014
Over the past twenty years, schools across the U.S. have increasingly adopted exclusive punishment practices and criminal-justice oriented security regimes, despite historically low…

Spanish and Portuguese Research Seminar: 'Spanish intellectuals and the First World War'

17:00 - 18:30 29 January 2014
Spain remained out of the First World War but there was considerable debate about the conflict. This seminar takes a look at the latest research about this issue.

TBC

16:00 29 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar Series

The Role of the Criminal Law in the PIP Implant Scandal in France: Should the criminal law have any role in regulatory failure?

14:00 29 January 2014
The paper aims to see whether the criminal law is effective to counteract the deliberate breach of regulatory requirements in the recent PIP breast implant scandal in France. The paper…

Virtual Reality Therapies for Phantom Limb Pain

14:00 - 15:00 29 January 2014
Phantom Limb Pain is debilitating condition that affects a significant percentage of patients after loss of an arm or leg. These patients experience chronic pain and other unpleasant…

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Harvey, "Boasting in the Cross: Honour and Imitation in the Ethics of Galatians"

14:00 - 16:00 30 January 2014
The first in Semester 2's Ehrhardt Seminar series from the Centre for Biblical Studies.

Globalisation and Sustainable Development: International Transport and Sustainable Development

16:00 - 18:00 30 January 2014
This paper assesses the potential contribution for international shipping and long haul aviation to contribute to sustatinable development (SD). It considers trade and development,…

Memory, Mourning and Maternal Inheritances: A Daughter's Reading of her Mother's Holocaust Memoir (CJS Seminar Series) - Julie V. Gottlieb

16:00 - 17:30 30 January 2014
Julie V. Gottlieb (Leeds University) presents a special seminar for Holocaust Memorial Day.

Music Research Seminar: Philip Grange (University of Manchester), 'Clichés and the Individual Talent: Or, Working at your career by not working at your career'

16:15 - 18:00 30 January 2014
Philip Grange, Professor of Composition at the University of Manchester, gives the opening talk of this semester's Composers Forum.

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