Seminar

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.

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.

Regulation of Cell Surface Signaling in Leukocytes and Amoeba by Coronin Proteins

12:00 - 13:00 30 January 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminars Series …

School of Psychological Sciences seminar | Title (TBA)

16:00 - 17:00 30 January 2014
'''Host:''' Dr. Cheryl Capek, School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' The School of Psychological Seminar series runs weekly from 3rd October 2013 to 5th June 2014.…

Squaring up to Homer: Thoughts on Herodotos Book 7

16:55 - 18:00 30 January 2014
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Curating Coral: Something Rich and Strange

17:00 - 18:30 3 February 2014
This talk will explore the rationale behind the Coral exhibition at Manchester Museum and reflect on the curatorial process. Marion will examine the challenges of organising a cross-disciplinary…

Snails in art and the art of Snails

15:00 - 16:00 3 February 2014
Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology Seminar Series

An Uneasy Consensus: The Church of England’s engagement with questions of homosexuality during the 1950s and 1960s

13:00 - 14:00 4 February 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Endangered Crops: Conservation Genetics and Agricultural Crisis in the United States, 1950-1975

16:00 - 17:00 4 February 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series February-May 2014. They will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm. All are welcome and please feel free pass this information on…

Tissue Systems Seminar Series: Marc Goodfellow & Jon Humphries

13:00 4 February 2014
Marc Goodfellow, Papalopulu lab, microRNA input into a neural ultradian oscillator controls emergence and timing of alternative cell states. Jon Humphries, Humphries lab, The ECM and…

Tumour adaptability in endocrine treated breast cancer

16:00 - 17:00 4 February 2014
In breast cancer, a significant number of endocrine treated patients develop recurrent disease. The ability of a tumour to adapt and evade endocrine therapy, though clinically recognised,…

Chromatin Dynamics in Seasonal Timing

12:00 - 13:00 5 February 2014
The study of how plants monitor seasons in order to regulate the transition to reproduction has led us into the dissection of two conserved mechanisms that link antisense transcription…

Material-driven fibronectin fibrillogenesis to engineer the cellular microenvironment

13:00 - 14:00 5 February 2014
Most cells assemble rich FN matrices via an integrin-dependent process that incorporates FN molecules into matrix fibrils. We have shown this process can occur by simple adsorption…

Research Matters: The importance of studying implementation

11:00 - 12:00 5 February 2014
As funders place more and more emphasis on the importance of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for the evaluation of school-based interventions, the significance of contextual processes…

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