Lectures and seminars

DEV@Man Food sovereignty, the peasant way, and all that: a sceptical view

16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2014
development@manchester is the flagship seminar series bringing together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It is organised by the Institute for…

Eating the flesh with its life? Jehovah's Witnessed and the legal and ethical implications of bloodless transplants.

14:00 19 February 2014
Seminar from visiting academic of interest to students in the area of Healthcare Ethics and Law.

Homicide Law Reform and the “Implementation Effect”: Examining the unintended consequences of reforming the law of provocation in Australia and the UK

16:00 - 17:00 19 February 2014
This seminar will examine what has been termed, by Rosemary Hunter, the “implementation effect”. This is the notion that once implemented law reform can have a range of intended and…

Language Testing of Asylum Seekers

18:00 - 20:00 19 February 2014
Language Analysis for Determination of Origin (LADO) is a new branch of applied linguistics, used by governments in processing asylum seekers who are applying for refugee status. As…

MARC Talks - Retrofitted Cities: Transforming Buildings From Within

12:30 - 14:00 19 February 2014
Retrofitted Cities: Transforming Buildings From Within This presentation represents a synopsis of the key arguments made in my forthcoming monograph with the same title (IB Tauris,…

Modelling beta band oscillations in the Subthalamic Nucleus - Globus Pallidus network

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Neurophysiology Seminar series Neuronal firing in the basal ganglia - cortex network shows a number of characteristic peaks in its frequency spectrum,…

Open Access: The Book Challenge

14:00 - 18:00 19 February 2014
Much of the public debate in the period since the appearance of the Finch Report in July 2012 has concerned issues that relate to publishing in journals. However, in disciplines in…

Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Birkbeck, University of London), 'Lessons from Chile: 40 Years On'

17:00 - 19:00 19 February 2014
In my talk I will refer to the “two sources” of the Chilean Revolution in the 1970s, radical Enlightenment thought and the less-well known legacy of Mapuche and indigenous resistance…

Research Matters: An Introduction to Rasch Modelling

12:00 - 13:00 19 February 2014
In this presentation I will draw on current and previous research projects on trajectories and transitions in mathematics education. I will focus on the surveys and questionnaires we…

Research seminar: Controls on carbon fluxes in the Earth System: local to global scales

16:00 - 19:30 19 February 2014
The research seminar series offers staff and students the opportunity to engage with new and emerging geographical research. Over the past three years, over 50 speakers have been hosted…

Transcriptional Regulation in Bacteria: Why it Matters!

12:00 - 13:00 19 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Leaders in Science Seminar Series.

' RfaH suppresses sRNA MicA inhibition of fimB expression in E.coli’

12:00 - 13:00 20 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminars series

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Beauvoir

16:00 - 19:00 20 February 2014
Colleagues and postgraduates are warmly invited to an extended masterclass on Simone de Beauvoir which will take the format of three short papers by Prof Sonia Kruks (Robert S. Danforth…

Dynamic models of cellular metabolism – an uncertain perspective

09:00 - 10:00 20 February 2014
Dynamic models of metabolism are powerful tools to understand cellular biology, develop medical interventions to treat disease, and to help engineering biological systems with new functionalities.…

E.coli uses type III secretion system effectors to conquest signalling in infected cells

17:00 20 February 2014
(FLS) Greater Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series

Ehrhardt Seminar: Ingunn Aadland (Oslo), "Salvation through Punishment? A Rereading of 4Q185"

14:00 20 February 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar series from the Centre for Biblical Studies continues. 90 minutes followed by tea.

History Research Seminar - Emilia Jamroziak - 'Why Late Medieval Monasticism Matters: Cistercian Communities and the Cults of Saints between 1350 and 1540'

16:00 - 17:30 20 February 2014
History Research Seminar Spring Term 2014 Emilia Jamroziak (Leeds) 'Why Late Medieval Monasticism Matters: Cistercian Communities and the Cults of Saints between 1350 and 1540'…

Imaging Sound, Sounding Images. Theoretical and Practical Issues in the Translation of Contemporary Chinese Poetry.

14:00 - 17:00 20 February 2014
Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies Seminar Series

Jasjit Singh (Leeds), "Sikh-ing Answers: The Evolution of New Methods of Religious Learning among Young British Sikhs"

16:00 - 17:30 20 February 2014
The fortnightly Religions and Theology seminar.

Musicology Forum: Historiography, 'New Music' and Composer-Centeredness: On relations between research, teaching and programming

16:15 - 18:00 20 February 2014
Roddy Hawkins (University of Manchester); Martin Iddon (University of Leeds); Tim Rutherford-Johnson (editor of Oxford Dictionary of Music); Lauren Redhead (Canterbury Christ Church University)

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