Events at The University of Manchester

Lectures and seminars

Cell fusion, self-signalling and network formation in fungi

09:00 - 10:00 20 March 2014
Nick Read has recently relocated from Edinburgh to Manchester to head up the Fungal Infection group. His work covers several important fungal pathogens. Most filamentous fungi form…

Ehrhardt Seminar: George van Kooten (Groningen/Cambridge) "The Notion of 'being begotten/born of God' in John, the Corpus Hermeticum and Greek Mythology"

14:00 - 16:00 20 March 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar series from the Centre for Biblical Studies continues. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Italian Fascism: Truman Show or Comic Opera? / The Party and the People

13:00 - 15:00 20 March 2014
Two Italian Studies seminars with guest lecturer Professor Paul Corner (University of Siena, IT) 1pm - 'Italian Fascism: Truman Show or Comic Opera? Some Methodological Considerations'…

James Wallis Barnes (Sussex), "Meeting around the Table: ‘Openness’, Community and the Self in a Christian Spiritual Community in the Southern Balkans"

16:00 - 17:30 20 March 2014
The R&T Seminar Series continues

Of Filial Sons and Copycat Pirates: The Urge to Understand Chinese Culture through ‘Key Concepts’

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

On first looking into Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters: elegiac receptions from Hermesianax to Hughes

16:55 - 18:30 20 March 2014
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

The Metabolic phenotypying of host microbiome Interactions

12:00 20 March 2014
(FLS) Greater Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series

Tri-institute Mandela Memorial Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 20 March 2014
BWPI, HCRI and IDPM are leading centres of research and teaching at The University of Manchester. Working in the closely related fields of poverty, conflict and development, we explore…

Health Services & Delivery Research and Public Health Research Seminar

10:45 - 15:00 21 March 2014
Places are currently available for a free seminar to highlight NIHR funding programmes on Friday, 21 March 2014 in the Jean McFarlane Building from 10:45am, with lunch, until 3pm. …

In Transit: From Meterology to Atmospheric Science, 1900-1960

13:00 - 14:00 21 March 2014
This seminar is about the historical future as atmospheric researchers envisioned it in the early decades of the twentieth century, from the era of Marconi wireless and the Wright flier…

Exploring African Medicinal & Religious Objects

14:00 - 15:00 22 March 2014
An object-orientated event exploring African Medicinal and religious artefacts held in the collects of Manchester Museum. Speakers will highlight some important objects from the museum's…

Exploring African Medicinal and Religious Objects in Manchester Museum

14:00 - 15:00 22 March 2014
This object-orientated lecture will explore African medicinal and religious artefacts held in the collections of Manchester Museum. Speakers will highlight some important objects from…

Bioenergetic constraints on the evolution of life

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2014
Ecology, Evolution and Computational Biology Seminar Series

Functional implications of short- and long-range structure of the extracellular matrix

12:00 - 13:00 24 March 2014
This seminar is part of the FLS special seminars series. Hosted by Cay Kielty (FLS) & Cathy Merry (EPS)

Signalling pathways controlling integrin trafficking during invasion

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2014
This is part of the FLS Special Seminar Series Elena will be presenting data from three different projects from her PDRA position in Jim Norman's…

Imperial Science and the First World War: The Case of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Michael Wood - Manchester: A Personal History

18:00 - 21:00 25 March 2014
Michael Wood - Manchester: A Personal History University of Manchester, Manchester Histories Festival and People's History Museum Michael Wood reflects on the history of Manchester…

Myth Telling in Contemporary China

25 March 2014
Lihui Yang is a Professor of Folklore and Mythology at Beijing Normal University and author of ‘The Handbook of Chinese Mythology’. Written from an exclusively Chinese perspective,…

Of trunks and tails: creating shape diversity among vertebrates

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Stiegler

15:00 - 17:00 26 March 2014
With Arthur Bradley (Lancaster). Readings for the seminar are from Bernard Stiegler, <i>Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus</i> (Stanford University Press: Stanford, Cali.,…

Dalton Seminar Series - NNUMAN seminar on: “Surface Integrity and Component Life: What Are The Links?”

12:00 - 13:00 26 March 2014
Philippe Giles, International Expert at AREVA, will be giving a presentation on: “Surface Integrity and Component Life: What Are The Links?” as part of the Dalton Nuclear Institute's…

Emma Cave 'Identifying and resolving problems with the concept of child competence'

14:00 26 March 2014
Emma Cave gives a seminar which will be of particular interests to those interested in healthcare ethics and law. All welcome.

Inscribed bronze rostra from the site of the final battle of the First Punic War (241BC)

17:30 - 19:00 26 March 2014
Classical Association Meeting

Phosphoinositide regulation of endocytic membrane traffic

13:00 - 14:00 26 March 2014
Physiology and Pharmacology Seminar Series 2014

Using Practice Theories for the Study of Social Change

16:00 - 17:30 26 March 2014
Abstract Practice Theories are becoming rather prominent in the field of sustainable consumption. They form a ‘family of theories’ that share some basic assumptions, among which the…

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