Lectures and seminars

'Doing Good and Feeling Bad': Psychiatry, Motherhood, and the Women's Liberation Movement'

13:00 - 14:00 29 April 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series, which is held weekly (during term time). All are welcome. For further information please contact stuart.butler@manchester.ac.uk…

Driven to Abstraction: some thoughts on Maltese Prehistory

17:00 - 18:00 29 April 2014
Archaeology Research Seminars

Fictions of Illusion: Optics in Spain (1615-1645)

29 April 2014
Enrique García Santo-Tomás (Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan) The dialogue between the history of science and the 'rise'…

Fictions of Illusion: Optics in Spain (1615-1645) Enrique García Santo-Tomás (Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan)

17:00 - 19:00 29 April 2014
The dialogue between the history of science and the 'rise' of new fictional forms is both seminal and novel in our understanding of the discipline we've come to term 'Golden Age.' 'Fictions…

Science in Black: Scientists, Scientific Practice, and Scientific Intelligence in the Cold War

16:00 - 17:00 29 April 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series …

The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Medical Theories on the Gendered Body, Fertility and Reproduction

17:00 - 18:00 29 April 2014
Sixth Seminar in MES Research Seminar Series, 2013-2014

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Deleuze

15:00 - 17:00 30 April 2014
With Andreja Zevnik (International Politics) Required readings for the seminar will be: 1. 'Year Zero: Faciality' (a chapter in <i>A Thousand Plateaus</i>). 2. 'Immanence: A Life'…

Comparative Public Policy Seminar: Prof Richard Whitman

14:00 30 April 2014
Going Global or Staying Local? The European Union as a Global Security Actor

Getting the message: pre-mRNA processing and degradation

12:00 - 13:00 30 April 2014
Gene Regulation and Cellular Biotechnology - Spring Seminar Series 2014

Global Political Economy Seminar: Claes Belfrage

15:30 - 17:00 30 April 2014
Crashed Imagined Recoveries and the Fight back of Neoliberalism: The Icelandic Epic (or Tragedy)

Manchester Economics Seminars (MES): Prof Andrew Oswald

14:30 - 16:00 30 April 2014
The aim of the MES is to provide a forum for distinguished scholars to talk about their research to a general economics, rather than a specialist, audience.

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 30 April 2014
Professor Richard Whitman, (University of Kent) Going Global or Staying Local? The European Union as a Global Security Actor

MARC Talks - Alice in the Megalopolis: women and urban spaces in recent Brazilian media

12:30 - 14:00 30 April 2014
Alice in the Megalopolis: women and urban spaces in recent Brazilian media This talk will focus on the depiction of women in urban spaces by Brazilian media, with particular attention…

Mitchell Centre Seminar: Christoph Stadtfeld

16:00 - 17:30 30 April 2014
Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Social Networks Many phenomena in social networks can be well explained by individual motivations and choices (micromotives in social networks).…

Nanjing, Cinema and Global Memory Wars

16:00 - 17:30 30 April 2014
In December 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army reached the Nanjing. What happened in the weeks that followed has become a globally recognizable event that has echoed down the decades.…

Research Matters: Learning matters in research: a perspective from social learning theory

12:00 - 13:00 30 April 2014
Learning is often viewed as something individuals do as they acquire information and skills. It is usually associated with some form of instruction, often separated from practice. I…

Chaucer's Postcolonial Renaissance

17:30 - 19:00 1 May 2014
The Brook Lecture in Middle English. Professor Andrew James Johnston (Freie Universitaet, Berlin), discusses "Chaucer's Postcolonial Renaissance" at John Rylands Library. All welcome.

How does the human leukaemia virus HTLV-1 persist in vivo?

17:00 1 May 2014
(FLS) Greater Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series

Research Seminar - Pamela Cox - 'Television and the People: TV History, Social History and Power'

16:00 1 May 2014
Research Seminar, Spring Term 2014 Pamela Cox (Essex) - 'Television and the People: TV History, Social History and Power' Events end at around 5:30pm, followed by drinks with the speaker.

School of Psychological Sciences seminar | Title TBA | Clinical and Health (C&H)

16:00 - 17:15 1 May 2014
'''Host:''' Prof. Alison Wearden, School of Psychological Sciences '''Speaker:''' Professor Trudie Chalder, King’s College London '''About the event:''' The School of Psychological…

Social Change in Venezuela: a view from the grassroots

17:00 - 19:30 1 May 2014
Rafael Ramos is a graduate of the National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE) in Caracas, member of the youth wing of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (JPSUV), and…

The Latin acclamations of the Magerius mosaic

16:55 - 18:00 1 May 2014
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Visual Dialogues

19:00 - 21:00 1 May 2014
Dr Mantas Kvedaravicius will present his documentary film Barzakh (Lithuania/ Finland, 2011) on life in a Chechen city recovering after the war. Those in search of the disappeared are…

Poststructuralist and Critical Thought: Presentations

14:00 - 16:00 2 May 2014
Gosia Jakimów, Susannah O’Sullivan

Mechanisms of spindle positioning and elongation in human cells

12:00 - 13:00 6 May 2014
Part of the Cell Organisation and Dynamics Seminar Series

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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