Lectures and seminars

An Invisible Hand Account of Exploitation | Nicola Mulkeen | University of Manchester

16:00 8 October 2014
Political Philosophy Seminar - 45 min presentation followed by Q&A

Can we trust the pharmaceutical companies?

14:00 - 16:00 8 October 2014
CAN WE TRUST THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES? We all take medicines from time to time and occasionally we need powerful and risky medication. Can we be sure that we are getting the least…

Changing care pathways to early intervention in psychosis teams and their impact on DUP: a public health trial

12:00 - 13:00 8 October 2014
'''Host:''' School of nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social work run external research seminars every month. Presenters…

EU Enlargement Policy 20 Years after Copenhagen

14:00 - 15:00 8 October 2014
A Manchester JMCE Seminar on the twentieth anniversary of the launch of the European Union's enlargement policy

Flow Cytometry - Fast and Fluorescent

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2014
This seminar is part of the Technicians Seminar Series Flow Cytometry "Fast and Fluorescent" A quick tour of what it is, how it works and what it can tell you.

Global Political Economy research seminar: 'The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Legitimacy in Global Health Governance'

15:30 - 17:00 8 October 2014
Dr Sophie Harman is a Reader in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Since graduating from The University of Manchester she has held…

History Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Chris Manias: The Lost Beasts: International Palaeontology and the Evolution of the Mammals, 1880-1950

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2014
History Department Lunchtime Seminars 2014/15 Dr Chris Manias: The Lost Beasts: International Palaeontology and the Evolution of the Mammals, 1880-1950

Mitchell Centre seminar series: Martin Everett

16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2014
Weekly seminar series of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis. This week speaker: Martin Everett, University of Manchester A simplified bridging measure for social networks…

Philosophy Research Seminar

16:00 - 18:00 8 October 2014
Debbie Roberts, 'Are thick concepts inherently evaluative?'

WW1 Star Lecture (for schools): "British Propaganda and the First World War – Imagining a United Nation"

12:30 - 14:30 8 October 2014
A talk by for Y11 and Sixth Form students by Dr Chris Godden (Department of History) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of…

Chris Baker (Chester) - "Belonging, Becoming and Participation: New Spaces of Religious Citizenship and Progressive Urban Localism in a Post-secular Global Economy"

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2014
Religions and Theology seminar series.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Thomas Yoder Neufeld (Waterloo) - Killing Enmity: The Enigma of Violence in the New Testament

14:00 - 16:00 9 October 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar from the Centre for Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Human tissue mononuclear phagocyte system revisited

12:00 9 October 2014
Muzlifah Haniffa is a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Principal Investigator in the Human DC Lab funded by a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship and an award from the British Skin Foundation.…

Print and Materiality in Early Modern World: "Boccaccio & the Italian Novella Collection" & "16th century Sephardic Bible Exegesis in the John Rylands Library"

17:00 - 19:00 9 October 2014
John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World 2014/15 interdisciplinary seminar series John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester • Dr Guyda Armstrong,…

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 9 October 2014
Machine Translation: how much can statistics help? Speaker: Adria de Gispert, University of Cambridge & SDL Research

A Peaceful sacrifice?: British conscientious objectors in the Second World War

15:00 - 17:00 13 October 2014
This paper will examine the attempts of British conscientious objectors to 'live at peace' in the midst of the Second World War. The paper is based on archival research and oral histories…

Coordinating organ and whole-body development in a varied environment

12:00 - 13:00 13 October 2014
This is part of the Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series

The antecedents and impact of unsponsored R&D projects

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2014
Many established organizations rely on autonomous, unsponsored R&D projects to sustain and support corporate renewal. These projects emerge out of the dark corners of the organization,…

A concept for objective-driven science outreach: promoting Drosophila research through multifaceted, audience-specific strategies

15:30 - 17:00 14 October 2014
Genetic invertebrate model organisms, such as the fruitfly Drosophila, are essential pillars in the process of scientific discovery. Beyond flies, there is hardly any organism in which…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Jonathan Gershuny (Oxford) - Post-industrious society: Why work time will not disappear for our grandchildren

16:00 - 17:15 14 October 2014
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Jonathan Gershuny from the University of Oxford (Sociology, Nuffield College) will deliver a talk entitled 'Post-industrious society: Why work…

Research Matters: Critical Education Policy and Leadership research showcase - reforming schools, reforming times: researching schools and schooling

12:00 - 14:00 15 October 2014
This seminar will showcase recent, current and future research in the Critical Education Policy and Leadership thematic programme of research in MIE.

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