Lectures and seminars

How to Forge a Creative Student-Citizen: The Challenges of Achieving in Today's Vietnam

15:00 - 17:00 20 October 2014
The exaltation of achievement as a measure of collective and individual worth and moral agency has been one of the defining features of Asian developmentalism. Yet in today's age of…

Mutation rate plasticity in bacteria Escherichia coli

12:00 - 13:00 20 October 2014
Part of the Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series

Buildings must die

13:00 - 14:30 21 October 2014
The Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC) host this guest lecture as part of their Autumn 2014 series.

Karl Friedrich Meyer and the Birth of Modern Ideas of Disease Ecology

16:00 - 18:00 21 October 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Oct-Dec 2014. …

POLICY CHALLENGES: Securing the State after Snowden

10:45 - 12:30 21 October 2014
'Policy Challenges: Securing the State After Snowden' featuring Sir David Omand and Edward Lucas The recent revelations from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, about the NSAs surveillance…

Resurrecting Frozen Fish: Competing Traditions of Experiment and Observation in Natural History, 1775-1851

13:00 - 14:00 21 October 2014
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

The Capability Approach: So what does it mean to apply it in practice? (Devt@man seminar series)

16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2014
Devt@man seminar series: The Capability Approach: So what does it mean to apply it in practice? Dr Solava Ibrahim (IDPM, the University of Manchester). Joint seminar with the Poverty…

Active Indifference: A Neutral and Accommodating State | Dr Peter Balint | UNSW Canberra

16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2014
Political Philosophy Seminar - 45 min presentation followed by Q&A

Buildings Must Die: Discussion with the authors

10:30 - 12:30 22 October 2014
Join us for a discussion with the authors of 'Buildings Must Die: a perverse view of architecture' - Stephen Cairns (Singapore - ETH Centre) and Jane M. Jacobs (Yale - NUS College)…

CIDRAL Two Day Event: Commemoration Fever: Anatomizing the Habits of Collective Remembrance

22 - 23 October 2014
Co-organizers: Dr Ana Carden Coyne (History) and Prof Laura Doan (EAC) Two-day event. 5pm, John Casken Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Centre "Centenaries: What Are They Good For?”…

CLACS Seminar: 'Fieldwork as déjà vu: writing up to give up familiarity’

17:00 - 18:30 22 October 2014
Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies seminar series. Venue: Samuel Alexander Building A214

Environmental Impact on Inflammatory Immune Responses

17:00 22 October 2014
FLS Postgraduate Society Annual Lecture Series 2014-2015 Roscoe Theatre B All staff and students are welcome to attend. Please register your interest now, so we can determine numbers…

Global Political Economy cluster: 'Crisis in Spain: This time around…’

15:30 - 17:00 22 October 2014
Greig Charnock (The University of Manchester)

History Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Max Jones: 'In Triumph and Disaster: The Rise and Fall of the British Hero’

13:00 - 14:00 22 October 2014
History Lunchtime Seminars 2014/15 Dr Max Jones: 'In Triumph and Disaster: The Rise and Fall of the British Hero’

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series: Nick Crossley and Rachel Emms

16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2014
HBS G6 Nick Crossley and Rachel Emms Festival Networks: A (Very) Preliminary Analysis Every summer in the UK the (music) festival season kicks off. Over a period of two or three months…

Philosophy Research Seminar

16:00 - 18:00 22 October 2014
Visiting speaker: Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex. Abstract: In this paper, I will present a theory of sexual objectification, characterizing one interesting species of objectification…

Sustainable Consumption Institute Seminar: Dr Tom Hargreaves

16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2014
Abstract Through ambient intelligence and automated control systems, so-called ‘smart’ homes have been presented as a key means by which households can optimize their use of energy-consuming…

The Euro, the Dollar and the Financial Crisis

14:00 22 October 2014
A Manchester JMCE seminar on the the financial crisis in Europe and beyond

Where's the Person in Personalised Medicine?

14:00 - 16:00 22 October 2014
Prof. Ruth Chadwick will give this week's Senior Seminar, asking "Where's the person in personalised medicine?"

WW1 Open Lecture Series: Germany and the Approach of War in 1914

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2014
A talk by Prof Matthew Jefferies (Department of German Studies) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of WW1". Although a number…

A Clash of Empires: The Battle of Çaldiran (1514) and 500 Years of Turco-Iranian Relations

17:00 - 19:30 23 October 2014
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) & MIHAN present: "A Clash of Empires: The Battle of Çaldiran (1514) and 500 Years of Turco-Iranian Relations" 2014 has been seeing many…

Lovell Lecture, Rosetta - Countdown to Landing

19:30 - 21:00 23 October 2014
Rosetta - Countdown to Landing Professor Ian Wright, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University 10 years ago, Rosetta left the Earth on a mission to rendezvous with a…

Manson Memorial Lecture: Adela Yarbro Collins (Yale) - "Paul's Spiritual Body and Debates about Resurrection"

14:00 - 15:50 23 October 2014
The annual Manson Memorial Lecture organised by the Centre for Biblical Studies.

Women's Health Research Symposium

08:45 - 13:45 23 October 2014
'''Host:''' Centre for Women's Health - Institute of Human Development '''About the event:''' The [http://www.human-development.manchester.ac.uk/womenshealth Centre for Women's Health]…

The role of the MLL/COMPASS complex during C. elegans embryogenesis/Deregulated gene regulatory systems in Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma

12:00 - 13:00 24 October 2014
CCB Autumn Seminar Series

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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