Lectures and seminars

Hungry for concrete: the aesthetics of Amerindian modernity from children’s perspectives

10 November 2014
Children and youth constitute the largest demographic of most Amazonian populations, and yet their voices, thoughts and perspectives received little or no attention in the regional…

TBA

12:00 - 13:00 10 November 2014
Part of the Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series

Circuit psychiatry: decoding neurophysiological signatures of cognitive function and dysfunction

13:00 - 14:00 11 November 2014
Matt Jones, University of Bristol will deliver the Neuroscience Seminar series seminar hosted by Dr Rasmus Petersen.

cities@manchester & CURE present a DOUBLE BILL of special guest lectures

16:00 - 18:00 11 November 2014
Super-tall and Ultra-deep: The Cultural Politics of the Elevator Speaker: Professor Stephen Graham, Newcastle University Placing eco-homes: How place is (mis)understood by eco-builders…

Home Grown Talent Seminars@CMIST - Huw Vasey - Immigration and integration as complex social systems: studying emergent phenomena

12:00 - 13:00 11 November 2014
The Home Grown Talent Seminars@CMIST events showcase the work of Manchester-based early career researchers. In this first instalment of this series, which will be held ay lunchtime,…

Legacies of Socialist Solidarity

16:30 - 18:30 11 November 2014
HCRI is delighted to host the book launch for Dr Tanja Müller's newly released book "Legacies of Socialist Solidarity - East Germany in Mozambique", Lexington Books (2014). Dr Tanja…

Nrf2 and miR-29s regulate desmosome function in keratinocytes

13:00 - 14:00 11 November 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

Roles of spastic paraplegia proteins in formation of axonal ER in Drosophila

15:30 - 17:00 11 November 2014
The sheer length of motor axons requires significant engineering for the formation and maintenance of axonal structures. Failures of this maintenance are seen in the Hereditary Spastic…

Transcriptomics with Microarray or RNA-Seq

12:00 - 13:00 11 November 2014
This Seminar is part of the Research Skills Seminar Series …

“...And that’s Where They Found Her.” An Examination of Pantomime, Person and Place within Ripper Tourism

13:00 - 14:00 11 November 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…

Bee-Keeping at the Museum

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2014
This seminar is part of the Technicians Seminar Series. “Bee-keeping at the Museum” Sally Thelwell and Sam Sportun are relatively new Museum beekeepers and will tell you about their…

CLACS Seminar: 'Risk perceptions and responses in disaster prone contexts: unsettling the binary between 'experts' and 'laypersons' in Cochabamba, Bolivia’

17:00 - 18:30 12 November 2014
Centre for Latin American Cultural Studies seminar series. Venue: Samuel Alexander Building S1.7

Developments in Contemporary Art in 21st Century China

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2014
China's art scene is one of the largest and most prolific in the world. This talk outlines the development of art in China in the past ten years. The discussion will include the cultural…

Eleanor K. Jones: 'Abaixo a Prostituição! Viva Moçambique!: Sex Work and Sex in Mozambican Independence Discourse'

17:00 12 November 2014
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese seminar series. Time: 5pm. Venue: Samuel Alexander W3.13 Abstract: Based on archival fieldwork conducted in Maputo in summer 2014, this paper explores…

Gut Hormones and the regulation of appetite - Dr Kevin Murphy, Imperial College London

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2014
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Research Theme Seminars

History Lunchtime Seminar: James Connolly, 'The French experience of German occupation in northern France during the First World War'

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2014
History Lunchtime Seminar James Connolly, 'The French experience of German occupation in northern France during the First World War'

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