Lectures and seminars

Can Cameron capture women’s votes?

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2015
The third Pankhurst Politics Seminar will take place on Wednesday 4 February, 2-3pm, University Place 3.204. It will be delivered by Professor Francesca Gains on the topic of ‘Can…

Dr Irena Hayter, Leeds University - 'The Cinema, the Department Store, the Mannequin Girl: Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan'

16:00 - 18:00 4 February 2015
Japanese Studies first visiting lecturer of the semester: Dr Irena Hayter, Leeds University - 'The Cinema, the Department Store, the Mannequin Girl: Gender and Visuality in Interwar…

Genome Editing Comes of Age

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2015
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar Series. …

Kids on Film: Responses to Sarah Wright's The Child in Spanish Cinema (2013)

17:00 - 18:30 4 February 2015
Sarah Wright's The Child in Spanish Cinema (2013) explores the child on screen as a potent motif for the loss of historical memory in Spain’s religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror',…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2015
Cohen R. Simpson, LSE Bipartite Networks, Status and Competition for Financial Patronage: A Mutualistic Model of External Resource Derivation amongst Social Movement Organisations…

Research Matters Seminar Series - Critical discourse analysis

12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2015
Carl Emery delivers the second in the winter/spring Research Matters seminar series - 'Critical discourse analysis of the social and emotional wellbeing agenda in education'.

Synapic transfer of visual informaion in the retina

12:00 4 February 2015
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Lectures'

Synaptic transfer of visual information in the retina

12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lecture Series, hosted by the Faculty of Life Sciences.

Transport Politics, Policies and Persuasions

17:30 - 19:00 4 February 2015
Drive Safe - Cameras and Courses

Afghanistan in Transition: Humanitarian Action in a Fragile Context

17:30 - 19:30 5 February 2015
Afghanistan in Transition: Humanitarian Action in a Fragile Context (roundtable discussion) Afghanistan is currently going through political, economic, security and humanitarian transitions.…

David Law - "The 'Prophethood' of Jesus: Islamic Inclusivism in Said Nursi's Risale-i-Nur"

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2015
The Religions and Theology seminar series continues.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Michael Flowers - "Josephus' 'Ambiguous Oracle'"

14:00 - 15:30 5 February 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

History Research Seminar: John Foot: The end of the asylum. Radical psychiatry and institutions in Italy in the 1960's and 70's

16:15 - 18:30 5 February 2015
History Research Seminar 2014-15 John Foot (Bristol) The end of the asylum. Radical psychiatry and insitutions in Italy in the 1960's and 70's

Lovell Lecture – PLATO: Discovering Earth-like planets around other stars

19:30 - 21:00 5 February 2015
The European Space Agency will launch its ‘PLATO’ satellite mission in 2024. PLATO will survey vast areas of the sky for long periods of time, gathering a huge amount of information…

The extracellular matrix fine-tunes the innate immune response to infection

10:30 - 11:30 5 February 2015
De-regulation of the host response to infection can lead to systemic inflammatory conditions such as sepsis, where tissue damage and organ failure result from excessive pro-inflammatory…

The Whorfian Infant

16:00 - 17:15 5 February 2015
'''Host:''' School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' School of Psychological Sciences Seminar Series. This series of talks are designed to inform postgraduate, third…

To Como then I came: on writing the modern biography of an ancient Roman

16:55 - 18:30 5 February 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 5 February 2015
Diaspora: Multilingual and intercultural communication across time and space Speaker: Zhu Hua, Birkbeck College, University of London

Celebrating Research Success in FLS - Making Molecules the MIB Way

15:00 - 16:00 6 February 2015
The second seminar in the ‘Celebrating Research Success in FLS’ series will be given by Professor Nigel Scrutton, who is a member of the Biotechnology & Synthetic Biology (BSB) Research…

Older people and sexual wellbeing: research, practice and educational issues

14:00 - 16:00 6 February 2015
From MICRA, Manchester Metropolitan University, the Association for Education and Ageing (AEA) and Age UK Seminar 2pm - 4pm, free networking lunch from 1pm Human sexuality is a universal…

Population genomics and adaptation in the marine flagellate Oxyrrhis marina

11:00 - 12:00 6 February 2015
This is a one-off special seminar hosted by Cathy Walton. …

Patent use in the UK

13:00 - 14:00 9 February 2015
Patents as an institution combine incentives for the production of technological knowledge (by granting temporary monopolies) with incentives for diffusion of that knowledge (usually…

Social Anthropology Seminar - ‘’Containment and Contagion : on the gender of sin in contemporary Catholicism’’

15:00 - 17:00 9 February 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 09 February 2015 Dr Maya Mayblin, University of Edinburgh ‘’Containment and Contagion : on the gender of sin in contemporary Catholicism’’ This…

The Somewhat Wild Show: Effects of feralisation on brain and behaviour in guppies

12:00 - 13:00 9 February 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015 Predation is a critical factor affecting the success of species introduced to novel environments and the feralisation of…

Home Grown Talent Seminars@CMIST - James Laurence - Is it Diversity or Segregation (or both) that is Harmful for Social Cohesion? A Preliminary Investigation

12:00 - 13:00 10 February 2015
The Home Grown Talent Seminars@CMIST events showcase the work of Manchester-based early career researchers. In this instalment, which will is held ay lunchtime, James Laurence (CMIST,…

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