Lecture

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.…

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 cell biology of killer cells: from lysosomes to cilia

12:00 - 13:00 11 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Denise Riley (UEA): On the Lapidary Style

17:00 - 19:00 17 February 2015
All welcome, no booking required. 'The lapidary style' suggests a manner of writing which runs close to working a material – carving lettering into rock, cutting a gem into fine facets.…

Bacterial RNA and DNA interference

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

Photography in Educational Research:Representation and exploitation

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2015
Manchester Institute of Education Research Matters session led by Andy Howes and Susie Miles Ellen Wilkinson Building Room C3.19/20 University of Manchester

AntiTNF therapy in rheumatoid arthritis: can we get closer to a cure?

12:00 - 13:00 25 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

Women on the Walls

17:30 - 18:45 25 February 2015
Manchester Classical Association Lecture

Inaugural Pankhurst Lecture delivered by Shami Chakrabarti

17:00 - 19:00 26 February 2015
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) and Honorary Professor in the School of Law at The University of Manchester, will deliver the inaugural…

Arabic Cross-dialectal Conversations with Implications for the Teaching of Arabic as a Second language

17:00 - 18:00 2 March 2015
Language variation is a universal linguistic phenomenon which has attracted research work in many languages. The level of variation in the Arabic language is quite high. This is due…

Radical information literacy : reclaiming the political heart of the information literacy movement

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2015
Research Matters series of lectures Speaker Drew Whitworth

Synthetic Gene Networks for Biomedical Applications

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

The Indian Army in Mesopotamia - Forgotten prisoners, forgotten army, forgotten war

17:30 - 19:00 4 March 2015
The Manchester International Law Centre, School of Law, University of Manchester, is holding a series of lectures on international law and World War I over the coming year. The first…

Beyond Kobane and Mosul: Today's Kurdish Question in historical perspective

17:30 - 19:00 5 March 2015
Kurdish politics in a post Sykes-Picot world – new chances, old risks?“ Although later than the national questions of the Balkans of the 19th century and overshadowed by the Armenian…

Extinction: Impact physics and life on earth

14:00 - 15:00 5 March 2015
Matter is ever-changing, its form developing in a series of nested processes which complete on the time scales on which mechanisms operate. This talk concerns behaviour in the regime…

Ferguson Lecture 2015: Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Grosshans (University of Muenster) - "On Christian Freedom"

16:00 - 17:30 5 March 2015
The 2015 Ferguson lecture will discuss various important aspects of the relation of Christian faith and freedom, starting with the understanding of freedom in the Old and the New Testament.…

Unexpected Targets and Triggers of Autoimmunity and Tissue Inflammation

12:00 - 13:00 11 March 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

Families and dictatorships, Italy and elsewhere, 1917-1945

17:00 - 18:15 12 March 2015
All are warmly invited to the Herford Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies with the collaboration of History Professor Paul Ginsborg (University of Florence) will deliver a lecture…

CIDRAL Roundtable: Susan Stewart (Princeton): Poetry, Thinking, and the Senses

17:00 - 19:00 17 March 2015
All welcome, no booking required. With John McAuliffe (CNW), Anke Bernau (EAC) and Stephen Parker (German) Readings: from Stewart, Susan, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (Chicago:…

"They should speak Latin and no other language": the pains (and pleasures) of learning Latin in the Renaissance

17:30 - 18:45 18 March 2015
Manchester Classical Association Lecture

Glossing the Word of God Exploring a Medieval Qur'an and its Interlinear Translations

14:00 - 15:30 18 March 2015
Despite the frequent claim that the Qur’an is untranslatable, many historical copies contain Persian or Turkic translations between the lines of Arabic scripture. Qur’ans with interlinear…

Spatial Vizualization:applications for educational research

12:00 - 13:00 18 March 2015
Research Matters series lecture

The JMCE 2015 Annual Lecture: Prospects for Peace in Cyprus

15:00 - 16:30 18 March 2015
This year’s JMCE Annual lecture is delivered by the Chief Turkish Cypriot Negotiator at the UN-sponsored peace talks in Cyprus, Mustafa Ergün Olgun. The event is open to the public…

The Origin of Complexity

12:00 - 13:00 18 March 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

"The State and Economic Development: The Need for a Critical Reappraisal of the Literature" - Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture 2015

11:30 - 13:00 20 March 2015
Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture 2015 Hosted by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre "The State and Economic Development: The need for a critical reappraisal…

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