Lectures and seminars

Between men and gods: gift-giving in Ancient Greece

16:55 - 18:30 26 February 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Dan Garner - "Assessing Post-Holocaust Theologies of Image: Melissa Raphael's Fraught Theology of Divine Powerlessness"

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2015
The Religions and Theology seminar series continues.

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshops: Arnaud Chevalier

16:15 - 17:45 26 February 2015
Not All Cohorts Are Born Equal: Evidence from the Educational Outcome of the "Children of the Wall" Abstract: After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Richard Britton - "Truth or Trick: Is Hermeneutics Ever Possible?"

14:00 - 15:30 26 February 2015
Ehrhardt seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

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…

Music Research Seminar: 'It is not the houses. It is the spaces in between the houses.'

16:15 - 18:00 26 February 2015
Speaker: Christopher Fox (Brunel) 'It is not the houses. It is the spaces in between the houses.' (James Fenton, 'A German Requiem') Some reflections on spaces for music and the spaces within music.

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Performing String Quartets (2)

14:30 - 15:00 26 February 2015
The Quatuor Danel and Professor David Fanning discuss issues in the performance of 20th-century string quartets

Translation Studies Seminar Series 2014/15

14:00 - 15:20 26 February 2015
Crazy Japanese subtitles: Impact caption and viewer experience Speaker: Ryoko Sasamoto, Dublin City University

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…

MCCIR AZ/GSK Update Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 2 March 2015
Negative regulation of the skin immune system in health and disease - A. E. Saunders The balance between tolerance and immunity is important throughout the body. At barrier sites this…

NIHR Themed Call Seminar | Multi-Morbidities in Older People

12:00 - 14:00 2 March 2015
'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health '''About the event:''' A free seminar from the NIHR Research Design Service North West (RDS NW). Lunch is included (booking essential).…

Recent Late Quaternary paleoanthropological discoveries in West Turkana, Kenya

12:00 - 13:00 2 March 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015

Womb Transplants – The race is Over!

2 March 2015
Amel Alghrani (Senior lecturer, University of Liverpool, and a Manchester alumna and ex-member of staff here) will give this weeks Senior Seminar, in which she will reflect on the legal,…

A Life in Science

13:00 - 14:00 3 March 2015
Talk from the President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, followed by a Q&A session.

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Jon Williamson - The role of mechanistic evidence in establishing causal claims

16:00 - 17:15 3 March 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Jon Williamson from the University of Kent will deliver a talk entitled 'The role of mechanistic evidence in establishing causal claims'. Abstract:…

Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis

12:30 - 14:30 3 March 2015
Catrin Tudur-Smith, Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool will be talking about why you would want to consider IPD, what are the…

Performing Proficiency: Psychological Experiments on Man-Machine Systems in the United States, 1950-1965

16:00 - 17:00 3 March 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Feb-May 2015. …

“Sex education is always trouble” The representation of sex education and HIV-positivity on the BBC’s Grange Hill

13:00 - 14:00 3 March 2015
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…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive on McLuhan

14:00 - 16:00 4 March 2015
All welcome, no booking required. CIDRAL Theory Intensive on McLuhan: H Marshall McLuhan: the last futurist with Vincenzo Susca (Paris Descartes Sorbonne University) and Claudia Attimonelli…

Global Political Economy research cluster seminar, Dr Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (Sheffield)

15:30 - 17:00 4 March 2015
'Broken Britain: post-crisis Austerity and the trouble with the Troubled Families Program'

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

Risk preferences and subjective beliefs: implications for crop insurance subsidies

13:00 - 14:00 4 March 2015
Speaker: Carlo Fezzi (University of East Anglia) Abstract: This paper proposes a novel methodology to estimate risk preferences using market insurance data and incorporating individuals'…

Synthetic Gene Networks for Biomedical Applications

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

Synthetic Gene Networks for Biomedical Applications

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

The Golden Dawn's nationalist solution: Explaining the rise of the far right in Greece

14:00 - 15:00 4 March 2015
A Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence seminar. Open to all. Jean Monnet website: http://www.manchesterjmce.ac.uk/

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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