Seminar

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…

Elizabeth Ewart (Oxford): 'Categories and consequences: hunting for legalism in Amazonia'

17:00 - 18:30 4 March 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: 'Latin America: The Potential of the Global South?'. Venue: Arthur Lewis Boardroom.

English Literature Research Seminar: Clara Dawson (Manchester) '"Precious as a Pilgrim's Gift": Poetic Voice and Print Culture in L.E.L. and Tennyson’

17:00 - 18:30 4 March 2015
English Literature Research Seminar Clara Dawson (Manchester) '"Precious as a Pilgrim's Gift": Poetic Voice and Print Culture in L.E.L. and Tennyson’

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'

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 March 2015
Nial Friel, University College Dublin Improved Bayesian estimation for exponential random graphs Bayesian inferential methods have proved useful in the analysis of exponential random…

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'…

SCI Seminar Series - Professor Frank Boons - Retracing narratives: How a bio-based chemical industry is emerging in The Netherlands

16:00 4 March 2015
Abstract The ecological impact of chemical products throughout their life cycle has been a contentious topic for decades, leading to public protest as well as substantive legislative…

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.

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/

Transport Politics, Policies and Persuasions

17:30 - 19:00 4 March 2015
Bus Rapid Transit and the NGT Project

Bringing affluence to the masses: innovations in production, marketing, and value chains for consumer durables in inter-war Britain

14:00 - 15:00 5 March 2015
The United States witnessed a “consumer durables revolution” during the 1920s. This is often contrasted with Britain where, it is argued, low working-class incomes could not sustain…

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