Lectures and seminars

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…

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'…

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.

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/

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…

Transport Politics, Policies and Persuasions

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

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…

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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