Lectures and seminars

CIDRAL masterclass: Charles Zika (Melbourne): The History of Emotions and Visual Culture

10:00 - 12:00 15 April 2015
All welcome, no booking required. With Sasha Handley (History) and Jenny Spinks (History) Readings for Masterclass: 1. Nicole Eustace, Eugenia Lean, Julie Livingston, Jan Plamper,…

David Martin-Jones (Glasgow): 'Remembering Cold War States of Exception in Recent Latin American and Asian Documentary Film'

17:00 - 18:30 15 April 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: 'Latin America: The Potential of the Global South?' Venue: Samuel Alexander A101. Speaker: David Martin-Jones…

External Seminar Series | Can’t cook, won’t cook: understanding factors behind functional disability in dementia

12:00 - 13:00 15 April 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social work run external research seminars every month. Presenters…

Geopolitical Attitudes in Contested Ukraine: Comparing SE Ukraine and Crimea. Dr Gerard Toal

15:00 - 17:00 15 April 2015
By Dr Gerard Toal, Director, Government & International Affairs, Virginia Tech, United States This talk reviews key image events in Ukraine in 2014 -- the Maidan protests and flight…

Global Political Economy research cluster seminar, Ingar Solty (York/Berlin)

15:30 - 17:00 15 April 2015
‘Crisis, New Economic Governance and Legitimacy: Questioning the Interrelations of Economic and Political Crises in the Eurozone’

Inventing ‘Cultural Heritage’ In 19th Century Turkestan: Governor-General Konstantin Von Kaufmann At The Interface Between Imperial Russia And The Persianate World

16:00 - 18:00 15 April 2015
Gen. Konstantin von Kaufmann (1818-1882) used to be referred to by his contemporaries as the ‘creator of Russian Turkestan’ who’s first Governor-general he was from 1867 until 1881.…

Lunchtime Seminar: Christian Goeschel, 'Italian Fascism and Nazism before 1933'

13:00 - 14:00 15 April 2015
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Christian Goeschel, 'Italian Fascism and Nazism before 1933' Feel free to bring your lunch.

Mitchell Centre seminar series: Gerald Mollenhorst

16:00 - 16:30 15 April 2015
Gerald Mollenhorst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Stockholm University, Sweden Changes in personal networks in the Netherlands and Sweden: Assessing the role of social contexts…

Research in unpleasant places: From the political economy of production to the reality of waste in India - An ESID Masterclass

10:00 - 11:30 15 April 2015
In this seminar Professor Barbara Harris-White from the University of Oxford will talk about how to move from theory at a high level of abstraction to fieldwork in unpleasant places:…

Roman Hispania

18:00 - 19:00 15 April 2015
A joint lecture organised by the Manchester Branch of the Classical Association and the Instituto Cervantes, Manchester. The history of Roman Hispania (“the land of rabbits”) is little…

AHVS Seminar with Allison Connolly. French Literature and Film Scholar: " Emptiness as a Creative Force"

17:15 - 18:30 16 April 2015
Pondering the empty bed shared by Colette and her lover, Connolly takes us through a tour of emptiness (including Mallarmé’s obsession with the blank page, Ying Chen’s novel Ingratitude…

Ehrhardt Seminar 50th Anniversary: Yvonne Sherwood (Kent) - "The ‘Hagaramic’ as a Provocation for European Provincialism: Surrogate, Rogue, Resident Alien, Foreign Body"

14:00 - 15:30 16 April 2015
Join us to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Ehrhardt Seminar!

Music Research Seminar: ‘Extracting music from scientific data’

16:15 - 18:00 16 April 2015
Speaker: Trevor Wishart (University of Durham) ‘Extracting music from scientific data’

The Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne), 'Changing Faces: The Dynamics of Facial Expression and Emotion in Middle English Literature'

17:30 - 19:00 16 April 2015
The Brook Lecture, part of the English and American Studies seminar series, honours the memory of G.L. Brook, Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at Manchester…

The Pregnant Body in the Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms

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

Dalton Guest Lecture - Chemicals: Creating a Compelling Nuclear Value Proposition Through Co-production

12:00 - 13:00 17 April 2015
A presentation will be given by Professor Eric McFarland from The University of Queensland entitled: 'Chemicals: Creating a compelling nuclear value proposition through co-production'…

Evolving strategies for osteochondral tissue engineering

14:00 - 15:00 17 April 2015
This seminar is part of the Manchester Tissue Regeneration & Stem Cell Network seminar series. Sponsored by Peprotech.

Annual Harry Street Lecture: New Union: New Constitution?

17:30 - 19:30 20 April 2015
The United Kingdom’s territorial constitution has changed beyond recognition since 1997. Yet the pace of reform continues to accelerate, not least as the Union state struggles to respond…

Genomics and metagenomics in animal health and food security

12:00 - 13:00 20 April 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 20th April 2015 - Dr Jan Lorenz – University of Manchester

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 20TH April 2015 Dr Jan Lorenz – University of Manchester “Oneself as the other. First thoughts on affinity and becoming in Polish giyur - conversion…

The growth hustle:The conundrum of government supported innovation

13:00 - 14:00 20 April 2015
Everyone says growth is important and there seems to be a consensus that it will mainly come from innovation. It is therefore in the interest of governments to support innovation.…

The Hajj as a Mirror: Past, Present and Future

18:00 - 19:00 20 April 2015
The Hajj is rich with ritual: there are circumambulation, running, throwing of stones, sermonising, and standing, to name just a few. But behind all these stands memory: memory of past…

Humphry Davy's instruments of war: Science and patriotism in the press, 1801-1812

13:00 - 14:00 21 April 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…

Philosophy Research Seminar: 'Thinking, inner speech and self-awareness'

15:00 21 April 2015
Speaker: Johannes Roessler (Warwick) Title: Thinking, inner speech and self-awareness Abstract: This paper has two themes. One is the question of how to understand the relation between…

Understanding the tissue specific functions of the circadian clocks

12:00 - 13:00 21 April 2015
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Seminar Series - Donald Ward and Joy Wang

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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