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"Interpreting songs from Latin America: reading, translation, performance"

17:00 21 April 2015
Tuesday, 21 April, in the Samuel Alexander Building, room A7, 5pm. Insights from a collaborative project involving students of Music, Translation Studies and Spanish and Latin American…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Mark Shephard - Social media and the independence referendum

16:00 - 17:15 21 April 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Mark Shephard from the University of Strathclyde will deliver a talk entitled 'Social media and the independence referendum'. Abstract: Using…

B.15:45 Architecture modelmaking exhibition: Celebrating 45 years of the B.15 modelmaking workshop

1 September 2014 - 31 December 2015
2015 marks 45 years of the Kantorowich B.15 modelmaking workshop at The University of Manchester. The B.15:45 exhibition is a retrospective look at the last 45 years of modelmaking…

Generating Shared Value: How it works. A panel discussion with Manchester City Football Club, Hazel Blears and The University of Manchester

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2015
The new focus on Shared or Social Value creation in both business and the public sector is about lining up social and economic goals in order to advance both. Five years ago Manchester…

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…

Later-Day Saints

23 January - 28 June 2015
Our ancestors often relied on their beliefs to make sense of their world - is there an equivalent in our modern world of celebrity and material culture? Later-Day Saints brings the…

Making Monuments on Rapa Nui. The Statues from Easter Island

1 April - 6 September 2015
1 April-6 September 2015 Free entry The monumental stone statues of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by European explorers) in the Pacific are some of the most widely recognised archaeological…

Merchants of Print: from Venice to Manchester

29 January - 21 June 2015
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Aldus Manutius (1449 – 1515), an Italian humanist scholar who founded the Aldine Press at Venice. His publishing legacy includes scholarly…

Missing data imputation

13:00 - 15:00 21 April 2015
Booking will open at 9am on 9 April This session introduces the analysis of data sets with missing cases. A practical discussion is provided along with detailed instruction in imputing…

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…

Romuald Hazoumè: Dance of the Butterflies

14 February - 29 July 2015
Dance of the Butterflies is a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists Romuald Hazoumè. It features swarms of multicoloured ‘butterflies’ which will take…

The Noise of Creation: Cosmology, Communication and Commerce in the long 1960s

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Feb-May 2015. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

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

What’s the Weather Like Today?

12 March - 28 June 2015
The weather is fascinating. We can hardly avoid talking about it and how it makes us feel. This exhibition uses items from the Library’s collections to explore descriptions, reflections,…

CMIST Short Courses :: An Introduction to Longitudinal Panel Data Analysis

22 - 23 April 2015
Prerequisites Some basic econometric knowledge is required and participants should be aware of simple cross-sectional concepts such as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), hypothesis testing…

English Literature Research Seminar: Anke Bernau (Manchester) 'Curious Aesthetics'

17:00 - 18:30 22 April 2015
English Literature Research Seminar Anke Bernau (Manchester) 'Curious Aesthetics'

Free Public Talk on China - China and the West

13:00 - 14:00 22 April 2015
In modern history, the West (Europe and the USA) has been a source of inspiration for some in China and a source of threat for others. Not so simple as a split between radicals and…

International Law and WWI | The Laws of War at Sea - The 1907 Hague Conventions and the Great War

17:30 - 20:00 22 April 2015
International Law and the First World War The Laws of War at Sea - The 1907 Hague Conventions and the Great War The Laws of War at Sea are these days not the focus of a great deal…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 22 April 2015
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. Just turn up! Please note that we cannot accept large groups on this tour. If your group would like a…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series: Nial Friel

16:00 - 17:30 22 April 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…

Past and Prospective Developments in Gas Networks in Britain

16:00 - 17:30 22 April 2015
Projections of low carbon pathways to the UK’s 2050 climate change target suggest a need to go from dependence on natural gas as a heating fuel, to electric heat pumps, biomass boilers,…

Strategic Behaviour in Choice Experiments

13:00 - 14:00 22 April 2015
Speaker: Professor Susan Chilton, Newcastle University Title: Strategic Behaviour in Choice Experiments Abstract: This paper reports theoretical, simulation, and experimental evidence…

The Mathematisation of Daylighting: a history of British architects’ use of the daylight factor

12:00 - 13:00 22 April 2015
Part of the MARC talks Spring series

What is Meta-ethnography?

13:00 - 14:00 22 April 2015
All welcome. No booking required. Meta-ethnography is a method for reviewing and synthesizing the findings of published reports of qualitative research. It was originally developed…

‘No One Ages In Magadan’ The Fate Of The Iranian Community In The Soviet Great Terror

17:00 - 19:00 22 April 2015
(UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE JOINT LBAS-LIS SEMINAR FUND 2014-2015) The Great Terror in the Soviet Union not only affected hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens but also tens of thousands…

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