Lectures and seminars

CJS Seminar - Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton): "German-Jewish emigration to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. The sea voyage as a transitory experience in the migration process"

16:00 7 May 2015
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar series continues.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Elizabeth Shively (St Andrews) - "How Apocalyptic Discourse Functions as Social Discourse in the Gospel of Mark"

14:00 - 15:30 7 May 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. Followed by tea.

From Epic to Gnostic: Observations on Dynamics of Change in Persian Poetry

17:00 - 19:00 7 May 2015
A Talk Organised by MIHAN - The Manchester Iranian History Academic Network As we know it today, Persian literature emerges in the tenth century CE with a dominant discourse that tends…

History Research Seminar: Yanni Kotsonis 'Taxes and Modernity: Fiscal Regimes in Russia, Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries'

16:15 - 18:30 7 May 2015
History Research Seminar 2014-15: All Welcome! Yanni Kotsonis (New York University) 'Taxes and Modernity: Fiscal Regimes in Russia, Europe and North America from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries'

Music Research Seminar: ‘Music and Auschwitz’

16:15 - 18:00 7 May 2015
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (London) with David Fanning (Manchester) and Katia Chornik (Manchester) ‘Music and Auschwitz’

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Doctors and Philosophers of Composition

14:00 - 15:00 7 May 2015
A workshop of new string quartets by PhD students at the University

School of Psychological Sciences Seminar | Title TBC

16:00 - 17:15 7 May 2015
'''Host:''' School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' School of Psychological Sciences Seminar Series. This series of talks are designed to inform postgraduate, third…

Structural study of yeast eIF2B by electron microscopy/Regulation of non-coding RNAs by H2A.Z in yeast and human

13:30 - 14:30 7 May 2015
CCB Spring Seminar Series 2015

Theos Aniketos/Deus Invictus: Alexander the Great and Ruler Cult

16:55 - 18:30 7 May 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Chimpanzee communication: links to human language

12:00 - 13:00 11 May 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015 One of the key elements of human language is reference, with referential words allowing us to communicate about a multitude…

How to cope with always being wrong in systems biology

14:00 - 15:00 11 May 2015
Mathematical models of signalling and gene regulatory systems are abstractions of much more complicated processes. Even as more and larger data sets are becoming available we are not…

MCCIR AZ GSK Update Seminar series

15:30 - 16:30 11 May 2015
Regulating pulmonary macrophage responsiveness in a Th2 setting Freya Svedberg Allergic airway inflammation is characterized by aberrant CD4+ T helper 2 (Th2) cell responses to inhaled…

Monday Lunchtime Talks on China: Ahead of the Curve - New China from China

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2015
Direct from China, this ground-breaking exhibition showcases contemporary ceramics and glass from emerging and established Chinese artists at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.…

The Scientific Revolution that Wasn’t: Uncovering the Radical Science Movement

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Feb-May 2015. Seminar with Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. …

The scientific revolution that wasn’t: uncovering the radical science movement

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2015
Most scientific revolutions are more about politics than nature, but this is the story of an especially overtly political one. It's the story of the British Society for Social Responsibility…

'Responding to language diversity: the role of partnerships', in collaboration with Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

14:00 - 17:00 12 May 2015
Multilingual Manchester are hosting an event on 'Responding to language diversity: the role of partnerships', in collaboration with Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation…

2015 MICRA Annual Public Lecture - Extending Working Life: Prospects and Challenges

18:30 - 20:00 12 May 2015
James Banks Professor of Economics, University of Manchester and Deputy Research Director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies This year’s MICRA annual public lecture addresses a major…

Capital accumulation, public debt and social policy - debunking 'paradoxes' of the Mozambican 'miracle'

16:30 12 May 2015
A development@manchester seminar series event. Apparent paradoxes in the growth 'miracle' of Mozambique - fast growth, increasing inefficiency in transforming growth into poverty reduction,…

CIDRAL Public Lecture and Roundtable: Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary): Winnicott, Psychoanalysis and Cinema

17:00 - 19:00 12 May 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Sensing the Arts: CIDRAL Public Lecture: Winnicott, Psychoanalysis and Cinema With Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary) Followed by Roundtable on Little Madnesses:…

Cultivating Research: 'For better or for worse? A tale of two cultures and the new scientists' by Professor Nicola Shaughnessy (University of Kent)

17:30 - 19:00 12 May 2015
This presentation draws upon my experience of interdisciplinary research practices, exploring the challenges, costs and values of collaborations between arts and science. The allusion…

Have Recent Regulations Spelt the Death of Fractional Reserve Banking?

16:00 - 18:00 12 May 2015
The Manchester International Law Centre will bring Professor Emilios Avgouleas, Chair in International Banking Law and Finance, with the lecture: Have Recent Regulations Spelt the…

Putting safety at the heart of care | Dr Elaine Maxwell

14:30 - 16:00 12 May 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' Florence Nightingale Foundation Nursing Lecture Series 2015. A showcase of leading clinical nursing…

Threat, terror and medical violence in young adult novels about anorexia nervosa

13:00 - 14:00 12 May 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…

The Post-2015 Development Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Innovation on a Global Scale or Business as Usual?

13:00 - 14:30 13 May 2015
In September 2015 the United Nations General Assembly will agree a new set of global development goals to replace the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015). These Sustainable Development…

“Business is brisk at this time of the year”: Blue-collar professionals, edgework, and extreme work in the UK ambulance service

13:00 - 14:00 13 May 2015
This seminar discusses emergent findings from an ongoing ethnography of front-line NHS paramedics. It focuses specifically on occupational culture and ‘professionalism’; and explores…

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