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'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…

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:…

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…

“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…

Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan’s Anti-British Alliance and Russian Expansion in the Caucasus (1797-1813)

17:15 - 19:00 15 May 2015
British consolidation in South Asia at the turn of the 19th century witnessed the resistance of Tipu Sultan, the renowned ruler of Mysore. His call for an anti-British alliance, among…

Symposium: LifeWriting and the Historiography of the Persianate World 1794-1989

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2015
3.30 – 4.30 Formal presentations (20 minutes each plus 10 minutes of dedicated discussion) 1) 3.30 – 4.00 The historical prosopography of Modern Iran (1848-1979) in the age of Digital…

Sexuality Summer School: Public Lecture with Gavin Butt (Goldsmiths): "Anti-Gravitas: Queer Importance in Art and Performance"

12:00 - 14:00 18 May 2015
These public events accompany the Sexuality Summer School, a five-day event for postgraduates, organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the University…

War and Peace in Contention: Neutrality after the Great War

17:30 - 19:30 20 May 2015
International Law and First World War - Lecture Series War and Peace in Contention: Neutrality after the Great War Dr Stephen Neff from University of Edinburgh Dr Stephen Neff will…

Sexuality Summer School: Public Lecture with Sarah Schulman (CUNY): “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair”

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2015
“It is not only that we may not choose with whom to cohabitate, but that we must actively preserve the unchosen character of inclusive and plural cohabitation; we not only live with…

Lovell lecture - First light

19:30 - 21:00 26 May 2015
Professor Jim Dunlop, Institute of Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh. Professor Dunlop will talk about how recent advances in observational astronomy, especially the refurbishment…

Raphael in the Sistine Chapel

12:00 - 13:00 27 May 2015
The Sistine Chapel is most famous for Michelangelo's frescoes, as well as those by Botticelli, Perugino, Ghirlandaio, and Rosselli. Raphael's contribution, the sumptuous tapestries…

Veena Das Public Lecture: The Limits of the Human

15:30 - 18:00 27 May 2015
Veena Das Public Lecture 4-6 pm (teas and coffees from 3.30), John Caskin Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris Building.

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Dick Hebdige (Art Institute, UC Santa Barbara): High and Dry: The Desert Studies Project

17:00 - 19:00 2 June 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Co-sponsored by: ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) A cultural critic and theorist, Hebdige has published widely on youth…

Global Political Economy Annual Lecture: Prof Phil Cerny

15:30 - 17:30 3 June 2015
"Antinomies of Globalisation"

Hollyweird Science

18:30 - 20:00 3 June 2015
This event is organised by the Science and Entertainment Lab (thescienceand entertainmentlab.com) research group within the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine…

Exercise as primary treatment for cancer: A translational approach

16:00 - 17:00 4 June 2015
'''Host:''' Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences '''About the event''' Dr Lee W Jones PhD - Exercise scientist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, USA Dr Lee…

'Torn, wrinkled, stained and otherwise naughty sheets' Quality control of printing papers in the seventeenth century

12:00 - 13:30 17 June 2015
Paper was the largest cost in the production of printed books, but we don't fully understand how the mechanism and economics of paper shaped early modern book culture. The paper used…

Why the Rylands Haggadah needed pictures, or: how Spanish Jews defined their identities through art

19:00 - 20:30 18 June 2015
The John Rylands Library, part of the University of Manchester, is custodian of one of the great illuminated Jewish books in the world: The Rylands Haggadah, written and painted in…

Thinking the suburb globally: moving sub/urban studies beyond the white picket fence

18:00 - 20:00 29 June 2015
cities@manchester presents this special guest lecture followed by drinks reception. Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies in the Faculty of Environmental Studies…

"On the Practice of Humanistic Buddhism from the Perspective of the Heart Sutra" by Ven. Hsin Ting. Reception followed by lecture

18:00 - 20:15 30 June 2015
You are warmly invited to a lecture on the Heart Sutra from the perspective of modern 'humanistic Buddhism' that will take place next Tuesday at the University of Manchester Department…

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