Seminar

Deals and Development in Liberia

16:00 - 18:00 23 September 2015
Eric D. Werker, Harvard Business School, will be presenting a seminar on “Deals and Development in Liberia” on Wednesday 23 September, 4.00pm – 6.00pm, in room G7, Humanities Bridgeford…

Development of novel anticancer agents that target prohibitins and the translation initiation factor elF4a

13:30 - 14:30 24 September 2015
CCB Autumn Seminar Series 2015

Manchester Pharmacy School Seminar Series 2015/16: Placentas, piñatas and nanoparticles: a biologist's approach to targeted drug delivery.

12:30 - 14:00 28 September 2015
Placentas, piñatas and nanoparticles: a biologist's approach to targeted drug delivery. Speaker: Dr Lynda Harris, University of Manchester The seminar series held in MPS is primarily…

Social Anthropology Seminar - The experience of the Bush : Hunters and social aesthetics in Burkina Faso

16:00 - 18:00 28 September 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 28 September 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Lorenzo Ferrarini, University of Manchester…

A Baffling Breakthrough: Making Colour in the 1486 Book of St Albans

16:00 - 17:00 29 September 2015
The Book of St Albans (St Albans: Schoolmaster Printer, 1486) is celebrated as one of the greatest landmarks of printing. The lasting influence of its content has been well studied,…

CMIST afternoon seminar: When “contexts” are geographical areas, is multilevel model still a good choice to model hierarchical data, or a new approach is needed?

16:00 - 17:30 29 September 2015
Abstract: It is very common that our research uses hierarchical data where the higher level units or “contexts” are defined as geographical areas—for example, individuals nest into…

Holistic Surgery in the Interwar Period

15:30 - 17:00 29 September 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series September-December 2015. …

Inflammation in wound repair and cancer

13:00 - 14:00 29 September 2015
We model wound healing in several genetically tractable model organism from the fruitfly, Drosophila, through to mice. We know that inflammation causes fibrosis and is aberrant in chronic…

Ironopolis, ironmasters and transport: Middlesbrough in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

13:00 29 September 2015
It is our pleasure to announce the details for the next CHSTM lunchtime seminar on Tuesday 29th September from 1-2pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building. All are welcome. Tosh Warwick (University…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Michela Massimi (Edinburgh)

29 September 2015
"Four kinds of perspectival truth" In this paper, I assess recent claims in philosophy of science about scientific perspectivism being compatible with realism. I clarify the rationale…

Dalton Seminar Series: Long-Term in Situ Behaviour of Biogenic Uraninite in Alluvial Aquifer

12:00 - 13:00 30 September 2015
Abstract: Uranium is a subsurface contaminant of concern at several countries worldwide. Under oxic conditions, uranium exists predominantly in the hexavalent (U(VI)) form often as…

SCI Seminar Series - Dr Ronan Bolton - Reducing uncertainty and managing risk: How incumbent actors are creating low carbon investment opportunities in the UK electricity sector

16:00 - 17:30 30 September 2015
Abstract In 2008 the UK introduced the Climate Change Act which set a legally binding target of 80% reduction in GHC emissions by 2050 from 1990 levels. System modelling studies…

Ehrhardt Seminar: George Brooke - "Aspects of Prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls"

14:00 - 15:30 1 October 2015
Ehrhardt seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Ethics in Practice: Engaging Professional Translators and Interpreters, by Joanna Drugan, UEA

14:00 - 15:30 1 October 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: The translation and interpreting professions are unregulated in most of the world, with no…

Ovid and Juan Ruiz’s Libro de buen amor

16:55 - 18:30 1 October 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Peter Scott - "Doing What Comes Postnaturally: Thinking Theologically about Right"

16:00 - 18:00 1 October 2015
Department of Religions and Theology research seminar. All welcome!

Quatuor Danel Seminar: ' The Road to Sublimity'

14:30 - 15:30 1 October 2015
Professor Barry Cooper and the Quatuor Danel tell the fascinating story of the genesis of Beethoven's Op. 131.

Celebrating Research Success in FLS

15:00 - 16:00 2 October 2015
Understanding the regulation of inflammation in the brain – Dr David Brough · Exploiting the genetics of flies to identify novel antiepileptics – Prof Richard Baines · …

EU-Russia Relations 1999-2015: From Courtship to Confrontation

14:00 - 15:30 5 October 2015
EU-Russia Relations 1999-2015: From Courtship to Confrontation

HCRI Speaker Series, with guest speaker Romea Bruegger

14:00 - 16:00 5 October 2015
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Speaker Series is a regular student-focused forum that draws on the expertise of a range of practitioners, academics and researchers…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 5th October 2015 - Dr Alice Elliot, UCL - The gender of the crossing : Movement and impermanence in emigrant Morocco

16:00 - 18:00 5 October 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th October 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Dr Alice Elliot, UCL The gender of the crossing…

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