Lectures and seminars

Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture: Danny Dorling “Inequality and understanding the danger of idiots”

18:00 - 19:00 1 October 2015
“Inequality and understanding the danger of idiots” We are delighted to announce that Halford Makinder Professor Danny Dorling, at the University of Oxford will be delivering our…

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…

Adventures in Global Health Seminar

18:30 - 20:00 6 October 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Academic Health Science Centre '''About the event:''' ''One in three people born in the UK in 2015 is projected to develop dementia in their lifetimes'' - Alzheimer's…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Takahiko Kiso

13:00 - 14:00 6 October 2015
Title: The Impact of Electricity Prices on the Installation of Residential Solar Photovoltaic Panels in Japan Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of electricity prices on…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Nikk Effingham (Birmingham)

15:00 - 17:00 6 October 2015
"Time Travel and Torturing Nikk Effingham" Abstract: As I’m about to present this paper, a time travelling DeLorean from the future appears and I stumble out of it. Delirious, and…

The politics of pollution promises: 'clean coal' and climate change, 1976 to the present

13:00 6 October 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…

Civil society and ageing populations: what is the role of community organisations and volunteers?

14:00 - 16:00 7 October 2015
Seminar 14.00-16.00, Free networking lunch from 13.00 Civil society has become big news over the past few years. Politicians and media commentators from across the political spectrum…

English Literature and American Studies Show and Tell: Anke Bernau, Michelle Coghlan, Ben Harker

12:00 - 13:00 7 October 2015
The theme of today's informal lunchtime presentations is Teaching. The speakers are Anke Bernau, Michelle Coghlan, Ben Harker.

Humans, heuristics and voluntary hibernation - How Social Engineering can still break security in the cyber age, and why you should care...

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2015
Humans, heuristics and voluntary hibernation - How Social Engineering can still break security in the cyber age, and why you should care...Jenny Radcliffe from Jenny Radcliffe Training…

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Making America: How Thirteen Un-united Colonies Became a (Somewhat) United States."

17:30 - 18:30 7 October 2015
A talk by Dr Natalie Zacek (Department of American Studies) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". This talk will examine…

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