Lectures and seminars

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Dr Degui Li

16:15 - 17:45 8 October 2015
Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop Panel Data Models with Interactive Fixed Effects and Multiple Structural Breaks Abstract: In this paper we consider estimation of common…

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Lamb - "Let the Reader Understand: The Function of 'Narrative Asides' in the Gospel of John: A Literary and Linguistic Analysis"

14:00 - 15:30 8 October 2015
Ehrhardt seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Forward Genetics of Human Immunity - Learning from Extreme Phenotypes

12:00 8 October 2015
MIG Seminar Series

Marginalia and mortality in early modern Venice

17:30 - 18:45 8 October 2015
This paper evaluates the significance of marginal images in Venice’s civic death registers. Throughout the early modern period, notaries drew attention to a small proportion of deaths…

Religious activity at the Oropian Amphiareion

16:55 - 18:30 8 October 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Rethinking Remakes: Translation Beyond Language, by Jonathan Evans, University of Portsmouth

14:00 - 15:30 8 October 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: This presentation focuses on film remakes as a form of translation. Remakes have often…

Understanding single cell live imaging of gene expression using Bayesian methods/The timing of cytokine stimulation differentially controls cellular heterogeneity and NF-kB-dependent gene expression

13:30 - 14:30 8 October 2015
CCB Autumn Seminar Series 2015

MCCIR AZ GSK Update Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 12 October 2015
Defining the mechanism(s) that dendritic cells utilise to initiate type-2 inflammation Peter Cook Dendritic cells (DCs) direct CD4+ T cell differentiation into distinct T helper subsets…

SCI Seminar Series - Richard Denniss - Export coal in a changing economic climate: the economics and politics of a moratorium on new coal mines

16:00 - 17:30 12 October 2015
Despite international commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a number of countries, and companies, remain committed to significant expansion of the coal industry. The three proposed…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINARS SEMESTER 1 (2015- 2016)

16:00 - 18:00 12 October 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 12th October 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) Dr Gabriela Nicolescu, UCL Three faces of communism:…

The rise of Agribusiness in Europe. An innovative organisational response to the threat of price volatility in the Western European broiler chicken industry, 1945 to 1973

13:00 - 14:00 12 October 2015
Agribusiness has come to mean different things to different audiences: a vehicle for technological modernization, the erosion of traditional values, or a mechanism for avoiding transparency.…

Bombing Cancer: The Troubled History of Radium Teletherapy

03:30 - 17:00 13 October 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Sept-Dec 2015. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Social network and health behaviours inequalities: theory and results of the SILNE study

16:00 - 17:30 13 October 2015
Abstract Although health behaviours, such as smoking, accounts for a large proportion of socio-economic health inequalities, it is unclear how these inequalities emerge at a young…

Coordinating genome segregation with cell division

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2015
Eukaryotic cells actively remodel their actin and microtubule cytoskeletons as they enter and exit mitosis. In this talk I will discuss the ways in which these two filament systems…

Development Economics Seminars: Professor Henrik Hansen

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2015
Development Economics Seminars The Importance of Being Surveyed: The Representativeness and Impact of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys Using census data from 1999 and…

Moses Gaster and the Samaritan Book of Joshua controversy

16:00 - 17:00 13 October 2015
During a visit to the Samaritan community of Nablus in 1907, Moses Gaster was gifted a manuscript which he identified as an antique recension of the Samaritan Book of Joshua. The publication…

Off balance: cognitive deficits caused by hippocampal and prefrontal neural disinhibition

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2015
This talk is the first in a series of eight. Tobias Bast from University of Nottingham will be giving a talk as our first presenter for the Neuroscience Seminar Autumn series. John…

Reconstructing gender and migration in the Arab world: the case of migrant domestic workers in Qatar

17:00 - 18:00 13 October 2015
Prof Jawad Syed is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Diversity Management at the University of Huddersfield. His main academic interests include gender, diversity, international…

Untangling Ohm's apparatus

13:00 - 14:00 13 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…

"Equality, sustainability, security: towards transformations in a global development era" - The Global Development Seminar Series Launch

15:45 - 17:15 14 October 2015
The Global Development Seminar Series Launch "Equality, sustainability, security: Towards transformations in a global development era" Dramatic events and changes on the global stage,…

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