Lectures and seminars

HCRI Speaker Series - Dr Suda Perera, “Bermuda Triangulation: ‘Messy Truths’ and ‘Simple Lies’”

14:00 - 16:00 9 November 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…

MCCIR AZ GSK Update Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 9 November 2015
The role of neurotrophic factors in airway immunity Emma Connelly Alveolar macrophages (M?s) are the first line of defence against inhaled pathogens and must be regulated to prevent…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR - 09 NOVEMBER 2015 - STAVROULA PIPYROU (ST ANDREWS)

16:00 - 18:00 9 November 2015
Title : "Adrift in Time : Lived and Unspoken Pasts in Calabria, South Italy" This work in progress aims to make connections between silence, money and lived experience in Reggio…

Text mining of biomedical/clinical data, Title TBC

12:00 - 13:00 9 November 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series 2015

The Triple Challenge for Europe: The Economy, Climate Change and Governance

15:00 - 16:00 9 November 2015
Europe is confronted by an intimidating triple challenge - economic stagnation, climate change, and a governance crisis. This paper demonstrates how the three challenges are closely…

The Triple Challenge for Europe: The Economy, Climate Change and Governance

Accounting research and common sense - Jim Ohlson, New York University

14:00 - 16:00 10 November 2015
Accounting seminar by Jim Ohlson of New York University, discussing accounting research and commons sense.

Cell Competition: A mechanism to ensure metabolic fitness during differentiation

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2015
Part of the FLS Tissue Systems Seminar Series: Cell-cell interactions govern cell behaviour and survival from the onset of development. When cells with different fitness levels are…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Inequalities in Higher Education in India

16:00 - 17:30 10 November 2015
Abstract This paper uses data from the 71st NSS round (Education Survey: January-June 2014) to estimate the probabilities of person in India, between the ages of 18 and 22 years,…

Development Economics Seminars: Professor Omer Moav

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2015
Development Economics Seminars

Fly vision and its application to neurological disease

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2015
The fourth in the series of the Neuroscience seminar. Alex Wade from University of York will be presenting his talk on Fly vision and its application to neurological disease. For…

Notch signaling controlled by chromatin modifiers

15:00 - 16:00 10 November 2015
Notch signaling is an evolutionary conserved signal transduction pathway that plays pivotal roles in numerous aspects of cell differentiation, tissue homeostasis and tumorigenesis.…

Philosophy Research Seminar: David A Nicolas (Institut Jean Nicod)

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2015
Title TBA

Rolling back the Years: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi at the Rylands

16:00 - 17:00 10 November 2015
Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi, a genealogy of the history of Christ composed in the late twelfth century, is an example of a diagrammatic chronicle depicting…

Spectacular structures from the summer: examining the findings of fieldwork in Ardnamurchan and Herefordshire

17:00 10 November 2015
You are cordially invited to the next archaeology research seminar of the academic year 2015-16 All Welcome

The Aesthetics of Death and the Poetics of Rituals in Shia Lamentation Poetry

17:00 - 18:00 10 November 2015
Yafa Shanneik is Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of South Wales. Her research focuses on Sunni and Shia women in Europe and their transnational networks to the Middle East.…

The pathogenesis of nerve regeneration failure in experimental diabetic neuropathy

12:00 - 13:00 10 November 2015
CMD Autumn Seminar Series

World War One and the Development of Electrical Supply in Britain

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 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…

"Theorising Electoral Fraud: from isolated cases to a typology of causes of electoral fraud in the UK”

03:30 - 17:00 11 November 2015
Eleanor Hill talks about the paper authored by Maria Sobolewska, Eleanor Hill, Stuart Wilks-Heeg and Magdalena Borkowska Electoral fraud in the UK seems rare. Any known cases are therefore…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Theory Intensive: David Harvey

12:00 - 14:00 11 November 2015
This event is part of CIDRAL's regular Theory Intensives series. Dr David Alderson (English, American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester) will run a seminar on…

External Seminar Series | Implications of research with frail older people for advance care planning practice and policy

12:00 - 13:00 11 November 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social work run external research seminars every month. Presenters…

Gentrifiers in two ethnic diverse neighbourhoods: Between belonging and ‘being part of the problem’ - Sebastian Juhnke

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2015
Dalston and Reuterkiez are two socially mixed and ethnically diverse neighbourhoods in London and Berlin that experience gentrification and are argued to play an iconic role for the…

Interdependence and incomplete performance measures - Masafumi Fujino, Nihon University

14:00 - 16:00 11 November 2015
This accounting seminar, delivered by Masafumi Fujino of Nihon University, discusses interdependence and incomplete performance measures.

Reducing precarious employment in UK workplaces

13:15 - 18:30 11 November 2015
There is an urgent need to find new ways of reducing precarious work in Britain. Since the financial crisis, more and more new jobs are characterised by insecurity, irregular hours…

The Moral Economy of EU Association with Africa

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2015
The Moral Economy of EU Association with Africa

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