Lectures and seminars

"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…

A circular economy won’t work unless……

14:30 - 15:30 11 November 2015
Noble Laureate Frederick Soddy complained that the economy had a broken money system and didn’t pay attention to resources and energy. That was 1926. Can the idea and practice of a…

A circular economy won’t work unless……

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…

Dr Tom Tunstall Allcock (University of Manchester) ‘Rethinking Modernization: Lyndon Johnson and Latin America’

17:00 - 18:30 11 November 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Arthur Lewis Building G.019

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.

International Law and WWI - A Law Professor at the Supreme Command: Enrico Catellani and Italy's claims for war reparations

17:30 - 19:30 11 November 2015
International Law and WWI - A Law Professor at the Supreme Command: Enrico Catellani and Italy's claims for war reparations In the historiography of WWI, overlooking Italy has become…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 11 November 2015
Sam Roberts, University Of Chester

Procedural justice and legitimacy in prisons in England and Wales

15:15 - 17:00 11 November 2015
Studies of procedural justice and legitimacy have generally shown that where legal actors employ formal rules in ways that are perceived to be fair and consistent, greater compliance…

Re-Envisioning Development: a 'horizontal' approach - The Global Development Seminar Series

16:30 - 18:00 11 November 2015
The Global Development Seminar Series. Re-Envisioning Development: a 'horizontal' approach. Co-sponsored by the State-Society Relations Research Group (Details to follow). Professor Sandra Halperin, Royal Holloway

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…

That’s another fine mess you’ve gotten me into

15:00 11 November 2015
As part of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy Seminar Series, Neil Allen, Mental Health Lecturer and Barrister (University of Manchester, 39 Essex St Street Chambers) will be presenting…

The Moral Economy of EU Association with Africa

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

The oldest war crime in the book? Humanitarian aid under fire after the airstrikes on the Kunduz hospital

17:30 - 19:30 11 November 2015
Hospital and medical structures around the world are under fire today. Did the airstrikes on the MSF Kunduz hospital change anything? How do the laws of war apply today? Can the humanitarian…

Thinking about police and public in a more divided world

17:00 - 19:00 11 November 2015
Sir Peter Fahy is leaving policing at the end of October after 34 years' service, 13 of them as a chief constable in Cheshire and Greater Manchester. He has faced many challenges in…

Yes we can! Learning disabled people doing research and teaching

16:00 - 18:00 11 November 2015
In recent years we have seen a growing devaluation of the lives of disabled people in general, and learning disabled people in particular, with a steep rise in disability hate crime,…

"The Greeks had a word for it”: mapping the non-Indo-European component of the Greek vocabulary

16:55 - 18:30 12 November 2015
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

A novel nuclear lamina in trypanosomes: Evolution, epigenetics and immune evasion

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

CRESC Annual Lecture 2015: What Can Devolution Do?

18:00 - 19:30 12 November 2015
Keynote Speaker: Natalie Bennett, Leader of the Green Party What kind of opportunity does devolution represent? Hopes and promises are not outcomes, and devolution is too narrowly…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mary Mills (Liverpool Hope) - "Locating the Prophet: Political Geography in Jeremiah 26-28"

14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2015
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Planning & Environmental Management Seminar

16:30 - 18:00 12 November 2015
A double-bill of guest talks as part of the Planning & Environmental Management 2015-16 Seminar Series: "Water resources management" by Professor Maria Conceição Cunha (University…

The Runx/CBFbeta transcription factor complex drives epithelial to mesenchymal transition in metastatic breast cancer cells/Rewiring the cytokine network in melanoma

13:30 - 14:30 12 November 2015
CCB Autumn Seminar Series 2015

Translating Oral Narratives in the Japanese Colonial Context, by Nana Sato-Rossberg, SOAS

14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: Among Translation Studies scholars, the situation during Japanese colonialism and post-colonialism…

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