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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…

Doubleday lecture with Sir Bruce Keogh - Opportunities and challenges in healthcare

14:00 18 November 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Medical School '''About the event:''' Manchester Medical School is delighted to invite you to its annual Doubleday lecture, which will this year be given by…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Iain Bailey (UoM) ‘Modernism’s Connoisseurs’

17:00 - 19:00 18 November 2015
Iain Bailey (UoM) ‘Modernism’s Connoisseurs’

Can a Bill of Rights do better than the Human Rights Act?

17:00 - 21:00 19 November 2015
This year's Harry Street Lecture will be delivered by the Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP. Dominic Grieve's presentation is entitled 'Can a Bill of Rights do better than the Human Rights…

An Overview of Maternal and Paediatric Cardiology

19:00 - 20:00 23 November 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Medical School '''About the event:''' The [https://www.facebook.com/ManchesterCardiovascularSociety/ Manchester Cardiovascular Society] is proud to present…

The Echo Chamber: Results, Management, and the Humanitarian Effectiveness Agenda

17:30 - 19:30 23 November 2015
Juliano Fiori, Head of Humanitarian Affairs at Save the Children UK, will be talking about humanitarian effectiveness. He leads Save the Children’s Humanitarian Affairs Team (HAT) which…

BP Annual Lecture delivered by Dr Angela Strank: Energy Science and Technology at the Frontiers

17:00 - 19:00 24 November 2015
In this lecture, BP’s head of downstream technology and chief scientist will look at how collaboration is advancing energy technology, with particular reference to the University of…

Iran's nuclear program and international law

17:30 - 19:30 24 November 2015
Iran's Nuclear Program and International Law Prod Dan Joyner will go through the history of the diplomatic crisis between Iran and the West concerning Iran’s nuclear program, and…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: James Paz (UoM) 'Slow Scholarship and the Craft of Old English Translation'

17:00 - 19:00 25 November 2015
James Paz (UoM) 'Slow Scholarship and the Craft of Old English Translation'

The Royal Economic Society Public Lecture: Does Starbucks Pay Enough Tax?

3 December 2015
How much tax do large multinational firms pay? Where do they pay it and where should they pay it? Professor Rachel Griffith will discuss some of the empirical evidence and the implications…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Fred Schurink (UoM)

17:00 - 19:00 9 December 2015
Fred Schurink (UoM) ‘Plutarch in Renaissance England: Politics, Literature, Lives’

Networking event: Focus on Nutrition, Trauma and the Elderly – opportunities to improve clinical care

17:30 - 19:30 9 December 2015
The Inflammation and Repair Domain wants to bring together clinicians and researchers to develop new collaborations in translational research across The University of Manchester faculties…

Disaster Dialogue: Gender in Disaster Risk Reduction

17:30 - 19:30 10 December 2015
The Disaster Dialogue series, hosted by HCRI, is a regular multi-disciplinary forum that responds to the urgent challenges posed by disaster events, including their interface with climate…

Inaugural Sir Lawrence Bragg Lecture

13:25 - 14:30 10 December 2015
The University is set celebrate the 100 years since Sir Lawrence Bragg was awarded his Nobel Prize in Physics with a day-long programme of activities. An important part of the celebrations…

The Impact of Researching the History of World War I in the Middle East and the Persianate World

15:00 - 16:15 11 December 2015
A panel of 'Practioners' joining us from a variety of UK Government bodies will discuss the impact that academic research on the history of World War I in the Middle East has on the…

“This war will not remain local” How the First World War came to the Middle East

16:30 - 18:00 11 December 2015
Keynote Lecture for the "Expectations and Realities: How the First World War arrived in the Middle East and the Persianate World" conference convened by Dr Oliver Bast (SALC, History)…

Jodrell Bank, the Dawn of the Space Age & the Birth of Radio Astronomy Heritage Lecture

19:30 - 21:00 14 December 2015
Launch of ‘70 Years of Jodrell Bank’, a year-long celebration On December 14th 1945, Bernard Lovell first switched on his radar equipment at Jodrell Bank. He had been granted permission…

A Quest for Solidarity in a Fractured Europe

17:30 - 19:30 15 December 2015
This roundtable event will include commentaries from speakers, and an engaged discussion with the audience. Register for this event here: https://mediterranean-refugee-crisis.eventbrite.co.uk…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mary Poovey: Some Lessons of History: Why Economists Failed to Anticipate the Great Recession

17:00 - 19:00 13 January 2016
Professor Mary Poovey will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Finance and the Market. This lecture explores the relationship…

Massimiliano Fuksas: Emotion - Strategy

18:00 - 19:30 22 January 2016
A public lecture by Massimiliano Fuksas, one of the most renowned Italian architects. Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is an international architectural practice…

Greater Manchester Higher- University of Manchester Campus visit. Year 8/9

2 February 2016
This one day event is designed to give Year 8 and Year 9 learners an opportunity to reflect on their options for the future, in advance of choosing their GCSE options. Learners will…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: John Connor (Colgate University) ‘Romantic Woolf’

17:00 - 18:30 3 February 2016
John Connor (Colgate University) ‘Romantic Woolf’

70th anniversary lecture series: Jodrell Bank, the Moon and the Space Race

19:30 - 21:00 4 February 2016
On 4th February 1966 Jodrell Bank intercepted signals from the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft which had landed on the Moon the previous day. and printed them on a borrowed newspaper fax machine.…

Greater Manchester Higher- University of Manchester Campus visit. Year 8/9

4 February 2016
This one day event is designed to give Year 8 and Year 9 learners an opportunity to reflect on their options for the future, in advance of choosing their GCSE options. Learners will…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Cecile Sandten (Chemnitz) ‘Postcolonial Invocations: The Poetics of Location and Dislocation in a Selection of Bombay Poems’

17:00 - 18:30 10 February 2016
Cecile Sandten (Chemnitz) ‘Postcolonial Invocations: The Poetics of Location and Dislocation in a Selection of Bombay Poems’

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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