Lectures and seminars

"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…

CIDRAL Postgraduate Event: Seminar with Professor Jeremy Gilbert

10:00 - 12:00 13 November 2015
This event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 1 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Finance and the Market. Professor Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London) will hold…

What makes an age-friendly city?

10:00 - 16:00 13 November 2015
This seminar forms part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and is brought to you by MICRA International perspectives on policy and practice. One day seminar exploring the ways…

Do policy mix characteristics matter for (eco-)innovation? A survey-based exploration for manufacturing of renewable power generation technologies in Germany

13:00 - 14:00 16 November 2015
The decarbonization of energy systems constitutes one of this century’s key challenges for human society in mitigating climate change. In such a transition so-called policy mixes play…

Life at the bio-geo interface; microbes with iron lungs

12:00 - 13:00 16 November 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series 2015

Piotr Goldstein: "Without the Foreigners, Without the State: Can civil society groups in Serbia manage without external funding?"

16:30 - 18:00 16 November 2015
All are welcome to attend the next talk in the Russian and East European Studies Research Seminar Series. Our speaker is Piotr Goldstein, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow based at…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR - 16 NOVEMBER 2015 - ANDREW SANCHEZ - KENT

16:00 - 18:00 16 November 2015
Title : "Profane Relations: The Irony of offensive Jokes in India" On the shop floor of an Indian automobile plant, a multi-ethnic workforce exchanges potentially offensive ethnic…

Careering through India: Irish surgeons and their careers in India, 1870-1900

13:00 - 14:00 17 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…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Peter Howley

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2015
Title: It’s not all about the money! Exploring the multiple facets of farmer decision-making Abstract Given that utility is a difficult concept to measure, agricultural economists…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Jess Leech (Sheffield)

15:00 - 17:00 17 November 2015
"The Mereology of Representation" Kant famously distinguishes between two kinds of representation: intuitions and concepts. Intuitions, he tells us, are singular and immediate, whilst…

PLO Cultural Activism: Liberation as image and discourse

17:00 - 18:00 17 November 2015
Dina Matar is Associate Head, Centre for Media Studies. She works on cultural activism, political communication, social and political movements and cultural politics in the Arab World…

Redox biology, oxidative stress and hypertension

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2015
CMD Autumn Seminar Series

Seminar

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2015
"How bacterial antigenic diversity emerges: the case of pneumococcal serotypes."

Stroke and Immunosuppression

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2015
This talk is the fifth in a series of eight. Arthur Liesz from LMU Munich will be giving a talk for the Neuroscience Seminar Autumn series. Catherine Lawrence and Stuart Allan are…

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’

Finance seminar by Murillo Campello

14:00 - 16:00 18 November 2015
Organized Labour and the Cost of Debt: Evidence from Union Votes

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 18 November 2015
Joe Watson, University of Manchester

Perchance to Dream: Sleep, Wakefulness, Public Health and Politics

14:00 18 November 2015
As part of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy Seminar Series Dr Iain Brassington, Senior Lecturer in Bioethics will be presenting a paper entitled: Perchance to Dream: Sleep,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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