Lectures and seminars

'To Strive, To Seek, To Find' - the ambitions at the Post Office Research Station, 1945-1951

13:00 - 14:00 24 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…

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…

Chaperoning haemostasis and thrombosis: unexpected roles of ER proteins

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2015
CMD Autumn Seminar Series

Children of the revolution? Education professionals and the reform of public services

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2015
Sarah Fielden seminar series by Manchester Institute of Education celebrating excellence in educational research. Seminars are open to all staff, students and members of the public.…

Children of the Revolution? Education Professionals and the Reform of Public Services

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2015
Sarah Fielden Seminar Series 2015 - seminars are open to all staff, students and members of the public. Email shelley.darlington@manchester.ac.uk to reserve a place.

CMIST afternoon seminar: When psychometrics meets epidemiology, and the studies which result!

16:00 - 17:30 24 November 2015
In this talk I will present a series of studies from across the last few years of my academic career which have (largely) focussed on the application of latent variable models to issues…

Development Economics Seminars: Dr. Marco Alfano, UCL

24 November 2015
Development Economics Seminar: Dr. Marco Alfano, UCL

Dualist Techniques For Materialist Imaginaries: Matter and Mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain

16:00 - 17:00 24 November 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,…

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…

Neural Oscillations

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2015
This talk is the sixth in a series of eight. Miles Whittington from Hull York Medical School will be giving a talk for the Neuroscience Seminar Autumn series. Rasmus Petersen will…

Rethinking persecutions: P.Ryl. 3 469 and the Manichaeans in Egypt

16:00 - 17:00 24 November 2015
Bought in Egypt in 1920 by B.P. Grenfell , the so-called Christian letter against the Manichaeans published by C. Roberts in 1938 offers a direct glimpse into competing monotheisms…

Transitional (Poetic) Justice in Tunisia

17:00 - 18:00 24 November 2015
Transitional (Poetic) Justice in Tunisia - A Lecture by Mohamed-Salah Omri, University of Oxford. Part of the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar series.

AREVA Seminar

13:00 - 15:30 25 November 2015
Delivered by Jean Dhers, AREVA R&D 13:00-13:40 EPR Reactor Design Talk 13:40-14:10 AREVA Future Strategy 14:10-14:30 Refreshment Break 14:30-15:30 Panel Discussion All welcome.

Chinese Studies Seminar Series: 'Queer As Catachresis: Beijing Queer Film Festival in Cultural Translation’

17:00 - 18:30 25 November 2015
All are welcome to attend the next talk in the Chinese Studies Seminar Series. Next week, Dr Hongwei Bao will be delivering the talk: 'Queer As Catachresis: Beijing Queer Film Festival…

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'

Finance seminar by Li Liu, Said Business School

14:00 - 16:00 25 November 2015
Home Country Taxation and Multinational Investment: Evidence from the UK

From MDGs to SDGS: Transformation or Evolution? - The Global Development Seminar Series

16:30 - 18:00 25 November 2015
The Global Development Seminar Series From MDGs to SDGS: Transformation or Evolution? Hear Global Development Institute Executive Director David Hulme discuss the recently announced…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 25 November 2015
Soong Moon Kang, UCL School of Management

New histories of the university (and why they matter now)

16:00 - 18:00 25 November 2015
For much of the twentieth century university history was written as institutional, national and progressive. But these ways of framing the university no longer help us make sense of…

The rise and fall of aid effectiveness in the European Union

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2015
Seminar series by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Manchester (JMCE Manchester)

Dalton Seminar Series: Technology Development and Delivery at Sellafield

15:45 - 16:45 26 November 2015
The Dalton Seminar Series aims to promote exchange and offer informative events across institutions and facilities associated with The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Philip Alexander - "Narrative and Counter-Narrative: The Jewish Anti-Gospel (the Toledot Yeshu) and the Christian Gospels"

14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2015
Ehrhardt seminar in Biblical Studies. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Regulation of NFkappaB signalling by viral and cellular FLIP proteins

12:00 - 13:00 26 November 2015
CMD Autumn Seminar Series

Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Evaluation: The causes and consequences of isolation

13:00 - 14:00 26 November 2015
Evaluation has long been an important component of the policy process and the focus of a broad field of academic work. The evaluation research community is large, growing and vibrant.…

Triangulating Methodologies: An Example from Ongoing Research on Interpreting for Deaf Jurors, by Jemina Napier, Heriot-Watt

14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2015
Part of the CTIS Research Seminar Series. All welcome, no registration necessary. Abstract: Mixed-methods research draws on different methodologies in order to test or explore the same…

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