Lectures and seminars

A study of th experiences of post primary students with special educational needs in Ireland

12:00 - 13:00 10 February 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminar series in Manchester Institute of Education

Accounting seminar by Leonidas Doukakis

14:00 - 16:00 10 February 2016
The Informativeness of Micro and Macro Information During Economic Crisis and Non-crisis Periods

An introduction to the latest thinking in social impact measurement: wellbeing valuation

13:00 - 14:00 10 February 2016
Social impact measurement is a hot topic at the moment. With governments scaling back the services they provide, greater burden is being placed on charities and not-for-profits to support…

Democracy and Elections seminar: 'Benefits of Diversity: why do political parties recruit women and BME MPs and what does it mean for representation?'

15:30 10 February 2016
Benefits of Diversity: why do political parties recruit women and BME MPs and what does it mean for representation?' With Dr Maria Sobolewska With party diversity high on the agenda…

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’

Finance seminar by Mauricio Larrain, Columbia Business School

14:00 - 16:00 10 February 2016
https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/mlarrain/papers/CLLS.pdf

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 10 February 2016
Robert Young, University of Glasgow Adolescent peer networks and mental health: Studying the influence of online and in-person peer networks on young people’s mental health. The talk…

Sensing of the environment by the NLRP3 inflammasome

16:00 - 17:00 10 February 2016
Leaders in Science - The first talk of the series will be delivered by Professor Eicke Latz who is Director of the Institute of Innate Immunity at the University of Bonn in Germany.…

The Global Development Seminar Series 2016 - "Human Development in the World Market: The UNDP’s Social Compact for Global Capitalism"

16:30 - 18:00 10 February 2016
The Global Development seminar series bringing together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing…

The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

14:00 - 15:00 10 February 2016
Dr. Gabriel Siles-Brugge (University of Manchester)

‘Can brands save the world?’ On the ethical projects of commercial communications

14:00 - 15:00 10 February 2016
Corporations increasingly draw upon notions of sustainable consumption to address consumers, employees and other stakeholders. The paper draws upon primary research into the commercial…

CTIS Research Seminar: The Paradox of Poetry: Soviet Translators and the Rendering of Poetic Form

14:00 - 15:30 11 February 2016
In this paper I examine Soviet translations of English poetry published between the 1930s and 1980s, and consider what we might deduce from them about the guiding principles of the…

Dendritic cells in immunity and tolerance

12:00 - 13:00 11 February 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mika Pajunen (Helsinki) - "On he Paths of Judgment and Salvation: Prophetic Fulfilment and Anticipation in the Psalms of Solomon and the Barkhi Nafshi Hymns"

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

Fabrizo Ferrari (Chester) - "Agricultural Knowledge in medieval Bengali Saivism"

16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2016
Religions and Theology Research Seminar: All Welcome!

Oracular Narrative: Timing and Truth Telling. Exploring mythic forms of prefigurement and prophecy in contemporary fiction inspired by Greek tragedy and the Arabian Nights.

17:30 - 19:30 11 February 2016
The John Rylands Institute is honoured to welcome Marina Warner to deliver the Institute’s Annual Lecture on Thursday, 11 February 2016. A writer of fiction, criticism and history,…

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