Seminar

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Why God is Watching: Supernatural Punishment and the Evolution of Cooperation

16:00 - 17:30 15 February 2016
Abstract: Amidst the dazzling diversity of religions across the world, certain elements stand out as common to them all. One of the most widespread and powerful is belief in supernatural…

Disaster Dialogue: Three myths in our dealings with disasters, climate change and development

16:00 - 18:00 15 February 2016
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…

February half term: Meet the Expert

13:00 15 - 13:45 19 February 2016
A chance to meet one of our resident scientific and engineering experts, find out about their work and quiz them about what they do and their knowledge of Jodrell Bank. If you have…

JMCE Event - Seminar - Where Next for the UK and the EU? An Irish perspective - Ambassador DANIEL MULHALL

16:30 - 17:30 15 February 2016
You are warmly invited to this special JMCE Event: Where Next for the UK and the EU? An Irish perspective Ambassador DANIEL MULHALL (Irish Ambassador to the UK) 15 February,…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Prof Signe Howell (University of Oslo)

16:00 - 18:00 15 February 2016
Title: ”Seeing, Knowing, Being, Acting: Chewong animism and human anthropomorphizing” Drawing on ethnographic material from Chewong, a hunting, gathering and shifting cultivating…

Cryptic laminin activity regulates matrix metalloproteinase expression during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition – towards a strategy to target tissue fibrosis

12:00 - 13:00 16 February 2016
Abstract: The remodelling of the basement membrane (BM) – an integral part of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) - involves constant modulation of integrin-BM protein interactions…

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar CANCELLED

13:00 - 14:00 16 February 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Speaker: Torben Klarl (University of Augsburg) CANCELLED

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Torben Klarl

13:00 - 14:00 16 February 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop https://www.uni-ulm.de/mawi/mawi-wiwi/mitarbeiter/dr-dr-habil-torben-klarl.html

Stacie Friend (Birkbeck): The Real Foundation of Fictional Worlds

15:00 - 17:00 16 February 2016
Abstract: I argue that judgements of what is ‘true in a fiction’ presuppose the Reality Assumption: the assumption that everything that is (really) true is also fictionally the case,…

‘Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity’

16:00 - 17:00 16 February 2016
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminar Series Feb-May 2016. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

Accounting seminar by Eija Vinnari, University of Tampere, Finland

14:00 - 16:00 17 February 2016
Institutional and Actor-Network Theories of Accounting: Can They Be Combined?

Dalton Seminar Series: Putting the 'Nuclear' back into Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

12:00 - 13:00 17 February 2016
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.

Finance seminar by Arie Gozluklu, Warwick Business School

14:00 - 16:00 17 February 2016
Global Political Risk and Currency Momentum

Krasnoiarsk, 1917: Revolutionary power in the Russian provinces, reconsidered (CRES Research Seminar)

17:00 - 18:30 17 February 2016
All are welcome to attend the next Cross-Disciplinary Russian and Eurasian Studies Network (CRES) Research Seminar: 17 February 2016 5pm-6.20pm, Roscoe building, Room 4.8 Dr Alistair…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 17 February 2016
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University How can we check Social Network models and measures? Agent-base modelling as the next level test after face validity. All social network…

Prof. Saúl Sosnowski (Maryland): 'And when they got back….: Literature and the Return from Exile in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay'

17:00 - 18:30 17 February 2016
Organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Venue: Arthur Lewis Boardroom [3rd floor].

Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar: Roman Vater (Oxford) - "National Alternatives to Zionism: The Case of the Young Hebrews, 1939-1976"

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2016
Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar

CIDRAL Postgraduate Event: Seminar with François Hartog

10:00 - 12:00 18 February 2016
This event is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. Professor François Hartog (EHESS) will hold a seminar for…

CTIS Research Seminar: Bringing the Message to LGBT Youth around the World? Online Activism, Translation, Cultural Work

14:00 - 15:30 18 February 2016
In this talk, I reframe debates on the global emergence of LGBTQ+ movements as questions about translation. I return to theorisations of power within Translation Studies to push against…

Diodorus Siculus’ ‘Slave War’ narratives: writing social commentary in the Bibliotheke

16:55 - 18:30 18 February 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Ehrhardt Seminar: Richard Britton - "From Semiotics to the Sword: Islamic Extremism and the Violence of Christ"

14:00 - 16:00 18 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

Macrophages - Tissue Specialisations and Functions

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2016
MIG Seminar Series

MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 18 February - “Beyond Reforms: Implementing the Responsibility to Protect” - Bola Adediran (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 18 February 2016
Dear all, The next MANCEPT research seminar will be on Thursday 18 February, when our very own Bola Adediran will give a presentation titled “Beyond Reforms: Implementing the Responsibility…

How can health psychology help improve the lives of older people?

14:00 - 16:30 19 February 2016
MICRA Seminar Health Psychology is concerned with understanding thoughts, feelings and behaviour in relation to health and illness. The Manchester Centre for Health Psychology was…

Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management in Brazil: The Impact of British Investment, 1875 -1914

13:00 - 14:00 22 February 2016
This paper looks at the impact of British innovation, entrepreneurship and management on Brazilian economic development from 1875 to 1914, a period when Britain was the main foreign…

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