Lectures and seminars

Anna Strhan (Kent) - "The Agency of Children and the Study of Religion"

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2016
The second seminar in the Religions and Theology research seminar series.

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

17:00 - 19:30 25 February 2016
Co-sponsored by Art History & Visual Studies and the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series 5.00pm Alex Metcalfe, Lancaster University 'From memory to written record:…

CTIS Research Seminar: Critical Approaches to Translation Technology

14:00 - 15:30 25 February 2016
Much contemporary thought on technology in general, and translation technology in particular, is characterized by defeatism, determinism and a tendency towards universalism. Such comment…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Peter Oakes - "Nine Types of Church in Nine Types of Space in the Insula of the Meander at Pompeii"

14:00 - 16:00 25 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

Fear, honour and profit? Revisiting the 'balance sheet' of Greek imperialism.

16:55 - 18:30 25 February 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

From memory to written record: royal documents from Arab-Norman Sicily

17:00 - 18:15 25 February 2016
The Norman conquests in the central Mediterranean ended Muslim political power in Sicily, formed a single kingdom in 1130, and divided Christian Europe from Muslim Africa. The kingship…

Integrins in haematopoiesis: What is the impact of alpha4 integrin on stem cell and progenitor survival, migration and compartmentalisation?

12:00 - 13:00 25 February 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Lecture : Stephen Gill, York University, Toronto, and Hallsworth Visiting Professor, The University of Manchester

17:00 - 18:30 25 February 2016
The Political Economy Institute and Global Political Economy research cluster at The University of Manchester are very pleased to announce the following public lecture: Stephen Gill,…

MANCEPT research seminar - “Justice and Attributions of Responsibility” - Thursday 25 February - Jodie Lamb - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 25 February 2016
MANCEPT research seminar - “Justice and Attributions of Responsibility” - Thursday 25 February - Jodie Lamb - University of Manchester ABSTRACT: The standard formulation of responsibility…

The carbon and development spaces

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2016
In the latest UN climate change conference held in Paris, governments all around the world agreed to strengthen efforts to limit the rise in the global average temperature to 1.5°C…

Tyndall Manchester Seminar Series - 'The carbon and development spaces'

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2016
Abstract In the latest UN climate change conference held in Paris, governments all around the world agreed to strengthen efforts to limit the rise in the global average temperature…

Reversing the international flow of innovation: the Chinese market as a source of global innovation

15:30 - 16:30 29 February 2016
Stepping aside from the International Product Life Cycle Theory (Vernon, 1966) that considered advanced economies as the only loci of innovation, scholars are now looking at the growing…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Victor Cova (University of St Andrews)

16:00 - 18:00 29 February 2016
Title: Back from the Future. In this paper I ask how it is that humans can experience the future in the present, even though the future, by definition, can never be made present. I…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Assessing risk of non-response bias and dataset representativeness during survey data collection

16:00 - 17:30 1 March 2016
Abstract: Survey methodologists have shifted away from using response rates as an indicator of survey non-response bias. Instead, monitoring of response within and across sample subgroups…

Public Lecture Professor Susana Narotzky ‘’Autonomy, dependence and solidarity : grassroots responses to structural adjustment in Spain’’

16:00 - 18:00 2 March 2016
PUBLIC LECTURE Faculty of Humanities Visiting Hallsworth Professor Wednesday 2nd March 2016 Susana Narotzky, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona…

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