Lectures and seminars

A Visigothic Valetudinarian

16:55 - 18:30 17 March 2016
Classics & Ancient History work-in-progress seminar

Book Launch - Irish Adventures in Nation Building

14:00 - 15:00 17 March 2016
Professor Bryan Fanning from the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin. Will launch his new book with Manchester University Press. Irish…

Brook Lecture: Prof. Patricia Ingham (Indiana University Bloomington), 'Curious Novelties'

17:30 - 19:00 17 March 2016
The Brook Lecture honours the memory of G.L. Brook, Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at Manchester University, 1945–77. We are pleased to welcome as this…

Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar: Nir Arielli (Leeds) - "Israel's International 'Machal' Volunteers in the War of 1948: A comparative assessment of their contribution"

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

Ehrhardt Seminar: Katie Edwards (Sheffield) - Biblical Literacies and Popular Culture

14:00 - 16:00 17 March 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

Ireland, Immigration and Racism

13:00 - 14:00 17 March 2016
This focus of this seminar is upon the academic literature on racism in Ireland that has emerged during the last two decades. In effect, this literature has sought to understand how…

MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 17 March - Ashwini Vasanthakumar - University of York

16:00 - 18:00 17 March 2016
Dear all, The next MANCEPT research seminar will be on Thursday 17 March, when Ashwini Vasanthakumar (York) will give a presentation titled “Epistemic Privilege and Victims’ Duties…

NLRs and inflammasomes in host defence

12:00 - 13:00 17 March 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Manchester Pharmacy School Seminar Series 2015/16

12:30 - 14:00 21 March 2016
'''Host:''' Manchester Pharmacy School Presentation title: To be confirmed Speaker: Prof Steve Conlan The seminar series held in MPS is primarily designed to be of interest to staff…

A novel role for the Plasma Membrane Calcium ATPase 4 protein as a negative regulator of angiogenesis

12:00 - 13:00 22 March 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Joy Wang

CoDE seminar Tottenham before and after the riots

13:00 - 14:00 22 March 2016
CoDE welcomes Prof. Bryan Fanning from the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin to the CoDE seminar series. This seminar examines various…

Giulio Camillo’s Theatro della sapientia: Theatres of Knowledge in the Early Modern Period

16:00 - 17:00 22 March 2016
This talk will present some initial thoughts on the importance of Logic to understand the different visualisations, and classifications, of knowledge that are found in Giulio Camillo’s…

Globalization, migration and the future of the middle classes

16:30 - 18:00 22 March 2016
Branko Milanovic will discuss recent changes in global income distribution, the creation of a “global middle class”, stagnation of median incomes in the West and propose Kuznets cycles…

Are effectiveness-based models in danger of collapsing into complexity?

12:00 - 13:00 23 March 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminar series in Manchester Institute of Education

Infection by Listeria: new critical factors in the host-pathogen interaction

16:00 - 17:00 23 March 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

Communication, collaboration and warfare in the filamentous fungus, Neurospora crassa

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2016
Manchester Fungal Infection Group Seminar - Host: Professor Nick Read

Cyclooxygenase-dependent tumour growth through evasion of immunity

12:00 - 13:00 24 March 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Research Claims and Interpretative Contexts

13:00 - 14:00 24 March 2016
This seminar with be presented by Professor Bryan Fanning, Simon and Hallsworth visiting professor at the University of Manchester in the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (Code). Andrew…

Plant immune receptors: dissection, diversity and deployment

16:00 - 17:00 30 March 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

Role of highly oligomeric organising centres in the regulation of inflammatory signalling

12:00 - 13:00 31 March 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Hypothalamic nutrient-sensing and the control of energy balance

12:00 - 13:00 5 April 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Simon Luckman

Improved CRISPR editing using chemically-modified crRNA:tracrRNA complexes

14:00 - 15:00 5 April 2016
Mark Behlke runs the CRISPR research programme for Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT). He will discuss the latest developments and products relevant to anyone interested in using CRISPR technology in their research

Redox Regulation of Chondrocyte Integrin Signaling and Osteoarthritis

13:00 - 14:00 6 April 2016
Richard is Director of Basic and Translational Research in the Thurston Arthritis Research Center at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Abstract : Osteoarthritis results from degradation…

'Living the Weather: a study in the socio-atmospherics of everyday life' - BSA conference stream plenary

09:30 - 10:30 7 April 2016
Professor Jennifer Mason is giving the plenary session of the Families and Relationships stream at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, held at Aston University, 6-8 April 2016.

Celebrating Research Success in FLS Seminar - “Stitching up holes in epithelial sheets.”

15:00 - 16:00 8 April 2016
The next seminar in the ‘Celebrating Research Success’ series will be given by Dr Tom Millard who is a member of the Developement Research Theme. The seminar is scheduled to take place…

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