Lectures and seminars

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

18:00 - 20:00 19 April 2016
Sponsored by the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series Margit Thofner, University of East Anglia 'Picturing Music in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Marten de Vos's motet prints'

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Jing Wang: The Makers Are Coming! China’s Long Tail Revolution

17:00 - 19:00 19 April 2016
Professor Jing Wang will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. This event is presented in collaboration…

Ehmt methylation of histone 3 lysine 9 represses the cardiac fetal gene programme to maintain the phenotype of adult cardiac myocytes

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Jason Bruce

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Stefan Ambec

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2016
Title: Decarbonizing electricity generation with intermittent sources of energy Abstract We examine the impact of public policies that aim to decarbonate electricity production by…

Friends of Tabley AGM and a Talk by Dr Charles Foster of Arley Hall

17:00 19 April 2016
Following the AGM there will be an illustrated talk by Charles Foster about the shopping habits of the Warburtons of Arley Hall in the eighteenth century. The archive at Arley Hall…

John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'American Studies as Accompaniment'

17:00 - 19:00 19 April 2016
John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'American Studies as Accompaniment'

Marcello Oreste Fiocco (UC Irvine): Metaphysics and Radical Ontology

15:00 - 17:00 19 April 2016
Abstract: I characterize *metaphysics* as a unified discipline, one that provides the basis for all inquiry. This discipline has a distinctive problem, arising from the needs of a…

Nature and local power: mayors and natural history museums in provincial France, 1800-1860 - Déborah Dubald (European University Institute)

13:00 - 14:00 19 April 2016
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…

Picturing Music in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp: Marten de Vos’s Motet Prints

06:00 - 07:00 19 April 2016
In 1584 the painter Marten de Vos, the engraver Johan Sadeler and the composer Cornelis Verdonck worked together to produce a motet print. This was the first ever engraved representation…

TLR-mediated checkpoint control of CD4 T cell responses

14:00 - 15:00 19 April 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Accounting seminar by Ole-Kristian Hope, University of Toronto

14:00 - 16:00 20 April 2016
Third-Party Consequences of Short-Selling Threats: The Case of Auditor Behavior

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Levinas and the Disruption of Knowledge

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2016
This seminar is part of CIDRAL's Theory Intensives series. Professor Alex Samely (Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester) will lead a seminar on the work of Emmanuel Levinas.…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Kath Burlinson (Authentic Artist) ‘"Iterated jingles": Christina Rossetti from page to stage’

17:00 - 18:30 20 April 2016
Kath Burlinson (Authentic Artist) ‘"Iterated jingles": Christina Rossetti from page to stage’

Finance seminar by Juan Sotes-Paladino, University of Melbourne

14:00 - 16:00 20 April 2016
The Invisible Hand of Internal Markets in Mutual Fund Families

George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Art-Based Community Making in Houston and New Orleans"

13:00 - 14:00 20 April 2016
George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Art-Based Community Making in Houston and New Orleans"

Introduction to CLES: Local economics for positive outcomes

13:00 - 14:00 20 April 2016
The Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) is an independent think tank based in Manchester. CLES believe that all local economic policy and practice should have a commitment to…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 20 April 2016
Jerome Drevon, University of Manchester

oxygen/hypoxic physiology in tumour cells

16:00 20 April 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

Pankhurst Politics Seminar: Implications of 2016 Welsh Assembly Elections

12:30 - 13:30 20 April 2016
In this talk Rob Ford and Nerys Evans discuss the recent history of the Welsh Assembly to date and the forthcoming Assembly elections in May. Both speakers will examine the significance…

Perspectivism and Totality in Computer Games and their Constitution of Subjectivities

14:00 - 15:00 20 April 2016
Computer games have variously been described as a ‘paradigmatic media of Empire’ (Dyer-Witheford & de Peuter, 2009, p.xv), as ‘allegories for our contemporary life under the protocological…

Spatial appropriations: forced mobility of the underprivileged - Centre for Chinese Studies Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 20 April 2016
Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) 2015-2016 Seminar Series presents: Ximin Zhou (University of Manchester) “Spatial appropriations: forced mobility of the underprivileged” 20 April,…

The Global Development Seminar Series 2016 - "Understanding youth poverty in Arusha, Tanzania: Capturing economic, social and psychological dimensions"

16:30 - 18:00 20 April 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…

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