Lectures and seminars

Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar - Yohai Hakkak (Brunel) - "Forbidden Love and Moral Panic: Jewish-Arab Couples in Contemporary Israel"

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2016
Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar

Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured by Genome Architecture Mapping, a novel ligation-free approach

13:30 - 15:30 21 April 2016
This seminar is part of the CCB Spring Seminar series. Prof. Ana Pombo, Humboldt University, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology Complex multi-enhancer contacts captured…

De morbis venereis – the scars of Venus

16:55 - 18:30 21 April 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Econometrics and Applied Economics Workshop: Prof Frank Kleibergen

16:15 - 17:45 21 April 2016
Econometrics and Applied Economics Workshop

Ehrhardt Seminar: Benedict Kent - "Clients, Agents and Brokers: Examining Paul's Christology from a Graeco-Roman Perspective"

14:00 - 16:00 21 April 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

Herford Memorial Lecture: Charles Burdett: Italy, Islam and the Islamic World from 9/11 to the Arab Uprisings

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2016
The recent emergence and increasing visibility of Islam as Italy’s second religion is an issue of undeniable importance. It has generated an intense and often polarized debate that…

John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz (University of California, Santa Barbara), "From Plessy to Ferguson: The Racialization of Time and Place"

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2016
Professor George Lipsitz "From Plessy to Ferguson: The Racialization of Time and Place" Public lecture (all welcome) Book through Eventbrite: http://plessytoferguson.eventbrite.co.uk…

Lecture by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education

18:00 - 20:30 21 April 2016
Manchester International Law Centre (MILC) will welcome Dr Kishore Singh, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education is to Manchester in order to deliver a lecture on "Social…

MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 21 April - Steve Hood - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 21 April 2016
The next MANCEPT research seminar will be on Thursday 21 April, when our very own Stephen Hood will speak about “Four Reasons for Competition.” The seminar starts at 4pm in the Arthur…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: ' Doctors and Philosophers of Composition'

14:30 - 15:30 21 April 2016
Workshop performances and discussion of new works by the University's PhD students. **PLEASE NOTE: THIS DATE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FROM 5TH MAY 2016**

Teaching and Learning Seminar - Increasing student engagement in surveys

12:30 - 13:30 21 April 2016
Professor Mark Elliot, Chair of Data Sciences, School of Social Sciences, will be talking about how challenging it is to encourage PGT students to complete experience surveys. The students…

Tyndall Manchester Seminar- Wild Interdisciplinarity: Reflections on Doing Social Science within a Technology Project

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2016
Drawing on the experiences of a novel collaborative project between sociologists and computer scientists, this paper identifies a set of challenges for fieldwork that are generated…

Fabrizio Zilibotti (University of Zurich). Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa.

14:00 - 15:00 22 April 2016
Fabrizio Zilibotti holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Political Economy of the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich. He is the President of the European Economic Association.…

Evaluating the quality of survey and administrative data with generalized multitrait-multimethod models

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2016
Administrative register data are increasingly important in statistics, but, like other types of data, may contain measurement errors. To prevent such errors from invalidating analyses…

Politics Peace Lecture 2016: Srdja Popovic - How To Topple Tyranny

15:00 - 16:30 25 April 2016
Join the University of Manchester’s Politics department for an afternoon with one of the world’s renowned nonviolent democracy campaigners. Srdja Popovic led the Serbian nonviolent…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Prof Veronica Strang (University of Durham)

16:00 - 18:00 25 April 2016
Title: Comparative Values: water serpent beings and human-non-human relations Abstract Beliefs in water serpent beings were, at one time, ubiquitous in human societies, and they…

Terraforming Tech City: place branding and spatial imaginaries in East London

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2016
This paper performs a mixed-methods analysis of place-branding strategies developed in the ‘Tech City’ cluster initiative in Inner East London, drawing on ethnographic material, semi-structured…

The Intimate Contract of Photography

17:00 - 19:00 25 April 2016
A reading of images from the archive of Haleema Hashim. Mallika Leuzinger (UCL) School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Graduate Seminar Series Part 2: Vernacular Cultures

Arthur D. Darbishire’s Bergsonian Biology - Emily Herring (University of Leeds)

13:00 - 14:00 26 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…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Estimating the Uncertainty in the Local Authority Mid-year Population Estimates

16:00 - 17:30 26 April 2016
Abstract: Each year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) produces mid-year population estimates for each local authority. In the years following the Census, these are produced…

Cyclic nucleotide coupled phosphodiesterase signalling in cardiac sympathetic neurons in heart disease: novel therapeutic targets

12:00 - 13:00 26 April 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Joy Wang

French Studies Guest Lecture: "'Freedom of expression or freedom from Islam? The emergence of secularism in French political debate since the 1980s"

17:00 - 18:00 26 April 2016
Professor Olivier Esteves, Université de Lille (chaired by Dr Barbara Lebrun, French Studies) In 2016, secularism (laïcité) continues to be harnessed by French politicians and the…

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