Lectures and seminars

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr. A. M. Tanvir Hussain

13:00 - 14:00 3 May 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop Title: Willingness to pay for environmental goods under uncertainty Abstract: We develop a microeconomic approach for valuing the benefits…

Helen Yetter-Chappell (York): Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem

15:00 - 16:30 3 May 2016
This talk has two aims: (i) I develop and defend a nontheistic (quasi-Berkeleyan) idealism. On this picture, reality is a vast unity of consciousness, with an interesting internal structure.…

S-curves and mechanisms of propagation in language change

16:15 - 17:30 3 May 2016
LEL Research Seminar with Richard Blythe (Edinburgh). Abstract: "A variety of mechanisms have been proposed in sociolinguistics for the propagation of an innovation through the speech…

The Sound of Worship: Architectural acoustics in British ecclesiastical space 1800-1900 - Rachel Douglas (University of Manchester, CHSTM)

13:00 - 14:00 3 May 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…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Frank Towers (Calgary), 'Two Civil Wars: Slavery, Nation, and the Time Scales of 19th Century U.S. History'

17:00 - 18:30 4 May 2016
Frank Towers (Calgary), 'Two Civil Wars: Slavery, Nation, and the Time Scales of 19th Century U.S. History'

Ever closer Union? Changing relations between the Commission and the European Parliament

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2016
Ever closer Union? Changing relations between the Commission and the European Parliament

Finance seminar by Ambrus Kecskes, Schulich School of Business, York University

14:00 - 16:00 4 May 2016
Do Technology Spillovers Affect Corporate Financial Policies?

Global Value Chains, Market-Making, and the Rise of Precarious Work with Jennifer Bair

17:00 - 18:15 4 May 2016
Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado at Boulder, will discuss Global Value Chains, Market-Making, and the Rise of Precarious Work In recent years, high-profile scandals involving…

Introduction to randomised controlled trials in the social sciences: design and analysis

13:00 - 15:00 4 May 2016
This workshop will introduce social scientists to randomised controlled trials (RCTS), using recent examples of social science trials. Participants will learn the practical steps involved…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 May 2016
Filip Agneessens, University of Surrey Centrality measure(s): local and global versions of walks, trails and paths. Measures of individual centrality for an actor (i) in a network are…

Robin Burgess. London School of Economics

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2016
TBC

Using agent-based models to answer questions about language change

09:00 - 11:00 4 May 2016
LEL Masterclass with Richard Blythe (Edinburgh). Abstract: "In this informal session, I will set out my views on the role that mathematical models may - and may not - play in answering…

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

16:00 - 19:00 5 May 2016
Co-sponsored by Art History & Visual Studies and the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series 4.00pm Rose Marie San Juan, University College London 'Cannibal Matter' 5.15pm…

Constructing the dynein LIC interactome/The effect of mycolactone on protein translocation through the Sec61 translocon

13:30 - 14:30 5 May 2016
This is part of the CCB Spring Seminar Series 2016. Amy Davidson/Mike McKenna, University of Manchester Constructing the dynein LIC interactome/The effect of mycolactone on protein…

Ehrhadt Seminar: Dominika Kurek-Chomyez - "The King's Fragrance and the Spiritual Sense of Smell: Reading Cant 1:3-4 and 1:12 with Origen and Gregory of Nysaa"

14:00 - 16:00 5 May 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

HLA-guided studies of autoreactive T cells in type 1 diabetes

12:00 - 13:00 5 May 2016
MIG Seminar Series

How Immanuel Kant inspired the first "Critique" of Lu Xun - Centre for Chinese Studies Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 5 May 2016
Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) 2015-2016 Seminar Series presents: Susan Daruvala (University of Cambridge) "How Immanuel Kant inspired the first "Critique" of Lu Xun" 5 May, 5pm-6.30pm University Place room 4.212

Imagining the Self in the Illuminated Passover Haggadah Manuscripts of Fourteenth-century Aragon

17:15 - 18:30 5 May 2016
The Rylands Haggadah (Kingdom of Aragon, ca. 1340) is particularly well-known for the ‘picture bible’ that prefaces it. However, arguably equally salient are the depictions of the Passover…

Is China colonizing Africa?

17:30 5 May 2016
Africa International with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre present two public lectures on the growing economic relationship between African and Caribbean countries…

MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 05 May - Elizabeth Ashford - University of St Andrews

16:00 - 18:00 5 May 2016
To be confirmed

Melland Schill Lecture

17:00 5 May 2016
The Manchester International Law Center is honoured to welcome Judge Xue of the International Court of Justice to deliver this year's Melland Schill Lecture

Rajbharat Patta (Manchester) - "Subaltern Public Theology"

16:00 - 17:30 5 May 2016
The fourth Religions and Theology research seminar of the semester.

The Thirty Tyrants in Lysias 12 Against Eratosthenes: counting, accounting, recounting

16:55 - 18:30 5 May 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Celebrating Research Success in FLS Seminar - Membrane Type I-Matrix Metalloproteinase 14 - a pericellular collagenase and tissue architect all rolled up in one

15:00 - 16:00 6 May 2016
The next seminar in the ‘Celebrating Research Success’ series will be given by Prof Karl Kadler who is a member of the Cell Matrix Biology Research Theme. The seminar is scheduled to…

Sherman Community Lecture in Jewish Studies 2016: Dr. Yulia Egorova (Durham University) - "Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: History, Experience, Context"

19:30 - 21:00 8 May 2016
The annual Sherman Community Lecture

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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