Lectures and seminars

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

Close together or farther apart? The geography of host country knowledge sourcing and subsidiary’s innovation performance

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2016
We investigate the influence of the geography of host country knowledge sources developing different types of knowledge on the quality and generality of a foreign subsidiary innovation.…

MCCIR AZ/GSK Update Seminar

15:30 - 16:30 9 May 2016
A novel population of monocyte-independent gut macrophages are enriched in the lamina propria John Grainger Contrasting other barrier sites, where resident macrophages derive from…

CMIST Seminar: Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity over the first decade of life – findings from the Millennium Cohort Study

16:00 - 17:30 10 May 2016
Overweight and obesity are a major public health concern with about one quarter of children leaving primary school in the overweight category based on their BMI. Stark inequalities…

It’s a small world: reconstructing village life in early Roman Egypt through documentary sources.

16:00 - 17:00 10 May 2016
In this paper, Will illustrates some of the different approaches he has taken towards developing a fuller picture of life in the small, rural village of Euhemeria (located in the modern…

Luke Russell (Sydney): Forgiveness, Big and Small (this event is co-sponsored by MANCEPT)

15:00 - 16:30 10 May 2016
Abstract: There are two bundles of claims about forgiveness that often appear together in the philosophical literature. The Supererogation Bundle includes the claims that forgiveness…

‘“It’s All Incest and Buggery Up There”: Same-sex Desire, Northernness, and a Different Way of Living?’

16:00 - 17:00 10 May 2016
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminar Series Feb-May 2016. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

“The honeymoon of science is over": George Porter and the Establishment response to the "crisis" in science, c.1968-c.1973 - Rupert Cole (UCL/RI)

13:00 - 14:00 10 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…

2016 MICRA annual public lecture - Ageing and frailty: Game changers for our health and care services

18:30 - 20:00 11 May 2016
Rapid population ageing is changing the nature of modern health and care systems for good. Many people remain in good health as they age and we need to continue the push on prevention…

Accounting seminar by Sven Modell and Chunlei Yang, Manchester Business School

14:00 - 16:00 11 May 2016
Shareholder value as a strategic action field: a historically informed field study of corporate governance reforms in Chinese state-owned enterprises

CLES: Introduction to Local Multiplier 3 (LM3)

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2016
Local multiplier 3 or LM3 for short, is a tool originally developed by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) to allow organisations to calculate the extent to which their procurement decisions…

DemElect seminar: Does Material Hardship Affect Political Preferences?

15:45 - 17:15 11 May 2016
Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham) asks if material hardship affect political preferences? And her answer: depends on the political context Anja argues that preference updating…

Finance seminar by Gyongyi Loranth, University of Vienna

14:00 - 16:00 11 May 2016
Bank Payout Policy, Performance, and Insider Trading in the Financial Crisis of 2007-2009

Policy, Policy Research and School Based Counselling

12:00 - 13:00 11 May 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminars series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Richard Cleminson (Leeds): ‘Eugenics, Race and “Miscegenation” in Portugal, c. 1925-1960.’

17:00 - 18:30 11 May 2016
Part of our Spanish and Portuguese research seminar series.

The choice for child-care arrangements and consequences for the well-being of families - Melissa Verhoef (Utrecht University)

12:00 11 May 2016
Nonparental child-care arrangements are an important aspect of parents' daily lives. Formal and informal child care (by professionals and relatives or friends respectively) allows parents…

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