Lectures and seminars

Critical MASS: Postgraduate Conference

12:00 - 17:30 13 May 2016
Keynote speaker: Professor Zoe Trodd “The Antislavery Usable Past: Protest Memory and the Movement Against Contemporary Slavery” Zoe Trodd is Professor of American Literature in…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: “Income inequality thesis” revisited

16:00 - 17:30 16 May 2016
The focus of the presentation is the so called “income inequality thesis”, i.e., the idea that living in countries with high income inequality is detrimental for health and well-being.…

Lifting the veil on patents and inventions: Implications for strategy research

13:30 - 14:30 16 May 2016
Patent data is a valued source of information in many areas of strategy research. However, as patents result from within-firm selection processes, patent-based studies may suffer…

Masterclass: Susan Stanford Friedman (Wisconsin-Madison), ‘A Manifesto for Planetarity and Its Discontents’

11:00 - 13:00 16 May 2016
Northern Modernism Seminar: A Research Day with Susan Stanford Friedman Masterclass (open to all MA and PhD students, NWCDTP) ‘A Manifesto for Planetarity and Its Discontents’ Suggested…

Susan Stanford Friedman (Wisconsin-Madison), 'Modernist Studies: Why Planetary? How Planetary?'

16:00 - 18:00 16 May 2016
Northern Modernism Seminar: A Research Day with Susan Stanford Friedman OPEN LECTURE (everyone welcome) Modernist Studies: Why Planetary? How Planetary? The lecture will discuss…

Immune Cell-to-Cell communication: Mechanisms of microRNA and proteins sorting into exosomes

13:00 - 14:00 17 May 2016
Exosomes are released by most cells to the extracellular environment and are involved in cell-to-cell communication, mediating transfer of proteins and RNAs through structures as the…

Managing the 'Pissing Evil' in Welfare Dictatorship: Diabetes prevention, care and research in the German Democratic Republic, 1950-1990 - Kathrin Hiepko (University of Manchester, CHSTM)

13:00 - 14:00 17 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…

Importing the liberal arts to England: differentiation and elitism in a marketised HE system

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2016
The current higher education policy landscape is characterised by an increasing focus on employability, and in such a context it is particularly difficult for HEIs to make a case for…

Precision and Reproducibility in Development

16:00 - 17:00 18 May 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

SCI Seminar Series - Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire - Making tastes, making markets: Cultural intermediaries in the Chinese fine wine market

16:00 - 17:30 18 May 2016
Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer of Cultural Production and Consumption, University of Leicester, will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 18 May 2016, entitled 'Making tastes,…

The Class Pay Gap in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2016
The hidden barriers, or ‘gender pay gap’, preventing women from earning equivalent incomes to men is well documented. Yet in this talk we demonstrate that, in Britain, there is also…

Unpacking links between learning gains, learning styles and achievement: a study of 1st year pharmacy students on an integrated curriculum?

13:00 - 14:00 18 May 2016
The seminar is part of the Teaching and Learning Seminar Series. The seminar will take place in Room 1.006 AV Hill Building on Wednesday 18 May 2016 from 1-2pm. Sign in via doodle…

Interfacing nanomaterials with neural networks: what happens when brain meets the artificial

11:00 - 12:00 19 May 2016
The application of nanotechnology to neuroscience promotes innovative solutions that may be useful for brain repair strategies after damage. Carbon based nanomaterials, such as carbon…

Modelling Breast Tissue in 3D

13:30 - 14:30 19 May 2016
This is part of the CCB Spring Seminar Series 2016. Prof. Val Speirs, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology Modelling Breast Tissue in 3D Host: Paul Shore

The metabolic regulation of innate immune cell activaton

12:00 - 13:00 19 May 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Democracy and Elections seminar: Do You See What I See?: Ethnic Diversity, Pseudoenvironments, and Social Capital

15:30 - 17:00 23 May 2016
Professor Cara Wong, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign How does place affect politics? Using maps drawn by respondents of their local communities as an individual-level measure…

Master class - Character and Consciousness in the British Enlightenment: the Interpretation of Dreams

14:00 - 16:00 23 May 2016
Professor Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, USA will be visiting The John Rylands Research Institute to deliver a programme of seminars in the week beginning Monday May 23 2016. Professor…

'My gratitude to the great and honourable Trauma. I take it in my heart’. Integral rehabilitation for injured workers in the state traumatological hospital, Chile 1938-1942 - C

13:00 - 14:00 24 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…

CANCELLED: CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Ethnic variations in intragenerational social mobility between 1971 and 2011

16:00 - 17:30 24 May 2016
This seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to bring you this seminar in the 2016/17 academic year. Ethnic minority groups in England and Wales have repeatedly…

From Etelaati to Eslahtalabi: Said Hajjarian, Political Theology and the Politics of Reform in Post-Revolutionary Iran

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2016
Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) research seminar

Sexuality Summer School: Professor Patricia White (Swarthmore), Public Lecture: "Lesbian Reverie: Carol as History and Fantasy"

18:00 24 May 2016
Rather than a forward-looking lesbian representation, Todd Haynes’s Carol, an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, looks to images and affective…

Translating Poetry: Elaine Feinstein and Russian Women Poets

16:00 - 17:00 24 May 2016
Based on the Papers of Elaine Feinstein (b. 1930) University of Manchester Special Collections housed at The John Rylands Library, this talk will investigate her translations from the…

‘Blossoming Flowers and Beating Hearts: The Aesthetics of Wonder and Religious Science in Irwin Moon’s Film Series Sermons from Science’

16:00 - 17:00 24 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,…

Considerations in the Assessment of Child Mental Health and Wellbeing

12:00 - 13:00 25 May 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminars series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Dalton Seminar Series: ‘Radiation Damage in Materials - The Role of Disorder’

12:30 - 13:30 25 May 2016
The future of nuclear energy relies on materials being able to compensate for the extremes in radiation damage expected, in core materials, fuel, and in the case of fusion tritium breeding.…

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