Lecture

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Freddie Rokem: Reading Kafka/Staging Kafka

17:00 - 19:00 25 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** The lecture is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies, Drama…

Manchester Soldier, Manchester Historian: Exploring the Life and Legacy of Mark Hovell

15:00 - 17:00 9 June 2016
2016 marks the centenary of the death of the historian, Mark Hovell. Hovell was born in Manchester in 1888, and had been a student and later a lecturer at the University of Manchester…

New Light from Manchester on Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts - A Public Lecture

18:00 - 19:00 28 June 2016
Dr Sarit Shalev-Eyni joins us from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to show what we can discover from the illuminations of the Hebrew manuscripts within The University of Manchester's…

Exploring the Universe from Jodrell Bank; Heritage Lecture Series

19:30 - 21:00 30 June 2016
Our understanding of the Universe has changed dramatically since Sir Bernard Lovell first arrived at Jodrell Bank in December 1945. The radio telescopes built here have allowed us to…

Dr Qi Zhou, Associate Professor of Law, University of Leeds

13:00 - 15:00 4 July 2016
Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and other: An illustration of the implementation of EC Directives. Followed by Q&A session. This event is free. However, places are limited,…

2016 Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture: Science, technology and industrial strategy - What government can and cannot do

14:15 - 15:30 25 July 2016
The 2016 Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture will be delivered by the Rt. Hon the Lord Willetts, the Executive Director of the Resolution Foundation, and Former Minister for Universities…

Cheshire and the Viking World - Guest Lecture

06:30 - 20:30 8 September 2016
Professor Richard Morris, OBE presents an illustrated lecture, ‘Cheshire and the Viking World’, hosted by The Tabley House Collection Trust. As an archaeologist with strong links to…

Treasures of the Black Cultural Archives

13:00 - 14:00 8 September 2016
Lunchtime talk by Victoria Northridge, Collections Manager at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, who will be giving a talk/presentation to share one of their collections: that…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Piyushimita Thakuriah on Seeing Cities through Big Data: Emerging Topics in Urban Informatics

09:00 - 10:30 12 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Denise Pumain on Urban Dynamics and Geo-diversity: from Theory to Modeling

09:00 - 10:30 13 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Katharine Willis on Whose Right to the Smart City: Data and Citizenship

10:45 - 11:45 13 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Juval Portugali on Complexity, Cognition, Information and the City

09:00 - 10:30 14 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Peter Allen on The Co-Evolving Complexity of Cities: Towards Sustainability?

10:45 - 11:45 14 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

Animal Kingdoms – Stereoscopic images talk

18:00 - 19:30 22 September 2016
Artist Jim Naughten has brought a mesmersing collection of natural history images to life in three dimensions, using stereoscopic photography to Manchester Museum. Join Denis Pellerin,…

Dora Marsden Lecture: Laura Marcus (Oxford), ‘Modernism and the "new language of rhythm": art, literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century’

17:00 - 18:30 28 September 2016
Laura Marcus (Oxford), ‘Modernism and the "new language of rhythm": art, literature and philosophy in the early twentieth century’

Sir Mark Elder CBE - Inaugural Lecture: Are Conductors Really Necessary?

15:00 - 16:30 29 September 2016
Join Sir Mark Elder as he gives his inaugural lecture at The University of Manchester since being appointed Honorary Professor. Sir Mark has been Music Director of the Hallé since…

Mediating the Refugee Crisis: HCRI Landmark Lecture - Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE)

17:30 - 19:30 3 October 2016
This HCRI Landmark Lecture will be given by Lilie Chouliaraki: Professor of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has written extensively…

Britain after Brexit: political and economic challenges

17:00 - 18:30 4 October 2016
A special Pankhurst Lecture by the Politics DA and the JMCE ***The event is free and open to all, but registration is essential*** https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lord-peter-mandelson-britain-after-br…

State Theory, State Order, State System - Jus Gentium and the Constitution of Public Power

18:00 - 20:00 5 October 2016
"The historicity of international law as a system and an order is, in many ways, the historicity of the state, its concept and its theory. In this talk, I argue that how we theorize…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor V. Spike Peterson (Arizona): ‘Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities: The pleasure and pain of border crossings’

16:00 - 18:00 11 October 2016
This event is co-organised by co-organised by the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) and CIDRAL. It is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 programme 'Possible Worlds'. In the spirit of the rallying…

Department of Politics Public Lecture by V. Spike Petersen (Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona) Co-organised by the Critical Global Politics Cluster and CIDRAL

16:00 - 18:00 11 October 2016
V. Spike Peterson (Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona) 11 October 2016, 4-6 P. M. Samuel Alexander Building, A113 ‘Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities:…

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