Lectures and seminars

Division of Psychology & Mental Health research seminar: Innovative treatments for people with psychosis and schizophrenia

12:45 - 14:00 3 October 2016
Professor Shôn Lewis, Professor of Adult Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, will be giving a research seminar on” Innovative treatments for people with psychosis and schizophrenia”,…

Emerging innovation policies and their impacts in Chile

13:00 - 14:00 3 October 2016
Well-recognized for its market-oriented strategies, Chile, the most socially unequal OECD country, faces the challenge of leaving behind its historical dependency on natural resources…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday 3rd October 2016 - Giulia Battaglia, Universite Sorbonne Novelle – Paris 3

16:00 - 18:00 3 October 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 3rd October 2016 Giulia Battaglia, Universite Sorbonne Novelle – Paris 3 ‘’ Processes of engagement : Documentary Cinema and Anthropology” In…

100 000 genomes update

12:30 - 13:30 4 October 2016
This is part of Genetics Medicines Seminar Series

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…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop by Antoine Dechezlepretre, LSE

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2016
Title: Do pollution offsets offset pollution? Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in India. Abstract: We provide the first large-scale empirical evaluation of the additionality…

Seminar with French alumnus Christopher Stone

16:00 - 17:00 4 October 2016
Seminar with French alumnus and successful businessman Christopher Stone Chris graduated in 1985 with a BA(Hons) in French Studies (First), with interests in medieval French literature…

Accounting seminar by Mary Canning, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

14:00 - 16:00 5 October 2016
The construction of materiality in sustainability assurance

Burn the Bills: Irish Responses to Austerity in Social Context

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2016
Speaker: Dr. Silke Trommer (University of Manchester) Title: Burn the Bills: Irish Responses to Austerity in Social Context

Finance seminar by Olivier Le Courtois, EmLyon Business School

14:00 - 16:00 5 October 2016
Credit Risk and Solvency Capital Requirements

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Yangwen Zheng, ‘Timeless China’

13:00 - 13:50 5 October 2016
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Yangwen Zheng, ‘Timeless China’

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 5 October 2016
Cities and Networks: Exploring Hierarchy, Form and Function Using Complexity Science Michael Batty Bartlett Professor of Planning, UCL Cities are places where people come together…

Sociology Research Seminar: 'What, Why, When? Sociality and Female Body Modification' by Dr Abigail Tazzyman

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2016
5th October, 2-3pm, Arthur Lewis Boardroom. Sociology Research Seminar Series: 'What, Why, When? Sociality and Female Body Modification' By Dr Abigail Tazzyman, Alliance Manchester…

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…

Technicians Seminar Series: Prof Jonathan Green - Progress in early intervention for childhood autism

13:00 - 14:00 5 October 2016
The technician’s seminars are popular and generally well attended, covering a wide range of research topics with FBMH. This event is to promote general interest across faculty. The…

The role of universities in global innovation networks

12:00 - 13:00 5 October 2016
While most of the literature on global innovation networks has focused on the internationalization of R&D by multinational companies and their interactions with local firms in host…

"How to read a Roman portrait”? Optatian and the face of Constantine.

16:55 - 18:30 6 October 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. George Brooke (Manchester/Chester), ‘English Observations on German Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship'

14:00 - 16:00 6 October 2016
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public, with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute…

Seminar: Approaches at KAIST NICIE Lab to Quantifying Situation Awareness in Nuclear Power Plant MCRs

11:00 - 12:00 7 October 2016
Hosted by the Dalton Nuclear Institute and the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science. In this presentation, some empirical efforts which were made at the KAIST NICIE…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Zemirah Moffat – (University of Glasgow)

16:00 - 18:00 10 October 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 10thd October 2016 Zemirah Moffat - University of Glasgow ‘’ Working Visuals: capturing, prompting and enabling moments of transformation” …

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…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Work of Women is Affected by Norms About Gender Roles in India and Bangladesh

16:00 - 17:30 11 October 2016
Abstract: In response to a decline in Indian rural women’s formal labour supply, this paper explores attitudes and norms about gender in northern central states of India alongside Bangladesh.…

Development Economics Seminar: Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol)

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2016
Title: Internal Migration and Firm Growth: Evidence from China. Abstract: The reallocation of labour between the agricultural and the non-agricultural sector is central to the process…

Perrault syndrome, hearing loss and primary ovarian insufficiency, Single allele expression of BRCA1 in familial breast cancer

12:30 - 13:00 11 October 2016
This is part of Genetic medicine seminar series Leight Demain - Perrault syndrome, hearing loss and primary ovarian insufficiency Elke Van Veen - Single allele expression of BRCA1…

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