Lectures and seminars

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.…

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:…

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…

People, time, place: approaches to the historic environment on HS2

18:00 11 October 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

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…

Are the kids alright? The role of schools in preventing mental health difficulties among children and young people

17:00 - 18:30 12 October 2016
The Sarah Fielden Seminar Series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Dalton Seminar Series: Interfacial Kinetic Studies of Advanced Spent Nuclear Fuel Recycle Processes

13:00 - 14:00 12 October 2016
Nuclear power is of great importance to the future of low carbon energy production and the ability to separate and recover the actinide elements from spent fuel is a key requirement…

English Literature Research Seminar: Kirstie Blair (Stirling) 'The Rise of the Bad Poet in Victorian Scotland'

17:00 - 18:30 12 October 2016
Kirstie Blair (Stirling) 'The Rise of the Bad Poet in Victorian Scotland'

Finance seminar by Peter Swan, UNSW Australia Business School

14:00 - 16:00 12 October 2016
Is Market Volatility Systematically Priced while Illiquidity is Only Priced on the Down-Side?

GDI Lecture series: David Hulme – Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

17:00 - 18:30 12 October 2016
The Global Development Lecture Series brings together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing…

Geography Research Seminar - Dr Kye Askins (University of Glasgow): Emotional Citizenry: Making Space for Dis/Organised Intercultural Encounters

16:00 - 17:30 12 October 2016
Seminar abstract: This talk draws on emerging qualitative research with refugees, asylum seekers (R-AS) and more settled residents, in collaboration with a voluntary sector organisation…

Getting to know our new Faculty: Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment

13:00 - 14:00 12 October 2016
For the fourth of our bite-size PSS information seminars, Sali Midjek-Conway, Head of Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment, explains who’s who and gives an overview of…

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 12 October 2016
Competition and cooperation in organized criminal networks James Coutinho (University of Manchester); Johan Koskinen (University of Manchester); Andrew Wright (Calgary Police) Our talk…

Technicians Seminar Series: Dr Kathy Hentges - Using mouse mutagenesis to model human developmental disease

13:00 - 14:00 12 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…

"A new, dynamic view of cell state transitions: timing and stochasticity"

13:30 - 14:30 13 October 2016
Gene Expression, Chromatin and Signalling Group Autumn Seminar Programme Andrew Sharrocks

Ammianus Marcellinus and Roman Identity.

16:55 - 18:30 13 October 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: Bolivian Indigenous Thought and Decolonial Praxis

12:00 - 14:00 13 October 2016
This event is part of CIDRAL's Winter 2016 programme, 'Possible Worlds'. Molly Geidel (Lecturer in American Cultural History, University of Manchester) will be speaking about preeminent…

CO2e- the Zombie Climate Metric

16:00 - 17:30 13 October 2016
Anthropogenic greenhouse gases vary in the two dimensional space of atmospheric lifetime and radiative efficiency, but ever since the IPCC First Assessment Report, various metrics have…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Cheryl Exum (Sheffield), ‘Biblical Art as Biblical Commentary'

14:00 - 16:00 13 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…

History Research Seminar: Carolyn Steedman (Warwick) on “Poetry for Historians”

16:15 - 17:30 13 October 2016
History Research Seminar: Carolyn Steedman (Warwick) on “Poetry for Historians”

Is Translating Like Riding a Bike? Knowledge, knowing and translation practice Maeve Olohan, University of Manchester

14:00 - 15:30 13 October 2016
This presentation starts by considering different ways of thinking about knowledge, and the implications of treating knowledge as a product or as a process. Drawing on research by practice…

Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD) and Protein Conformational Disease: Lessons from Model Organisms and new Therapeutic Opportunities

13:00 17 October 2016
Division of Molecular and Cellular Seminar hosted by Professor Stephen High

Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD) and Protein Conformational Disease: Lessons from Model Organisms and new Therapeutic Opportunities

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2016
Special Seminar Professor Jeff Brodsky, Avinoff Chair of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Jeff Brodsky has spent over two decades studying the fundamental mechanisms…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Marilyn Strathern - University of Cambridge

16:00 - 18:00 17 October 2016
Marilyn Strathern – University of Cambridge Travelling concepts: portraits and partible persons An invitation to revisit the notion of 'partible person' came the same year (2015)…

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