Seminar

CIDRAL Roundtable and Masterclass: Professor Kai von Fintel (MIT): 'How to do conditional things with words'

09:00 - 13:00 19 October 2016
This event is part of the CIDRAL programme for Winter 2016, 'Possible Worlds'. Roundtable Possible Worlds Round Table, 9-10:30am Participants will have the opportunity to briefly present…

Faculty Research Seminar: Neuroscience and Mental Health

12:30 - 14:00 19 October 2016
Host: Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester | About the event: Professor Rob Lucas: “An optogenetic approach to restoring vision in advanced retinal…

Finance seminar by Schmuel Baruch, University of Utah

14:00 - 16:00 19 October 2016
Strategic Foundation for the Tail Expectation in Limit Order Book Markets

Geography Research Seminar: Prof. Glenn D. Thackray (Idaho State University), Extensive glaciation preceding the "last glacial maximum" in coastal mountains of the northwestern United States

16:00 - 17:30 19 October 2016
Abstract: Maximum ice extent across many areas of the European and North American continental ice sheets dates to roughly 20,000 yr BP (the “last glacial maximum”), but mountain glaciers…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Sasha Handley, ‘Love, loss and the lifecycle: the travels of an early modern bed sheet’

13:00 - 13:50 19 October 2016
Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Sasha Handley, ‘Love, loss and the lifecycle: the travels of an early modern bed sheet’

Is the EU Cohesion Policy failing East-Central European countries?

14:00 - 15:00 19 October 2016
Speaker: Daniel Šitera (Leipzig University/Charles University in Prague) Title: Is the EU Cohesion Policy failing East-Central European countries?

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 19 October 2016
Jennifer Badham Centre for Public Health Queen’s University Belfast Simulating network intervention strategies: Implications for adoption of behaviour Network interventions involve…

SCI Seminar Series - Professor Harriet Bulkeley

16:00 - 17:30 19 October 2016
Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, Durham University will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 19 October 2016, entitled 'Can We Govern the Climate?'. The seminar will…

Technicians Seminar Series: Dr David Kirby - Lab Coats in Hollywood: Scientists’ Impact on Cinema, Cinema’s Influence on Science

13:00 - 14:00 19 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…

"Characterisation of regulatory elements, activities and architectures from transcription initiation events"

13:30 - 14:30 20 October 2016
Gene Expression, Chromatin and Signalling Autumn Seminar Programme Andrew Sharrocks

Francis DiTraglia (University of Pennsylvania)

16:15 - 17:45 20 October 2016
Title: Estimating the Effect of a Mis-measured, Endogenous, Binary Treatment Abstract: This paper studies the use of a discrete instrumental variable to identify the causal effect…

Mason Memorial Lecture: Prof. Steve Mason (Groningen), Judaism and Paul: A Category Crisis'

14:00 - 16:00 20 October 2016
Held in conjunction with weekly Ehrhardt Seminar. The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public, with no registration required.…

Roman women and work in later life.

16:55 - 18:30 20 October 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Visit of Niko Besnier - Simon Visiting Professor

23 October - 13 November 2016
Social Anthropology Visit of Niko Besnier Simon Visiting Professor 23 Oct – 13 Nov. 2016 Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Peter Wade - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 24 October 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 24th October 2016 Peter Wade – University of Manchester ‘’ Liberalism and its contradictions: Democracy and Hierarchy in Mestizaje and Genomics…

CCCJ Seminar: Counter-Extremism and Policy Making: Evidence, Aspirations, Effects

16:00 - 17:30 25 October 2016
This presentation by Professor Gabe Mythen from the University of Liverpool provides an overview of the impacts of counter-extremism policy in Britain over the last decade. Focusing…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Political patterns of decision-making on the UK Supreme Court

16:00 - 17:30 25 October 2016
Abstract: The UK Supreme Court is seven years old this month. It has decided enough cases for academics and legal commentators to form views about the court and the judges who comprise…

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar by Jacquelyn Pless

13:00 - 14:00 25 October 2016
Title: The Surprising Pass-Through of Solar Subsidies Abstract Whether solar subsidies benefit consumers is an open question. In the U.S. residential solar market, consumers can either…

NGS increases the sensitivity in FAP and MUTYH-associated Polyposis testing: a laboratory and clinical perspective

12:30 - 13:30 25 October 2016
This is part of Genetic Medicine Seminar Series Sancha Bunstone and Elizabeth Alexander: NGS increases the sensitivity in FAP and MUTYH-associated Polyposis testing: a laboratory and clinical perspective

Seminar: Hakki Yazici (Sabanci University)

16:15 - 17:45 25 October 2016
Title: Wage Risk and the Skill Premium

Using genetics and ancient DNA to study the origins and spread of agriculture

18:00 25 October 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

Finance seminar by Joan Farre-Mensa, Harvard Business School

14:00 - 16:00 26 October 2016
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Geography Research Seminar: Prof. Sarah Holloway (Loughborough University), New economy, neoliberal state and professionalised parenting

13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2016
Abstract: Contemporary economic, political and social shifts in the Global North are reconfiguring the resolution of productive and reproductive labour. This talk explores how labour…

Getting to know our new Faculty: Technical Services

13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2016
For the fifth of our bite-size PSS information seminars, Peter Crowe, Head of Technical Services, explains who’s who and gives an overview of the work undertaken by his team. The…

The life story of a marginalized person in Transylvania

14:00 - 15:00 26 October 2016
Speaker: Aron Bakos (Babe?-Bolyai University) Title: Autobiographical and Oral Ethnographical Narratives of War

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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