Lectures and seminars

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

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…

Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the Death of Cervantes

17:00 - 18:30 26 October 2016
Speakers: . Dr José Pérez Díez (University of Leeds), ‘John Fletcher’s Love’s Pilgrimage (1616) and Cervantes’ Las dos doncellas’ . Dr Idoya Puig (Manchester Metropolitan University),…

Critical MASS Seminar: Emily Trafford (UoM), "Negotiating the Superior White Universe: Visitor Participation at the Progressive Era West Coast World’s Fairs"

17:00 - 18:30 26 October 2016
Emily Trafford (UoM), "Negotiating the Superior White Universe: Visitor Participation at the Progressive Era West Coast World’s Fairs"

Finance seminar by Joan Farre-Mensa, Harvard Business School

14:00 - 16:00 26 October 2016
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GDI Lecture series: Alan Winters – The UK’s Post-Brexit Trade Policy: What about development?

17:00 - 18:30 26 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: 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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 October 2016
Bernie Hogan, University of Oxford Personal Network Capture among At-Risk Youth: Exploring Online Dating and Safer Sex Practices Structurally Personal network capture is evolving…

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

"How can mathematical modelling help us understand gene expression dynamics"

13:30 - 14:30 27 October 2016
Gene Expression, Chromatin and Signalling Autumn Seminar Programme Andrew Sharrocks

Arthur Lewis Annual Lecture: The Enemy between Us - The Psychological and Social Costs Of Inequality

18:00 - 19:00 27 October 2016
We are delighted to announce that Professor Kate Pickett of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York will be delivering our annual public lecture.…

CTIS Seminar: Dr Ting Guo, Exeter University, "New Knowledge, Better Knowledge?: Translating Homosexuality into Chinese in Republican China (1911-1945)"

14:00 - 15:30 27 October 2016
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. J. Keith Elliot (Leeds), ‘Novum Testamentum editum est’: The Five-Hundredth Anniversary of Erasmus’s New Testament'

14:00 - 16:00 27 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: Philippa Hetherington (UCL) on ‘Imperial Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against the International “Traffic in Women,” 1880-1914’

16:15 - 17:30 27 October 2016
History Research Seminar: Philippa Hetherington (UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies), ‘Imperial Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against…

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