Seminar

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),…

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…

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

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…

"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

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…

In a Land of Gods and Monsters: Images of Heaven and Hell in Silius Italicus

16:55 - 18:30 27 October 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Leandro Carvalho (University of Southern California)

16:15 - 17:45 27 October 2016
Heterogeneous Effects of Education on Health Silvia Helena Barcellos, Leandro Carvalho and Patrick Turley Abstract Education and health have been shown to be strongly associated in…

Social Anthropology Visit of Niko Besnier - Simon Visiting Professor - Seminar

16:00 - 18:00 27 October 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…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar - Adjustment to retirement and its consequences for intra-cohort social inequality in Germany

16:00 - 17:30 1 November 2016
Access to resources and well-being is socially stratified across populations in the life phase of work. The most obvious change that comes with transition to retirement is that the…

Seminar: Sekyu Choi (University of Bristol)

16:15 - 17:45 1 November 2016
Title: Sorting on-line and on-time

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Ruth Massey (University of Free State, South Africa), Would the real Johannesburg please stand up: misguided urban renewal in post-apartheid South Africa

16:00 - 17:30 2 November 2016
Would the real Johannesburg please stand up: misguided urban renewal in post-apartheid South Africa Abstract: South Africa’s cities (particularly Johannesburg) are currently undergoing…

Technicians Seminar Series: Dr Tom Millard - Using fruit flies to understand how wounds heal

13:00 - 14:00 2 November 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…

Workshop with Professor Niko Besnier - Getting Published

10:00 - 12:00 2 November 2016
Wednesday 02 Nov. 10am-12pm AL Building - Boardroom Workshop Getting published Convened by Professor Niko Besnier (Editor of American Ethnologist)

"Finding causal genes in rheumatic diseases using functional genomics"

13:30 - 14:30 3 November 2016
Gene Expression, Chromatin and Signalling Autumn Seminar Programme Andrew Sharrocks

What’s in it for us? The economic and legal causes of the Social War (91-88 BC)

16:55 - 18:30 3 November 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Stroke: Stories of Self Through Art and Science

12:30 - 16:30 4 November 2016
The Stroke Association and University of Manchester ran creative workshops with a group of stroke survivors across 2015-16. Focussed on creative writing, visual arts, photography and…

Changing Patterns of Old Age Mental Health Services: Organisation, Operation and Outputs

12:45 - 14:00 7 November 2016
A Division of Psychology & Mental Health (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health) research seminar. If you are attending, please email Dr Pearl Mok (pearl.mok@manchester.ac.uk) as soon as possible.

Simon Visiting Professor - Niko Besnier - Seminar

16:00 - 18:00 7 November 2016
Visit of Niko Besnier Simon Visiting Professor Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He is currently directing a five-year project entitled…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Niko Besnier - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – Manchester Simon Visiting Professor

16:00 - 18:00 7 November 2016
Niko Besnier – Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research – Manchester Simon Visiting Professor. Rethinking Masculinity, Nation, and Sport Few contexts of modern life showcase…

Development Economics Seminar: Arun Advani (UCL/IFS)

13:00 - 14:00 8 November 2016
Title: Informal Insurance and Endogenous Poverty Traps. Abstract: Households in developing countries appear to invest too little in `lumpy' capital goods, which from asset transfer…

Provision of antenatal information for the NHS Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme

12:30 - 13:30 8 November 2016
This is part of Genetic Medicine Seminar Series Prof Rebecca Bennett and Dr Fiona Ulph - Provision of antenatal information for the NHS Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme

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