Lectures and seminars

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

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…

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

Inaugural Lord Morris of Manchester Memorial Lecture

18:30 - 21:00 3 November 2016
Alf Morris (1928-2012) dedicated his parliamentary career – as the Labour Co-op MP for Wythenshawe 1964-1997 and then as a Life Peer – to challenging the barriers imposed by society…

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…

Anne Kirkham - Hark the Herald: Angels in the John Rylands Library’s Book of Hours

7 November 2016
Dr Anne Kirkham discusses Angels in the John Rylands Library’s Book of Hours

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…

'A River Runs Through It': Cultural landscapes of the 19th century London landscape

18:00 8 November 2016
PhD Talk

'A Storm in a Cup Mark': Experiences of weather and weathering at rock art sites

18:00 8 November 2016
PhD Talk

Cancelled: CMIST Afternoon Seminar- “Immigrationization” of Welfare Politics?

16:00 - 17:30 8 November 2016
This seminar has been cancelled. We will rearrange this seminar. “Immigrationization” of Welfare Politics? How Sociocultural and Socioeconomic Circumstances Shape the Relationship…

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…

PEM Research Seminar: SPATIAL PLANNING, HARD WORKING AND/OR SOFT NETWORKING

17:00 - 18:00 8 November 2016
This seminar looks at ‘redefining planning’, with work in progress in Finland. The context is the Nordics and EU experience, and the large new urbanization research project ‘Beyond…

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

Finance seminar by Sascha Steffen, University of Mannheim

14:00 - 16:00 9 November 2016
The Zero Risk Fallacy Banks' Sovereign Exposure and Sovereign Risk Spillovers

FSE Teaching Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 9 November 2016
Dear Academic Colleagues, FSE Teaching Seminar, Wednesday 9th November 2-3pm, Room F14, Renold Building. GTA Training - Plans, Pilots & Progress Dr. Jenny Slaughter, School of Chemistry…

Getting to know our new Faculty: IT

13:00 - 14:00 9 November 2016
For the sixth edition of our bite-size PSS information seminars, Simon Oliver, IT Business Partner, explains who’s who and gives an overview of the work undertaken by his team. The…

Sociology Seminar 9th Nov, 2-3pm: 'The Lighter, the Whiter, the Brighter, the Better? The Mixed Race Dilemma' by Karis Campion, Sociology PGR

14:00 - 15:00 9 November 2016
You are warmly invited to the next Sociology seminar, given by Karis Campion, Sociology PGR, UoM, on 9th November 2016, 2-3pm in the Arthur Lewis Boardroom (second floor). The talk…

Technicians Seminar Series: Prof Tim Cootes - Analyzing images with statistical shape models

13:00 - 14:00 9 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…

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