Lecture

Annual Linnean Society Lecture

16:00 - 18:00 6 December 2016
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health presents the Annual Linnean Society Lecture. Join us for a celebration of contributions made by women to Natural Sciences, in memory of…

Manchester Metallurgical Society presents Macro-Segregation in Large Steel Ingots Lecture

06:30 - 08:00 6 December 2016
The Manchester Metallurgical Society (MMS) presents: Speaker: Ed Pickering, The University of Manchester Title: Macro-Segregation in Large Steel Ingots All Welcome Buffet available from 6.00 pm

Trials of early intervention in autism: what they can tell us about developmental process and treatment effectiveness

11:00 - 12:30 6 December 2016
The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) continues its seminar series this month with a talk by Professor Jonathan Green, Professor of Child…

English Literature Research Seminar: Florence Impens, (UoM), 'Elaine Feinstein, Marina Tsvetaeva, and The Art of Translation'

17:00 - 18:30 7 December 2016
Florence Impens, (UoM), 'Elaine Feinstein, Marina Tsvetaeva, and The Art of Translation'

GDI Lecture series: Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change: Keeping Our Heads above Water

17:00 - 18:30 7 December 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…

Why we need chaos, silence & boredom in public and patient engagement

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2016
Everyone seems to agree that public engagement with science, technology and medicine is important. It enables public dialogue, promotes robust outcomes for research, and empowers…

Alex Hartley - Reflections on Utopia and Post-Studio Art Practice

17:30 - 19:00 8 December 2016
The lecture will use examples of my own work to discuss utopian ideas within current post-studio art practice, including 'Nowhereisland', my ten-year artwork that culminated in a new…

Dr Anne Kirkham 'Hark the Herald - Angels in the John Rylands Library’s Books of Hours'

18:00 - 19:30 8 December 2016
Dr Anne Kirkham, Anne Kirkham (Art History & Visual Studies, The University of Manchester) will lecture on Angels in the John Rylands Library’s Books of Hours

History Research Seminar: Philipp Schofield (Aberystwyth), ‘Identifying the Impact of Famine in the Medieval English Countryside’

16:15 - 17:30 8 December 2016
History Research Seminar: Philipp Schofield (Aberystwyth), ‘Identifying the Impact of Famine in the Medieval English Countryside’

Jolly Okot Andreville: WEND Africa - A New Era

18:30 - 20:00 12 December 2016
Jolly Okot has dedicated her life to her community in Gulu, Northern Uganda. Formerly abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army, she went on to become the first woman in Uganda to be nominated…

School of Materials Metals and Corrosion Group Christmas Lecture

14:00 - 15:00 12 December 2016
Title - Deformation of Ultra-Fine Grained Polycrystals The density of geometrically necessary dislocations (GND) obtained from the lattice curvature was studied in commercially pure…

Horizon 2020 Future Calls

09:30 - 16:30 13 December 2016
This information day is of interest to researchers who intend to participate in or lead a H2020 project and would like to know more about the forthcoming calls in 2017. The speakers…

Marina Warner - Sanctuary: Places of safety, zones of exclusion

17:30 - 19:00 14 December 2016
Prof. Marina Warner discusses "Sanctuary: Places of safety, zones of exclusion"

Tuesday Talks: Chris Hammond

12:30 - 14:00 10 January 2017
10 January - Chris Hammond The curator and gallerist Chris Hammond is best known as the founder and director of MOT (2002-2016) which he developed from an artists' run project space…

Tuesday Talks: Chris Hammond

12:30 - 14:00 17 January 2017
17 January - Deanna Petherbridge Deanna Petherbridge, artist, curator, author and an influential teacher is a committed practitioner and passionate advocate of the art of drawing.…

Centre for Jewish Studies Annual Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies: 'The Church and the Holocaust'

18:00 30 - 19:30 31 January 2017
This annual public lecture series has been made possible as a result of the generous bequest to the University by Fanni Bogdanow (1927-2013), a former Professor of French and Medieval…

"Of Buying Many Books There is No End”: Towards a History of the John Rylands Library's Collection of Islamic Manuscripts.

18:00 - 19:30 2 February 2017
Rare are the manuscripts in Arabic script that do not bear a mark attesting to their past, be it a mention of the patron for whom the manuscript was produced, an act of pious donation,…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Bashir Abu-Manneh (KENT), "Palestinian Trajectories: Novel and Politics since 1948"

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2017
Bashir Abu-Manneh (KENT), "Palestinian Trajectories: Novel and Politics since 1948"

GDI Lecture Series: Designing Interventions in Developing Water-Energy-Food Systems

17:00 - 18:30 8 February 2017
Designing Interventions in Developing Water-Energy-Food Systems Professor Julien Harou (The University of Manchester). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of the Roscoe Building…

CTIS Seminar: Klaus Kaindl, "Fiction as a Source of Knowledge for Translation Studies"

14:00 - 15:30 9 February 2017
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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Elizabeth Povinelli: Primitive Accumulation and Original Precarity: Vulnerability Outside Settler Geontopolitics

17:00 - 19:00 10 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Elizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University) will deliver a public lecture entitled…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Freddie Rokem: Before the Stage: Staging Kafka's Words

16:00 - 18:00 14 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Co-Organised by CIDRAL, LIS, Drama, German Studies and the Centre for Jewish Studies Freddie Rokem (Professor in…

GDI Lecture Series: “Too close for comfort, relatively speaking? Development NGOs’ dependence on home government funding in comparative perspective”

17:00 - 18:30 15 February 2017
“Too close for comfort, relatively speaking? Development NGOs’ dependence on home government funding in comparative perspective” with Professor Lauchlan T. Munro (Ottawa University)…

CTIS Seminar: David Orrego-Carmona, "What Do Users Think? Exploring the reception of non-professional subtitling"

14:00 - 15:30 16 February 2017
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…

CIDRAL Film Screening and Q&A: Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind: In the Future, they Ate from the Finest Porcelain

12:30 - 14:15 21 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind will be presenting their latest (2016) film In the Future, they Ate from the Finest…

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