Lectures and seminars

Prof. Olivier Richon - The Indifferent

13:00 - 15:00 9 December 2016
Professor Olivier Richon, Head of the Photography programme at the Royal College of Art, will be giving a seminar that considers Antoine Watteau's painting 'The Indifferent' (1718)…

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…

Authenticity, value and 3D visualisation: the ACCORD community co-production project

18:00 13 December 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

Electronic records from primary and secondary care to understand ethnic minority mental health inequalities - possibilities and pitfalls

13:00 - 14:00 13 December 2016
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. We are in an era of 'big' data; data characterised by the four V's of 'volume', 'velocity', 'variety' and 'veracity'.…

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…

Mutations in the box C/D snoRNA U8 cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts & also From rare inherited syndrome to common disease:

12:30 - 13:30 13 December 2016
This part of Genetic Medicine Seminar series: Dr. Emma Jenkinson - Mutations in the box C/D snoRNA U8 cause the cerebral microangiopathy leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and…

Seminar: Guido Ascari (University of Oxford)

16:15 - 17:45 13 December 2016
Title: Rational Sunspots

Using narrative analysis and social network analysis for the study of responses to interpersonal violence - case study

16:00 - 17:30 13 December 2016
This seminar is part of the Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice seminar series. We welcomes guest speakers Thomas Grund (University College Dublin) and Margareta Hydén (Linköping…

Adriana Bausells-Espín (University of Manchester), ‘Audio-Description as a Learning- Enhancement Tool in the Foreign Language classroom’

17:00 - 18:30 14 December 2016
Adriana Bausells-Espín (University of Manchester), ‘Audio-Description as a Learning-Enhancement Tool in the Foreign Language classroom: Integrating Linguistic Skills, Transferable Skills…

Europe as Empire

14:00 - 15:00 14 December 2016
Speaker: Dr. Julian Patrick Panke (University of Birmingham) Title: Europe as Empire

Faculty Research Seminar: Personalised medicine for ovarian cancer

12:30 - 14:00 14 December 2016
"Personalised medicine for ovarian cancer" Professor Stephen Taylor, Leech Professor of Pharmacology, Manchester Cancer Research Centre Stephen completed his Bachelor’s degree at…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Grace Allen, ‘Secretaries and political knowledge in the late Italian Renaissance’

13:00 14 December 2016
Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Grace Allen, ‘Secretaries and political knowledge in the late Italian Renaissance’.

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"

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Kimberley Fowler (CNRS/Aix-Marseille), ‘Citizenship in the Epistle to Diognetus'

14:00 15 December 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…

Finance seminar by Roni Michaely, Cornell University

14:00 - 16:00 15 December 2016
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“A new kind of martyrdom”: The symbolic sacrifice of menstruating virgins

16:55 - 18:30 15 December 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Ageing and frailty: supporting dialogue between GPs and older people

14:00 - 16:00 20 December 2016
Public seminar 2-4pm, free networking lunch from 1pm As a population we are living longer but with more long-term health conditions and impairments. This means we can probably expect…

Sustainability Seminar Series – Energy, Well-Being, Biodiversity, Food, Travel & More

12:00 - 14:00 10 January 2017
Sustainability Seminar Series – Energy: How do we use energy in our buildings and how do we expect this to change? With Prof. Ian Cotton and Sian Nord Launching in January 2017,…

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…

Nanomaterials by Design: A New Chapter in Catalysis

13:00 - 14:00 11 January 2017
Nanomaterials based on noble metals, such as silver (Ag), gold (Au), palladium (Pd), and platinum (Pt), are widely employed as catalysts for a myriad of transformations that are relevant…

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.…

Faculty Research Seminar Series: Wednesday, 18 January 2017

13:00 - 14:00 18 January 2017
The monthly Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students and offers an opportunity to celebrate FBMH’s research achievements. Host: Cardiovascular, Metabolic…

School of Materials Seminar entitled "Programmable 2-Dimensional Molecular Composites"

10:30 - 12:00 18 January 2017
Professor Melik Demirel, Director of the Center for Research on Advanced Fiber Technologies (CRAFT) at Penn State University is visiting Manchester to talk about Programmable 2-Dimensional…

Tyndall Manchester seminar- Changing institutions in a changing climate

16:00 19 January 2017
In the seminar, I argue that a more rounded understanding of how to respond effectively to the challenges posed by human-made climate change may be obtained by drawing on an institutional…

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