Lectures and seminars

CIDRAL Postgraduate Seminar: Professor Freddie Rokem: The Dramaturgical Imagination

10:00 - 13:00 15 February 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Freddie Rokem (Professor in the Department of Theatre, Tel Aviv University) will lead a seminar for postgraduate students…

Faculty Research Seminar: Wednesday, 15 February 2017

13:00 - 14:00 15 February 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: Infection, Immunity, Inflammation…

Finance seminar by Filippos Papakonstantinou, Imperial College London

14:00 - 16:00 15 February 2017
Estimating Mutual Fund Skill: A New Approach

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)…

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Tim Meadows (University of Manchester) - Modelling decadal-scale morphological evolution of the upper North Fork Toutle River, Mount St Helens, USA

16:00 - 17:30 15 February 2017
Dr Tim Meadows (Geography, SEED, University of Manchester) Modelling decadal-scale morphological evolution of the upper North Fork Toutle River, Mount St Helens, USA Abstract: Management…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 February 2017
Speaker: George Wood, University of Oxford Title:Using Social Network Analysis in Gun Violence Prevention Every year, thousands of people are killed and many more injured with a…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Philip Esler (Gloucestershire), 'New Light on Babatha and Her Final Days'

14:00 - 16:00 16 February 2017
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…

Was the Greek Polis a state?

16:55 - 18:30 16 February 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 20th February 2017 - Dr Erik Bähre – University of Leiden

16:00 - 18:00 20 February 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 20th February 2017 Dr Erik Bähre – University of Leiden Precarious Categories: Race and Risk in South Africa's Insurance Market One of the…

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…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Lea-Cecile Salje (Leeds)

15:00 - 17:00 21 February 2017
Title *Memory and Me Abstract *Let’s say that the following is a conceptual possibility: an advanced team of neuroscientists succeed in identifying and removing the parts of your brain…

Spoken English collections at the British Library

16:15 - 17:15 21 February 2017
This seminar will give an overview of Spoken English collections at the British Library using examples from the library’s extensive collection of sound recordings of British accents…

Department of Politics - JMCE seminars

14:00 - 16:00 22 February 2017
Department of Politics - JMCE seminars Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00 @ TBC Speaker: Francie Molloy, MP Title: Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland and Brexit

EAC Department Seminar Series: Jennifer Richards (NEWCASTLE), 'Talking Books in the Age of Print'

17:00 - 18:30 22 February 2017
Jennifer Richards (NEWCASTLE), 'Talking Books in the Age of Print'

Finance seminar by Joao Cocco, London Business School

14:00 - 16:00 22 February 2017
Expenditures and financial well-being

GDI Lecture Series: Predatory states and Economic development

17:00 - 18:30 22 February 2017
Predatory states and Economic development Professor Mehrdad Vahabi (University of Paris) The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of the Roscoe Building The Global Development…

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Alexandra Dales (University of Manchester) - Regulating the expansion of global retail capital

12:00 - 14:00 22 February 2017
Dr Alexandra Dales (Geography, SEED, University of Manchester) Regulating the expansion of global retail capital – contestation and compromise in the evolving national retail markets…

HCRI Seminar: Out of sight, out of mind, out of bounds - The Failure of Maritime Sanctions Enforcement against North Korea

15:00 - 17:00 22 February 2017
For this HCRI Seminar we will be joined by Bob Huish, Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Dalhousie University, and the Ron Lister Fellow in the Department of…

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