Lectures and seminars

Art History Seminar - Nic Cullinan (National Portrait Gallery)

17:30 - 19:00 23 February 2017
Nic Cullinan, National Portrait Gallery (Whitworth Teaching Suite, 5.30-7pm)

CTIS Seminar: Frank Austermühl, "Don't Mind the Gap: Using Technology to Empower English L2 Translators"

14:00 - 15:30 23 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. Andrew T. Lincoln (Gloucestershire), 'The Reception of Jesus in John'

14:00 - 16:00 23 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…

Heather Battey (Imperial College London)

16:15 - 17:45 23 February 2017
Title: Exploring and exploiting new structured classes of covariance and inverse covariance matrices Abstract: Estimation of covariance and inverse covariance (precision) matrices…

Plutarch and Roman exemplary ethics

16:55 - 18:30 23 February 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Critical Discourses in the Academy: Foucault and Lacan - approaches to discourse analysis (Seminar 1)

16:30 - 18:30 27 February 2017
The first seminar is scheduled for February 27 with Professor Ian Parker speaking on "What is the difference between Lacan and Foucault?" and Dr Owen Demsey speaking on "The Necropolitics…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 27th February 2017 - Dr Andre Cicalo – Kings College, London

16:00 - 18:00 27 February 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 27th February 2017 Dr Andre Cicalo – Kings College, London Goodbye Racial Democracy? Brazilian Identity, Official Discourse, and the Making…

Legitimacy in international law: The case of international investment arbitration

17:00 - 19:00 28 February 2017
With the different contestation of legitimacy, this lecture will discuss the legitimacy debate with respect to the investment regime. Guest speaker Alexis Galan, Bocconi University,…

Self defence is no offence: Resisting racialization and criminalization of Muslims in neoliberal Britain

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2017
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. The seminar will present findings from an on-going study exploring the context and aftermath of the 'grooming' scandals…

Seminar: Carlos Carillo-Tudela (Essex)

16:15 - 17:45 28 February 2017
Title: TBA

What can Administrative data and Record linkage tell us about mental health?

15:00 - 16:15 28 February 2017
Speaker: Dr Dermot O’Reilly, Queen’s University Belfast Poor mental health has been identified as a major and increasing public health issue with significant economic and social impact.…

Art History Seminar: Olivia Horsfall Turner - "Reading and writing architecture in early modern England"

17:30 - 19:00 1 March 2017
Olivia Horsfall Turner (V&A) Reading and writing architecture in early modern England (Samuel Alexander A.112, 5.30-7pm)

Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2

15:30 - 17:00 1 March 2017
Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2 Andreja Zevnik (Manchester) Fear and Anxiety as strategies for resistance and political transformation Andreja Zevnik…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Emily Rohrbach (MANCHESTER), “‘Without you, I would have been somebody else’: On Contingency and the Counterfactual Imagination in Austen and Dickens”

17:00 - 18:30 1 March 2017
Emily Rohrbach (MANCHESTER), “‘Without you, I would have been somebody else’: On Contingency and the Counterfactual Imagination in Austen and Dickens”

Geography Research Seminar: Prof. Dorothea Kleine (University of Sheffield) - Engaged Digital Geographies and Participatory Action Research for Sustainable Human Development: Food Futures 2.0 Project

16:00 - 17:30 1 March 2017
Abstract: New research agendas are currently being formulated around 'digital geographies'. Drawing on her longstanding work using digital technologies for sustainable development goals,…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Paul Oldfield, ‘The power of ‘brain drain’ in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily’

13:00 - 13:50 1 March 2017
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Paul Oldfield, ‘The power of ‘brain drain’ in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily’

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 1 March 2017
Speaker: Martin Everett, University of Manchester Title: Dealing with overlapping categorical attribute data. Suppose you have a network of ties among individuals, along with their…

CTIS Seminar: Loredana Polezzi, "Monolingual Performances and Multilingual Selves: Rethinking the translation continuum"

14:00 - 15:30 2 March 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: Meredith Warren (Sheffield), 'The Transmission of Divine Knowledge through Taste: A Sensory Analysis of Rev 10:8-10'

14:00 - 16:00 2 March 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…

Loans vs inheritance: the influence of Latin on the languages of Europe

16:55 - 18:30 2 March 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

The Ferguson Lecture 2017: A Wisdom of Surprise - Thought, Action, and Amazement at God

16:00 - 18:00 2 March 2017
2017 Samuel Ferguson lecturer: Prof. David Ford (University of Cambridge) Please consider yourself warmly invited to attend the 2017 Ferguson Lecture to be held in the Department of…

Energy installations at sea

12:00 - 14:00 3 March 2017
Manchester International Law Centre is proud to welcome Professor Maria Gavouneli (University of Athens), who will deliver a lecture on energy installations at sea. Professor Gavouneli…

Rethinking the University, the Triple Helix, and Regional Innovation

15:30 - 17:30 6 March 2017
The last two decades has seen growth in “triple helix” interactions between universities, business, and government to foster regional innovation. Now, university roles are extending…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday 6th March 2017 - Speaker : Matti Eräsaari - The University Of Manchester And The University Of Helsinki

16:00 - 18:00 6 March 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 6th March 2017 Matti Eräsaari - The University Of Manchester And The University Of Helsinki Between Boredom and Wasting Time: An Alternate…

CANCELLED: Development Economics Seminar: Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex)

13:00 - 14:00 7 March 2017
This seminar has been cancelled

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