Seminar

Brian Bell (Kings College London)

16:15 - 17:45 9 March 2017
Title: The Burden of Legacy Costs: Evidence from Pension Black Holes Abstract Who pays for the costs that arise from legacy employment arrangements? We create a unique dataset that…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Loveday Alexander (Sheffield), 'Orality and the Gospels'

14:00 - 16:00 9 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…

History Research Seminar: Charles West (University of Sheffield) ‘“A long and a dark tale” – Clerical Exemption before Becket.’

16:15 - 17:45 9 March 2017
Charles West (University of Sheffield) ‘“A long and a dark tale” – Clerical Exemption before Becket.’

The four-legged getaway car: donkeys and their owners in papyri from Roman Egypt

16:55 - 18:30 9 March 2017
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 13th March 2017 - Dr Alanna Cant – University of Kent

16:00 - 18:00 13 March 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 13th March 2017 Dr Alanna Cant – University of Kent On The Object Itself: Oaxacan Woodcarvers And The Allure Of Their Art Current scholarship…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar- Frozen or Malleable: Political Ideology in the Face of Economic Hardship

16:00 - 17:30 14 March 2017
Abstract: To what degree do people adjust their political ideology in response to deteriorations in their material circumstances, such as job loss or negative income shocks? To answer…

Department of Politics - The JMCE Annual Lecture

16:00 14 March 2017
Department of Politics - The JMCE Annual Lecture (THE JMCE ANNUAL LECTURE) Tuesday 14 March 2017, 16:00 @ TBC Speaker: Jeffrey Franks (Director of the IMF Europe Office and Senior…

Environmental Economics Seminar: Souvik Datta (University of Glasgow)

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2017
Title: The impact of indoor solid fuel use on the stunting of Indian children Abstract: About half of Indian children under the age of three years are stunted. We use data from the…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)

15:00 - 17:00 14 March 2017
Title *Implicit Bias, Self-Defence, and the Reasonable Person Abstract *The reasonable person standard is used in adjudicating claims of self-defence. In US law, an individual may…

Seminar: Ludo Visschers (Edinburgh)

16:15 - 17:45 14 March 2017
Title: TBA

Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2

15:30 - 17:00 15 March 2017
Critical Global Politics - CGP Cluster Seminar - Semester 2 Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Aberystwyth) Raising Silent Voices Details to be advised

Finance seminar by Jaideep Oberoi, Kent Business School

14:00 - 16:00 15 March 2017
Robustly modelling the scale and shape dynamics of stock return distributions

Geography Research Seminar: Dr. Julie Durcan (University of Oxford) - Landscape dynamics and change on the Ghaggar-Hakra floodplain, India: implications for the Indus Civilisation

16:00 - 17:30 15 March 2017
Title: Landscape dynamics and change on the Ghaggar-Hakra floodplain, India: implications for the Indus Civilisation Abstract: The area around the ephemeral Ghaggar-Hakra River system…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Katia Chornik, 'Collecting and archiving music histories from political detention centres in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1990)'

13:00 - 13:50 15 March 2017
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Katia Chornik, 'Collecting and archiving music histories from political detention centres in Pinochet’s Chile (1973-1990).'

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 March 2017
Speaker: Paolo Campana is a University Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. His work specialises in organised crime and forms of extra-legal governance.…

Molly Geidel (Manchester), ‘From salvage ethnography to development melodrama: Bolivian cinema in the Revolutionary period’.

17:00 - 18:30 15 March 2017
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminars, 2016-2017. Room A215, Samuel Alexander Building

Sociology Seminar 15 Mar 2-3pm- 'Eating out in three English cities: casualization and social division' by Alan Warde, Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans

14:00 - 15:00 15 March 2017
You are warmly invited to the March Sociology seminar. To be held on Weds 15th March 2-3pm in the Hanson Room, HBS. The seminar will be given by Prof Alan Warde, Dr Jessica Paddock…

Sustainability Seminar Series – Health and Wellbeing: How do our buildings and greenspace contribute to our wellbeing and infrastructure resilience? With Dr Jeremy Carter and Kelly Watson

12:00 - 14:00 15 March 2017
Sustainability Seminar Series – Energy, Well-Being, Biodiversity, Food, Travel & More Launching in January 2017, the Sustainability Seminar Series seeks to present opportunities for…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Sarah Whittle (St. Andrews), Romans 1:4 and the Iconography of Imperial Apotheosis

14:00 - 16:00 16 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…

Konrad Burchardi (Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm)

16:15 - 17:45 16 March 2017
Title: Migrants, Ancestors, and Foreign Investment Abstract We use 130 years of data on historical migrations to the United States to show a causal effect of the ancestry composition…

Please note this Lecture has been cancelled, until further notice, Politics Pankhurst Lecture : Professor Cornelissen from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

17:30 - 18:30 16 March 2017
Please note this Lecture has been cancelled, until further notice, Politics Pankhurst Lecture : Professor Cornelissen from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

Search