Lectures and seminars

The BP Annual Lecture: The future of global energy markets

17:30 - 20:00 24 April 2017
Few industries can claim to have a distinct and direct effect on every person and in every home. From prices at the petrol station to power in developing companies, energy is one industry…

Beyond the cutting edge: speculations on the future of social science

16:00 - 17:15 25 April 2017
Social science faces a challenge. Its subject matter, its methods and its materials are all changing at a breath-taking speed. What will it mean to be a social scientist in five, ten,…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Judith Walkowitz: Feminism and Prostitution in the 1980s: A Tale of North and South

17:00 - 19:00 25 April 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2017 programme 'Precarity'. Organised in collaboration with History at the University of Manchester. Sponsored by Modern British History Research…

Development Economics Seminar: Gharad Bryan (LSE)

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2017
Title: Land Trade and Development: A Market Design Approach

Hip Hop and the Fight for Educational Equality in America

17:00 - 18:30 25 April 2017
Education in post-civil rights America continues to be defined by racial, social class, and gender inequality. Serious debates about failing schools have been obscured both by "post-racial"…

NEW TIME: Of Arab Invasions, the Aryan Race, and other Iranian Nationalist Myths

17:15 - 18:30 25 April 2017
An Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Seminar: This talk discusses the work of Fath’ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian…

POSTPONED: Dalton Seminar Series: Chasing Rainbows – MOD’s quest to dispose of EDTA-contaminated ion-exchange resin

12:15 - 13:15 25 April 2017
This event has been postponed due to last week’s announcement of the snap general election in June. All central and local government departments are now in the period of purdah and…

Racialisation relations

13:00 - 14:00 25 April 2017
Joint CoDE/Sociology Seminar Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. In order to discuss Islamophobia we should not isolate if from other forms of racial…

Seminar: Douglas Gollin (Oxford)

16:15 - 17:45 25 April 2017
Title: TBA

CGP Cluster Seminar Dates 2016-17: Semester 2 - Jared Ahmad (Manchester) Securing 'Al-Qaeda': the BBC, the state and the contemporary terrorism dispositif

15:30 - 17:00 26 April 2017
Jared Ahmad (Manchester) Securing 'Al-Qaeda': the BBC, the state and the contemporary terrorism dispositif Details to follow

EU economic sanctions from the public international law perspective

18:00 - 20:00 26 April 2017
Manchester International Law Centre is proud to welcome Professor Matthew Happold, who will deliver a public lecture on the subject: EU economic sanctions from the public international…

Faculty Research Seminar: Platform Sciences & Technologies

13:00 - 14:00 26 April 2017
The monthly Faculty Research Seminar Series is open to all staff and students and offers an opportunity to celebrate FBMH’s research achievements. Research Domain host: Platform Sciences…

GDI Lecture Series: The Global Arms Trade and International Law: Prevention is Better than Cure

17:00 - 18:30 26 April 2017
The Global Arms Trade and International Law: Prevention is Better than Cure: Dr Shavana Musa (The University of Manchester). The event will be from 5-6.30pm in Theatre B of the Roscoe…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 April 2017
Speaker: Leila Alinaghian Title: SNA for supply chains: who should you partner with for innovation

Sociology Research Seminar: Ordinary Provisioning: the challenges and possibilities of everyday third sector provisioning organisations by Dr Helen Holmes

14:00 - 15:00 26 April 2017
You are warmly invited to the April Sociology seminar, given by Helen Holmes, Sociology/SCI. The seminar will take place on the 26th April, 2-3pm, in Room 5.211, University Place.…

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