Lecture

The 2017 Dorothy Emmet Lecture

18:00 - 20:00 15 May 2017
The Philosophy Department is proud to present the 2017 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Sherri Irvin, “Resisting Body Oppression: An Aesthetic Approach”. The lecture is aimed at the general…

EAC Department PGR Keynote Event

17:00 - 19:00 17 May 2017
Lucy Rowland (University of Leeds), ‘“Tortured Ecologies”: Environmental Disaster and Climate Discourse in Contemporary Women’s Fiction’

SEED Annual Lecture: Midi Rouge or Midi Vert?

16:30 - 18:00 18 May 2017
The SEED annual lecture: Midi Rouge or Midi Vert? Organic Wine, Metabolism, and Social Reproduction in Languedoc-Roussillon Presented by Professor Scott Prudham, Department of Geography…

'What good is playing at being a state?' - key note lecture by Professor Davina Cooper

16:00 - 17:00 19 May 2017
* This key note lecture open to the public is part of Everyday Revolutions in Southern and Eastern Europe event which will take place on 19 & 20 May 2017 in Samuel Alexander Building…

Sexuality Summer School Public Lecture: Robyn Wiegman (Duke) in discussion with Clare Hemmings (LSE): “The Problem with Heteronormativity”

12:00 - 14:00 22 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Our Public Events Programme is now confirmed! All Welcome. Student Prices available. Monday 22nd May 12-2pm Public…

2017 MICRA Annual Public Lecture – Ready for Ageing Now?

17:30 - 19:00 23 May 2017
2017 MICRA Annual Public Lecture Ready for Ageing Now? Lord Geoffrey Filkin CBE, Chair of the Centre for Ageing Better From MICRA and the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub In 2013,…

Sexuality Summer School Public Lecture: Laura Doan (Manchester): “Inventing Normal Sex: An Un/natural History”

12:30 - 14:00 23 May 2017
Sexuality Summer School (22nd – 26th May 2017): Why Be Normal? Our Public Events Programme is now confirmed! All Welcome. Student Prices available. Monday 22nd May 12.30-2pm…

EAC Department Seminar Series: Jessica Valdez (Hong Kong University), 'Anthony Trollope’s “Newspaper Scribblers”: Forms of Public Opinion'

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2017
Jessica R. Valdez holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to joining HKU, she was a lecturer at New York University Shanghai. Her research interests…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Isobel Hook

19:30 - 22:00 25 May 2017
In 1998 two teams of astronomers discovered that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, work that was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 2011. The discovery was based on…

Public Lecture: Ian Alan Paul: The Conditions of Possibility: Democracy, Security, and Futurity in Post-Coup Cairo

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 Semester 2 programme on Precarity. Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice encompasses experimental…

Do Standards in Global Value Chains Support or Undermine the Sustainable Development Goals? with Professor Raphael Kaplinsky

16:00 - 17:30 20 June 2017
Do Standards in Global Value Chains Support or Undermine the Sustainable Development Goals? with Professor Raphael Kaplinsky Standards matter to global trade. But they can play a dual…

Are the Rising Powers Really Rising?

17:00 - 18:30 21 June 2017
Are the Rising Powers Really Rising? with Lord Jim O'Neill Lord Jim O'Neill, former Goldman Sachs Chief Economist and former Treasury Minister, will discuss whether the "rising powers"…

Taking Interdependency Seriously: Brexit and the Rising Powers

14:00 - 15:30 23 June 2017
Taking Interdependency Seriously: Brexit and the Rising Powers with Professor Alan Winters Post-Brexit Britain will be an outward looking champion of the global system, we are told.…

Dr Howard Booth (Manchester), Burgess at Manchester

17:00 - 18:30 3 July 2017
As part of the Anthony Burgess Centenary Conference, SALC will host a lecture by Dr Howard Booth (EAC) on Burgess’s time at Manchester on Monday, July 3rd at 5pm in the Arts Lecture…

The Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture

14:00 - 16:00 6 July 2017
Professor Akihito Ishizaki from the Institute for Molecular Science, Japan will be giving a prize lecture on the Theory of Real-time Quantum Dissipative Dynamics and its Application…

Professor Bruno Latour: Does our conception and practice of the modern European ‘body politic’ need a new body when confronted by the challenges posed by our new climatic regime?

09:30 - 11:00 1 September 2017
As part of his appointment as Simon and Hallsworth Visiting Professor 2017/18 Bruno Latour will be giving a public lecture at the University of Manchester at 9.30am on 1 September 2017…

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