Lectures and seminars

D & E and CMIST seminar: Gendered Institutional Change: The Case of the Women and Equalities Committee in the UK Parliament

16:00 17 May 2017
Democracy and Elections, and CMIST joint seminar. Abstract Change at Westminster is rarely easy. This is especially so when reforms are ‘effective’; when they affect the relationship…

Department of Politics - JMCE Seminars

14:00 - 16:00 17 May 2017
Department of Politics JMCE Seminars Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00 @ TBC Speaker: TBC Title: TBC

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’

Faculty Research Seminar: Population Health & Ecosystems

13:00 - 14:00 17 May 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: Population…

Global Political Economy Cluster Seminars - Ian Bruff - University of Manchester

15:30 - 17:00 17 May 2017
Ian Bruff, Manchester University The antinomies of neoliberalisation Details to follow

Research and Teaching Matters - Becoming bilingual in Scotland: Is parity of provision within Gaelic medium education a goal too far?

12:00 - 13:00 17 May 2017
The commitment to dual language learning in Scotland is evident with the introduction of policy supporting primary pupils who will complete formal learning of two languages, in addition…

Rubén Peinado Abarrio (Manchester), ‘Trauma and Exile in the Works of Roberto Bolaño and Aleksandar Hemon’

17:00 - 18:30 17 May 2017
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminars, 2016-2017, Semester 2 Room A213A, Samuel Alexander Building

Working with the Conservatives in the European Union: an insider’s view

14:00 17 May 2017
Working with the Conservatives in the European Union: an insider’s view

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,…

Cyber and you - a true story: come hear it

12:30 - 13:30 23 May 2017
Do you feel cyber safe? A number of recent news stories have highlighted cases of criminals using email hacking and ransomware to access accounts belonging to Hilary Clinton and David…

Development Economics Seminar (Internal): Katsushi Imai (University of Manchester)

13:00 - 14:00 23 May 2017
Title: Aspirations and educational poverty traps across generations. Abstract: This paper empirically tests whether there exist any ‘aspirations failure’ and poverty traps in education…

Sarah Fielden seminar series - 'Education, Ethics and the Psy Complex'

17:00 - 18:30 23 May 2017
Seminar presented by Professor Ian Parker This lecture addresses the intersection between three forms of refusal, treating each of those forms of refusal as operating as a form of…

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…

The choreography of everyday multiculture; Bowling together?

13:00 - 14:00 23 May 2017
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. Speaker: Dr Emma Jackson, Goldsmiths, University of London Bowling has been used as both a bellwether and a metaphor…

CGP Cluster Seminar Dates 2016-17: Semester 2 - Lene Hansen (Copenhagen)

15:30 24 May 2017
Lene Hansen (Copenhagen) TBC Details to follow :

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…

Sarah Wright (Royal Holloway)

17:00 - 18:30 24 May 2017
Room A213A, Samuel Alexander Building Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminars, 2016-2017, Semester 2

Sociology Research Seminar: ‘Curious Connections: On the relational and personal life significance of donating egg and sperm’ by Dr Petra Nordqvist

14:00 - 15:00 24 May 2017
You are warmly invited to the May Sociology seminar, given by Dr Petra Nordqvist, Sociology. The seminar will take place on the 24th May, 2-3pm, in the Arthur Lewis Boardroom. The…

Israel Studies Seminar - Stacey Gutkowski (King's College London), 'Jewish Atheists in Foxholes? Phenomenologies of Violence and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict'.

15:00 - 16:30 25 May 2017
The Centre for Jewish Studies seminar programme has an Israel Studies theme. Our seminar programme is open to all (for free) and there is no need to book. Unpacking and problematizing…

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