Lectures and seminars

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…

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…

Dalton Seminar Series: Nuclear law - A helicopter view of international convention and policy

12:15 - 13:15 31 May 2017
An overview of the fascinating body of international convention and policy governing our civil nuclear power plants, developed against a backdrop of safety, security and safeguarding…

Global Political Economy Cluster Seminars - Matthew Watson - University of Warwick

15:30 - 17:00 31 May 2017
Matthew Watson, University of Warwick ‘The Market’ – One Political Language, Many Economic Models: Unravelling the Multiplicity of the Market Concept within Economic Theory Details to follow

Professor Xiangzheng Deng - graduate student seminar

31 May 2017
Professor Xiangzheng Deng, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences is visiting Manchester Urban Institute with funding from the University's Simon Visiting Professorship scheme. As well…

Cyber and you - a true story: come hear it

12:00 - 13:00 5 June 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…

Innovation, structural change and employment: A long term view and some policy implications

13:00 - 14:00 5 June 2017
In this paper I will briefly review some literature on the impact of technology on employment, focusing in particular on the capacity of technology to substitute human labour. I will…

CGP Cluster Seminar Dates 2016-17: Semester 2 - IDEASLAB

15:30 - 17:00 7 June 2017
* IdeasLab is a PhD-led seminar exploring a timely theme over the course of a term. The organisers will choose a theme that should be of wide interest across the cluster. The theme…

Global Political Economy Cluster Seminars - Greig Charnock - University of Manchester

15:30 - 17:00 7 June 2017
Greig Charnock, Manchester University Digital Capitalism and the Rebel City Details to follow

Intersectional Discourses: Race and Gender

16:00 - 18:00 7 June 2017
This is to invite you to the fourth seminar of the Critical Discourses in the Academy seminar series. We will be looking at Intersectionality and the need to theorize Race, Gender,…

Research and Teaching Matters - Higher education research showcase

12:00 - 13:00 7 June 2017
Presented by Dave Hall and colleagues. We are kicking off with a Research Matters Higher Education Showcase on the 7th of June at 12 in Ellen Wilkinson AG3/4 to highlight the MIE research…

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…

The role of community assets in improving health + well-being In later life

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
Policymakers across the world are becoming increasingly interested in improving health and well-being by creating a more inclusive community-based society. In 2010, the UK government…

The role of community assets in improving health + well-being in later life

14:00 - 16:00 9 June 2017
From MICRA, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, Manchester Centre for Primary Care and Inspiring Communities Together Seminar 2-4 pm, free networking lunch from 1 pm G306B, Jean…

Sustainability innovations and tensions among value chain partners: insights from the tannery industry

13:00 - 14:00 12 June 2017
The more firms are challenged to consider their environmental impacts, the more they are asked to introduce new products and processes that reduce or avoid harm on the environment.…

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