Seminar

The Replacement Child Figure: An Allegory for Scholars of Education, Psychology, and Childhood (note change of title)

10:00 - 11:30 22 June 2017
This paper represents a larger effort to theorize the complexities of inner life beyond the individualizing and pathologizing force of psychological categories. With Julia Kristeva…

Cyber and you - a true story: come hear it

12:00 - 13:00 26 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…

Sarah Fielden seminar series - 'The Greater Manchester Challenge: Pursuing equity and improvement in the contexts of austerity, autonomy and devolution'

17:00 28 June 2017
Seminar presented by Professor Ruth Lupton Why Sarah Fielden? The Manchester Institute of Education is recognised internationally as a leading centre of educational research. Education…

Brexit After the Election: What Happens Next? (17:00-18:30)

17:00 - 18:30 1 July 2017
Richard Corbett is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Labour Party for Yorkshire and the Humber. He is Deputy Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party, Vice-Chair…

Cyber and you - a true story: come hear it

12:30 4 July 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…

Faculty Research Seminar: Cardiovascular, Metabolic & Nutritional Sciences

13:00 - 14:00 5 July 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: Cardiovascular,…

Small but significant - Innovation, impact and evidence: practical housing interventions to improve older people’s health and wellbeing

10:00 - 15:30 13 July 2017
Join us for this special free event for researchers, policy makers, planners, commissioners, providers & activists with an interest in ageing, health, social care, housing and integrated…

POSTPONED: Dalton Seminar Series: Small scale production of high-purity plutonium metal

12:15 - 13:15 14 September 2017
Unfortunately this seminar has been postponed. Abstract: Small-scale scientific experiments require high-purity, low activity plutonium metal that is formed into components with nanoscale…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday 25th of September 2017 - Dr Stef Jansen - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 25 September 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 25th September 2017 Dr Stef Jansen - The University Of Manchester (Non-)Events: anthropological (in)fidelities to Alain Badiou This presentation…

Water, ocean, coastal and environmental engineering (WOCEE) seminar - Particle Methods for Fluid-Structure Interactions, Recent Advancements and Future Perspectives

14:00 25 September 2017
Presented by Professor Abbas KHAYYER from Kyoto University, Japan, this talk mainly focuses on application of particle methods, more specifically, fully-Lagrangian coupled particle…

Bringing participatory development into conflict analysis – experience from Rakhine state, Myanmar

17:00 - 18:30 26 September 2017
Students and colleagues are invited to join us for HCRI's opening Speaker Series for the 2017/18 events programme. The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Speaker Series…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 27 September 2017
Eduardo Gallo, University of Cambridge Strongly connected cooperative elites The sustenance of cooperative behavior is fundamental for the prosperity of human societies. Empirical…

Research Seminar: Dr Frederique Janssen- Lauret (Manchester)

15:15 - 17:00 27 September 2017
Title: Russell, Quine, Lewis: Analytic Philosophy, Ontology and Systematicity Abstract: In 1901, Russell expressed his 'great hopes' for a new, highly systematic philosophy, borrowing…

Sarah Fielden seminar series - 'The Politics of Higher Education Reform in England'

16:00 - 17:30 27 September 2017
Seminar presented by Professor Andy Westwood Why Sarah Fielden? The Manchester Institute of Education is recognised internationally as a leading centre of educational research. Education…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Peter Oakes (Manchester), “George Brooke’s The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament: Towards an Agenda for Future Research”

14:00 - 16:00 28 September 2017
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Exploring the future of Community Energy in the UK

13:00 - 14:00 28 September 2017
After last year’s successes the Sustainability Seminar Series is returning once again. The Environmental Sustainability team launched the series last January as part of the staff engagement…

MIOIR Seminar: From evaluating research in context towards evaluating challenge oriented research intensive initiatives – from indicators to indications.

12:30 - 14:00 2 October 2017
Dr Leonie van Drooge, Rothenau Instituut, Netherlands From evaluating research in context towards evaluating challenge oriented research intensive initiatives – from indicators to indications.…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday the 2nd of October 2017 - Dr Constance Smith - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 2 October 2017
Building the city: time, materiality and uncertainty in Nairobi Dr Constance Smith, Social Anthropology, University of Manchester With the launch of spectacular urban megaprojects…

CoDE Seminar- The Diversity Bargain: And other dilemmas of race, admissions, and meritocracy at elite universities

13:00 - 14:00 3 October 2017
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. We are pleased to announce Natasha Warikoo from Harvard University will be joining us for our first CoDE seminar of…

Brexit: The implications for the UK and the environment

14:00 - 15:00 4 October 2017
Brexit: The implications for the UK and the environment

Contrasts in Punishment and the (usually) unacknowledged feature of social science research: good fortune

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2017
Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism, by John Pratt and Anna Eriksson, was published by Routledge in 2012. Based on research that…

Contrasts in Punishment and the (usually) unacknowledged feature of social science research: good fortune

13:00 - 14:30 4 October 2017
CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism, by John Pratt and…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 4 October 2017
Elisa Bellotti, University of Manchester Women in science. Research collaboration in Italian Academia from a gender perspective. The paper analyses the position and outcome of female…

Sociology Seminar Series: 4th Oct 2018, 2-3pm - Dr Vanessa May & Dr Camilla Lewis: 'Using sensory methods: researching home, belonging and atmosphere'

14:00 - 15:00 4 October 2017
You are warmly invited to the first Sociology seminar of this academic year, given by Dr Vanessa May and Dr Camilla Lewis, Sociology, SoSS. The seminar will take place on Wednesday…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Mary E. Mills (Newman), “Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Their Scrolls”

14:00 - 16:00 5 October 2017
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

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