Lectures and seminars

Mara Keire (Oxford), "Dr Strangelove's Legacy: Herman Kahn, Scenario Planning, and Apocalyptic Narratives, 1960-2016"

17:00 - 19:00 11 October 2017
A research seminar sponsored by English Literature, American Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 11 October 2017
Joe Watson, University of Manchester Tripartite Structures: The case of underground punk in the North West of England Social networks are often inherently complex and it is important…

Professor Erik Swyngedouw: Life and Death in the Urbicene

16:30 11 October 2017
Prof Swyngedouw has a long-standing interest in understanding the political, economic, and environmental dynamics of capitalism and the social forces and practices that aim at its transformation…

School of Chemistry Seminar entitled "Drops Behaving Badly"

14:00 - 15:00 11 October 2017
Droplets have been used in technological applications for many years and are of increasing importance in new applications such as droplet microfluidics, inkjet manufacturing and 3D-printing.…

Women in the Workplace: the difference a generation makes

18:00 - 20:00 11 October 2017
Alliance Manchester Business School's Work and Equalities Institute presents the first in a series of research seminars. The talk reflects on the progress that has been made on gender…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elisabeth Lebovici: ‘Precious Liquids’

17:00 - 19:00 12 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Elisabeth Lebovici will be at the University of Manchester for a two-day research…

Lives of Letters Network: Networks and Individuals

17:00 - 18:30 12 October 2017
The Lives and Afterlives of Letters Network is a newly established, interdisciplinary network which draws together academics and library professionals working on the study and curation…

Manson Memorial Lecture: Prof Helen Bond (Edinburgh), “The Death that he Deserved? Reading the Demise of the Markan Jesus as the End of an Ancient Biography”

14:00 - 16:00 12 October 2017
The Centre for Biblical Studies endowed annual lectureship. T.W. Manson was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at Manchester from 1936 until his death in 1958. Each…

Martino Pelli (Sherbrooke)

16:15 - 17:45 12 October 2017
Title: Roads and Resources: Groundwater Depletion in the North China Plains

University of Manchester, Politics Department - The Role of Parliament in a Turbulent World - The Rt Hon John Bercow MP - Speaker of the House of Commons

17:00 - 18:00 12 October 2017
The University of Manchester, Politics Department is proud to present : The Role of Parliament in a Turbulent World - The Rt Hon John Bercow MP - Speaker of the House of Commons …

CIDRAL Seminar and Roundtable: Elisabeth Lebovici: ‘Interdisciplinarity as Resistance’

10:00 - 12:00 13 October 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Elisabeth Lebovici will be at the University of Manchester for a two-day research…

The role of board-level clinical leaders in QI

12:00 - 13:30 13 October 2017
Dr Lorelei Jones: "Health systems worldwide are increasingly holding boards of health care organisations accountable for the quality of care that they provide. Previous empirical research…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 16th October 2017 Dr John Hartigan – University of Austin, Texas

16:00 - 18:00 16 October 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 16th October 2017 Dr John Hartigan – University of Austin, Texas Expanding the Ethnographic Subject: Labs, Gardens, and Horses John Hartigan…

Zoe Sofoulis: Gender and Infrastructure - feminism, philosophy, and the knowledge ecology of urban water

16:30 - 18:00 16 October 2017
Zoë Sofoulis, from the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University, is an interdisciplinary researcher who initially worked in science fiction and cyberfeminist studies,…

David Rezza Baqaee (LSE)

16:15 - 17:45 17 October 2017
Title: TBA

ART HISTORY: Dr Alixe Bovey (Courtauld Institute of Art), 'Giants and the City: Mythic History as Material Culture in Medieval London'

17:30 18 October 2017
Alixe Bovey is a specialist in the art and culture of the later Middle Ages, with particular interests in illuminated manuscripts, pictorial narrative, and the relationship between…

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