Seminar

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi (Bank of England)

16:15 - 17:45 24 October 2017
Title: TBA

Responding to Emergency Crises - Personal Reflections

17:00 - 18:30 24 October 2017
For this seminar, we are joined by Gareth Owen from Save the Children. We are experiencing an era of great global uncertainty and staggering inequality where the most marginalised…

All Aboard the Baltimore Poo Poo Choo Choo: Human Waste, the Environment, and Injustice in Neoliberal America

17:00 - 19:00 25 October 2017
Research seminar by Graham Mooney, associate professor of the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University

CSEP Senior Seminar Series. Individual findings in research: to return or not to return?

14:00 - 15:00 25 October 2017
Individual findings in research: to return or not to return? Professor Ruth Chadwick (University of Manchester, School of Law)

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 25 October 2017
Philip Leifeld, University of Glasgow Polarisation in the social sciences? A statistical analysis of co-authorship networks Academic collaboration in the social sciences is, arguably,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mi Ja Wi (MWRC/Nazarene), “What Must We Do?: The Path to Salvation in Luke’s Gospel?”

14:00 - 16:00 26 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…

Public History Seminar “Humanitarian relief, internationalism and child refugees"

16:00 - 17:30 26 October 2017
Joy Damousi (Melbourne) “Humanitarian relief, internationalism and child refugees: The Spanish Civil War and the global campaign of Esme Odgers”

Tyndall Manchester Seminar by Dr Matthew Cotton: Can Fracking be fair?

13:00 - 14:00 26 October 2017
Can fracking be fair? Dr. Matthew Cotton, University of York The development of unconventional fossil fuels using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques raises issues…

Dr. Cláudia Regina Plens (Federal University of São Paulo): State Violence in Brazil: A Study of Crimes of May 2006 in the Perspective of the Transitional Justice and Forensic Anthropology

14:00 - 16:00 30 October 2017
Cláudia Regina Plens (archaeologist, Federal University of São Paulo) will present the preliminary results of the research “State Violence in Brazil: A Study of Crimes of May 2006 in…

CMI Afternoon Seminar Series: Model-Based Pre-Election Polling for National and Sub-National Outcomes in the US and UK

15:00 - 16:30 31 October 2017
Dr Ben Lauderdale, London School of Economics. Abstract: We describe a strategy for applying multilevel regression and post-stratification (MRP) methods to pre-election polling. Using…

Understanding c-Met endosomal signalling in cancer

13:00 - 14:00 31 October 2017
RTKs contribute to many facets of cell behaviour which play integral roles in tumour development and progression. It is increasingly recognized that RTKs continue their signalling life…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Charles Forsdick: 'Exoticism now: historical precedents, contemporary perspectives'

14:00 - 16:00 1 November 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool) will…

Health at work in the shadow of Brexit

14:00 - 15:00 1 November 2017
Health at work in the shadow of Brexit

Professor Bard Harstad (University of Oslo)

13:00 - 14:30 1 November 2017
Title: Pledge-and-Review Bargaining Abstract: With pledge-and-review bargaining, as stipulated in the Paris climate agreement, each party submits an intended nationally determined…

Santiago Sánchez Páges (King's College London)

16:15 - 17:45 2 November 2017
Title and Abstract: TBC

In situ mechanobiology of epithelia in health and disease

13:00 - 14:00 3 November 2017
The onset of metastasis occurs when cancer cells invade and breach the basement membrane (BM) that provides mechanical support to epithelial tissues. Yet, it remains unclear what triggers…

Avoiding Apocalypse - Responding to the DPRK - US nuclear crisis

17:15 - 18:15 6 November 2017
Public meeting about the nuclear stand-off and crisis between North Korea and the US, organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). Guest speaker is Dr. Jenny Clegg, a former…

Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 6th November 2017 Dr Morten Pedersen – University of Copenhagen

16:00 - 18:00 6 November 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 6th November 2017 Dr Morten Pedersen – University of Copenhagen Sublime Doubt. How Conservative Danish Christians Struggle to be True to Themselves…

'ACAB? The police and the criminal justice system through the eyes of English Defence League activists'

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2017
CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) The English Defence League, a ‘feet on the street’ anti-Islamist movement active in the UK since 2009, is…

CMI Afternoon Seminar Series: Female Alpha Earners: An Investigation into Gendered Norms and Hierarchy in Britain

15:00 - 16:15 7 November 2017
Guest speaker: Dr Vanessa Gash, City, University of London Abstract: This paper concerns itself with the relationship between gendered norms and gendered economic inequalities. While…

Ralph Luetticke (UCL)

16:15 - 17:45 7 November 2017
Title: TBA

CSEP Senior Seminar Series. Wombs Wanted: gifted or loaned? On the ethical symmetries between surrogacy and uterus transplantation

14:00 - 15:00 8 November 2017
Wombs Wanted: gifted or loaned? On the ethical symmetries between surrogacy and uterus transplantation Dr Nicola Williams University of Lancaster, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion

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