Lectures and seminars

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…

Pilkington Lecture 2017 with Frances Morris: "A safe place for unsafe ideas"

18:00 - 20:00 2 November 2017
Frances Morris has played a key role in the development of Tate, joining as a curator in 1987, becoming Head of Displays at Tate Modern (2000–2006) and then Director of Collection,…

Santiago Sánchez Páges (King's College London)

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

Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture: Science Policy Under Thatcher

18:00 - 21:30 3 November 2017
The 2017 Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture will be delivered Jon Agar, Professor of Science and Technology Studies at University College London on 3 November 2017. The lecture will…

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

Doing research with letters: lessons from the field

13:00 - 14:30 8 November 2017
CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) Doing [reporting on prisons] is like looking through a keyhole: it is very difficult to get reliable information…

Doing research with letters: lessons from the field

13:00 - 14:00 8 November 2017
Doing [reporting on prisons] is like looking through a keyhole: it is very difficult to get reliable information about what is going on inside a corrections facility (Schwirtz, 2015)…

Invitation to inaugural lecture with Professor John McAuliffe

17:00 - 18:00 8 November 2017
You are invited to attend John McAuliffe's professorial inaugural lecture. The title of the lecture is: “Out of Time: The Future of the Lyric” The lecture will look at the secular…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 8 November 2017
Daniel Tischer, University of Manchester Friendship relationship formation in Year 1 students The project we are presenting here seeks to combine network data and psychometric profiles…

Work, health and stress: Some observations

15:30 - 17:00 8 November 2017
Alliance Manchester Business School's Work and Equalities Institute presents the third in a series of research seminars: Abstract The talk will feature some recent studies on work,…

CTIS Seminar: Caroline Summers, "‘No speech is speech if it is not heard’: The author as a subaltern voice in literary translation"

14:00 - 15:30 9 November 2017
The Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series brings researchers from across the UK and Europe to the University of Manchester to present on their work. These…

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