Lectures and seminars

CIDRAL Roundtable: Matt Houlbrook

17:00 - 19:00 4 December 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Date: 4 December 2017 Place: Samuel Alexander Building,…

CIDRAL Roundtable: Matt Houlbrook

17:00 - 19:00 4 December 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Date: 4 December 2017 Place: Samuel Alexander Building,…

Controlling Business Cartels

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2017
CCCJ Seminar Programme 2017/18 (in collaboration with Methods@Manchester) Business cartels cause severe financial damage and harm consumer trust; cartel enforcement authorities use…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Paolo Heywood - University of Cambridge

16:00 - 18:00 4 December 2017
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 4th December 2017 Dr Paolo Heywood – University of Cambridge ‘“All the difference in the world”: the nature of difference and different natures’.…

CLACS/PILAS Fieldwork in Latin America and the Caribbean Research Workshop

09:00 - 17:00 5 December 2017
A one-day, interdisciplinary postgraduate workshop for those who either have experience or plan to carry out research in or related to Latin America and the Caribbean. The workshop…

CMI Afternoon Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:30 5 December 2017
Prof. John Copas, University of Warwick Title: Meta analysis and the curse of publication bias Abstract: Publication bias is a major threat to the validity of the meta analysis of…

Dora Marsden Lecture: Professor Morag Shiach, 'Modernism, Meaning, and Magic: "Trying to Learn to Use Words"'

17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2017
The annual Dora Marsden Lecture will be given this year by Professor Morag Shiach. Her talk is entitled 'Modernism, Meaning, and Magic: "Trying to Learn to Use Words."' The event is…

Ethnography of Senior Leadership

12:00 - 13:30 5 December 2017
Alliance Manchester Business School's Health Services Research Centre are hosting a series of research seminars. This seminar will draw on Dr Michael D. Fischer's ethnographic study…

Art History Seminar - Alice Butler: ‘Cookie Mueller’s Adolescent Fragments’

16:00 6 December 2017
Coming out of archival research Alice pursued last year at New York University, this research seminar discusses the adolescent forms and temporalities of Cookie Mueller's short stories,…

Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds), ‘Madrid City Nights: Nostalgia, La Movida and the 21st century musical?’

17:00 - 18:30 6 December 2017
Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds), ‘Madrid City Nights: Nostalgia, La Movida and the 21st century musical?’

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 6 December 2017
Mathias Mejeh, UZH Zurich The Detection of Plot Structures within the Field of Inclusive Education In recent years Inclusive Education has become a highly discussed issue all over…

Politics What are We Doing Seminar - Reflective Equilibrium and the Objectivity of Reason and Performance, Space and Spectatorship: The Practice of Fieldwork in International Relations

14:00 - 15:00 6 December 2017
Please find below details of the next ‘What are we doing?’ seminar, building on the successful events in 2016-17. These seminars seek to have an informal, open discussion about…

Research Seminar: Dr Richard Christian (Manchester)

15:15 6 December 2017
Title: TBC Abstract: TBC

Christmas lecture Manchester Medieval Society: Gale Owen-Crocker '"Deck the hal"' Anglo-Saxon style'

18:00 7 December 2017
Christmas lecture: Gale Owen-Crocker '"Deck the hal"' Anglo-Saxon style'

CTIS Seminar: Siobhan Brownlie, "Tales of Travelling Memory, Transcreation and Politics"

14:00 - 15:30 7 December 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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Walter J. Houston (Manchester), "Proverbial Economy"

14:00 - 16:00 7 December 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…

Joana Naritomi (LSE)

16:15 - 17:45 7 December 2017
Title and Abstract: TBC

Linnean Society: Irene Manton Lecture 2017

16:00 - 18:00 7 December 2017
The University of Manchester in collaboration with The Linnean Society and Manchester Museum will host the 2017 Irene Manton lecture to celebrate the significant contribution made by…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Michael Hoelzl, "The Art of Pastoral Power"

16:00 - 18:00 7 December 2017
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

Localized ATP production and F-actin polymerization drive basement membrane invasion in the absence of MMPs

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2017
The ability of cells to breach basement membrane barriers—thin, dense, sheets of extracellular matrix that underlie most tissues—is important in development, wound healing, leukocyte…

Quality and productivity implications of separating routine elective care out of general hospitals

12:00 - 13:30 11 December 2017
Alliance Manchester Business School's Health Services Research present Stefan Scholtes: "General hospitals have to manage the conflicting operational requirements of routine patients,…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Peter Marx: 'Cartographing the “long” 19th century: between innovation and residues'

18:00 - 20:00 12 December 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Peter Marx (Professor of Theatre and Media Studies, University of Cologne) will…

CIDRAL Seminar: Peter Marx: 'Cartographing the “long” 19th century: between innovation and residues'

10:00 - 12:00 13 December 2017
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Peter Marx (Professor of Theatre and Media Studies, University of Cologne) will…

GDI Lecture: Dr Irene Guijt on Evidence for Influencing: Balancing research integrity and campaign strategy in Oxfam

17:00 - 18:30 13 December 2017
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Dr Irene Guijt, Oxfam, to discuss "Evidence for Influencing: Balancing research integrity and campaign strategy…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Reimund Bieringer (KU Leuven), "Understanding Martin Luther's Bible translation into German in its historical context: An exercise in demythologisation?"

14:00 - 16:00 14 December 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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