Conferences

Revitalising corporate governance for the long-term benefit of business and society

14:00 - 17:00 14 February 2018
The UK’s globally renowned principles for corporate governance have been in place for 25 years. With public trust in business at historically low levels and companies facing challenges…

National Training Conference on Investigating Miscarriages of Justice 2018

14:00 16 - 15:30 17 February 2018
Organised by the School of Law at The University of Manchester, sponsored by Clyde & Co. and LexisNexis. The 2018 National Training Conference for students in pro bono innocence projects,…

Street Drugs in the Northern Powerhouse: Perspective and Policy

09:45 - 16:30 28 March 2018
The School of Health Sciences invites you to rethink street drugs and explore their use in the medical setting. ‘Street Drugs in the Northern Powerhouse: Perspective and Policy’ will…

British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference

4 - 6 April 2018
The 2018 British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference will take place at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM) at The University…

Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies Easter Conference 2018

4 April 2018
Programme: 10:00 Registration 10:30-10:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks 10:45-11:30 ECR Keynote • ‘Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age’…

Cities of Strangeness, 1350-1700 conference

11 May 2018
strangers / estrangement / becoming-strange. The period spanning the years 1350-1700 saw a massive expansion in urban populations, transforming social formations. Changes and developments…

Manchester American Studies Conference

09:00 17 - 17:30 18 May 2018
This two-day conference will showcase the work of our postgraduate students, as well as the work of staff and students in American studies at Brown University, University of Copenhagen,…

Modern Iranian Art and Architecture in the Shadow of the Classical Persian Past

17 - 18 May 2018
We are pleased to announce a conference on Persian and Iranian art hosted by the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. The Department of Middle Eastern…

Changing the Narrative: Older Women and the Cultural Sector

18 May 2018
The starting point for this conference is the lived experience of women now in their 50s, 60s and 70s. With the benefit of access to education and contraception, their lives have been…

Advances in data science

21 - 22 May 2018
Join us for this two-day conference to discover recent developments in data science. This year's meeting is jointly organised by Manchester's Data Science Institute and the Cathie…

Good Grief: Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Mourning

25 May 2018
Good Grief: Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Mourning University of Manchester, 25 May 2018 Proposals are invited on constructions of grief and the means of consolation…

Conference: The Role of Extracurricular Activities in Language Teaching

1 June 2018
“Extracurricular work in foreign languages comes frequently under the initiative of language tutors and is often unrecognised. Considering the paramount contribution of extracurricular…

9th International Sustainability Transitions Conference

11 - 14 June 2018
The Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) and Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) will host the 9th International Sustainability Transitions Conference at the University…

Understanding Everyday Participation: Relocating Culture, Value and Inequality

11 - 12 June 2018
Questioning traditional boundaries of culture The Understanding Everyday Participation – Articulating Cultural Values project calls into question the traditional boundaries of ‘culture’…

Conference: The place I call research: localizing sociological inquiry

15 June 2018
The practicalities of selecting and navigating particular contexts remain difficult despite the recent focus across the social sciences on situating one’s research. The reconfiguring…

Pharmacy Education Conference 2018

09:30 - 16:30 25 June 2018
We would like to welcome all those who have an interest in pharmacy undergraduate education to the fifth Pharmacy Education Conference on 25th June 2018 in Manchester. This conference…

The Paranoid Style Revisited: Postwar American Cultural Politics and The Argosy Magazine

28 - 29 June 2018
The Paranoid Style Revisited: Postwar American Cultural Politics and The Argosy Magazine John Rylands Library, Manchester, 28-29 June 2018 Half a century ago Richard Hofstadter published…

The Paranoid Style Revisited: Postwar American Cultural Politics and The Argosy Magazine

Touching the Past: the Materiality of Text 1400-1700

4 July 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS Communities of Print, a project based at Manchester Metropolitan University and run in conjunction with Chetham’s Library and John Rylands Library, is hosting a conference…

International Festival of Public Health

09:30 - 17:00 5 July 2018
The seventh International Festival of Public Health will be hosted at The University of Manchester on Thursday 5 July. The theme of this year's Festival is ‘Health and Social Care’…

Morgan Centre conference: Everyday Creativity

10 - 11 July 2018
Two days of explorations into research on everyday creativity. Full information on the conference page on the Morgan Centre website (see link).

Personhood and Selfhood

09:00 - 18:00 17 July 2018
The third in a Royal Institute of Philosophy conference series on Personhood and Selfhood at the University of Manchester. Additionally sponsored by the AHRC North West Doctoral Training…

Open Minds XIII

2 - 3 August 2018
Open Minds is a two-day conference which offers graduate students working in all areas of philosophy the chance to present their work and gain feedback in a welcoming and a friendly…

WEI Fourth Fairness at Work Conference

10 - 11 September 2018
The WEI Fourth Fairness at Work conference, Justice at Work: Challenges and Possibilities Building on the three previous Fairness at Work Conferences at the University of Manchester…

International Law and Universality - 2018 Conference of the European Society of International Law

12 - 15 September 2018
Join us for the 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law. The 2018 conference, hosted by the Manchester International Law Centre at The University of Manchester,…

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