Lectures and seminars

CIDRAL Roundtable: Nicola Gardini, 'The Hidden Source: Delving Into Ovid's Imagination'

17:00 - 19:00 5 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Nicola Gardini (Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Keble…

Lecture "Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of World Musical Revolution"

17:00 - 18:30 5 March 2018
Taylor Fellow Lecture by Professor Michael Denning (Yale)

Please note this seminar has been postponed until further notice - Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th March 2018

16:00 - 18:00 5 March 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 5th March 2018 Please note this seminar has been postponed until further notice Many thanks Val

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Alexia Yates on Karl Polanyi: ‘Polanyi: On Markets and their Limits’

15:00 - 16:30 6 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Alexia Yates (University of Manchester) will lead…

Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI)

16:15 - 17:45 6 March 2018
Title: Investment and Development

Annual Bragg Lecture - Towards a New Understanding of the Quantum Universe

14:30 - 16:00 7 March 2018
Sir Lawrence Bragg was Langworthy Professor at the University of Manchester from 1919 to 1937. From 2016, the School of Physics and Astronomy has presented an Annual External Bragg…

Lecture "Laboring Life: Reconsidering the Meanings of Work"

17:00 - 18:30 7 March 2018
Joint Taylor Fellow and Raymond Williams Society Lecture by Professor Michael Denning (Yale)

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2018
Angela Mae Minas, Sarah Mander and Patricia Thornley, from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering and the University…

Towards a new understanding of the quantum universe

14:30 - 15:30 7 March 2018
Join us for our annual Bragg Lecture, by Dr Nigel Lockyer. Sir Lawrence Bragg was Langworthy Professor at The University of Manchester from 1919 to 1937. From 2016, the School of…

Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities

14:00 - 15:00 8 March 2018
The lecture "Alvar Aalto’s Elective Affinities" mines how Alvar Aalto’s architecture and its international reception were impacted by the circulation of photographs, publications, and…

BBC Civilisations Event: What is Civilisation today? - Thursday Lates

18:00 - 18:45 8 March 2018
In 1969, standing in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral, Kenneth Clark posed the question: “What is civilisation?” His answer: “I don’t know. I can’t define it. But I think I can recognise…

CTIS Seminar: David Katan, "Stealth Translation: A Blueprint for More Accessible Translation"

14:00 - 15:30 8 March 2018
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: Caroline Kaye (MMU), "William Holman Hunt’s The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple (1860): Biblical Interpretation and Protestant Aesthetics"

14:00 - 16:00 8 March 2018
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…

MARG Lecture Series: Elective Affinities, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen

14:00 - 15:30 8 March 2018
Find out more about this lecture at: http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/mui/marg/events/architecture_of_the_land.pdf

Future Dams Lecture with Michael Hanemann: Why the economics of water are so hard

12:00 - 13:30 9 March 2018
The Future Dams project is pleased to present Professor Michael Hanemann, Arizona State University to discuss why the economics of water are so hard. Economists typically analyse water…

HSRC/CHISTM/UKAHN Joint Seminar with Cynthia Connolly: The Child as Scientific Problem - and Business Opportunity

12:00 - 13:30 9 March 2018
The Child as Scientific Problem—and Business Opportunity: Paediatric Drug Policy in the United States, 1933-1979 The issues embedded in discussions of children and drug safety and…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Pierpaolo Antonello, 'Bruno Munari’s Peritextual Playground'

17:00 - 19:00 12 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, St…

EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard'

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2018
EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard.' The lecture will take place on 12 March at 5pm in Sam Alex A7. All welcome!

EAC Research Seminar: Andrew Leong (Northwestern), 'Race / Money / Literature: Japanese Poetic Forms and the Anglo-American Gold Standard'

This Seminar has been postponed untill further notice - Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 12th March 2018 Dr Ammara Maqsood – University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 12 March 2018
This Seminar has been postponed untill further notice - Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 12th March 2018 Dr Ammara Maqsood – University of Manchester

CIDRAL Roundtable: Pierpaolo Antonello, 'From Futurism to Arte di Stato: The Aesthetics of Politics and The Politics of Aesthetics'

13:30 - 15:30 13 March 2018
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. This event is part of CIDRAL's 2017/18 programme, The Constraints of Creativity Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Reader in Italian Literature and Culture, St…

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