Lectures and seminars

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Judith Walkowitz, 'Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in the 1980s: A Tale of North and South'

17:00 - 19:00 24 April 2018
This event is co-hosted by History at the University of Manchester and CIDRAL. Judith Walkowitz (Professor Emeritus in History, Johns Hopkins University), will deliver a public lecture…

CoDE Seminar- Brett St Louis

13:00 - 14:00 24 April 2018
Join us for this event, which is part of the CoDE Seminar Series. Brett St Louis is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Title: Post-millennial local whiteness:…

methods@manchester seminar: Object Interviews and Elicitations: getting people to talk about things.

13:00 - 14:00 24 April 2018
This talk explores the possibilities of object interviews as a method for carrying out research into material culture, as well as a method adopted more widely as part of the repertoire…

MIOIR Seminar: Machine learning, social learning and responsible innovation for self-driving cars

12:00 - 13:30 24 April 2018
Self-driving cars, a quintessentially ‘smart’ technology, are not born smart. The algorithms that control their movements are learning as the technology emerges. Self-driving cars represent…

NHS Confederation public lecture - NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives

18:00 - 20:00 24 April 2018
To mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS, Dr Stephanie Snow, Project Director ‘NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives’, will be giving a special lecture exploring the social history of the…

Rachel Ngai (LSE)

16:15 - 17:45 24 April 2018
Title: TBA

Why Charts Matter

15:00 - 16:30 24 April 2018
Alan Smith OBE, Data Visualisation Editor at the Financial Times Abstract: The worlds of academia and journalism arguably share one historical publishing trait: the primacy of text…

Art History Seminar: Dr Bernard Vere "Body Politics: Sport and the Avant-Garde Between the Wars"

17:30 - 20:00 25 April 2018
Dr Bernard Vere (Program Director, MA Fine and Decorative Art and Design, Sotheby's Institute of Art) specializes in art from the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. His work…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Sarah Roddy on Max Weber: ‘Money and Religion: Revisiting the Protestant Ethic’

10:00 - 12:00 25 April 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's programme for the 2017/18 academic year, 'Constraints of Creativity'. Sarah Roddy (University of Manchester) will lead a theory intensive for postgraduate…

Dr Karoline Cook (Royal Holloway): 'Recreating “Reconquista” in Family Histories in Seventeenth-Century New Spain'

17:00 - 18:30 25 April 2018
Location: Arthur Lewis Boardroom (2nd Floor)

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 April 2018
Pietro Panzarasa, Queen Mary University, London Interdisciplinarity and specialisation: Network perspectives on scientific success As the increasing complexity of large-scale research…

Peter Knight Inaugural Professorial Lecture - "Everything is Connected"

17:00 - 18:00 25 April 2018
Peter Knight Professor of American Studies ‘Everything is Connected’ One of the central assumptions of conspiracy theories is that ‘everything is connected’. Conspiracy narratives…

Seminar: Where is British History Now?

17:00 - 19:30 25 April 2018
Where is British History Now? A Seminar Organized by the Modern British History Network with CIDRAL Over the past twenty years intellectual debate, politics and culture have questioned…

The Politics Department - GPE Seminar - Macroprudential Regimes and the Politics of Social Purpose

15:30 - 17:00 25 April 2018
Dear all The next GPE seminar will be on the 25th April. Here are the details. Andrew Baker University of Sheffield Macroprudential Regimes and the Politics of Social Purpose …

Camille Landais (LSE)

16:15 - 17:45 26 April 2018
Title and Abstract: TBC

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Katharina Keim (Manchester), "Gaster and the Samaritans"

14:00 - 16:00 26 April 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…

Tumours, translation, trials and tribulations: Developing serum based spectroscopic disease diagnostics

12:00 - 13:00 26 April 2018
Join us for this School of Chemistry research seminar, where Matthew Baker from the University of Strathclyde, will be presenting on developing serum based spectroscopic disease diagnostics.

Youth Mobilisation and the (anti)-Brexit Campaign: where next?

18:00 - 20:00 27 April 2018
Youth Mobilisation and the (anti)-Brexit Campaign: where next?

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Negotiating Digital Rights - Public Attitudes on Online Privacy and Targeting, at Home and at Work

15:00 - 16:30 1 May 2018
Professor Ariadne Vromen, University of Sydney Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Political Sociology in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney…

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