Campus visit/tour, Seminar

Illicit drug user support, stigma and urban effects: debating injecting and consumption rooms in South Western Sydney

13:00 - 14:30 11 September 2018
The wide consumption of illicit drugs such as heroin and crystal methamphetamine results in ongoing division about whether these practices are criminal law or public health matters.…

Seminar - Lymphocytes: function and migration in complex environment

12:00 - 13:00 11 September 2018
Leukocytes are immune cells that move through the whole organism for protection against pathogens. Although all mammalian cells require integrins to migrate on 2D, observations in 3D…

Centre for Biological Timing Seminar – Professor Seth Blackshaw

14:30 - 15:30 14 September 2018
The Centre for Biological welcomes Professor Seth Blackshaw from Johns Hopkins University, who will be speaking on 'Building the hypothalamus: from cells to circuits' All are welcome.

Ray Boot-Handford retirement seminar

16:00 - 18:00 14 September 2018
Ray Boot-Handford recently retired from the University of Manchester and will give a talk on his career and it's many highlights. His seminar will be followed by celebratory drinks in the Smith lounge.

Politics CPPI and Democracy & Elections Seminar - Prof Francesca Gains

16:00 - 17:30 19 September 2018
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 ‘Tackling Violence Against Women: Gender, Actors and Institutions at The Local Level’ Prof. Francesca Gains 4:00 - 5:30pm, Hanson Room (HumBridge…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Juan del Nido - Uber and What The People Want: The Populist Persuasion of Algorithmic Reason

16:00 - 18:00 24 September 2018
When Uber arrived in Buenos Aires in 2016, middle class urbanites understood the labor of its algorithms through a realpolitik of empowerment and popular expertise. A rhetoric of “What…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Stephen Ingram

15:00 - 17:00 26 September 2018
Title *Moral Intuitionism and the Cooperative A Priori Abstract *The non-naturalist moral realist must explain how moral beliefs can be epistemically justified, for they take the truths…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 26 September 2018
Nick Crossley, University of Manchester Exploring and Explaining a Two-Mode Core/Periphery Structure in a Musicking Network In this presentation I will discuss two studies, both substantively…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Paul Middleton (Chester), "The ‘Noble Death’ of Judas Iscariot: Reconsidering Suicide in the Bible and Early Christianity "

14:00 - 16:00 27 September 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Andrew Crome (MMU), “Cosplay in the Pulpit and Ponies at Prayer: Christian Faith and Lived Religion in Fan Culture”

16:00 - 17:30 27 September 2018
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.

Bits and Pieces: Secrets of a Digital World - Dr. James Grimes

18:00 - 19:30 1 October 2018
Registration for the 2018 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Lecture is now open. Please note that registration will close at 5pm on Wednesday 26th September 2018, and we are unable to accommodate…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Zoe Cormack - African Studies, University of Oxford

16:00 - 18:00 1 October 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 1st October 2018 Dr Zoe Cormack – African Studies Centre – The University Of Oxford Life and death in a UN ‘Protection of Civilians’ site in war-time…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Pseudo OLS for linkage-data regression by Prof Li-Chun Zhang

15:00 - 16:15 2 October 2018
Speaker: Prof Li-Chun Zhang Abstract: Unless a unique identifier exists for this purpose, linkage of separate datasets will generate errors that can cause bias of the subsequent analysis,…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 3 October 2018
Ella Guest, University of Manchester (Anti-)Echo Chamber Participation: Examining Online Contributor Activity Beyond the Chamber The existence of echo chambers as a phenomenon in…

The urban imaginary in ruins: video games and the future-present feedback loop

14:00 - 15:00 3 October 2018
Urban ruins have come to dominate the conception of the modern city to such an extent that in 2014 Cairns and Jacobs wondered whether such ruins are “too full of multiple, hyper-meanings…

'Food, Religion & Communities in Early Modern Europe,' History Research Seminar: Dr. Chris Kissane

16:15 - 17:30 4 October 2018
Chris Kissane (LSE) ‘Kitchens & Neighbours: Food, Religion & Communities in Early Modern Europe?’ followed by a comment by Rachel Winchcombe (History).

CMB&RM seminar: Bioscaffolds and the Extracellular Matrix Direct Cell Differentiation

11:00 - 12:00 4 October 2018
The tissue microenvironment is a major contributor to determining a cell’s fate and a key component of the microenvironment is the extracellular matrix (ECM). Bioscaffolds that mimic…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Peter Oakes (Manchester), "Revelation 17.1-19.10: A Prophetic Vision of the Destruction of Rome"

14:00 - 16:00 4 October 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…

Let's Talk about the 'S' Word! Supporting the Sexuality and Intimacy Needs of Care Home Residents

13:00 - 16:00 4 October 2018
Basic human needs relating to sexuality, intimacy, and relationships are important for adults of all ages. However, for older people living in care homes, even the simple, intimate…

Practices of sensory attention in multi-species ethnography: how can we become more sensitive empirical researchers of the nonhuman?

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2018
Lunchtime Seminar Series: Practices of sensory attention in multi-species ethnography: how can we become more sensitive empirical researchers of the nonhuman? There has been an increasing…

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