Lectures and seminars

After the cut: Re-cutting the seventeenth-century Mughal miniature painting - Fatema Abdoolcarim

15 October 2018
As part of the Art History and Cultural Practices seminar series, Fatema Abdoolcarim delivering a seminar entitled: "After the cut: Re-cutting the seventeenth-century Mughal miniature…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professor James Thompson - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 15 October 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 15th of October 2018 Professor James Thompson University of Manchester Grandchildren of Hiroshima and the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Assume nothing. Benchmarking the numeracy levels of UK social science undergraduates

15:00 - 16:15 16 October 2018
Speaker: Paul Foss, National Numeracy Abstract: Social science undergraduate students typically do not see themselves as requiring data skills. Many new entrants to higher education…

Rumours of a great stone: Archaeological Exploration and Settlement Development at Tell Nabasha

17:00 16 October 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar

Departmental Seminar: Dr Catharine Abell

15:00 - 17:00 17 October 2018
Title *Fictional Entities Abstract *Do fictional entities exist? I argue that they do. They are social objects. I draw on theories of social objects to identify their existence and…

Dirac's Dream: The Quest for the Magnetic Monopole

15:00 - 17:00 17 October 2018
The elusive magnetic monopole is arguably the most important particle that has yet to be discovered. We shall follow the search for the monopole from its Victorian beginnings until…

DNEP External Seminar Series (Lecture 2) with speaker Professor Mark van Rossum

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2018
Seminar No. 2 in the DNEP External Seminar Series Your host is Rasmus Petersen and your speaker is Mark van Rossum who will be giving a talk entitled 'Memory consolidation in man and…

How Brits Feel and Think about China, and why: Preliminary Survey Findings - Professor Peter Gries, University of Manchester

16:30 - 18:00 17 October 2018
The Manchester China Institute Evening Seminars Series 2018-2019 Professor Peter Gries Manchester China Institute - University of Manchester Wednesday, 17th October 2018, 4:30-6:00pm…

JMCE Seminar Series 2018-19 SEMESTER I - peaker: Dr. Kathryn Simpson (Manchester Metropolitan University)

14:00 - 17:00 17 October 2018
? Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206 Speaker: Dr. Kathryn Simpson (Manchester Metropolitan University) Title: Making Sense of Brexit – The Political and Policy…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Amanda Bamford and Andrew Gray

19:30 17 October 2018
Over the past 20 years Manchester Museum at The University of Manchester has been pioneering new ways to help conserve some of the rarest amphibians on the planet. Through establishing…

Making Sense of Brexit: The Political & Policy Implications for the UK’s Devolved Administrations (Dr. Kathryn Simpson - MMU)

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2018
Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) Seminar

Manchester Centre for Health Psychology Mini-symposium - Reaching previously unreachable populations for cancer prevention: creative strategies from two CRUK-funded studies

10:30 - 13:30 17 October 2018
Colleagues in the School of Health Sciences are invited to a half-day seminar on 17th October. The aim of the event is to disseminate and discuss our recently completed CRUK-funded…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 17 October 2018
Carl Nordlund, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University The anatomy of integration: mapping the networks of inter-ethnic family formations in Sweden, 1968-2012 Looking…

CoDE Seminar: #YourAverageMuslim: Ruptural Geopolitics of Muslim Women and Labour Activity in the British Cultural Industries

12:00 - 13:00 18 October 2018
Muslima lifestyle media and fashion are reshaping global media, leisure and recreation, and creating new spaces of identification and belonging in predominantly Western-liberal societies.…

Manson Memorial Lecture: Prof Francis Watson (Durham), "What to Do with Judas: Some Early Proposals"

14:00 - 16:00 18 October 2018
The Centre for Biblical Studies endowed annual lectureship. T.W. Manson was Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at Manchester from 1936 until his death in 1958. Each…

Prof Kilian Muniz Seminar, title to be confirmed

14:00 - 17:00 18 October 2018
Seminar by Prof Kilian Muniz from Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia

Thilo Huning (York)

13:00 - 14:15 18 October 2018
How Britain Unified Germany: Endogenous Trade Costs, and the Formation of a Customs Union Abstract: We analyze the foundation of the German Zollverein as an example how geography…

‘The Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,’ History Research Seminar: Dr. Christopher Bannister

16:15 - 17:30 18 October 2018
Christopher Bannister (Manchester) ‘The Judeo-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939’ followed by a comment by Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío (Manchester Metropolitan University).

MANCHESTER READS FRANKENSTEIN: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM

17:00 - 18:30 22 October 2018
22 OCTOBER, MANCHESTER READS FRANKENSTEIN A MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM W/ JENNY BRYAN (CLASSICS), DAVID KIRBY (SCIENCE COMMUNICATION), SCOTT MIDSON (RELIGIONS & THEOLOGY), HOLLY MORSE…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Ammara Maqsood - Anthropology, UCL

16:00 - 18:00 22 October 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 22nd of October 2018 Dr Ammara Maqsood University College London The social life of rumors: uncertainty in everyday encounters between the military,…

Centre for Primary Care Seminar Series: Dr Ben Brown 'Using Theory to Optimise Clinical Performance Feedback'

13:00 - 14:00 23 October 2018
Centre for Primary Care, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care Seminar Series Dr Benjamin Brown - Centre for Health Informatics / Centre for Primary…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Dynamic Bayesian Adjustment of Anticipatory (Current-time) Covariates: Disentangling Causation and Misclassification - Prof Gebrenegus Ghilagaber

15:00 - 16:15 23 October 2018
Speaker: Professor Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Head of the Department of Statistics, Stockholm University, Sweden Abstract: Anticipatory covariates, such as educational level and social…

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