Campus visit/tour, Seminar

CGP Seminar with Roberta Holanda Maschietto: Grasping subjectivities of power in the analysis of peacebuilding

13:30 - 15:00 7 November 2018
Roberta Holanda Maschietto (University of Coimbra) speaks on grasping subjectivities of power in the analysis of peacebuilding. Roberta Holanda Maschietto is a post-doctoral researcher…

CI Film Club

15:00 7 November 2018
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from October! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural discussions…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar with Daniel Everett:'‘A Survey of the Semiotic Progression Towards Language in the Archaeological and Physiological Records'

13:00 - 15:00 7 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Daniel Everett (Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, Bentley University) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar entitled 'A…

D&E Cluster Roundtable: Applying for postdoctoral fellowships and grants

15:30 - 17:00 7 November 2018
Join Prof. Ed Fieldhouse, Dr. Rosie Shorrocks and Prof. Maria Sobolewska for a round-table event on applying for postdoctoral fellowships and grants. This event is aimed at early career…

Departmental Seminar: Professor Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington)

15:15 - 17:00 7 November 2018
Title *Ethics and Intergenerational Climate Extortion Abstract *This paper argues (i) that extortion is a clear threat in intergenerational relations, (ii) that the threat is manifest…

JMCE Seminar Series 2018-19 SEMESTER I - Speaker: Dr Rosa Maria Fernandez (University of Chester)

14:00 - 15:00 7 November 2018
Wednesday 7 November 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206 Speaker: Dr Rosa Maria Fernandez (University of Chester) Title: National Interests as Barriers for Sustainable Energy Transitions in Europe

Lessons from the smoldering ashes - three TSPO ligands, one post-mortem cohort, one result?

29 October - 8 November 2018
Next in the DNEP External Seminar Series - seminar by Dr. Cornelius Dornat, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College London. Wednesday…

MANCEPT Cluster Seminar with Fred Hjorthen: Humanitarian Intervention and Contextual Permissibility

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2018

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 7 November 2018
Mario L. Small, Harvard University Understanding Personal Networks: On the Limits of Big Data and the Perils of Common Sense When people seek emotional support, how do they decide…

Regimes of Exploitation and Inequalities

14:00 - 15:00 7 November 2018
The lecture will give an overview of the main issues addressed in the book Inequality and Democratic Egalitarianism (Manchester University Press, 2018) which I co-authored with Norman…

Serenity and strife: modernism and maternity in Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Forms’ - Kathryn Pallant

17:00 - 18:30 7 November 2018
As part of the Art History and Cultural Practices seminar series, Kathryn Pallant, PhD Candidate at the Centre for New Writing, The University of Manchester, will be discussing "Serenity…

Tracing fluid transfer across subduction zones using iron and zinc stable isotopes

13:00 - 14:00 7 November 2018
Our speaker is Dr Helen Williams from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Subduction zones are the main site of volatile element transfer between the…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Werner Sombart's "Modern Capitalism"'

10:00 - 12:00 8 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Dr Philipp Roesnner (Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Manchester) will lead a Key Ideas seminar on Werner Sombart's…

CTIS Seminar: "I will try to speak in German": Filip Müller’s Testimony to the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the Problem of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 8 November 2018
Filip Müller (1922-2013) was one of the key witnesses at the trial of former Auschwitz guards, held in Frankfurt 1963-65. A Slovak Jew who was deported on one of the early transports…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Roberta Mazza (Manchester), "Merchants in the Temple: The Contemporary Market in Biblical Manuscripts"

14:00 - 16:00 8 November 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…

Lives of Letters Seminar Series. Pictures and Postcards: Images and Letters

17:00 - 18:30 8 November 2018
The Lives of Letters Network presents 'Pictures and Postcards: Images and Letters'. Schedule: Dr Luke Uglow (Art History, Manchester): 'Drawing Letters: Ruskin at the Rylands Despite…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Rachel Muers, "The Un/Deserving Poor: Social Class and Theological Ethics"

16:00 - 17:30 8 November 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.

Toman Barsbai (St Andrews)

13:00 - 14:15 8 November 2018
Title and Abstract: TBC

Toman Barsbai (St Andrews)

13:00 - 14:15 8 November 2018
Applied Economics Seminar

‘Genres of popular economics in 1970s America: economic democracy, labour activism and the tax revolt,’ History Research Seminar: Dr. Tiago Mata

16:15 - 17:30 8 November 2018
Tiago Mata (UCL) ‘Genres of popular economics in 1970s America: economic democracy, labour activism and the tax revolt’

Medical News: Explorations in Text Mining, Digital Humanities, and the History of Medicine

02:00 - 17:00 9 November 2018
This informal workshop in association with DH@Manchester, is aimed at scholars interested in using digital humanities methods for historical research, focusing especially on text mining.…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Hannah Brown - Anthropology, University of Durham

16:00 - 18:00 12 November 2018
To be advised shortly

CMI Afternoon Seminar: Statistics and the Law - Prof Philip Dawid

15:00 - 16:15 13 November 2018
Speaker: Prof Philip Dawid, University of Cambridge Abstract: It might appear that the concerns of Statistics and those of Law have little common ground, but in fact both disciplines…

Commuting patterns and urban expansion of neighbourhoods in the Beijing metropolitan region: a spatial perspective - Professor Cecilia Wong, University of Manchester

12:00 - 14:00 13 November 2018
The Manchester China Institute Lunch Time Seminars Series 2018-2019 Professor Dr Cecilia Wong School of Environment, Education and Development - University of Manchester Tuesday…

‘Never listen to your sister!’ the story of Antibiotic on Antibiotic Drug Resistance: One student, one campus, one world

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2018
Dr Roger Harrison is co-founder and Chair of the university-student partnership ‘Action on Antibiotic Drug Resistance: One student, one campus, one world’. Taking a social movement…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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