Lectures and seminars

Brain state transitions in epileptic networks: optogenetic and imaging investigations - Professor Andrew Trevelyan

8 - 14 November 2018
Next in the DNEP External Seminar Series. Professor Andrew Trevelyan, Newcastle University Wednesday 14th November, 2018 1-2 p.m. Lecture Theatre D, Zochonis Building Brain state transitions…

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…

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…

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.…

Democracy and Rights - Which Role for Youth. A Lecture given by the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2018
The Business and Human Rights Catalyst at AMBS and Politics in the School of Social Sciences present: Democracy and Rights – Which Role for the Youth. A lecture delivered by Kate Gilmore,…

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…

China’s international relations and harmonious world: time, space and multiplicity in world politics - Dr Astrid Nordin, University of Lancaster

16:30 - 18:00 14 November 2018
The Manchester China Institute Evening Seminars Series 2018-2019 Dr Astrid Nordin University of Lancaster Wednesday, 14th November 2018, 4:30-6:00pm Common Room A, Whitworth Building…

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