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…

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…

Distance and online learning: challenges and rewards of developing online courses (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 14 November 2018
Distance and online learning: challenges and rewards of developing online courses

Dr. Niamh Thornton (University of Liverpool) 'Violence on Screen: Desecrated Bodies and Popular Imaginings of Mexico'

17:00 14 November 2018
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar.

EAC Research Seminar: RACHEL E. HOLMES (UCL) 'WHAT'S IN A SOURCE? SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL POETICS'

17:00 - 18:30 14 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 14 NOVEMBER, RACHEL E. HOLMES (UCL) 'WHAT'S IN A SOURCE? SHAKESPEARE'S LEGAL POETICS' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

GPE Seminar with Anne Engelhardt and Madelaine Moore: Materialist theories and analyses of contemporary social movements

15:00 - 16:30 14 November 2018
Anne Engelhardt (Kassel) and Madelaine Moore (Kassel/St Marys) discuss materialist theories and analyses of contemporary social movements. Anne Engelhardt's work focuses on Critical…

How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics with Lord Stern & Professor Himanshu

17:00 - 18:30 14 November 2018
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, LSE and Professor Himanshu, Jawaharlal Nehru University Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. Drawing on seven decades…

MANCEPT Cluster Seminar with Ben Colburn: Responsibility and socio-relational autonomy

16:00 - 17:30 14 November 2018
Dr Ben Colburn's main research interests are in political philosophy and ethics, with a particular emphasis on the nature and value of autonomy and its importance in liberal political…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 14 November 2018
David Schoch, University of Manchester Networks of Leveling Ties Social networks can be made of various kinds of ties, but (often implicit) assumptions embodied in network-analytic…

Promoting Physics Worldwide

15:00 - 17:00 14 November 2018
There is a significant untapped potential of physicists that come from developing countries. Strong young students may lack exposure to physics and physics research, they may not be…

Schuster Colloquium: Dr Kate Shaw

15:00 - 16:00 14 November 2018
// Promoting Physics Worldwide There is a significant untapped potential of physicists that come from developing countries. Strong young students may lack exposure to physics and physics…

The 100th Anniversary of the Occlusion Process in Extratropical Cyclones

13:00 - 14:00 14 November 2018
Our speaker is Professor David Schultz from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Manchester. On 18 November 1919, meteorologist Tor Bergeron was…

Ageing process in astrocytes and the progression of Alzheimer's disease like pathology

15 - 21 November 2018
As part of a British Council UK-Israel Lectureship project, Stuart Allan will be hosting Professor Dan Frenkel from Tel Aviv on Wednesday 21st November. Dan will be giving a seminar…

American Residential Energy Inequities Across Race, Class and Place

16:00 - 17:00 15 November 2018
The inability of households to afford adequate energy services is a major energy justice concern. Temporary utility bill assistance, improving residential energy efficiency, and adoption…

Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 15 November 2018
This year's Harry Street lecture will be delivered by Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central. She is an extremely active member of Parliament and served as a Shadow Education Secretary…

CTIS Seminar: Interpreting in the 21st Century: How the use of technologies has revolutionised the interpreting world

14:00 - 15:30 15 November 2018
Interpreting dates back from antiquity when interpreters were used as mediators between different languages and cultures. Until the mid-1970s, interpreting was occurring solely in a…

GDI Annual Lecture with the Rt Hon Helen Clark: Women - Equality - Power

17:30 - 19:00 15 November 2018
The Global Development Institute is pleased to present the Rt. Hon Helen Clark, former Administrator of UNDP and former Prime Minister of New Zealand to present the Global Development…

Lee Lozano: Breakdown - Jo Applin

17:00 - 18:30 15 November 2018
As part of the Art History and Cultural Practices seminar series, Dr Jo Applin will be discussing the work of Lee Lozano. Jo Applin is a Reader in the History of Art at The Courtauld…

Sefi Roth (LSE)

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

Sepsis and Antimicrobial Resistance: Unrecognised health challenges, and the movement of antibiotics resistance from local to global back to local

17:30 - 19:15 15 November 2018
An Annual Symposium with two informative presentations by experts on antimicrobial resistance. Professor Paul Dark will highlight the critical importance of effective antimicrobials,…

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