Lectures and seminars

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…

Biomass Energy with CCS: unlocking negative emissions

13:00 - 14:00 20 November 2018
There is growing and significant dependence on biomass energy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) in future greenhouse gas emission scenarios in global integrated assessment models.…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mouri Yoshitaka: 'Lukewarm Nationalism: The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Social Media and Affective Communities'

16:00 - 18:00 20 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme. Mouri Yoshitaka (Professor in Sociology and Cultural Studies, Tokyo University of Arts) will deliver a public lecture entitled…

CMI Afternoon Seminar: How do voters perceive and interpret the national economy? - Dr Martin Bisgaard

15:00 - 16:15 20 November 2018
Speaker: Dr Martin Bisgaard, Aarhus University, Denmark Abstract: An abstract will be available closer to the date of the seminar. Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45 in 2.07. Join us…

Curating Celts: views from an exhibition

17:00 20 November 2018
Manchester Centre for Archaeology and Egyptology Research Seminar

EAC Research Seminar Series: BILL SCHWARZ (QMUL) 'STUART HALL'S LEGACY'

17:15 - 18:30 20 November 2018
20 NOVEMBER, BILL SCHWARZ (QMUL) 'STUART HALL'S LEGACY' 5:15PM, SAM ALEX A101

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI

16:00 - 18:00 20 November 2018
HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate…

Morgan Centre seminar on intergenerational support and housing in Poland

15:00 - 16:30 20 November 2018
Mateusz Halawa, Marta Olco?-Kubicka To help the daughter in her mortgage: Practices of intergenerational support among Warsaw’s young homebuyers In Radom, a city 60 miles from Warsaw…

TurningPoint Lunch & Learn

12:00 - 14:30 20 November 2018
Later this month we're having a TurningPoint Lunch and Learn session that we'd like to invite you to. The Lunch and Learn session is a chance to increase knowledge of what TurningPoint…

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

17:00 21 November 2018
Fatema Abdoolcarim, PhD Candidate with The Center for New Writing and Art History and Cultural Practices at The University of Manchester will be delivering her research paper entitled…

Alleviating anxiety and cultivating care: Young trans people in the Family Court of Australia

13:30 21 November 2018
Dr Senthorun Raj, Keele University The distress and anxiety faced by young trans(gender) people generates varied social, medical, and legal concerns. In Australia, minors have had…

CGP Seminar with Maja Zehfuss: Did Merkel open the border? Migration and the Fantasy of Control

15:30 - 17:00 21 November 2018
Maja Zehfuss (University of Manchester) speaks on migration and the fantasy of control. Maja Zehfuss' work centres on the topics of war, ethics, the idea of humanity, vulnerability,…

CI Film Club

15:00 21 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…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Marie Guillot (Essex)

15:00 - 17:00 21 November 2018
Title *TBC Abstract *TBC

EAC Research Seminar: SARAH RAFF (POMONA COLLEGE) 'MANSFIELD PARK’S GUARDIANS AND THE ERRANT DELEGATES OF MEASURE FOR MEASURE'

17:00 - 18:30 21 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 21 NOVEMBER, SARAH RAFF (POMONA COLLEGE) 'MANSFIELD PARK’S GUARDIANS AND THE ERRANT DELEGATES OF MEASURE FOR MEASURE' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

JMCE Seminar Series - Dr. Rachel Minto (University of Cardiff)

14:00 - 15:00 21 November 2018
Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00 @ University Place, 6.206 Speaker: Dr. Rachel Minto (University of Cardiff) Title: Re-wiring European Networks post-Brexit: Continuity and change from a multi-level perspective

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2018
Isabel Raabe, Maths skills and confidence - What can explain the gendered mismatch? While girls and boys perform similarly well in maths, girls have on average lower confidence in…

Professor Craig Brandist, University of Sheffield: "Soviet Indology, Socialism and the 'Buddhist Revival': Two Radical Indian intellectuals in the USSR 1917-1940"

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2018
The paper will focus on the work of two Indian socialist intellectuals: Dharmanand Kosambi (1876-1947, father of the founder of Indian Marxist historiography, D.D. Kosambi) and Rahul…

Re-wiring European Networks post-Brexit: Continuity and change from a multi-level perspective (Dr. Rachel Minto - University of Cardiff)

14:00 - 15:00 21 November 2018
The Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) Seminar Series

The biogeochemistry of glaciers and ice sheets on Earth: lessons for Mars

13:00 - 14:00 21 November 2018
Our speaker is Dr Jon Telling from the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University. Coffee and tea will be available after the seminar in the first floor foyer of the Williamson Building.

Arnaud Chevalier (Royal Holloway)

13:00 - 14:15 22 November 2018
Applied Economics Seminar

CoDE Seminar: White Lines: Race, Place and Belonging in the Post-Industrial Periphery

12:00 - 13:00 22 November 2018
The talk focuses upon young people and everyday forms of belonging in ‘post-Brexit’ Britain. It is argued that some of the ideas surrounding superdiversity and everyday multiculturalism…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof Loveday Alexander (Sheffield), "Social Networks, Legal Aliens, and the Shape of the Church in Acts"

14:00 - 16:00 22 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…

Impact and benefits of treating hearing and vision problems for people living with dementia

13:00 - 16:00 22 November 2018
Hearing and vision impairments cause difficulties with daily living activities for people living with dementia and impact on communication. The SENSE-Cog Sensory Intervention is a…

International Men’s Day: Prostate Cancer: Bench to Bedside

14:00 - 16:00 22 November 2018
Prostate Cancer: Bench to Bedside 2.00-3.00 Professor Simon MacKay (Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences) 3.00-3.15 Dr Debayan…

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