Seminar

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

CTIS Seminar: Translator Styles - Do they exist and do they matter in the digital age?

14:00 - 15:30 22 November 2018
Translation is a complex cognitive activity and – like any other human activity – is characterised by individuality and diversity. Do translators differ in the way they actually translate?…

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…

From hand-dug wells to present day: the history and technology of drilling and well stimulation

17:00 - 18:00 22 November 2018
This week's AAGP speaker is Professor Jonathan Craig, Senior Vice President, Exploration Strategies & Professional Areas, ENI The horizontal & multi-lateral wells and high-pressure…

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Matthias Revers, "Who Can Say What, About Whom, and How? The Informal Regulation and Politics of Speech"

16:00 - 17:30 22 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.

‘Sunil Janah, the famine holocaust, and the development of a modern ocular aesthetic 1943-56,’ History Research Seminar: Dr. Emilia Terracciano

16:15 - 17:30 22 November 2018
Emilia Terracciano (Ruskin School of Art, Oxford) ‘Sunil Janah, the famine holocaust, and the development of a modern ocular aesthetic 1943-56’

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Rina Arya - Art and Communication, University of Huddersfield

16:00 - 18:00 26 November 2018
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 26th November 2018 Professor Rina Arya - The University Of Huddersfield The significance Of Purity Rites In The Cultural Appropriation Of Hindu…

Digital Trust and Security Guest Lecture Series - Lucas Cordeiro

13:00 - 14:30 28 November 2018
In the last two decades, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used in various military and civil applications, such as armed attacks, training targets, aerial surveillance, journalism,…

Dr Ilya Yablokov (Leeds University) will present his new book "Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World".

16:15 - 17:30 28 November 2018
Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War, but Russian politics are rife…

Dr Patricia Novillo-Corvalán (Kent): 'Contradictory Solidarity: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo, and South-South Cultural Relations'

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2018
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies seminar series. Venue: Uni Place 3.209. Contradictory Solidarity: Tagore, Victoria Ocampo, and South-South Cultural Relations…

GPE Seminar with Genevieve LeBaron: Explaining Patterns of Labour Protection and Exploitation in the Global Tea Supply Chain with Evidence from India

15:00 - 16:30 28 November 2018
Genevieve LeBaron (University of Sheffield) speaks on explaining patterns of labour protection and exploitation in the global tea supply chain with evidence from India. Genevieve…

Inke Näthke seminar: From molecule to tissue dynamics and beyond: the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli protein in epithelial biology

11:00 - 12:00 28 November 2018
Professor Inke Näthke established key functions of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) protein beyond its role in Wnt signalling. APC is the major tumour suppressor for cancers in…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 28 November 2018
Christina Prell, University of Maryland Seeing the forest and the trees: Facilitating participatory network planning in environmental governance - “Who’s in the Network?” The challenges…

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