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CIDRAL Public Lecture: Patrick O'Brien: 'Britain's Wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and their Contribution to the Consolidation of the First Industrial Revolution'

16:00 - 18:00 28 November 2018
This event is part of CIDRAL's Autumn 2018 programme in association with History and Economics and with financial assistance from The Manchester School (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679957).…

EAC Research Seminar: DOUGLAS CLARK (ENGLISH, MANCHESTER) AND EDWARD CLOUGH (AMERICAN STUDIES, MANCHESTER)

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2018
EAC Research Seminar Series, Autumn 2018 28 NOVEMBER, JO TAYLOR (MANCHESTER) 'DEEP MAPPING THE LAKE DISTRICT WITH LITERARY GIS' 5PM, SAM ALEX A7

GDI Lecture with Phil Woodhouse: How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth in Africa?

16:30 - 18:00 28 November 2018
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Prof Phil Woodhouse, Global Development Institute to discuss "How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth…

Inaugural Lecture - Professor Peter Oakes: "New Testament, Empire and Economics - From archaeology via audience lives to interpretation of texts."

17:00 - 18:00 28 November 2018
Economics offers a route into understanding the New Testament as a set of texts written for non-elite audiences in the first century Roman empire. “Let every person be subject to the…

Lecture Patrick K. O'Brien: Britain's Wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France and their Contribution to the Consolidation of the First Industrial Revolution

16:00 - 18:00 28 November 2018
Lecture by a leading economic historian

The Physiological Society R. Jean Banister Prize Lecture

13:00 - 14:00 28 November 2018
The R. Jean Banister Prize Lecture is one of The Physiological Society's prestigious prize lectures and was established in 2016 in memory of Professor (Rachel) Jean Banister (1917 -…

ACS on Campus

09:00 - 16:00 30 November 2018
ACS on Campus is bringing their best programming to the University of Manchester! Join us on November 30 for a day of scientific lectures, publishing talks, career panels and more!…

The Linnean Society: Irene Manton Lecture 2018

17:00 - 19:00 4 December 2018
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society will host the 2018 Irene Manton lecture at The John Rylands Library. The lecture celebrates and…

Anatomy of Failure: International 'Narcotic' Drug Control

16:30 - 18:30 5 December 2018
The 2018 UNODC World Drug Report cites record highs: in the cultivation of coca and opium poppy, in cocaine and heroin production, in the manufacture of synthetic drugs, in drug use,…

Colloquium: Progress in fusion reactor design

15:00 - 17:00 5 December 2018
Dr Elizabeth Surrey, Technology Programme Leader at Culham Centre for Fusion Technology, presented on progress in fusion reactor design at the first University of Manchester at Harwell…

DORA MARSDEN LECTURE: CATHERINE CLAY (NOTTINGHAM TRENT) '"MEN AND BOOKS" AND FEMALE CRITICS: TIME AND TIDE AND THE INTELLECTUAL WEEKLIES (1920-1939)

17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2018
5 DECEMBER, DORA MARSDEN LECTURE: CATHERINE CLAY (NOTTINGHAM TRENT) '"MEN AND BOOKS" AND FEMALE CRITICS: TIME AND TIDE AND THE INTELLECTUAL WEEKLIES (1920-1939)' 5PM, SAM ALEX A112

Engaging students: what we have learnt using Twitter, Facebook, Piazza and Blackboard Discussion Boards (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

13:00 - 14:00 5 December 2018
Engaging students: what we have learnt using Twitter, Facebook, Piazza and Blackboard Discussion Boards

Schuster Colloquium - Prof Mark Lancaster - Is New Physics Lurking in the Magnetic Interaction of a Muon?

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2018
The interaction of a muon's spin with a magnetic field defines its magnetic moment in terms of the gyromagnetic ratio, g. In the Dirac equation, g is exactly 2, but additional higher…

SEED Sixth Form Lecture: Glaciated landscapes: Changes in the world’s ice sheets and glaciers

16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2018
In this lecture, we will look at what defines current ice masses on Earth and how they have changed in the past. Over the last 2.6 million years, glaciers and continental-scale ice…

SEED Sixth Form Lecture: Service with a script: how can businesses improve the interpersonal skills and knowledge of their staff?

16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2018
Dr Miriam Firth will offer an insightful lecture regarding a topic within Management Leadership and Leisure. The lecture will offer data on service encounters in Leisure businesses.…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Tim O'Brien

19:30 - 21:00 6 December 2018
One Giant Leap: Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon By Professor Tim O’Brien July 2019 will mark fifty years since humans first set foot on another celestial body. In the run up…

"Architecture and the Politics of Materiality” by Professor Antoine Picon

14:30 10 December 2018 - 16:00 10 January 2019
"Architecture and the Politics of Materiality” by Professor Antoine Picon (Graduate School of Design, Harvard)

Professor Antoine Picon, Graduate School of Design, Harvard, "Architecture and the Politics of Materiality”

14:30 - 16:00 10 December 2018
Lecture "Architecture and the Politics of Materiality”

Aftershocks: The Armenian Earthquake and Humanitarianism at the End of the Cold War?

17:00 - 19:00 12 December 2018
On December 7 1988, an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale struck Armenia, killing an estimated 25,000 people, injuring 15,000, and devastating the cities of Spitak and Leninakan…

Understanding Animal Research

09:30 - 16:30 12 December 2018
Pupils are invited to find out about animal research at The University of Manchester as part of a special open day. We invite 45 A-level students (maximum 5 pupils per school) to show…

Public Lecture with Professor David Nutt – 'Not all in the mind – the contribution of brain science to modern psychiatry'

18:00 - 20:30 9 January 2019
Public Lecture with Professor David Nutt – 'Not all in the mind – the contribution of brain science to modern psychiatry' David will talk about how brain science is helping both professionals…

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