Lecture

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…

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…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Daniel M. Davis

19:30 - 21:00 17 January 2019
The Beautiful Cure, Professor Daniel M. Davis The immune system holds the key to human health. In The Beautiful Cure, leading immunologist Professor Daniel Davis describes the scientific…

Beyond Lecture Capture (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 23 January 2019
Beyond Lecture Capture

GDI Lecture Series with Drs Faul & Tchilingirian: Theorising multistakeholder partnerships as a space between fields: integrative and dissociative dynamics

16:30 - 18:00 30 January 2019
The Global Development Institute Lecture Series is pleased to present Moira V. Faul, Université de Genève, Switzerland and Jordan Tchilingirian, University of Bath, to talk about: Theorising…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (The case of Albaro Siza's archive)" by Professor Albena Yaneva

12:30 - 14:30 30 January 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy (The case of Albaro Siza's archive)" by Professor Albena Yaneva

Professor Stuart Holmes Inaugural Lecture & Wine Reception

15:30 - 17:30 1 February 2019
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Stuart Holmes (followed by wine reception in C1, Great Hall, Sackville Buidling) From Zeolites to Fuel Cells (and beyond): a career path through…

EAC Research Seminar: Sean Silver (Rutgers), ‘Is form a category mistake? Jane Austen's Mansfield Park’

17:00 - 18:30 6 February 2019
Sean Silver teaches the literature and culture of the British Enlightenment. Related interests include complex systems, the history of science, the origins of the museum, cognitive…

GDI Lecture Series: Developmental States with Professor Stephan Haggard

17:00 - 18:30 6 February 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to present Professor Stephan Haggard speaking on development states. The concept of the developmental state emerged to explain the rapid…

Historical and Contemporary: Plaster Monument Modernity - Lecture by Professor Mari Lending

02:30 - 16:00 6 February 2019
Mari Lending, Professor in architectural theory and history at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) will present "Historical and Contemporary: Plaster Monument Modernity",…

School of Law Annual Pankhurst Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 6 February 2019
This year's Pankhurst Lecture will be presented by Dame Anne Owers, former Chief Inspector of Prisons and now National Chair of the Independent Monitoring Boards Christabel Pankhurst…

Co-op Group CEO Steve Murrells to speak at the Annual Grigor McClelland lecture

17:15 - 19:30 7 February 2019
The lecture will be held at Alliance Manchester Business School on Thursday, 7 February. From leading the Co-op’s Food business to overseeing a number of retail acquisitions, as well…

EAC Research Seminar: Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam), ‘Of pride and joy no common rate’: Family, Finance and Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (1883)’

17:00 - 18:30 13 February 2019
Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam), ‘Of pride and joy no common rate’: Family, Finance and Jouissance in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester (1883)’

Flipping the classroom: using video for better prepared, more actively engaged students (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 13 February 2019
Flipping the classroom: using video for better prepared, more actively engaged students

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