Lecture

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

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Margaret Hillenbrand (Oxford): ‘Public Secrecy in Contemporary China: Ducking the Firewall’

17:00 - 19:00 19 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Margaret Hillenbrand (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Wadham College,…

EAC Research Seminar: Rosie Knight (Sheffield) 'Infant-feeding and Inequality: Motherhood, Race, and Breastfeeding in the Antebellum South'

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
Rosie Knight (Sheffield) 'Infant-feeding and Inequality: Motherhood, Race, and Breastfeeding in the Antebellum South'

GDI Lecture Series: Blood Bricks: Untold Stories of Modern Slavery and Climate Change from Cambodia with Prof Katherine Brickell

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Prof Kate Brickell as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Blood Bricks: Untold Stories of Modern Slavery and Climate Change…

Yemen: Response and Representation of a War

16:00 - 18:00 20 February 2019
During the 4 years since the launch of the Saudi-led coalition offensive in Yemen in March 2015, humanitarians and observers from the media have repeatedly used phrases worded to garner…

Manchester Medieval Society Seminar: Anke Bernau, 'Late medieval knots: Pain, Delight, Mystery'

18:00 - 19:30 21 February 2019
Late medieval knots: Pain, Delight, mystery Dr Anke Bernau Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature and Culture The University of Manchester Thursday 21 February 2019, 6.00pm Samuel Alexander Building, A116

The 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Clare Chambers, Against Marriage

23 February 2019
The Philosophy Department at the University of Manchester is proud to present the 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Professor Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge),"Against Marriage: An…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sander Gilman (Emory): ‘The Humanities Make You a Better Person! A Foundational Myth About Higher Education’

17:00 - 19:00 26 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Sander Gilman (University Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University) will deliver…

Package Factories: Warehouses as New places For Contemporary Working-class (David Gaborieau)

17:30 26 February 2019
The backstage of contemporary capitalism is a vast logistical network through which goods and materials pass from one end of the planet to the other. In order to produce this circulation,…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isonometric and Oblique Drawings" by Dr. Ray Lucas

12:30 - 16:30 27 February 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isonometric and Oblique Drawings" by Dr. Ray Lucas

Governing mega-science projects: The Square Kilometre Array journey from "grassroots" to the world's largest radio telescope

12:00 - 13:00 1 March 2019
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope with eventually over one square kilometre (one million square metres)…

"The Many Lives of Leonardo" - Luke Uglow

14:00 - 15:00 2 March 2019
Dr Luke Uglow, Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester will give an illustrated lecture about the legends and myths of the artist’s afterlife from the 16th to 21st century.…

Using a portable luminescence reacher

17:00 - 18:00 5 March 2019
Dr Abi Stone (University of Manchester) will be giving a talk on 'Using a portable luminescence reader: Making sand glow out in the field, or back in the lab, to unravel site stratigraphies…

Bragg Lecture 2019: Prof Rashid Sunyaev

15:00 - 16:00 6 March 2019
What is the Bragg Lecture? Sir Lawrence Bragg was Langworthy Professor at the University of Manchester from 1919 to 1937. From 2016, the School of Physics and Astronomy has presente…

GDI Lecture Series: Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa with Franklin Obeng-Odoom

17:00 - 18:30 6 March 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Associate Professor Franklin Obeng-Odoom as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Property, institutions, and social stratification…

X-Ray and Microwave Cosmology: Synergy and Competition What can we expect from SRG/eRosita and new ground-based microwave telescopes?

15:00 - 17:30 6 March 2019
Our Universe is fled by cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) which is extremely isotropic and has an excellent blackbody spectrum at temperature 2.726 Kelvin, with no departures…

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