Lectures and seminars

'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto and Calvino-Turcismus in Antwerp’s Dominican Church' - Adam Sammut

17:00 - 18:30 20 February 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Adam Sammut (PhD Candidate, Department of History of Art, University of York) will be presenting his paper: 'Guns and Rosaries: Lepanto…

CGP Research Cluster Doctoral Research Presentations

15:30 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for three presentations from University of Manchester Doctoral Candidates. Rahima Siddique: Homophobia, Sexual Perversity and Vulnerability: Framing…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: ‘Waste, Precarity and the Artwork in China’ led by Margaret Hillenbrand

13:00 - 15:00 20 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,…

CPPI Research Cluster with Dr Lucy Barnes: Social Policy in the UK

15:30 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr. Lucy Barnes' 'Social Policy in the UK'. Dr Barnes is an Associate Professor at University College London. Her research focuses on the…

Departmental Seminar: Ms Leonie Smith (Manchester) and Ms Penelope Orr (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 20 February 2019
Leonie Smith's Title *Epistemic self-defence: flipping the narrative of addressing epistemic injustice Leonie Smith's Abstract *In this paper I ask: when it comes to resisting epistemic…

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…

Grounding cognition in situated action and multimodal simulation

20 February 2019
Next DNEP External Seminar Professor Larry Barsalou, University of Glasgow Wednesday 20th February, 2019 13.00 - 14.00 Lecture Theatre C, Zochonis Building Hosted by Bo Yao

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 February 2019
Naim Bro Khomasi, University of Cambridge The impact of Kinship Networks on Party Formation and Civil War Alignments in Nineteenth-Century Chile Using social network analysis I map…

Morgan Centre seminar: Bringing writing and drawing back together (Manuel Joao Ramos)

11:00 - 13:00 20 February 2019
Anthropologist Manuel João Ramos will be joining us from the University Institute of Lisbon to talk about his parallel life as an illustrator and sketcher and his newly reissued book…

Preserving privacy through processing encrypted data

14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Data science seminar series and hosted by Dr Dirk Koch. Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) allows an interested party to evaluate…

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…

Can we predict clay coat distribution in subsurface reservoirs? Is it important?

18:00 - 19:00 21 February 2019
Sanem obtained her BSc degree in Geological Engineering from Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) in 2003. This was followed by MSc and PhD studies in Osmangazi University (Eskisehir,…

Centre for Biological Timing Seminar – Dr Nara Muraro

16:00 21 February 2019
The Centre for Biological Timing welcomes Dr Nara Muraro from the Instituto de Investigación en Biomedicina de Buenos Aires, who will be speaking on "The hyperpolarization-activated…

CTIS Seminar: Technical Translation in 19th-Century Japan: Historicising and Decentring Notions of Translation

14:00 - 15:30 21 February 2019
The social and material conditions under which translation was carried out in late nineteenth-century Japan differ radically from our contemporary norms. Consequently, the concept of…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Dwight Swanson (Nazarene Theological College), ‘Conflicting Eschatologies: Jesus and the Mahdi (Christian and Shi’a apocalyptic expectation)’

14:00 - 16:00 21 February 2019
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…

Inequalities in hearing and visual health

13:00 - 16:00 21 February 2019
You are invited to a free seminar on Inequalities in hearing and visual health, starting at 1pm with a free networking lunch. Hearing and vision difficulties are very common among older…

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

Quiver mutations, reflection groups and curves on punctured disc

15:00 21 February 2019
Mutations of quivers were introduced by Fomin and Zelevinsky in 2002 in the context of cluster algebras. For some classes of quivers, mutations can be realised using geometric or combinatorial…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Mr. Amin Ehteshami (University of California, Berkeley) ‘The Pivot to Canonization: Scripturalist Hermeneutics in Premodern Iran’

16:00 - 17:30 21 February 2019
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.

Seminar: “Mechano-Immunology” Exploring physical drivers of macrophage specification and activation by microenvironment-niche engineering and epigenomics

11:00 - 12:00 21 February 2019
Macrophages are unique in the sense that they perform their function under a variety of different physical environments. Macrophage-like microglia cells in the brain sense low ECM stiffness,…

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