Seminar

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…

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,…

Seminar: Biochemical and biomechanical interplay in breast cancer progression

13:00 - 14:00 22 February 2019
The extra-cellular matrix (ECM) is a source of biochemical and biomechanical influences that direct cell proliferation and fate. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the interplay…

CANCELLED Global Health research in childhood neurodevelopment and neuroscience

12:00 - 17:00 25 February 2019
Due to ill health this lecture has been cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience. Professor Jonathan Green will be speaking about Global Health Research in childhood neurodevelopment…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Enrico Tronconi

11:00 - 12:00 25 February 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Enrico Tronconi from Politecnico di Milano on Monday 25 Feb, with…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Tom Boylston – University of Edinburgh

16:00 - 18:00 25 February 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 25th February 2019 Dr Tom Boylston – University of Edinburgh “ Religion as a Problem of Distraction : Ecologies of Attention in Addis Ababa”…

Manchester Neuroimaging news exchange

15:30 26 February 2019
This meeting will be an opportunity for news exchange/update on what is happening in the Manchester Neuroimaging community

Petr Sadlacek (Oxford)

16:15 - 17:45 26 February 2019
Macro seminar

'Home as a Site of Longing: Nazgol Ansarinia's Living Room (2005)' - Janelle Hixon

17:00 27 February 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Janelle Hixon (PhD Candidate, Art History and Cultural Practices) will be delivering a paper entitled: 'Home as a Site of Longing:…

Bert Sundström: 'What's going on in Russia and the World: the RT reality or REAL reality?'

16:30 - 18:00 27 February 2019
Moscow Correspondent for SVT (Swedish Public Service Broadcaster) Bert Sundström discusses his own experiences as a journalist in Russia, the role of Russian State propaganda and media…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘The Humanities and Professional Education: Fables and Fallacy’ led by Sander Gilman (Emory)

13:00 - 15:00 27 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 lead a…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 27 February 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again from February! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

Exploring the atmosphere of Mars with the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission

13:00 - 14:00 27 February 2019
Searching for signs of life beyond the Earth is a one of the primary aims of space exploration. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) is a mission to Mars, which seeks to help answer…

GPE Research Cluster with Johnna Montgomerie: Narrating the search for a Methodology of the Household

15:00 - 16:30 27 February 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Johnna Montgomerie's "Narrating the search for a Methodology of the Household" Dr Johnna Montgomerie is a Reader in International Political…

Maria del Pilar Blanco (Oxford): 'The Queer Art of Modernismo: Mexico’s Revista Moderna (1898-1911)'

17:00 - 18:30 27 February 2019
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Uni Place_2.217

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 27 February 2019
Matteo Valleriani, The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science The Sphere. A multilayer network approach to knowledge evolution in history The lecture shows the ongoing development…

CoDE Seminar: Neighbours – more than just good friends? Understanding the neighbour as a contemporary socio-spatial relationship

12:00 - 13:00 28 February 2019
As Bulmer noted in his opening to his book of Abrahams’ 1970s work on neighbours, ‘everyone […] has neighbours. Social relations between neighbours are a significant form of social…

GLEN seminar (together with Geometry/Topology/Math. Physics Seminar)

12:00 - 18:00 28 February 2019
GLEN seminar

Miguel Almunia (CUNEF)

13:00 - 14:15 28 February 2019
Applied Economics Seminar

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum