Lectures and seminars

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”…

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…

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

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,…

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…

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

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…

CTIS Seminar: 'A Splendid Innovation’: The Invention of Subtitling in the US and UK

14:00 - 15:30 28 February 2019
This paper draws on two ongoing research projects: a British-Academy-funded project on British women subtitlers of the 1930s and 1940s, and a larger book-length project on the history…

Depositional setting of Mesoproterozoic organic-rich mudstones: Roper Group, McArthur Basin, northern Australia

17:00 - 18:00 28 February 2019
AAPG Student Chapter Seminar Series

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Katie Edwards (The University of Sheffield)

14:00 - 16:00 28 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…

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

Tyndall Manchester Seminar by Dr Rebecca Willis

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2019
Political support is essential to climate action. But how do politicians think about climate, and how do they decide whether to speak up or act? At this session, I will discuss the…

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

09:00 - 15:00 1 March 2019
GLEN seminar

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)…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum