Lectures and seminars

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)…

"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.…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Sohini Kar – London School of Economics

16:00 - 18:00 4 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 4th March 2019 Dr Sohini Kar – London School of Economics “ Enfolding the Poor : Microfinance and the Mediation of Risk in India” Over the past…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 17:00 5 March 2019
Dr Nicola Ray, Lecturer in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University will give a talk entitled Neuroimaging metrics of cholinergic system degeneration for understanding neurodegenerative…

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…

'Spratt’s Flaps: Using Books and Learning Midwifery in the Early Nineteenth Century' - Rebecca Whiteley

17:00 - 18:30 6 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Dr Rebecca Whiteley (The John Rylands Research Institute), will be presenting a paper entitled: 'Spratt’s Flaps: Using Books and…

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…

CGP Research Cluster with Nadine Voelkner: Riding the Shi: From Infection Barriers to the Microbial City

14:30 - 16:00 6 March 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Nadine Voelkner's 'Riding The Shi: From Infection Barriers To The Microbial City'. Nadine Voelkner is an Assistant Professor in International…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘On Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement’ led by Zoë Svendsen (Cambridge)

13:00 - 15:00 6 March 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Zoë Svendsen (Lecturer in Drama and Performance, University of Cambridge) will lead a key ideas seminar…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 6 March 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…

CPPI Research Cluster with Prof. Kevin Morgan: Leader Personality Cults

15:30 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster with Prof. Kevin Morgan for the seminar 'Leader Personality Cults'. Kevin Morgan is a Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at the University…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Jeroen Smid (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Title *The Logic Behind Quine's Criterion of Ontological Commitment Abstract *In this talk I first explains why Quine took first-order classical logic to be the only language in which…

DNEP External Seminar Series - next talk - Wednesday 6th March

6 March 2019
The next DNEP External Seminar will be hosted by Deborah Talmi. It will take place on Wednesday 6th March, 13.00 - 14.00, Lecture Theatre C, Zochonis Building Speaker: Dr. Pascale…

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…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 6 March 2019
Mark McCann, University of Glasgow The STis and Sexual Health – STASH study: process evaluation of a peer supporter intervention to improve adolescent sexual health Young people in…

Morgan Centre seminar: ‘You need a map not a stopwatch’: Towards a relational interpretation of busyness (Clare Holdsworth)

15:30 - 17:00 6 March 2019
Busyness is a current popular obsession. Claims that everyone is busy with too much to do and not enough time have considerable popular and academic support. At both work and home people…

Nation Branding in Taiwan - A Grassroots Perspective by Dr Adina Zemanek

12:00 - 14:00 6 March 2019
My presentation will start from discussing nation branding projects coordinated by the R.O.C. Tourism Bureau against the larger background of changes in cultural policies since the…

Verifiable autonomy and responsible robotics

14:00 - 15:00 6 March 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Intelligence and autonomy seminar series and hosted by Professor Angelo Cangelosi. Robots will increasingly make their own decisions…

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…

CTIS Seminar: Translators as ‘Committed People Helping Others’: Responsibilization and the Role of For-Profit Institutions in Framing Discourses on Volunteer Translators

14:00 - 15:30 7 March 2019
Increasing global connectivity and transnational mobility of people and commodities have underlined the importance of translation taking place in institutional settings. Within Translation…

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