Campus visit/tour, Seminar

'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…

Campus visit for school and college groups

14:00 - 15:30 6 March 2019
Teachers of post-16 students may bring groups of their pupils to visit The University of Manchester campus, in order to get a taste of university life and experience first-hand the…

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…

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…

University Accommodation Tours

09:30 - 13:00 6 March 2019
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours* of some of our halls of residence on most Wednesday mornings from November until the end of March, between…

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…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Fleur Houston - ‘Asylum Crisis? An Examination of Isa 16.1-5’

14:00 - 16:00 7 March 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…

Emanuele Bracco (Lancaster)

13:00 - 14:15 7 March 2019
Applied Economics Seminar

George Adamson 'The co-production of El Niño and society: a history of the El Niño Southern Oscillation’

7 March 2019
Thursday 7 March - 4:15pm, Sam Alex A113. George Adamson (King's College, London)‘The co-production of El Niño and society: a history of the El Niño Southern Oscillation’.

Targeting the Hyaluronan-Based Extracellular Matrix to Reverse Neurodegenerative Disease

13:00 - 14:00 7 March 2019
The glycosaminoglycan hyaluronan (HA) is elevated in the central nervous system (CNS) following a number of insults including neurodegenerative diseases. We have found that this HA…

The (in)security of implantable medical devices

14:00 - 15:00 8 March 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Data science seminar series and hosted by Dr Mustafa Mustafa. Pacemakers vulnerable for hacking'. 'Fatal flaws found in medical…

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Paolo Fornasiero

11:00 - 12:00 11 March 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Paolo Fornasiero from Università degli studi di Trieste, with a talk…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Patrick O'Hare (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 11 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 11th March 2019 Dr Patrick O’Hare – University of Manchester Manchester Seminar Abstract “Rubbish belongs to the poor”: Hygienic Enclosure and…

Border People - A documentary by Dr Elena Barabantseva

12:00 - 14:00 12 March 2019
How does the border enter and shape a family life? What does it mean to the people who cross the border for marriage? This film juxtaposes a personal story of Meihua, a Vietnamese Yao…

Fabiola Creed - ‘The Body Programme for the Positive Woman’: Sunbed Consumers and Affluence (Liverpool, 1978-1980)'

13:00 - 14:00 12 March 2019
As individuals in the twenty-first century, we often assume that current stereotypes of the sunbed user (i.e., working class young women and homosexual men) match the same demographics…

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Sophie Roborgh and Nat O'Grady

16:00 - 18:00 12 March 2019
HCRI celebrates its 10 year anniversary with a rich programme of events. Join us for our research seminar series featuring current and alumni colleagues, and current and alumni postgraduate…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 12 March 2019
Dr Paul Mullins will give a talk entitled Towards a theory of fMRS: Theoretical and practical issues.

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