Lectures and seminars

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 Samuel Ferguson Lecture: Professor Kathryn Tanner (Yale University) - ‘Grace and the Temporalities of Capitalism’

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 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.

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…

Leo Kaas (Goethe University Frankfurt)

16:15 - 17:45 12 March 2019
Macro seminar

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.

Prof Andrew Jones (University of Southampton) Making a Mark: Image and Process in Neolithic Britain and Ireland

17:00 - 18:00 12 March 2019
Using digital imaging techniques the Making a Markproject examined Neolithic decorated portable artefacts from three key regions (Southern England/East Anglia; the Irish Sea region;…

'Pieter Bruegel's Political Paintings' - Jamie Edwards

17:00 - 18:30 13 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Dr Jamie Edwards (Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies, University of Birmingham) will be presenting a paper entitled:…

D&E Cluster Seminar with Dr David Schoch: 'Political Astroturfing'

13 March 2019
Dr David Schoch is a Presidential Fellow in Sociology at the University of Manchester since September 2018. David Schoch is part of an international team of researchers, dedicated to…

Diana Cullell Teixidor (Liverpool) and Chris Perriam (Manchester): 'Spanish poetry and its audiences today'

17:00 - 18:30 13 March 2019
Part of the Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Research Seminar Series.

GPE Research Cluster with Dan Bailey: Greening the State: Quantitative Easing and state financing

15:00 - 16:30 13 March 2019
Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Dan Bailey's "Greening the State: Quantitative Easing and state financing" Dr Dan Bailey is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 13 March 2019
Heather McGregor, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Yasaman Sarabi, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University Dimitris Christopoulos, Edinburgh Business School,…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Daniela Caselli, 'The Modernist Child'

17:00 - 19:00 13 March 2019
The child is a familiar figure in Romantic and Victorian studies but is much less visible in early twentieth-century literature criticism. This lecture will argue that there is much…

“I got the impression that people who went to the pub had horns and a tail”: Narrative inheritance and intergenerational learning about alcohol in families

14:00 13 March 2019
As sociologists of kinship have argued, families are 'mnemonic communities': they are brought into being through the creation, telling and re-telling of memories and family stories.…

“Is it harmful to breathe this ash?” - Public health hazard assessment and protection in communities impacted by eruptions

13:00 - 14:00 13 March 2019
During volcanic eruptions, and their aftermaths, communities may be very concerned about inhaling fine-grained ash, which can be rich in the deleterious mineral crystalline silica.…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Vittorio Gerosa: Deliberative Democracy and the Co-Orginality Thesis

04:00 - 17:30 14 March 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Vittorio Gerosa's (Manchester) "Deliberative Democracy and the Co-Originality Thesis". Vittorio is a Doctoral Researcher at the University…

Sascha Becker (Warwick)

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

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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