Lectures and seminars

CTIS Seminar: Evangelising 19th-Century Italy? Translation and the Transnational Migration of Cheap Religious Tracts

14:00 - 15:30 14 March 2019
Translation scholars have so far studied religious texts largely in relation to the transnationalisation of the Scriptures in the traditional book format. Religious publishing, however,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Revd. Dr. Mika Pajunen - ‘Models of Textual Development and the Dead Sea Scrolls‘

14:00 - 16:00 14 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…

Henry Box Brown Lecture: Darnell Hunt (University of California Los Angeles)

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2019
The 2019 Hollywood Diversity Report: Old Story, New Beginning Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of California,…

JRRI Annual Lecture 2019. Jenny Uglow: 'Walter Crane: Fairytales, Manchester and Utopian Socialism'

17:30 - 19:30 14 March 2019
The 2019 JRRI Annual Lecture is presented by historian and writer, Jenny Uglow. Walter Crane: Fairytales, Manchester and Utopian Socialism Walter Crane, Director of the Manchester…

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

Unlocking the secrets of slow slip using next-generation seismic experiments and IODP drilling at the north Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand

17:00 14 March 2019
Subduction plate boundary faults are capable of generating some of the largest earthquakes and tsunami on Earth, such as the 2011 T?hoku, Japan and the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquakes,…

Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research - Monday 18 March 2019

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2019
Scientific Seminar of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Research Date: Monday 18 March 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Katie Druce and Belay Birlie Yimer– “Waking…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Tom Grisaffi – University College London

16:00 - 18:00 18 March 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th March 2019 Dr Tom Grisaffi – University College London To Lead by Obeying: How Bolivia’s Coca Growers Reinvented Democracy At the turn…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series 2019

15:30 - 17:00 19 March 2019
Dr Karin Shmueli, Associate Professor at University College London will give a talk entitled MRI Susceptibility Mapping: What, Why and How? Applications mainly in the Brain

Vania Stavrakeva (LBS)

16:15 - 17:45 19 March 2019
Macro seminar

'Extra-Illustrating the Macklin Bible' - Naomi Billingsley

17:00 - 18:30 20 March 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Dr Naomi Billingsley (John Rylands Research Institute and Art History and Cultural Practices) will be delivering a paper entitled:…

Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University) "Price Customization and Targeting in Matching Markets"

13:30 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Abstract: Recent technologies enable matching intermediaries to engage in unprecedented levels of targeting, whereby matches finely depend on the agents' characteristics, but also favour…

CGP Research Cluster with Jess Gifkins: The practice of legitimacy in the UN Security Council: Debating Darfur

13:30 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Dr Jess Gifkins (University of Manchester). Dr Jess Gifkins' researches global governance in relation to questions of peace…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 20 March 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students once again! The club is providing a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural discussions on…

CPPI Research Cluster with Anna Sanders: The Impact of Gendered Policies on Women's Voting Behaviour: A Focus Group Analysis of the 2015 UK General Election'

15:30 - 17:00 20 March 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Anna Sanders' seminar on 'The Impact of Gendered Policies on Women's Voting Behaviour: A Focus Group Analysis of the 2015 UK General Election'.…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Thomas Uebel (Manchester)

15:00 - 17:00 20 March 2019
Title *A Puzzle about Other Minds in Early Ayer Abstract *Language, Truth and Logic (LTL) had its share of critics over the years but one particular oddity pertaining to it appears…

GDI Lecture Series: Agrarian crises, institutional innovation and gender: Can group farming provide an answer? with Prof Bina Agarwal

17:00 - 18:30 20 March 2019
The Global Development Institute and the Post Crash Economics Society is pleased to host Prof Bina Agarwal part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Agrarian crisis and institutional…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 March 2019
Xi Yang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Identifying Patent Risks in Technological Competition Based on Social Network Analysis Identifying patent risk is a crucial…

Multi-state models for observed and latent cognitive function in the older population

14:00 - 15:00 20 March 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Probability and Statistics seminar series. Due to the ageing population there is a growing interest in the statistical modelling of cognitive…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland: Galway), ‘The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing’

17:00 - 18:30 20 March 2019
Stachniewski Memorial Lecture

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