Lectures and seminars

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mark Payne (Chicago): 'Occupation and Mentation in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction'

17:00 - 19:00 2 April 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Mark Payne (Professor of Classics, University of Chicago) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Occupation…

Colloquium: Machine learning and big scientific data: What can AI do for the facilities?

15:00 - 17:00 2 April 2019
Professor Tony Hey, the Chief Data Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council at Harwell, presented at the second University of Manchester at Harwell colloquium. There…

Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI)

16:15 - 17:45 2 April 2019
Macro seminar

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 17:00 2 April 2019
Danka Jandric, PhD candidate at the University of Manchester will give a talk entitled Functional Connectivity with Resting State fMRI

CEAS 2019 School seminar - Prof Andrea Cipollina

11:00 - 12:00 3 April 2019
As part of the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science School Seminar Series, we'll be welcoming Prof Andrea Cipollina from Iniversita di Palermo, Italy, on Wednesday…

Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar - Olivia Casagrande (Marie Curie Fellow, Social Anthropology, Manchester) - Wednesday 3 April 2019

17:00 - 18:30 3 April 2019
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar Date : Wednesday 3 April 2019 Manchas Y Parches: (Un)Making The Indigenous City Through Performance And Critical Mapping…

CGP Research Cluster Seminar with Reiko Shindo: Solidarity with migrants? Rethinking citizenship from the perspective of inaudibility'

15:30 - 17:00 3 April 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster Seminar for Reiko Shindo's 'Solidarity with migrants? Rethinking citizenship from the perspective of inaudibility'. Dr Reiko Shindo is a Lecturer…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘Theorizing Catastrophe’ led by Mark Payne (Chicago)

13:00 - 15:00 3 April 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Mark Payne (Professor of Classics, University of Chicago) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled ‘Theorizing…

Constitutional Law, Federalism and Human Rights in Argentina

17:00 - 18:00 3 April 2019
On Wednesday 3rd April, Prof Pablo Gutierrez, an expert in Public Law at the Universidad Nacional del Comahue (Argentina), will deliver a presentation entitled 'Constitutional Law,…

CPPI Research Cluster Seminar with Tao Wang: Legislators as Mommies and Daddies, How Confucian Culture Shapes Representation in Taiwan

15:30 - 17:00 3 April 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Tao Wang's 'Legislators as Mommies and Daddies, How Confucian Culture Shapes Representation in Taiwan'. Tao Wang is a Doctoral Researcher…

Departmental Seminar: Dr Rachael Wiseman (Liverpool)

15:00 3 April 2019
Title *Linguistic Idealism, Rule-Following, and Human Essence Abstract *G. E. M. Anscombe, following Wittgenstein, endorses a ‘partial linguistic idealism’: some things that fall under…

Digital Trust and Security - Guest Lecture Series - Adam Joinson

12:00 - 13:00 3 April 2019
What do digital footprints reveal about people (and why we should care)? To what extent does our online activity reveal who we are? Recent research has demonstrated that the digital…

EAC Research Seminar: John Plotz (Brandeis) 'Laughter is from Mars: Science Fiction as Satire and Game'

17:00 - 18:30 3 April 2019
John Plotz is a professor of English at Brandeis University who specializes in Victorian literature and the novel. He is the author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics…

Flexible and transparent data reuse

14:00 - 15:00 3 April 2019
Join us for this School research seminar, part of the Data science seminar series and hosted by Professor Carole Goble. A central challenge in our modern information environment is…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 3 April 2019
Alex Stivala, Swinburne University of Technology ERGM parameter estimation of very large directed networks: implementation, example, and application to the geography of knowledge spillovers…

Morgan Centre seminar: “Well, it’ll be quite a worksite” - Young women’s expectations of and solutions towards work-family reconciliation

02:30 - 15:15 3 April 2019
Speaker: Outi Alakärppä, visiting PhD student, Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Work intensification, uncertainty about getting a job and non-standard working…

Olivia Casagrande (Manchester) 'Manchas y parches: (Un)making the indigenous city through performance and critical mapping in Santiago, Chile'

17:00 - 18:30 3 April 2019
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Seminar. Venue: Sam Alex A215

Schuster Colloquium - Professor Lucie Green - Origins and Impact of Space Weather

15:00 - 16:30 3 April 2019
What is the Schuster Colloquium? The Schuster Colloquium is organised by the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester. It takes place about half a dozen times…

The impact of volcanism on Earth's atmosphere: from present-day volcanic 'pollution' to geological mass extinction events

13:00 - 14:00 3 April 2019
Volcanoes are spectacular natural phenomena. Earth has experienced volcanism since its beginnings and observing a volcanic eruption is a truly primeval experience. Volcanoes have shaped…

Claire Bishop - "Information Overload: Research Based Art and the Politics of Attention"

17:00 4 April 2019
As part of the Whitworth Studies Seminars series, Claire Bishop, Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History and Cultural Practices, The University of Manchester (and Professor of…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Dominika Kurek-Chomycz (Liverpool Hope University) - ‘The Wedded Wife of Romans 7:1-6’

14:00 - 16:00 4 April 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…

History and scale: early modern global microhistories

16:00 4 April 2019
Thursday 4 April - 4.15pm, Samuel Alexander A113. Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick) and Adrianna Catena (University of Warwick) 'History and scale: early modern global microhistories'.

Lives of Letters: International Agents

17:00 - 18:30 4 April 2019
Please join us for our third seminar of the semester, featuring two twenty-minute presentations and discussion. All welcome! The Reception of Milton’s First Defence in Dutch Correspondence…

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Jessica Begon: Neutral Impairment, Disadvantageous Disability

16:00 - 17:30 4 April 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Jessica Begon's "Neutral Impairment, Disadvantageous Disability". Dr Jessica Begon is an Assistant Professor in Political Theory in the…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Reverend Canon Professor John Rodwell (Honorary Research Fellow, Lincoln Theological Institute) - ‘From Curiosity to Commodity: Making Claims on Nature’

16:00 - 17:30 4 April 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.

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