Lectures and seminars

Advanced Modular Reactors: the future of Nuclear Power in the UK?

11:30 - 12:30 2 May 2019
In 2018 the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy initiated a competition to look at the feasibility of a range of new reactor technologies, as the next step from the…

CTIS Seminar: Claiming and Recognizing Expertise in Climate Science Internet Discourse: A Corpus-based Approach

14:00 2 May 2019

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Catherine Lu: Three Faces of Ethics – How Our Conceptions of Individual Ethics Need to Expand in Light of Structural Injustice

16:00 - 17:30 2 May 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Catherine Lu's: "Three Faces of Ethics – How Our Conceptions of Individual Ethics Need to Expand in Light of Structural Injustice" Catherine…

Noorah al Gailani - "Uzbek Suzani embroideries"

17:00 - 18:30 2 May 2019
As part of the Whitworth Studies Seminars series, Noorah al Gailani, Curator of Islamic Civilisations, Glasgow Museums, The Burrell Collection, will be delivering a paper entitled "Uzbek…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr. Carl Kilcourse (Manchester Metropolitan University) - ‘Conflict in the Heavenly Capital’

16:00 - 17:30 2 May 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 G. L. Brook Memorial Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Corinne Saunders (Durham), 'Imagination and Revelation: Thinking Voices and Visions in Medieval English Writing'

17:30 - 19:00 2 May 2019
The Brook Lecture, part of the English and American Studies seminar series, honours the memory of G.L. Brook, Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at Manchester…

JMCE Seminar with Soumhya Venkatesan, ‘The Promise and Melancholy of Brexit from the Perspective of Brexiteers’

6 May 2019
Please join the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for the seminar 'The Promise and Melancholy of Brexit from the Perspective of Brexiteers' with Soumhya Venkatesan. Soumhya is a Lecturer…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Dominique Rogers (Antilles): Between Racialization and Appropriation: Patterns of Belonging for Free People of Colour in Saint-Lucia, Martinique and French Saint-Domingue

17:00 - 19:00 7 May 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Dominique Rogers (University of the Antilles) will deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Between Racialization…

David Nagy (CREI)

16:15 - 17:45 7 May 2019
Macro seminar

HCRI Research Series: 10 Years of HCRI, Jen Peterson

16:00 - 18:00 7 May 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 7 May 2019
Project discussion meeting chaired by Dr Jason Taylor Caroline Lea-Carnall - new project - Functional MRS Ben Dickie - new porject - glucose enhanced MRS for detection of altered glucose transport in dementia

'Drawing from Experience: The Surrealist Image in Theory and Practice' - Gregory Williams

17:00 - 18:30 8 May 2019
As part of the Art History Research Seminar series, Gregory Williams (PhD Candidate in Art History and Cultural Practices) will be delivering a paper entitled: 'Drawing from Experience:…

CGP Research Cluster with Olivia Rutazibwa: On the Ruins of Epistemicide. Decolonising International Solidarity through Blackness

14:30 - 16:00 8 May 2019
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for Olivia Rutazibwa's "On the Ruins of Epistemicide. Decolonising International Solidarity through Blackness". Dr Olivia Rutazibwa is a Senior…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Led by Dominique Rogers (Antilles)

13:00 - 15:00 8 May 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Dominique Rogers (University of the Antilles) will lead a Key Ideas seminar. Preparatory readings for…

CPPI Research Seminar with Dayo Eseonu: The Politics of Presence: Reconciling Deliberation and Interest Group Politics

15:30 - 17:00 8 May 2019
Dayo Eseonu is a Doctoral Researcher at the University Manchester. Dayo seeks to examine the extent to which Black and Minority Ethnic youth are included in the co-production of employment…

GDI Lecture Series: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities with Edgar Pieterse

16:30 - 18:00 8 May 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Edgar Pieterse as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities Urban…

Hiroki Shin (Birkbeck, London) The Culture of Charcoal: The Environment and Household Energy in Japan, 1945–1974.

16:00 8 May 2019
Wednesday 8 May, 4.15pm, Samuel Alexander A112. Hiroki Shin (Birkbeck, London) The Culture of Charcoal: The Environment and Household Energy in Japan, 1945–1974.

MANCEPT Research Cluster with Peter Vallentyne: Full Self-Ownership: Interpersonal, not Comprehensive

16:00 - 17:30 8 May 2019
Please join the MANCEPT Research Cluster for Peter Vallentyne's "Full Self-Ownership: Interpersonal, not Comprehensive". Peter Vallentyne is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy…

Mitchell centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 8 May 2019
Filip Agneessens, University of Surrey Key players for signed networks: optimal solutions when dealing with both positive and negative tie Social network analysis provides a useful…

Schuster Colloquium - Professor Timothy Spiller - Quantum Technologies

15:00 - 16:30 8 May 2019
Professor Timothy Spiller (University of York) Quantum technologies are new disruptive technologies in which fundamental aspects of quantum physics are instrumental in providing advantages…

The What, Why, Where and How of Mine Tailings: An Environmental Perspective

13:00 - 14:00 8 May 2019
Tailings are wastes comprising mixtures of crushed rock and processing fluids from mills, washeries, or concentrators that remain after the extraction of economic metals, minerals,…

Designing for mobile learning (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 9 May 2019
Designing for mobile learning

Digital Health Seminar: Professor John Wright

11:00 - 12:00 9 May 2019
Born in Bradford: Can a research study change a city? Where: The Congregation, Vaughan House, HeRC When: Thursday 9th May 2019, 11am Born in Bradford is one of the UK's leading health…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Justin Daneshmand (University of Manchester) - ‘Visitation and Verdict: Reading the Lukan Nazareth Pericope as a Theoxenic Episode of Theophanic Judgement’

14:00 - 16:00 9 May 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…

The Personal in History’ - PGR Workshop organised by Frank Mort and Penny Summerfield.

9 May 2019
Thursday 9 May - 10.00-16.00, Ellen Wilkinson, Graduate School, C1.18. The Personal in History’ - PGR Workshop organised by Frank Mort and Penny Summerfield.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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