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Annual Toller Lecture: Professor Susan Irvine (UCL), Title TBC

16 November 2019
Annual Toller Lecture: Professor Susan Irvine (UCL), Title TBC Time tbc

CIDRAL Public Lecture: David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan): The Drop Outs Are Anticipating Future Economic Policy: Work, Class and Countercultural Legacies

17:00 - 19:00 20 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. This event is co-sponsored by the Raymond Williams Society. David Wilkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) will…

HCRI End of Term Lecture - Homelessness: Creating Solutions

16:00 - 19:00 26 November 2019
Our End of Term lecture is dedicated to an important humanitarian issue we face in our own community. A growing number of people in the UK, including in Manchester, are sleeping rough.…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: Insurgent Empire: Shades of Resistance: Led by Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge)

14:00 - 16:00 27 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge)…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge): The Idea of Decolonization

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism theme, presented in collaboration with Creative Manchester. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge)…

Colliders, Higgs and the strong interaction

15:00 - 17:00 27 November 2019
Particle colliders are our main laboratory tool to study the smallest distance scales accessible to humankind. Recent years have seen major advances, notably the discovery of long-…

POSTPONED: GDI Lecture with Prof Paul Vallely: Is philanthropy good for international development?

17:00 - 18:30 27 November 2019
UNFORTUNATELY THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED FOR NEXT YEAR. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW. The Global Development Lecture Series brings experts involved in global development…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson

17:00 - 19:00 3 December 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times for the Straight Book:…

Linnean Society: Irene Manton Lecture 2019

17:00 - 19:00 5 December 2019
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society will host the 2019 Irene Manton lecture at The John Rylands Library. The lecture celebrates and…

FSE Inaugural Lecture Series - Department of Computer Science, Prof Daniel Dresner

17:00 11 December 2019
You are invited to the inaugural professorial lecture i the Department of Computer Science of Professor Daniel Dresner, Department of Computer Science Title: The Attack on a Cyber…

Vital Topics breakfast event: What’s next for wellbeing

08:00 - 09:30 11 December 2019
Hear from a panel of experts with a wealth of knowledge about wellbeing in the workplace: Judith Grant, Director of Health and Wellbeing at MACE David Roomes, Group Director - Health,…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Teresa Anderson

19:30 - 21:00 12 December 2019
Lovell Lecture Jodrell Bank Observatory: World Heritage Site Professor Teresa Anderson Thursday 12th December, 7:30pm Jodrell Bank is the UK’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site. Join…

Clinch Power: Enhancing the student experience through a Pedagogy of Play (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

14:00 - 15:30 14 January 2020
This session explores the contribution of games and “play “like activities to enhancing teaching and learning in lectures, seminars and academic advisement. Drawing from theoretical…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 28 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 29 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

GDI Lecture with Dr Nick Jepson: In China's Wake: How the commodity boom transformed development strategies in the global south

17:00 29 January 2020
In the early years of the 21st century, breakneck economic growth in China stimulated a boom of unprecedented duration and extent in world markets for metals and fuels. In China’s Wake…

Beyond Lecture Capture - does screen casting encourage student engagement? (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 4 February 2020
For the 2018/19 academic year the PLAN30852/60852 Green Infrastructure & Sustainable Cities module produced weekly screen casts to introduce students to the topics being debated in…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christian Fuchs (Westminster): Capitalism and Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet and Communicative/Digital Capitalism

17:30 - 19:00 4 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication…

Dr Joanne Konkel, Inaugural Lister Lecture: Tissue-specific control of immune responses in the oral mucosa

11:30 - 12:30 4 February 2020
Maintaining integrity of mucosal barrier surfaces, the major interfaces between our inside body and the outside world, presents unique challenges to the immune system. Each barrier…

Where students are coming from: Student experience and teaching at A Level (Humanities Teaching Academic Workshops 2019-20)

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2020
In this session we will discuss where students are 'at' when they finish A levels and start undergraduate study. This will include monitoring of different groups of students, including…

GDI Lecture with Dr Jelmer Kamstra and Zoe Abrahamson: Civil society aid as balancing act - Navigating between managerial and social transformative principles

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2020
The civil society policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands saw big shifts in 2015/2016, with its budget halved and its focus shifted from service delivery to lobby…

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