Lectures and seminars

Ehrhardt Seminar: Professor Loveday Alexander (University of Sheffield) ‘“Down in the forest something stirred”: Reflections on Genre and Structure in Acts’

14:00 - 16:00 22 April 2021
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

HCRI Research Seminar: Humanitarianism and Inequalities

15:00 - 17:00 22 April 2021
Professor Silke Roth (University of Southampton) will be addressing humanitarianism and inequality from an intersectional perspective including gender, nationality and class, address…

Dr Diego Maria Malara: Pious Demons and Sinful Christians: Mimesis, Historicity, and the Demonization of Protestantism in Ethiopian Orthodox Exorcism

16:00 - 17:30 26 April 2021
Dr Diego Maria Malara, University of Glasgow Chaired by Sebastien Bachelet Title: Pious Demons and Sinful Christians: Mimesis, Historicity, and the Demonization of Protestantism…

Getting materials manufactured – why politics and policy matter!

16:00 - 18:00 26 April 2021
Professor Laura Cohen Online Inaugural Lecture We live in challenging times from a political and environmental perspective. There is a real urgency to develop new materials and novel…

Peter Stewart -- North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences

14:00 - 15:00 26 April 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Peter Stewart (Glasgow) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Macro Seminar - Joseba Martinez (LBS)

16:00 - 17:00 27 April 2021
Title: TBA

Aqueous Solution-Vapor Interfaces Investigated with Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

13:00 - 14:00 28 April 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Hendrik Bluhm. Aqueous solution-vapor interfaces govern important phenomena in the environment and atmosphere, including the uptake…

Digital Futures - Digital Trust and Security Seminar with Guest Speaker Dr Bran Knowles, Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Lancaster University

13:45 - 15:00 28 April 2021
We are delighted to announce Dr Bran Knowles, Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Lancaster University as the next speaker for the upcoming Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series, taking…

Morgan Centre seminar - Marking motherhood on the body: The tattoos of mothers who live apart from their children

15:00 - 16:00 28 April 2021
Speakers: Siobhan Beckwith and Lisa Morriss We will present the initial findings of a pilot project funded by the Sociological Review. We used a narrative approach alongside arts-based…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College) ‘“Look at what they’ve turned us into”: Reading the Story of Lot’s Daughters through the Lens of Trauma with a Little Help from the Handmaid’s Tale’

14:00 - 16:00 29 April 2021
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Making the Unknown Knowable

15:00 29 April - 16:30 27 May 2021
Making the unknown knowable has always been located at the heart of scientific activity. Yet, whether the goal is to understand extreme environments, outer space or the universe (Helmreich,…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Katja Stuerzenhofecker (University of Manchester) “What is Jewish about Kurt Lewin’s Action Research and why does this Matter?”

16:00 - 17:30 29 April 2021
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

The Chemical Microscope – a view from the edge

15:00 - 17:00 29 April 2021
Professor Nicholas Lockyer Online Inaugural Lecture Since its invention in the 16th Century the ‘modern’ optical microscope has proved an essential instrument in scientific advancement…

CIDRAL Online Events - Climate Crisis and the Far Right (title TBC)

17:00 - 19:00 4 May 2021
CIDRAL ONLINE EVENTS - SPRING 2021 (Semester Two) Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries Andreas Malm (Lund University), on Climate Crisis and the Far Right (title t.b.c.) ZOOM Link…

Hot rocks beneath our feet; 3D seismic reflection imaging of the processes and products of crustal magmatism

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2021
Prof Christopher Jackson, University of Manchester, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Volcanoes are hot, loud and scary, thus…

CIDRAL Online Events - Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Neuroscience

14:00 - 16:00 5 May 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Alex Samely, ‘Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Neuroscience’ ZOOM link - click on joining links Passcode: 741431

Grete Stern: modernist photography and indigeneity in Argentina

17:15 - 18:15 5 May 2021
Ignacio Aguiló (Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Manchester) Grete Stern: modernist photography and indigeneity in Argentina Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.c…

Ho-Kei Chan - Confinement-induced columnar crystals: A route to new architecture in the scientific world

14:00 - 15:00 5 May 2021
Ho-Kei Chan (Harbin Institute of Technology) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email chris.johnson@manchester.ac.uk…

Mark Chaplain - North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences

13:00 - 14:00 5 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Mark Chaplain (St. Andrews) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Pablo Hernández Sau (UoM): "Mimesis at Spanish Louisiana. Colonial interaction in late eighteenth century Mississippi"

17:00 5 May 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930

Sociology seminar: 'The social significance of dining out' (Alan Warde)

15:45 - 16:45 5 May 2021
Alan Warde will discuss research from his book, co-authored by Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans, 'The social significance of dining out: A study of continuity and change'. All welcome.

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Holly Morse (University of Manchester) ‘Falling for the Devil: Eve and the Witch’

14:00 - 16:00 6 May 2021
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Sarah Harris -- North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences

14:00 - 15:00 10 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Sarah Harris (Leeds) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Macro Seminar - Axelle Ferriere (Paris)

16:00 - 17:00 11 May 2021
Title: TBA

The spread of livestock, dairy and millet into the eastern steppes: Biomolecular perspectives from the Altai mountains and the Mongolian steppe

13:00 11 May 2021
Prof Cheryl Makarewicz, University of Kiel, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The spread of domesticated plants and animals across…

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