Lectures and seminars

All the World’s a Stage: Henry Box Brown in Manchester

13:00 - 14:30 18 November 2019
Research Talk by Dr Hannah-Rose Murray about famed abolitionist Henry 'Box' Brown. Please join us for sandwiches from 12.30 in the lobby outside the room (Sam Alex SG.16) All Welcome.

Contextualizing societal challenge-oriented innovation policy

15:30 - 16:30 18 November 2019
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, seminar hosted by Professor Iris Wanzenb?ck. Abstract: There is emerging consensus that innovation policy should focus on solving urgent…

Giulio Caravagna - Integrating machine learning and population genetics to better elucidate cancer evolutionary dynamics

14:00 - 14:50 18 November 2019
(Room 3.44b Simon Building) Join us for this seminar by Giulio Caravagna (Institute for Cancer Research) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Cancers originate…

Igor Evstigneev (Manchester) - Von Neumann-Gale dynamical systems and their applications

15:00 - 16:00 18 November 2019
Igor Evstigneev (Economics Department, University of Manchester) will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series. Abstract: Von…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professors Pnina & Richard Werbner - Monday 18th of November 2019

16:00 - 18:00 18 November 2019
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th of November 2019 A Joint Seminar by Professors Pnina & Richard Werbner – Keele University A Case of Insult: Emotion, Law, and Witchcraft…

SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Benjamin Fairfax – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2019
SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre Dear All, Benjamin Fairfax from Oxford will give a presentation at our DMDS Divisional Seminar on 18th November…

SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2019
SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar – Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre Date: Monday 18 November 2019 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Michael Smith Lecture Theatre SPECIAL DMDS Divisional Seminar:…

CANCELLED Louise Wright - Maths, modelling and measurement: data science at the National Physical Laboratory

12:00 - 13:00 19 November 2019
**Unfortunately this seminar has been cancelled.** We apologise for the late notice, but the speaker has become ill and is unable to travel for the seminar. We are planning to reschedule…

Macro Seminar - Christiaan van der Kwaak (Groningen)

16:00 - 17:00 19 November 2019
Title: Financial Fragility and Unconventional Central Bank Lending Operations

Manchester Algebra Seminar -Compact Schur-Weyl Duality

14:00 - 15:00 19 November 2019
Speaker: Kieran Calvert (University of Manchester) Title: Compact Schur-Weyl Duality Abstract: Schur-Weyl duality is a fundamental idea that connects general linear groups and symmetric…

Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 19 November 2019
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series - Dr Herve Boutin will lead a project discussion meeting

Nirvana Coppola (Bristol) - Wild Galois Representations

15:00 - 16:00 19 November 2019
Join us for this research seminar, part of the Number Theory Seminar Series. Abstract: An important invariant associated to an elliptic curve is its l-adic Galois representation.…

Andy Archer - Liquid droplets on a surface

14:00 - 14:50 20 November 2019
Andy Archer (Loughborough University) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series, back in our usual room of Frank Adams 1, Alan Turing Building. The talk will begin with…

CGP Seminar with Debbie Lisle: Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot

15:30 - 17:00 20 November 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Researcher Cluster for a seminar with Debbie Lisle (Queen’s University Belfast) 'Making Safe: the dirty history of a bomb disposal robot'. …

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…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 20 November 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students, once again from October 2019! The club provides a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

From Figures to Figurations. For a Cultural Critique of Tagging - Nicola Bozzi, Salford University

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Digital Humanities Seminar

MANCEPT Seminar with Cara Nine

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2019
Please join the MANCEPT research cluster for a seminar with Cara Nine (University College Cork). Cara researches theories of resource rights and self-determination, including questions…

Marisol Verdugo (Manchester): 'Neoliberal feminisms? Hopes of social mobility and ordinary feminisms among Chilean youths'

17:00 - 18:30 20 November 2019
In 2017, when the so-called fourth wave of feminism in Chile was about to erupt in large feminist strikes across the country a year later, school-aged young women in the city of Concepción…

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