Lectures and seminars

Postponed Apala Majumdar - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 14:50 27 November 2019
Due to the current strike action, this seminar has been rescheduled for 12 February 2020. Apala Majumdar (Bath) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series.

Andrew Titman - Testing the Markov assumption in general multi-state models

14:00 27 November 2019
Andrew Titman (Lancaster University) joins us for the Statistics seminar series. Recently there has been interest in the development of estimators of the transition probabilities for…

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)…

Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille: Queer, Black, and Disabled Emerge from the Archive--CANCELLED

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2019
Research seminar in the American Studies programme's Critical MASS series followed by wine reception. All welcome! CANCELLED

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-…

D&E Seminar with Ed Fieldhouse, Kasper Hansen and Chris Prosser: Breaking the voting habit: do interruptions to voting have long term-effects?

15:30 - 17:00 27 November 2019
Please join the Democracy and Elections Research Cluster for a special Manchester-Copenhagen collaboration: ‘Breaking the voting habit: do interruptions to voting have long term-effects?’…

Democracy, Public (Infrastructure) Goods and Value Creation: Quo Vadis?

16:30 - 18:00 27 November 2019
In partnership with AMBS’ Infrastructure Development Research Group With a focus on the provision of public infrastructure goods, a panel of distinguished academics and leading professionals…

Humour and the Commodification of Suffering: Humour as Aesthetic Strategy in Sites of ‘Crisis’

17:00 - 18:30 27 November 2019
Chrisoula Lionis, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, The University of Manchester Humour and the Commodification of Suffering: Humour as Aesthetic Strategy in Sites of ‘Crisis’ Mansfield Cooper Building, 2.03

JMCE Seminar with Dr Lamprini Rori: The landscape of political violence in crisis-ridden Greece

14:00 - 15:00 27 November 2019
Please join the Jean Monet Centre of Excellence for a seminar with Lamprini Rori (University of Exeter) entitled 'The landscape of political violence in crisis-ridden Greece'. Dr…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2019
Jürgen Lerner, University of Konstanz How to get work done online: network analysis of open peer-production Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of open peer-production in…

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…

CANCELLED: CTIS Seminar: Game Localisation: Translating Gaming Experience across Cultures

14:00 - 15:30 28 November 2019

CoDE Seminar: Black Muslim women at work: negotiating visibility from under the hatches

12:00 - 13:00 28 November 2019
Dr Azeezat Johnson, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London presents a CoDE seminar on Black Muslim women at work: negotiating visibility from under the hatches…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Josh Bloor (Nazarene Theological College) “Jesus' Earthly and Heavenly Offerings in the Epistle to the Hebrews: An Engagement with Recent Scholarship.”

14:00 - 16:00 28 November 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…

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