Lectures and seminars

Improving employability skills with the use of video (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 8 April 2020
The workshop will take attendees through the experience and outcomes of exploring a non-traditional assessment format. Video was used for both group and individual assessment to enhance…

Cancelled - Organic/Inorganic interactions during analysis: Implications for life detection missions to Mars

13:00 - 14:00 15 April 2020
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. Dr Samuel Royle, Imperial College London, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Attempts…

(POSTPONED) Christina Cobbold - Mathematics in the Life Sciences Seminar

14:00 20 April 2020
(Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Christina Cobbold (Glasgow) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract to follow. To subscribe to the…

Carl Whitfield - Characterisation of ventilation heterogeneity in lung airway networks with Spectral Graph Theory.

14:00 - 15:00 20 April 2020
(via Zoom) This webinar is a trial run to kick off the online seminar series that has been arranged in place of the original series. Abstract to follow. Details of the zoom meeting…

CANCELLED Marco Iglesias - Title TBA

12:00 - 13:00 21 April 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division - Julie Welburn, University of Edinburgh

15:00 - 16:00 21 April 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division Julie Welburn, University of Edinburgh Host: Chiara Francavilla

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

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Higher group cohomology and PSL(2,q) - Jack Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 21 April 2020
Speaker: Jack Saunders - University of Birmingham Title: Higher group cohomology and PSL(2,q) Abstract: Given a finite group G acting irreducibly on a vector space V, the first cohomology…

Manchester Neurimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 21 April 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr Fabien Chauveau, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre 'Virtual histology of the brain with X-ray phase-contrast imaging'

Richard Kirkby - PRC Under Mao: The Anti-Urban Myth

12:30 - 13:30 21 April 2020
Super-urbanisation is the PRC’s avowed policy of today, and it is in a sense one of continuity with the 1949-1978 era. State strategies dating back to the First Five Year Plan gave…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge': Led by Christina Lupton (Copenhagen)

14:00 - 16:00 22 April 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Michel…

Critical Global Politics Research Seminar with Joe Turner

15:30 22 April 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Joe Turner entitled 'Making Love, Making Empire'. Joe is a Lecturer at the University of York. Joe's research focuses on the…

Gabriel Neiva (Manchester): 'Amerindian traditions in fictional writings: A literary panorama of the Guianas'

17:00 - 18:30 22 April 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies seminar series. Abstract: The national literatures of the Guianas, when contrasted with Amerindian oratures, present some…

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Bell (University of Manchester) ‘Mortality Patterns and Bereavement Language in 1 Thessalonians: the Impact of Children in the Community of the Text’

14:00 - 16:00 23 April 2020
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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Kristin Aune (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry) “Religious Student Societies in Universities – Division and Cohesion”

16:00 23 April 2020
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.

Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar - First Year talks

15:00 - 16:00 24 April 2020
The Informal Applied Mathematics seminar series will continue with a series of short talks from first-year PhD students. Talks will take place in Frank Adams 2 (next to the Alan Turing…

Jon Pitchford - Diversity, dynamics, and dominance in simple models of complex systems.

14:00 27 April 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this webinar by Jon Pitchford (York) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: Some brilliant work has explored the structure and function…

CANCELLED Fabio Nobile - Title TBA

12:00 - 13:00 28 April 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rob Kurinczuk - Galois distinguished l-modular representation of p-adic GL(n)

14:00 - 15:00 28 April 2020
Speaker: Rob Kurinczuk - University of Bristol Title: Galois distinguished l-modular representation of p-adic GL(n) Abstract: I will present some results on Galois distinguished…

The English public health reforms: Success or failure?

13:30 - 15:00 28 April 2020
Join us at the IHPO webinar series on 28 April via Zoom. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihpo-webinar-david-buck-english-public-health-reforms-success-or-failure-tickets-102156444676…

[Cancelled] Fabio Lanza - “To Make Life More Beautiful:” Gender, Industrial Labour, and Collectivization during the Great Leap Forward

12:30 - 13:30 28 April 2020
In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of Chinese city residents, including their relationship to…

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