Lectures and seminars

CoDE Seminar: Blackness and Brownness at the Intersection: Critical Thoughts Concerning Race, Debility and Disability

12:00 - 13:00 30 April 2020
This seminar is presented by Viji Kuppan, PhD Student at Leeds Beckett University in the Centre for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He will draw from previous writing presented in…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College) ‘Revenge Through Song: Reading the Song of Miriam as a Response to Trauma’

14:00 - 16:00 30 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…

Informal Applied Mathematics Seminar - First Year talks

15:00 - 16:00 1 May 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…

David Schoch - Mathematical foundations of Network Centrality

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this webinar by David Schoch (Manchester) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: In the social sciences, networks are used to represent…

Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science Webinar

11:00 - 12:30 4 May 2020
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science is going to be carrying on it's seminar series through a series of Webinars, highlighting research from academics and researchers…

Professional Re-Stratification and the (Defensive) Adaptation of Status Hierarchy: Medical Management in English Public Hospitals

13:30 - 15:00 4 May 2020
Join us at the IHPO webinar series on 4th May via Zoom. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihpo-webinar-prof-gianluca-veronesi-tickets-103206744150 Speaker: Prof Gianluca…

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

12:00 - 13:00 5 May 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Abstract: The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK’s National Measurement Institute. We are responsible for…

Annual Ombudsman Lecture

18:30 - 20:30 5 May 2020
Improving patient safety: using evidence and insight to prevent suicide in mental health care In partnership with The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law (ManReg)…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Mandi Schaeffer Fry - Galois Action on the Principal Block and Generation of Sylow Subgroups

16:00 - 17:00 5 May 2020
Speaker: Mandi Schaeffer Fry Title: Galois Action on the Principal Block and Generation of Sylow Subgroups Abstract: We show that the character table (in fact, we only require the…

[Cancelled] Jamie Coates - An Ethnographic Film: Tokyo Pengyou

12:30 - 13:30 5 May 2020
This talk and film screening will explore how we can understand young Chinese mobilities beyond frameworks such as community and migrant identity. In doing so, he will also discuss…

Cancelled - Discovering new mercury methylating bacteria in the world’s oceans with meta-omics and protein structure/function modelling

13:00 - 14:00 6 May 2020
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. Dr John Moreau, University of Glasgow, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Methylmercury…

Critical Global Politics Seminar with Jamie Hagen

15:30 - 17:00 6 May 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Jamie Hagen entitled 'An Intersectional Approach to Queering Women, Peace and Security'. Jamie is a Lecturer at Queens University…

CMI Seminar: Dr Bram Vanhoutte

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Bram Vanhoutte from the University of Liverpool who will be speaking on the topic: TBA Abstract forthcoming. Tea/coffee and cakes from 2.45. ALL WELCOME! No registration needed.

Digitally Skilled: Unlocking Staff Digital Literacy (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 7 May 2020
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Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Charlotte Hempel (University of Birmingham) ‘The Community Rules: Florilegia from a Forthcoming Commentary’

14:00 - 16:00 7 May 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 Anna Rowlands (University of Durham) “Reading Simone Weil in the East End of London: Asylum Destitution, De-creation and the History of Force”

16:00 - 17:30 7 May 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.

Manchester SIAM-IMA Student Chapter Conference

10:00 - 17:00 8 May 2020
The Manchester SIAM-IMA Student Chapter Conference 2020 (MSISCC20) will be held in Frank Adams 1 & 2, Alan Turing Building on 8 May 2020. This annual conference is a one-day event…

The Dorothy Emmet Lecture - Prof Jane Heal, University of Cambridge

17:00 - 18:15 11 May 2020
The Dorothy Emmet Lectures commemorate Dorothy Emmet, an eminent mid-20th Century philosopher and head of the Philosophy Department at Manchester for over 20 years. The lectures are…

CANCELLED Malgorzata Zimon - Title TBA

13:00 - 14:00 12 May 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Cathy Hsu (Heilbronn) - Eisenstein congruences and an explicit non-Gorenstein R=T

15:00 12 May 2020
Abstract: In his seminal work on modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal, Mazur studied the existence of congruences between certain Eisenstein series and newforms, proving that Eisenstein…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge): 'Insurgent Empire: Shades of Resistance'

17:00 - 19:00 12 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Insurgent…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Dimitris Michailidis - Bases of simple representations of Temperley-Lieb algebras of type B

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2020
Speaker: Dimitris Michailidis Title: Bases of simple representations of Temperley-Lieb algebras of type B Abstract: Inspired from the study of certain models in physics, Martin and…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'The Idea of Decolonization': Led by Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge)

11:00 - 13:00 13 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'The Idea…

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

13:00 - 14:00 13 May 2020
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…

CMI Seminar: Prof Paul Smith "Population size estimation with covariates having missing values and measurement error"

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Paul Smith from The University of Southampton who will be speaking on the topic: Population size estimation with covariates having missing values…

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