Lectures and seminars

Philosophy Research Seminar - Prof John Schwenkler (Florida State University)

15:15 - 17:00 25 November 2020
This year we are running all of our research seminars online using Zoom. If you would like to attend, and are not included on our events mailing list, please email Dr Stephen Ingram…

Sociology seminar: 'Connecting Sounds: the social life of music' - Nick Crossley

15:45 - 16:45 25 November 2020
In this talk Nick Crossley will outline the central thesis of his book, 'Connecting Sounds', before drilling down to discuss the detail of a number of its empirical sections. Music,…

Strangers in a Strange Land: Anglophone Black Musicians in Spain (1960-1980)

17:00 - 18:00 25 November 2020
While a number of Afro-Spanish musicians enjoy considerable commercial success nowadays – including on an international scale in the case of singer Concha Buika and rapper El Chojín…

Understanding and developing catalysts for conversion of sustainable energy

13:00 - 14:00 25 November 2020
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Associate Professor Jakob Kibsgaard. Catalysis holds a key in transforming our energy sector and chemical industry to rely on sustainable…

DEMON Network & Ageing Research at King’s presents: Digital Innovation & Data Science for Dementia and Longevity Research

14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2020
This event offers six short talks followed by an interactive panel discussion with all speakers. We have lots of interesting hot-off-the-press topics including the recently launched…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Walter Houston (University of Manchester) ‘One God, One People: Reflections on a Reconciled and Reconciling Pentateuch’

14:00 - 16:00 26 November 2020
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.…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Charles S. Pemberton (University of Durham) “Food Banks and Theology”

16:00 - 17:30 26 November 2020
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…

Tyndall Manchester seminar- Understanding urban mobility change- how can social practice theory help?

13:00 - 14:00 26 November 2020
Talk title: Understanding urban mobility change- how can social practice theory help? Speaker: Dr Matt Watson, University of Sheffield Abstract: The ways we travel are of course systemically…

Online MaRMN Seminar Extrenal Speaker

13:00 - 14:00 27 November 2020
Andreas Schedl , Université Côte d’Azur "Stem Cells, Sex and Signalling: Tissue Renewal in the Adrenal Cortex"

Pankhurst Seminar: Brexitland: How Brexit Came to Define Us

13:00 - 14:00 30 November 2020
Brexitland: How Brexit Came to Define Us with Professor Maria Sobolewska, Politics, University of Manchester

Richard Wilkinson - Uncertainty quantification for heart surgeons

14:00 - 15:00 30 November 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Richard Wilkinson (Nottingham) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Macro Seminar - Felix Wellschmied (Carlos III Madrid)

16:00 - 17:00 1 December 2020
Title: Wage Risk, Employment Risk, and the Rise in Wage Inequality

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Cesare Giulio Ardito - Classification of blocks and open conjectures

13:00 - 14:00 1 December 2020
Speaker: Cesare Giulio Ardito - City University of London Title: Classification of blocks and open conjectures Abstract: Donovan’s conjecture predicts that given a p-group D there…

Ainhoa Montoya (London): Dispossession through Juridification: Irregular Uses of Law and the Defense of Territory in Honduras

17:00 - 18:00 2 December 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This is an online event. Details on how to access it will follow soon. This talk will…

American Studies PGR event with Lindsay Reckson (Haverford College)

17:00 - 18:30 2 December 2020
PGR seminar co-hosted by the English department at Oxford University. A Zoom event, open to all but directed at postgraduate students. Contact Natalie Zacek for link.

Computer Science Mercury Talk

14:00 - 14:30 2 December 2020
Introducing our next Computer Science Mercury Talk Speaker: Madeleine Steeds Title: Smartphones: “Easy”, “Portable” and “Fast”? The Impact of Device Stereotypes on Cognition Abstract:…

Ehsan Azmoodeh - Optimal Variance–Gamma Approximation on Wiener Space

15:00 2 December 2020
Ehsan Azmoodeh (Liverpool) will speak in the Probability seminar. https://zoom.us/j/99566182567 Abstract: In this talk, we consider the problem of optimal Variance-Gamma approximation…

Georg Christ (History), ‘The Inevitability of Crisis – Can We Escape Decline?’

12:00 - 14:00 2 December 2020
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminars

Masha Dvoriashyna - Mathematical models of water transport across ocular epithelial layer

13:00 - 14:00 2 December 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Masha Dvoriashyna (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Warning of volcanic eruptions in Campi Flegrei, southern Italy.

13:00 - 14:00 2 December 2020
Prof Chris Kilburn, UEA, Norwich, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Forecasts of eruption are often uncertain at volcanoes reawakening…

CTIS | Research Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 3 December 2020
Translation as Circumspection: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Heidegger It is common in Translation Studies to worry a lot about theory. A perennial question from students…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Helen Jacobus (University of Manchester) ‘A Response to the Alleged "Fallacy of Jaubert's Hypothesis" and the Flood Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

14:00 - 16:00 3 December 2020
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.…

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