Lectures and seminars

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.…

Irene Manton Lecture 2020

17:00 - 19:00 3 December 2020
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society of London will host the 2020 Irene Manton lecture. Celebrating the significant contribution made…

Seminar With Lindsay Reckson (Haverford College)

17:00 - 18:30 3 December 2020
Discussion of pre-circulated chapter from Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press 2020), co-hosted by Gordon Fraser (University of Manchester)…

EU AI policy and AI policy support at the European Parliament

15:30 - 17:00 7 December 2020
Join us for the Joint Seminar hosted by Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Digital Futures with guest speaker Philip Boucher, European Parliament. To join this webinar,…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Roy Oste - Ghent University - Deformations of unitary Howe dual pairs

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2020
Speaker: Roy Oste - Ghent University Title: Deformations of unitary Howe dual pairs Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the deformation of the Howe dual pairs $(\mathrm{U}(n),\mathfrak{u}(1,1))$…

Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky): ‘“It’s Not Just the Same”: How Rituals and Religions Cope with Crises’

17:00 - 19:00 8 December 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

Building the mammal back

13:00 - 14:00 9 December 2020
Dr Katrina Jone, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The origin of mammals is…

Computer Science Atlas Talk

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2020
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas Talk (online) on Wednesday 9 December 2020 Joining details: https://zoom.us/j/94871425671 Title: Interacting with Socially Intelligent…

Eleanor Archer - Random walks on decorated Galton-Watson trees

15:00 - 16:00 9 December 2020
Eleanor Archer (Tel Aviv) will speak in the Probability seminar. https://zoom.us/j/91491645346 Abstract: Random trees are the building blocks for a range of probabilistic structures,…

Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova - An Integrative Mathematical-Experimental Approach to Pulsatile Hormone Dynamics

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Meta-Optics for night vision technologies

10:00 - 11:00 9 December 2020
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Dragomir Neshev. In this talk, Professor Neshev will introduce the recently established Australian Centre of Excellence for…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Simon Walgenbach (University of Manchester)

15:15 - 16:50 9 December 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…

What does an architect need to know?

14:00 9 December 2020
What does an architect need to know? Hear from Alan Lewis (MARG, Manchester), Diana Osmolska (MARG, Manchester), and Fionn Stevenson (University of Sheffield).

“O Alienista": The Quixotic Science

17:00 - 18:00 9 December 2020
This paper aims to examine notions of science and madness in O Alienista (1881) by Machado de Assis. It focuses on how the plot structure of the novella satirises the progressive philosophy…

CoDE Seminar: Media, ‘Diversity’ and Racial Capitalism: A Case Study on the UK Publishing Industry

14:00 10 December 2020
In this paper, Anamik Saha produces a critical account of the ‘diversity’ paradigm that characterises creative industries policy. Drawing from a recent AHRC-funded project ‘Rethinking…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Nicholas Kay (King’s College, London) ‘The Concept of ‘ir in 11Q19: Spatiality’

14:00 - 16:00 10 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.…

End of term Lecture: Historical Revisionism and Genocide Denial

15:00 - 17:00 10 December 2020
EXACT DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED. Join Remembering Srebrenica, a charity memorialising the Bosnian genocide in 1995, along with a survivor from the genocide and a leading academic in…

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