Lectures and seminars

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Andrew Boakye (University of Manchester) “Apostles Behaving Badly: Peter, Paul and Black Lives Matter”

16:00 - 17:30 10 December 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…

‘A marvellous order’: the spatial and economic structures that make agglomeration economies work in Greater Manchester

15:30 - 17:00 14 December 2020
Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by Francesca Froy, Research Associate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Emily Rudman

13:00 - 14:00 15 December 2020
Speaker: Emily Rudman Title: The cyclic homology of $k[x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d]/(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d)^2$ Abstract: The Hochschild homology of the ring $k[x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d]/(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d)^2$…

Christian Bick - Oscillators on evolving networks: Fast and slow evolution

13:00 - 14:00 16 December 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Christian Bick (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

When Systems Fail: Covid-19, NHS acute hospitals and public health

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2020
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 16th December. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/nKkHTAeNUXM Abstract: The seminar will introduce…

Xiaoqin Guo - Heat kernel estimates for random walks in an i.i.d. balanced random environment

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2020
Xiaoqin Guo (Cincinnati) will speak in the Probability seminar. We consider a random walk in an i.i.d. random environment in the integer lattice with no drift. It is known that the…

"How Memory Survives" - The 2020 Agnes Heller Annual Sociology Lecture, with Alice Bloch

07:30 - 09:00 17 December 2020
The 2020 Agnes Heller Sociological Lecture is organised by the Department Of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Australia (which explains the early start for UK-based viewers). This…

Morgan Centre seminar: 'Birth and Death: relations and connections' - Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

14:00 - 15:00 17 December 2020
Birth and death are usually conceived in opposition: birth as a beginning, death an end, birth as a source of hope and optimism and death the cause of grief. In this talk we will outline…

Queering the Gay Anthology: Edward Carpenter’s Ioläus

14:00 - 15:30 17 December 2020
This paper explores the central role played by translation in the gay liberation movement, focusing on the anthology as a privileged, although understudied, cultural form in minoritarian…

Photogenerated radical pairs as spin qubits: exploiting quantum entanglement of electron spins

15:00 - 16:00 20 January 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Michael R. Wasielewski. Ultrafast photodriven electron transfer reactions are used to prepare entangled electron spins having…

Debating Buddhist Translations in Cyberspace: The Buddhist Online Discussion Forum as a Discursive and Epitextual Space

13:00 - 14:30 21 January 2021
Recent research in contemporary Buddhist studies has evinced a growing interest in how Buddhism is constructed and performed in the digital space (Grieve and Veidlinger 2015), and how…

Influence beyond authority: a narrative study of politics and political skill in the implementation of strategic health system change

14:00 - 15:30 25 January 2021
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 25th January. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/cNTxoap05A0 Abstract: The informal ‘power and…

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