Seminar

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.…

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…

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…

Pablo Hernandez Sau (Manchester): tbc

26 January 2021
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/93328853287 Details to follow soon.

Atlas Talk: The Reachability Problem for Petri Nets is Not Elementary

14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2021
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas Talk (online) Join here: https://zoom.us/j/93918368182 Speaker: Ranko Lazic - University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/ranko_lazic/…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Carolina Vallejo

13:00 - 14:00 9 February 2021
Speaker: Carolina Vallejo Title: Problems on characters involving two primes. Abstract: In this talk I will discuss problems on character degrees, fields of values and principal…

Tyndall Manchester seminar- High End Energy Consumers – Overconsumption or Unmet Needs

13:00 - 14:00 9 February 2021
Speaker: Professor Karen Lucas, University of Manchester Abstract: This presentation addresses the issues of fairness and justice of energy resource allocations in the domestic energy…

Alex Freitas - Machine Learning for Ageing Research

13:00 - 14:00 10 February 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Alex Freitas (Kent) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Nicole Bonino (UoM): “Cities on the Edge: Urban Migration, Art, and Eco-Hybridity in the Southern Cone”

17:00 - 18:00 10 February 2021
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930…

Perla Sousi - The uniform spanning tree in 4 dimensions

15:00 - 16:00 10 February 2021
Perla Sousi (Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. A uniform spanning tree of Z^4 can be thought of as the ‘’uniform measure’’ on trees of Z^4. The past of 0 in the…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Natacha McKeever (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:50 10 February 2021
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…

CoDE Seminar: Decolonising Political Theory: Reflecting on Teaching in a Post-structural way

15:00 - 16:30 11 February 2021
This paper reflects on Dr Sahra Taylor's recent experience redesigning the module Introduction to Political Theory. She draws on the 'art of teaching' approaches to the structure, theme,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Justin Daneshmand (University of Manchester) ‘Vanishing Jesus Parallels: An Examination of Jesus’ Emmaus Disappearance (Luke 24:31b) and Literary Analogues’

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2021
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.…

Pushkin on Grafton Street: Translating Russian Literature into Irish

13:00 - 14:30 11 February 2021
Why would anyone translate Russian literature into the Irish language? Given that authors, translators and publishers deplore the lack of readers for translated fiction in English,…

Donald Robertson: A Sumset Conjecture of Erdos - Pure Mathematics Colloquium

14:00 - 15:00 12 February 2021
Title: A Sumset Conjecture of Erdos Abstract: Density combinatorics is about discovering patterns that are guaranteed to belong to every large enough set in a given collection. Szemerédi’s…

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