Lectures and seminars

Ehrhardt Seminar: Professor Loveday Alexander (University of Sheffield) ‘“Down in the forest something stirred”: Reflections on Genre and Structure in Acts’

14:00 - 16:00 22 April 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.…

HCRI Research Seminar: Humanitarianism and Inequalities

15:00 - 17:00 22 April 2021
Professor Silke Roth (University of Southampton) will be addressing humanitarianism and inequality from an intersectional perspective including gender, nationality and class, address…

Dr Diego Maria Malara: Pious Demons and Sinful Christians: Mimesis, Historicity, and the Demonization of Protestantism in Ethiopian Orthodox Exorcism

16:00 - 17:30 26 April 2021
Dr Diego Maria Malara, University of Glasgow Chaired by Sebastien Bachelet Title: Pious Demons and Sinful Christians: Mimesis, Historicity, and the Demonization of Protestantism…

Getting materials manufactured – why politics and policy matter!

16:00 - 18:00 26 April 2021
Professor Laura Cohen Online Inaugural Lecture We live in challenging times from a political and environmental perspective. There is a real urgency to develop new materials and novel…

Peter Stewart -- Elastic jumps on networks - towards a mathematical framework for predicting retinal haemorrhage

14:00 - 15:00 26 April 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Peter Stewart (Glasgow) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Philip Boyland - Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:00 26 April 2021
Philip Boyland will be speaking at this research seminar, part of the Dynamical Systems and Analysis seminar series.

Macro Seminar - Joseba Martinez (LBS)

16:00 - 17:00 27 April 2021
Title: Automation Potential and Diffusion

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Adam Thomas - University of Warwick

13:00 - 14:00 27 April 2021
Speaker: Adam Thomas - University of Warwick Title: The classification of extremely primitive groups Abstract: Let G be a finite primitive permutation group acting on a set X with…

Alex Cox - Controlled measure-valued martingales: a viscosity solution approach

15:00 - 16:00 28 April 2021
Alex Cox (University of Bath) will speak in the Probability seminar. We introduce a stochastic control problem for measure-valued martingales, which are stochastic processes taking…

Aqueous Solution-Vapor Interfaces Investigated with Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

13:00 - 14:00 28 April 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Hendrik Bluhm. Aqueous solution-vapor interfaces govern important phenomena in the environment and atmosphere, including the uptake…

Digital Futures - Digital Trust and Security Seminar with Guest Speaker Dr Bran Knowles, Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Lancaster University

13:45 - 15:00 28 April 2021
We are delighted to announce Dr Bran Knowles, Senior Lecturer in Data Science, Lancaster University as the next speaker for the upcoming Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series, taking…

Morgan Centre seminar - Marking motherhood on the body: The tattoos of mothers who live apart from their children

15:00 - 16:00 28 April 2021
Speakers: Siobhan Beckwith and Lisa Morriss We will present the initial findings of a pilot project funded by the Sociological Review. We used a narrative approach alongside arts-based…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College) ‘“Look at what they’ve turned us into”: Reading the Story of Lot’s Daughters through the Lens of Trauma with a Little Help from the Handmaid’s Tale’

14:00 - 16:00 29 April 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.…

Making the Unknown Knowable

15:00 29 April - 16:30 27 May 2021
Making the unknown knowable has always been located at the heart of scientific activity. Yet, whether the goal is to understand extreme environments, outer space or the universe (Helmreich,…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Katja Stuerzenhofecker (Manchester) “An Act of Compassion? Normalizing Online Delivery of Jewish Orthodox Rituals and Female Participation Under COVID-19”

16:00 - 17:30 29 April 2021
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…

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