Lectures and seminars

Conservative Conference Fringe: Happy and healthy communities: how can we build health and wellbeing into new home developments that work for everyone?

15:30 - 16:30 4 October 2021
This panel event is part of Policy@Manchester’s activity at the Conservative Party Conference Fringe. It is taking place outside the secure zone and no pass is required to attend.…

Conservative Conference Fringe: How to harness the digital healthcare revolution to tackle health inequalities?

10:00 - 11:00 4 October 2021
This panel is part of Policy@Manchester’s activity at the Conservative Party Conference Fringe. It is taking place outside the secure zone and no pass is required to attend. If you…

Conservative Party Conference Fringe: Can place based partnerships drive innovation and growth across a city region and provide the key to levelling up?

11:30 - 13:00 4 October 2021
This panel is part of Policy@Manchester’s activity at the Conservative Party Conference Fringe. It is taking place outside the secure zone and no pass is required to attend. If you…

Conservative Party Conference Fringe: Holding our breath? How to clean up our cities' air

13:30 - 14:30 4 October 2021
This panel is part of Policy@Manchester’s activity at the Conservative Party Conference Fringe. It is taking place outside the secure zone and no pass is required to attend. If you…

Conservative Party Conference Fringe: How can we accelerate the UK’s green recovery?

Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22

1 October 2021 - 30 June 2022
We are pleased to announce this year's Social Statistics Seminars. Our speakers: 12/10: Iris Gomez-Lopez (University of Michigan) 02/11: David Haziza (University of Ottawa) 07/12:…

Macro Seminar - Francesco Zanetti (Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 5 October 2021
Title: State Dependence of Fiscal Multipliers: The Source of Fluctuations Matters

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Ben Fairbairn - Generalised Beauville Groups

13:00 - 14:00 5 October 2021
Speaker: Ben Fairbairn - Birkbeck - University of London Title: Generalised Beauville Groups Abstract: A Beauville surface is a complex surface defined by letting a finite group…

A Century of Cosmis Rays and Manchester's Role in their Study

15:00 - 16:30 6 October 2021
Cosmic Rays were discovered by Victor Hess in 1912 by flying high altitude balloons. The invention of the cloud chamber enabled them to be studied in more detail, and much of the early…

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

12:00 - 13:00 6 October 2021
Title: Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: Evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900

Thomas Bernhardt - Tontines with bequest

15:00 - 16:00 6 October 2021
Thomas Bernhardt (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. Tontines offer a great alternative to current pension products. Members invest in a financial market…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Jennifer Andruska (University of Manchester) ‘Wise and Foolish Love in the Song of Songs’

14:00 - 16:00 7 October 2021
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. All sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

HCRI Landmark Lecture: Bio-Power, Governmentality of Killing and Indigenous People

17:00 - 19:30 12 October 2021
For over 63 years since 1958, unknown to the world , the Indian government imposed a martial law called the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act on 45 million indigenous peoples who live…

Macro Seminar - Pawel Doligalski (Bristol)

16:00 - 17:00 12 October 2021
Title: Redistribution with Performance Pay (joint with Abdoulaye Ndiaye and Nicolas Werquin)

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Veronica Kelsey

13:00 - 14:00 12 October 2021
Speaker: Veronica Kelsey - Manchester Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Place: Frank Adams (and to be streamed online*) *subject to equipment

Social Statistics Seminar - 12 October 2021

16:00 - 17:00 12 October 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – October Session Redlining Cognition Iris Gomez-Lopez (University of Michigan) Join us at 4pm (BST) on 12 October 2021! Registration link: http://bit.ly/socialstats1021…

Functional low dimensional materials: from fundamental studies to additively manufactured devices

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Lyudmila Turyanska. In this seminar, Dr Turyanska will present the recent work on 0D and 2D materials, and their integration with…

MES - François R. Velde (Chicago Fed)

13:30 - 15:00 13 October 2021
Title: TBA

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Frederique Janssen-Lauret and Ajinkya Deshmukh

15:15 - 16:50 13 October 2021
This seminar will be taking place on campus, and in person, at Roscoe 2.3. If you are unable to come to campus, a zoom option will be available - please contact Dr Stephen Ingram to…

Ronnie Loeffen - Two-sided exit for the classical Markov branching process with immigration

15:00 - 16:00 13 October 2021
Ronnie Loeffen (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. We consider the classical Markov branching process introduced by Sevast'yanov (1957) which describes…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Laura Quick (University of Oxford) ‘Monstrous Bodies in the Book of Job’

14:00 - 16:00 14 October 2021
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. All sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Clare Radford (Lincoln Theological Institute, University of Manchester) “My Body is Where I Exist: Poverty, Disability, and Embodied Resistance to Inequality”

16:00 - 17:30 14 October 2021
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is an online-only session. Please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing Dr Andrew Boakye.…

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