Lectures and seminars

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. John Barclay (Durham University) Discussion of themes from the 2021 Didsbury Lectures, 'Beyond Charity: Rethinking Gift and Community with Paul’

14:00 - 16:00 28 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: Professor Michael Burdett (University of Nottingham) “Death and Glory in a Technological World”

16:00 - 17:30 28 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.…

Research seminar: Peacebuilding through discursive civility

16:00 - 19:00 28 October 2021
Dr Stef Pukallus is Senior Lecturer in Public Communication and Civil Development at the University of Sheffield. She is co-founder and Chair of the Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication…

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:…

There isnt a Social Anthropology Seminar today at 16:00pm, as it is reading week this week.

16:00 - 18:00 1 November 2021
There isnt a Social Anthropology Seminar today at 16:00pm, as it is reading week this week.

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Ben Martin

13:00 - 14:00 2 November 2021
Speaker: Ben Martin - Aberdeen Title: Subgroups of reductive groups containing a regular unipotent element Abstract: Let G be a linear algebraic group over an algebraically closed…

Social Statistics Seminar - 2 November 2021

16:00 - 17:00 2 November 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – November Session A general multiply robust framework for combining probability and non-probability samples in surveys David Haziza (University…

Brownbag - Raffaele Rossi

12:00 - 13:00 3 November 2021
Title: TBA

Critical raw materials for the energy transition

13:00 - 14:00 3 November 2021
Dr Kathryn Goodenough from the British Geological Survey will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar.

Diversity in Creative and Cultural Industries at the intersection of Covid and Black Lives Matter

16:30 - 17:30 3 November 2021
Online event Lack of diversity in the cultural sector has been highlighted as a significant issue with substantial evidence (ACE, 2019; Malik and Shankley, 2020, Ali and Bridget, forthcoming)…

Fiona Macfarlane -- Bridging the gap between individual-based and continuum models of growing cell populations

13:00 - 14:00 3 November 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Fiona Macfarlane (St Andrews) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Rebecca Killick - Tackling Global Issues: Change

14:00 - 15:00 3 November 2021
Rebecca Killick, Senior Lecturer in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the Lancaster University is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title:…

Schuster Colloquia: Probing relativistic gravity with radio astronomy

15:00 - 16:00 3 November 2021
Join us for the latest Schuster Colloquia with speaker Professor Michael Kramer. We experience a golden era in testing and exploring relativistic gravity. Whether it is results from…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Zoom - and In The Arthur Lewis Boardroom - Jeanne Féaux de la Croix - 08 November 2021

16:00 - 18:00 8 November 2021
Speaker : Dr Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Asien-Orient-Institut, Abteilung für Ethnologie, Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen, Germany Title : Where Rivers Eat. Materializing Riparian Hope…

Macro Seminar - David Domeij (Stockholm)

16:00 - 17:00 9 November 2021
Title: Money Demand Recessions (joint with Tore Ellingsen)

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Justin Mcinroy

13:00 - 14:00 9 November 2021
Speaker: Justin Mcinroy - Bristol Title: Classifying quotients of the Highwater algebra Abstract: Axial algebras are a new class of non-associative algebras which have a strong…

The Moses Gaster Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 9 November 2021
This academic year (2021-22) the John Rylands Research Institute and Library will complete the online cataloguing of the codices in Hebrew script in the Rylands Library Manchester.…

Turing Fellow 'Spotlight': 9 November

14:00 - 15:00 9 November 2021
The Digital Futures team are hosting talks by The University of Manchester's new Turing Fellows for 2021-22. Presenting at this event are Yu-wang Chen and Matthew Thorpe. To register…

Brownbag - Omer Edhan

12:00 - 13:00 10 November 2021
Title: The Diversification Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations

Characterising adlayers of surfactants using nonlinear optics – Vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Michael Dowhyj. Corrosion and subsequent structural degradation is a significant and ubiquitous problem, and the cost due to corrosion…

Chun-Xia Li -- North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences.

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

Erika Edwards (UNC Charlotte)

17:00 - 18:30 10 November 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930 Based on…

Hao Wu - Crossing probabilities in 2D critical lattice models

15:00 - 16:00 10 November 2021
Hao Wu (Tsinghua University) will speak in the Probability seminar. Conformal invariance of critical lattice models in two-dimensional has been vigorously studied for decades. The…

Miguel de Carvalho - A Bayesian Lasso for Black Swan Events

14:00 - 15:00 10 November 2021
Miguel de Carvalho, Reader in Statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: A Bayesian Lasso for Black Swan…

The Apollo 17 Light Mantle Avalanche: a recent long runout landslide on the Moon

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2021
Dr Giulia Magnarini from the Natural History Museum will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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