Lectures and seminars

Abeyamí Ortega (UoM): 'The ‘mestizo gaze’ and the ‘scopic regime of mestizaje’: Racial logics, visual culture, and citizenship in Mexico'

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be on campus (Samuel Alexander A101) but you can also follow it via Zoom.…

Brownbag - Katsushi Imai

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2021
Title: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Labour Market Outcomes in the Future Generation?

Christophe Ley - Directional statistics and protein bioinformatics: a flexible approach

14:00 - 15:00 24 November 2021
Christophe Ley, Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Ghent University is our speaker for the Statistics seminar…

GDI Lecture Series: How can we bridge the gap between local and global knowledge in urban development research?

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2021
Conceptualising the realities of cities in the global South is often characterised by ‘informality’ which continues to be key of the urban fabric. Transformation of cities to sustainability…

Jian Ding - A New Correlation Inequality for Ising Models with External Fields

15:00 - 16:00 24 November 2021
Jian Ding (University of Pennsylvania) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study ferromagnetic Ising models on finite graphs with an inhomogeneous external field, where a subset…

Museums as space of care: COVID-19 responses

17:15 - 18:15 24 November 2021
Online Event Drawing on her recent book, The Museum as a Space of Social Care (2020), Dr Nuala Moore explores the potential of ‘care thinking’ for understanding the social role of…

Reinhard Bürger -- The effects of epistasis and linkage on the invasion of locally beneficial mutations

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Reinhard Bürger (Vienna) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

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:…

The new EPSRC NNUF Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation (RADER) and Williamson Research Centre Laboratories - Research capabilities and opportunities

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2021
Profs Kath Morris and Jon Lloyd from the The University of Manchester will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

VerSoX B07-B: A new beamline for high-throughput XPS and ambient pressure XAS

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. David Grinter. Dr. Grinter will present a new beamline at Diamond Light Source, B07-B, dedicated to soft X-ray spectroscopy under…

Applied Seminar - Mauro Rota (Rome)

13:00 - 14:00 25 November 2021
Title: TBA

Nano in Medicine & Health Lecture Series: Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine - Professor George Malliaras, University of Cambridge

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2021
On behalf of the Nanomedicine Lab at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) we are delighted to invite you to our…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Katherine Brown (University of Birmingham) “Extremist Myths and Extremist Masculinities in Indonesia, Philippines and Pakistan”

16:00 - 17:30 25 November 2021
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid session and can be attended in person or online. Please register to receive the Zoom link…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata - ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’

16:00 - 18:00 29 November 2021
Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’ From 2010 to 2019, the anthropologist Samuli Schielke and…

Annual Lane Lecture 2021: Long-COVID: should this be in the occupational disease fast lane? With guest speaker Dr Lesley Rushton

16:00 - 18:00 30 November 2021
Long-COVID: should this be in the occupational disease fast lane? Since January 2020 the UK has experienced waves of infection due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus…

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