Lectures and seminars

Social Anthropology Seminar - via Zoom and in the Boardroom - Dr Rosana Pinheiro Machado

16:00 - 18:00 6 December 2021
Speaker : Rosana Pinheiro Machado Title : The right to shine : Poverty, consumption, and the politics of pleasure in Brazil. Description of the talk : The talk examines the political…

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:…

Irene Manton Lecture 2021 (online)

17:00 - 18:30 7 December 2021
Join us to celebrate and commemorate the significant contribution made by women to the Natural Sciences at the 2021 Irene Manton lecture. The lecture is free to attend and is open…

Macro Seminar - Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis (Barcelona)

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2021
Title: Transfer Progressivity and Development (joint with Enric Martorell and Leandro De Magalhaes)

Manchester Algebra Seminar - James Timmins

13:00 - 14:00 7 December 2021
Speaker: Rob Nicolaides Title: Coxeter Groups and Tilings of Polygons Abstract: Coxeter groups are a family of groups with a rich, combinatorial theory. Each group is equipped with…

Social Statistics Seminar - 7 December 2021

16:00 - 17:00 7 December 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22 – December Session New measures for assessing non-ignorable selection bias in non-probability samples and low response rate probability samples…

The Moses Gaster Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 7 December 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': 7 December

14:00 - 15:00 7 December 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 Glen Martin and Matthew Sperrin. To register…

Voices from the Frontline; Saving Lives in War, Disaster and Disease

17:45 - 19:30 7 December 2021
Join the UK-Med team for a special evening of stories told from frontline medical team members, hosted by UK-Med Founder Professor Tony Redmond. The evening will involve a selection…

Computer Science ATLAS talk - Learning from Disagreements

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2021
Please join us for our forthcoming Atlas Talk (online) in Computer Science Joining details: https://zoom.us/j/98513350116 Passcode 910561 Title - Learning from Disagreements Speaker…

Covid-19 & the Useful Museum

17:15 - 18:15 8 December 2021
Online Event This seminar introduces research into the impact of Covid-19 on museums and galleries in the North East and North West of England, undertaken as part of a national research…

Finding and fixing greenhouse gas leaks: where humans disrupt the plumbing of the global carbon cycle

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2021
Dr Joshua Dean from the University of Liverpool will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Michael Hofstetter - Extreme values of the sine-Gordon field

15:00 - 16:00 8 December 2021
Michael Hofstetter (University of Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. In recent years there has been significant progress in the study of extreme values of log-correlated…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge)

15:15 - 16:50 8 December 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…

Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti -- North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti (John Innes Centre) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the…

Steering ultrafast photochemical reactions with infrared excitation

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Julia Weinstein. Light absorption in molecules initiates a plethora of reactions on the ultrafast timescale. Designing the ways…

Applied Seminar - Jacquelyn Pless (MIT)

13:00 - 14:00 9 December 2021
Title: TBA

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Samuel J Rogers (Montreat College) ‘Nostalgic Nationalism, Political Ideologies, and the Bible: Quoting the Bible in American Black Lives Matters Discourse’

14:00 - 16:00 9 December 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,…

Material potencies and dormant things - inaugural lecture by Professor Sophie Woodward

16:00 - 17:00 9 December 2021
Join us for Professor Sophie Woodward's inaugural lecture: "Material potencies and dormant things: expanding a vital sociology of the everyday" There is perhaps no more striking example…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Katie Cross (University of Aberdeen) "Nones or Dones? A Theological Consideration of Church Leavers"

16:00 - 17:30 9 December 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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