Seminar

Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Manchester): "On Coalition and Cosmopolitics: Notes for a Recent History of Indigenous Cultural Production in Brazil"

17:00 - 18:30 16 February 2022
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.…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 16 February 2022
Ossi Mokryn University of Haifa The rich get richer, but what else? Observations in network growth over time” The temporal changes in complex systems of interactions have excited…

Ritabrata Dutta - Probabilistic Forecasting with Conditional Generative Networks via Scoring Rule Minimization

14:00 - 15:00 16 February 2022
Ritabrata Dutta, Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Probabilistic Forecasting…

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:…

Sociology seminar: Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES): why are we still talking about ‘inclusion’?

14:45 - 15:45 16 February 2022
Speaker: Nafhesa Ali (SCI, University of Manchester) Abstract: The ‘Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES)’ project is a 3-year Leverhulme funded project and the first…

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Bell, University of Manchester ‘Mortality Patterns and Bereavement Language in 1 Thessalonians: The Impact of Children in the Community of the Text’

14:00 - 15:30 17 February 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. 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: Dominic Budhi (University of Manchester) “So That We May be Children of God Together': Manchester Cathedral's Public Theology of Racial Justice”

16:00 - 17:30 17 February 2022
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…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Conserving and Researching a Collection of 19th Century Obstetrical and Gynaecological Images

12:00 - 13:00 17 February 2022
Join us for an online lunchtime seminar exploring a very rare collection of prints and drawings used to teach midwifery in the 19th century. Rebecca Whiteley (Shreeve Fellow in the…

Policy@Manchester Publication Launch: On Cancer

12:30 - 14:30 18 February 2022
Join Policy@Manchester to hear from a panel of experts about our new publication On Cancer, and the future of cancer care in Greater Manchester. 1 in 2 people born in the UK since…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Laura Roe

16:00 21 February 2022
Title : Memories of dust: Heroin and polydrug temporalities in post-industrial Scotland. Description : Laura Roe is a social researcher within the Scottish Government. She recently…

Macro Seminar - Nicola Limodio (Bocconi)

16:00 - 17:00 22 February 2022
Title: Depositor Behaviour and Deposit Insurance: Evidence from Colombia

Natalie Evans (King's College London) - Correlations of almost primes

15:00 - 16:00 22 February 2022
Abstract : The Hardy-Littlewood generalised twin prime conjecture states an asymptotic formula for the number of primes $p\le X$ such that $p+h$ is prime for any non-zero even integer…

Postponed: Manchester Algebra Seminar - Misha Feigin

13:00 - 14:00 22 February 2022
Speaker: Misha Feigin - University of Glasgow Title: TBC Place: Frank Adams (and to be streamed online*) *subject to equipment and connection Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

An introduction to the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC)

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr John Baker. The Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC) is a partnership between universities (Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton,…

Brownbag - Veronica Vienne Arancibia

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
Title: Air Pollution and Labour Productivity: Evidence from Europe

Dalton Seminar Series | How do we develop fusion regulation?

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
A virtual round table discussion about what we need to do to develop the regulation required for future fusion reactors, with representatives from The University of Manchester, the…

Finn Lindgren - inlabru: Extending and simplifying the INLA interface for spatial and non-linear models

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2022
Finn Lindgren, Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: inlabru: Extending and simplifying…

Julio Villa-García & Francisco Martín Miguel (University of Oviedo): "Lessons from linguistics: putting the science of language to use"

16:00 - 17:30 23 February 2022
In this talk, we argue that knowledge of linguistics can be extremely useful, particularly for language experts (teachers, translators, etc.). Far from the preconceived idea that a…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2022
Marion Hoffman IAST Toulouse Statistical modeling of social groups: An example and some outlooks Many social relations are situated within groups. Social groups are formed, for example,…

Naval Singh - Reversible Trapping of Colloids in Microgrooved Channels by Diffusiophoresis

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2022
Naval Singh (University of Manchester) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Reversible Trapping of Colloids in Microgrooved Channels by Diffusiophoresis…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Professor Michael Ridge (Edinburgh)

15:15 - 16:50 23 February 2022
Please note that this seminar will be taking place on Zoom. For the relevant Zoom link, contact Dr Stephen Ingram Title: *Playfulness as a Moral Virtue? Abstract: *In this paper I…

Robert Shorten -- Cyber-physical Systems, Control Theory, and examples of Health Interventions

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Robert Shorten (Imperial) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Maria Cioata, University of Manchester, 'Traditional Reactions to Modern Higher-Criticism: the Case of Dr. Moses Gaster' (Zoom only)

14:00 - 15:30 24 February 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This session will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend online, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk. For…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Imaging and Imagining Early Modern Feather Fans

12:00 - 13:00 24 February 2022
Join us for an online lunchtime seminar exploring how imaging technology was used on an early modern fan to advance our understanding of artisanal creativity. Dr Stefan Hanß and Tony…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr. Ed Pulford

16:00 - 18:00 28 February 2022
Title : Colliding temporalities across northeast China’s postsocialist borders Description : Crossing borders between states often involves a sense of temporal shift, with varied…

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