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A Conversation with Maria Repnikova on Chinese Soft Power

17:00 - 18:00 18 October 2022
WEBINAR: This multi-ranging talk between Dr. Maria Repnikova of Georgia State University & MCI Director Prof. Peter Gries will address the issue of Chinese soft power, with a particular…

An introduction to 2021 Census geography datasets

10:00 - 11:00 18 October 2022
To support users of the latest round of the census, the UK`s national statistics agencies are starting to release datasets describing the geography of the census. These datasets include…

ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

22 January - 31 December 2022
Be blown away by the stunning images in this year’s Astronomy Photography of the Year exhibition from The Royal Observatory Greenwich. IMAGE: Polar Lights Dance © Dmitrii Rybalka

ESRC Festival of Social Science Returns to Manchester for its 20th anniversary

18 October - 13 November 2022
We are delighted to announce that between 22nd October to 13th November, the annual ESRC Festival of Social Sciences returns to Manchester for its 20th anniversary, with events taking…

Global Political Economy

11:00 - 12:30 18 October 2022
Laura Macdonald (Carleton University, Canada): “Field Work and Participant Action Research for Progressive Politics”. This an open talk as part of the invitation-only PhD masterclass…

Macro Seminar - Christine Braun (Warwick)

16:00 - 17:00 18 October 2022
Title: Measuring the Productivity of Working from Home Abstract: We document a doubling of hours worked at home in the US from 2003 to 2019. We propose a model where workers choose…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Shezad Mohammed

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2022
Speaker: Shezad Mohammed - Manchester Title. The Weil descent functor in the category of algebras with free operators. Abstract, Weil restriction is a result of algebraic geometry…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Alex Torzewski

15:00 - 16:00 18 October 2022
Speaker: Alex Torzewski (King's College London) Title: Lawrence-Venkatesh bounds for curves in families Abstract: We outline how the method of Lawrence-Venkatesh to bound rational…

Qualitative Methods Training for Manchester City Council, Autumn 2022

3 - 31 October 2022
We ran five qualitative methods training sessions for members of Manchester City Council as part of our CAPE project. After introducing the foundations and principles of qualitative…

Racial Bias and the Bench: A response to the Judicial Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2020-2025

18:00 - 19:30 18 October 2022
Please join us for the launch of a new report that raises urgent questions about racial attitudes, procedures and practices in the English and Welsh justice system focusing on judicial…

Brownbag - Christopher Wallace

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2022
Title: Evidence Disclosure in Competitive Markets

Democracy and Elections

15:30 - 17:00 19 October 2022
Hannah Bunting (University of Exeter)

Dominykas Norgilas - Supermartingale shadow couplings (cancelled)

15:00 - 16:00 19 October 2022
Dominykas Norgilas (University of Michigan) will speak in the Probability seminar. A classical result of Strassen asserts that given probability measures $\mu,\nu$ on the real line…

GDI Lecture Series - FutureDAMS: Addressing the water-energy-food-environment challenge

15:00 - 16:30 19 October 2022
Following the completion of the interdisciplinary FutureDAMS project in early 2022, this lecture will be delivered by the project leads who will reflect on what they have learned through…

Kolyan Ray - Semiparametric Bayesian Causal Inference and Uncertainty Quantification

15:00 - 16:00 19 October 2022
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Inferring the causal…

Logic seminar: Ivan Tomasic (QMUL)

15:15 - 16:15 19 October 2022
Title: tba

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 19 October 2022
Zosia Stemplowska (Oxford University)

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 19 October 2022
Petr Matous The University of Sydney Male and stale? Questioning the role of opinion leaders in network interventions Social networks can influence people’s behaviour and therefore…

Morgan Centre seminar: #WeAreFamilyToo - Globordered Families Struggles against Covid-Regulation (Daphna Hacker)

14:00 - 15:30 19 October 2022
In my latest book, I explored the many ways families are affected by the interrelations between globalization and borders, and the key role of the law in shaping these globordered families’…

Olivia Casagrande: "Performing the jumbled city: subversive aesthetics and anticolonial indigeneity in Santiago de Chile"

17:00 - 18:30 19 October 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. The event will take place in Samuel Alexander A202. It can be followed online via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166

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Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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