Lectures and seminars

Applied Seminar - Ludovica Gazze (Warwick)

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2022
Title: A View from the Fenceline: Evaluating Monitoring and Enforcement Policies to Reduce Oil and Gas Methane Emissions (joint with Thomas Covert, Michael Greenstone, Olga Rostapshova)

Econometrics Seminar - Debopam Bhattacharya (Cambridge)

11:00 - 12:00 17 November 2022
Inferring trade-offs in university admissions: evidence from Cambridge Abstract: How do elite universities balance diversity vs academics during admissions? We develop a theory-based…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Walter Houston (University of Manchester) '"I saw the prosperity of the wicked." Tracking down the rich in the Psalms.'

14:00 - 15:30 17 November 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,…

Global Political Economy

15:00 - 16:30 17 November 2022
Seminar “Lineages of Transition: PhD, Postdoc, Early Career”. Talks by Charlotte Weatherill, Aliki Koutlou, Franco Galdini (all GPE, Politics).

R&T Panel: Hannah Cobb, Scott Midson, Holly Morse, Katja Stuerzenhofecker (Manchester) 'Pedagogies for value-based teaching: Religions & Theology in the classroom and beyond'

16:00 - 17:30 17 November 2022
The Religion and Theology department's fortnightly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to…

“...No more than one can see the grass growing.”

16:00 - 18:00 21 November 2022
Alexander Schellow (Filmmaker and researcher, ERG - School of Graphic Research) Chair: Alexandra D’Onofrio

Macro Seminar - Daniel Lewis (UCL)

16:00 - 17:00 22 November 2022
Title: Dynamic Identification Using System Projections and Instrumental Variables

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Sue Sierra

13:00 - 14:00 22 November 2022
Speaker: Sue Sierra Title: TBC Place: Frank Adams (this term the seminar will not be streamed online) Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Roger Plymen

15:00 - 16:00 22 November 2022
Speaker: Roger Plymen (University of Manchester) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Title: The Fraudster and the Bank

Cara Levey (Cork): Documenting Diaspora, Diasporizing Memory: Screening the Hijxs del exilio

17:00 - 19:00 23 November 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Building A202. However, it can be followed online…

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 23 November 2022
Diana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge University)

Earth in the Emergency Room: Recovery of Earth after the Moonforming Giant Impact

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Dr. Simon Lock from Bristol University will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Eradicating extreme poverty in China: A sociological account.

01:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
China has lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty since late 1970s and announced in 2020 a sweeping victory on ending extreme poverty after an eight years’ national fight…

GDI Lecture Series - Lost Lands: Indigenous People and Land Rights in East Africa - POSTPONED

15:00 - 16:30 23 November 2022
Indigenous people’s land claims meet with suspicion and distrust. This lecture will explore examples of indigenous people’s claims to lost lands. It reads these claims through the lens…

Logic seminar: Vahagn Aslanyan (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 23 November 2022
Title: Model-theoretic Algebraic Closure in Zilber’s Field Abstract: I will explain how the model-theoretic algebraic closure in Zilber’s pseudo-exponential field can be described…

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 23 November 2022
Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester) https://mihaelapopawyatt.wordpress.com/

MET Seminar - Nikhil Vellodi (Paris School of Economics)

17:00 - 18:00 23 November 2022
Title: Insider Imitation Abstract: We study how regulating data usage impacts innovation in digital markets. Platforms commonly use proprietary data about third-party sellers to inform…

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 23 November 2022
Paolo Campana University of Cambridge The Anatomy of Organised Crime Cooperation in a UK Police Area Organised Crime Groups (OCGs) constitute the backbone of many illegal markets…

Pankhurst Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 23 November 2022
Conducted by Carl Death

Robert Gaunt - Normal approximation for the posterior in exponential families (in-person)

15:00 - 16:00 23 November 2022
Robert Gaunt (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) The Bernstein-von Mises (BvM) Theorem is a cornerstone in Bayesian statistics. Loosely put,…

School of Environment, Education and Development Inaugural Lectures

04:30 - 06:30 23 November 2022
O?n Wednesday, 23 November, join the School of Environment, Education and Development for our winter inaugural lectures with Professor Terry Hanley and Professor Sarah Marie Hall from…

Thomas Barker -- Continuum modelling of flowing grains [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2022
Join us for this seminar by Tom Barker (Cardiff -- previously Manchester) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Applied Seminar - Jonathan Chapman (Bologna)

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2022
Title: Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from the English Poor Law

Ehrhardt Seminar: Kelsie Rodenbiker (University of Glasgow) ‘”Looking for Gold in Mud”: Ancient Ecclesiastical Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy’

14:00 - 15:30 24 November 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,…

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