Events at The University of Manchester

Lectures and seminars

Applied Seminar - Monica Costa-Dias (Bristol and IFS)

13:00 - 14:00 9 March 2023
Title: Higher Education Sorting and Social Mobility (with Jack Britton and David Goll) Abstract: Education is a main facilitator of social, inter-generational mobility, and higher…

Democracy: Should We Replace Elections With Random Selection? (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 9 March 2023
Dr Annabelle Lever (Sciences Po, Paris) Abstract: Over the past ten years or so, a lively debate has developed about how democratic voting should take place and, to a lesser extent,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Mary Mills, Liverpool Hope University/Maryvale Institute, Landscape Transformation in Isaiah 34-5: Between Utopia and Dystopia

14:10 - 15:30 9 March 2023
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,…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Thilo Huning (York)

16:00 - 17:00 9 March 2023
Title: TBC

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Theo Douvropoulos

13:00 - 14:00 9 March 2023
The algebra seminar next week will be given by Theo Douvropoulos from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. We draw attention to the fact that it will be on Thursday 9th March…

Why is it important to study volunteer translation from an autoethnographic perspective?

14:00 - 15:30 9 March 2023
Join us for a CTIS research seminar: Why is it important to study volunteer translation from an autoethnographic perspective? Abstract: June 2020. I’m lying in my bed, listening to…

Annual Gillian White Lecture 2023

17:00 - 19:00 13 March 2023
Crude Knowledge: Decolonisation and Hydrocarbon Epistemes Decolonisation in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s included demands for sovereign control over and new ways of accounting for, pricing,…

Arturo Araujo -- Modelling biological first principles to understand clinical outcomes [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 13 March 2023
Join us for this seminar by Arturo Araujo (Roehampton/UCL) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Commoning Data: Informational politics in the Energy Crisis

16:00 13 March 2023
Dr Hannah Knox Commoning Data: Informational politics in the Energy Crisis In this talk I will draw on recent research with two projects that have been pursuing energy activism through…

Manchester-Melbourne Water Research Seminar: Urban Sustainability and Water Security of China (hybrid)

09:00 - 10:00 13 March 2023
The Manchester-Melbourne Water Research Network, brought to you by the University of Manchester (School of Environment, Education and Development) and the University of Melbourne (Centre…

The Imperial Origins of Policing (Julian Go, Uni of Chicago)

18:00 - 19:30 13 March 2023
P?rofessor Julian Go (University of Chicago) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Imperial Origins of Policing: Race, Militarization, and the Boomerang Effect in Britain and…

Covid-19 Containment Measures in Japan and the Role of Society JOINT SEMINAR WITH JAPANESE STUDIES

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2023
Amy Borovoy Covid-19 Containment Measures in Japan and the Role of Society This talk explores Japan’s policies of containing infection without heavy reliance on legally imposed lockdowns…

Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series: Robert di Schiavi

14:00 - 15:00 14 March 2023
Summary: Cybersecurity has become a major concern in the digital age, as the increasing reliance on technology has led to an increase in cyberattacks. The psychology of cyber security…

Macro Seminar - Tobias Broer (Paris School of Economics)

16:00 - 17:00 14 March 2023
Title: TBA

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Raymond McCulloch

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2023
Speaker: Raymond McCulloch - Manchester Title: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Raymond McCulloch

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2023
Speaker: Raymond McCulloch - Manchester Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Winston Heap

15:00 - 16:00 14 March 2023
Speaker: Winston Heap Title: Mean values of the Hurwitz zeta function on the critical line and its value distribution for irrational parameters. Abstract: It is known that for typical…

The Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture with Professor David Scott : "A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall's Art of Living."

18:00 - 20:00 14 March 2023
Stuart Hall was a leading intellectual of the Black experience in Britain, but also of the Caribbean. This talk will reflect on the particular distinctiveness that Hall’s biography…

Democracy and Election Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 15 March 2023
Tom O’Grady (University College London)

MET Seminar - Sinem Hidir (Warwick)

17:00 - 18:00 15 March 2023
Title: When to go negative? (joint with Xueying Zhao) Abstract: We consider the problem of an incumbent politician who decides whether to use negative advertising against a competitor…

Rebecca Lewis - Cox reduction and confidence sets of models (- in person stat seminar)

14:00 - 15:00 15 March 2023
Rebecca Lewis, PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at the Imperial College London is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Cox reduction and confidence sets…

Reflecting on Environmental NGOs in Regulation = POSTPONED

17:30 - 19:30 15 March 2023
Environmental NGOs contribute to the regulatory space in a variety of ways. They can be involved in shaping the rules of regulation by participating in both the drafting of law and…

SMRs and Beyond: A Panel Discussion | Dalton Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:00 15 March 2023
Watch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MfEtOBB27k There is hope that Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), currently planned for the early 2030s, will provide low-carbon…

SQUIDS Seminar: Andrew McRae - Deep learning for weather forecasting

15:00 - 16:00 15 March 2023
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: Weather forecasting has…

Yvik Swan - On the distance between discrete and continuous random variables on the real line

15:00 - 16:00 15 March 2023
Yvik Swan (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) We revisit Stein’s method of approximate computation of expectations, here with the aim…

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