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2nd Global Conference on Parenting Interventions

12:00 3 - 12:00 4 May 2023
This conference will highlight/bring together both the global research on parenting interventions and share learning experiences, success, barriers, and solutions to the implementation…

Abigail Mellor - Asymptotic analysis and efficient numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck Equations (with application to derivatives pricing)

12:00 - 13:00 3 May 2023
Abigail Mellor (University of Manchester) will speak in the Probability seminar. (in-person) The Fokker-Planck Equations (FPEs) are ubiquitous in numerous disciplines, not least in…

Book Launch: Legitimation as Political Practice: Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania

16:00 - 18:00 3 May 2023
Legitimacy has long been perceived through a Westernized lens as a fixed, binary state. In her book, Kathy Dodworth explores everyday legitimation practices in coastal Tanzania, specifically…

Chloe Ireton (UCL): Tracing a History of Black Thought in 16th-century Sevilla.

17:00 - 18:30 3 May 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. Co-organised with the Race, Roots & Resistance Collective (R3). Room: Samuel Alexander A214. This…

Comparative Politics Research Cluster Seminar - Sophia Hatzisavvidou

16:00 - 17:30 3 May 2023
Sophia Hatzisavvidou (University of Bath)

Exclusive Screening of The Plastic Warriors Documentary

17:45 - 20:00 3 May 2023
Sustainable Futures and Social Responsibility at The University of Manchester are delighted to host this exclusive screening of The Plastic Warriors Documentary. Showcasing expertise…

From data storage to programmable photonics: new applications need new materials

12:00 - 13:00 3 May 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Prof. Robert Simpson. The objective of this seminar is to highlight that new materials need to be developed specifically for programmable…

Javier Garcia Oliva's Inaugural Lecture 'Whose Law is it Anyway?'

16:00 - 18:00 3 May 2023
Whose law is it Anyway? The Supreme Court recently ruled on a claim made by the occupants of luxury apartments on the South Bank, who objected to the Tate Modern offering visitors…

Logic semina: Kristina Vuskovic (Leeds) Unusual time

11:00 - 12:00 3 May 2023
Title: Structure and algorithms Abstract: In this talk we survey structural characterizations of different hereditary graph classes (i.e. classes closed under deletion of vertices),…

MET Seminar - Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey (Berkeley)

17:00 - 18:00 3 May 2023
Title: Redistribution Through Tax Relief Abstract: This paper studies politically feasible policy solutions to inequities in local public goods provision. I focus in particular on…

Online Deaf Awareness (for University of Manchester Humanities staff only)

10:00 - 12:00 3 May 2023
2-hour online session delivered by Manchester Deaf Centre by one of their experienced, profoundly Deaf tutors - brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities Social & Wellbeing Advisory…

PEM 70th Anniversary Lecture - 'Planning and Land Ownership – Time for Reform?'

17:00 - 19:00 3 May 2023
Abstract: In this lecture marking the PEM's 70th year, Professor David Adams will examine the uneasy relationship between planning and land ownership, and explore how landowners and…

Queer British Art - An in conversation between Ajamu X and Simeon Barclay

14:00 3 May 2023
The Queer British Art Research Group are thrilled to be hosting an in conversation between artists, Ajamu X and Simeon Barclay. Ajamu X’s new exhibition Ajamu: The Patron Saint of Darkroom…

Research Café: Bio-inspired Textiles

12:00 - 13:30 3 May 2023
Join us for an informal lunch event exploring how textile science and the arts meet to create materials that are inspired by nature. Interdisciplinarity is vital to address challenges…

SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO - Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation

18:30 - 20:00 3 May 2023
We're delighted to be working with the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing to host Jason Allen-Paisant as part of their Literature Live series. Jason will be reading from…

Applied Seminar - Saurabh Singhal (Lancaster)

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2023
Title: Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation Abstract: Improving agricultural productivity is vital to anti-poverty and food security goals but can have ecological ramifications.…

Chinese Views of Russia and Ukraine, a Roundtable Discussion

17:00 - 18:30 4 May 2023
[In-person, The Portico Library] With China’s tacit support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there has been much talk in global media about a new China-Russia alliance against…

Data management basics: Ethical and legal issues in data sharing

10:00 - 11:30 4 May 2023
Data management is essential to make sure that well-organised, well-documented, high quality and shareable research data can be produced from our research projects. The introductory…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alison Salvesen, University of Oxford, Symmachus, ‘the translator of the Jews’: what a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible can tell us about religious life in early 3rd C Palestine

14:10 - 15:30 4 May 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,…

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