Lectures and seminars

Carol Mavor- 2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: Like the Sea: Dancing with Mary Glass (1946-2021)

17:00 - 19:30 5 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

Macro Seminar - Tom Schmitz (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 5 December 2023
Title: Regional and Aggregate Economic Consequences of the Green Transition

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Stevan Gajovic

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2023
Speaker: Stevan Gajovic (Charles University) Title: Chabauty and p-adic heights Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss the method of Chabauty and Coleman, which is a powerful method…

Reimaging urban reform: Emerging insights from the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC)

16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2023
With Diana Miltin (GDI), Shuaib Lwasa (ISS), Victoria Beard (Cornell), and more speakers TBC Africa’s urban populations are set to double over the next 25 years, reaching 1 billion…

Reimaging urban reform: Emerging insights from the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC)

Revolution, Rebellion & Empire on Early Maoist China's Tibetan Borderland

17:00 - 18:30 5 December 2023
Join Benno Weiner's in-person talk on "Revolution, Rebellion, and the Afterlives of Empire on a Tibetan Borderland of Early Maoist China". When in 1949 the Chinese Communist Party…

Carol Mavor- 2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: 'A patch of yellow, a coat of blue: inside my heart and Vermeer'

17:00 - 19:30 6 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

Co-producing urban research: Sharing methods and experience

13:30 - 15:00 6 December 2023
Manchester Urban Institute, Global Development Institute – University of Manchester and Methods@Manchester panel discussion: Co-producing urban research: sharing methods and experiences…

Conversation on Urban Ageing, Ethnicity and COVID-19

14:30 6 December 2023
In Conversation, MUARG and Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity present: Dharmi Kapadia and Chris Phillipson will be coming together in conversation to discuss the experiences of people…

Democracy & Elections Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 6 December 2023
Florian Foos (London School of Economics and Political Science)

EACW Research Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 6 December 2023
Chris Birkett, City University of London, Bill Clinton at the Church of Baseball book talk Samuel Alexander A7, followed by drinks at Kro

Inaugural Lectures - Prof Ian Mell and Prof Ralitza Dimova

16:30 - 18:30 6 December 2023
On Wednesday 6 December, join the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural lectures from Ian Mell, Professor in Environmental &…

Irene Manton Lecture 2023

17:30 - 19:00 6 December 2023
This lecture is free to attend and will take place in person and online. It is open to everyone with A-level students especially welcome. The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health…

Logic seminar: Adrian Miranda

15:15 - 16:15 6 December 2023
Title: The elementary theory of the 2-category of small categories Abstract: The standard mathematical foundation system, ZFC, axiomatises sets and the membership relation. It can…

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 6 December 2023
Jonny Benson (University of Manchester)

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 6 December 2023
Dominika Czerniawska, Leiden University

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 6 December 2023
Dominika Czerniawska

Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti -- Analog and Digital modes of gene expression regulation and memory [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 6 December 2023
Join us for this seminar by Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti (University of Glasgow) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full…

Vsevolod Shneer - First passage percolation on Erdos-Renyi graphs with general weights

15:00 - 16:00 6 December 2023
Seva Shneer (Heriot-Watt University) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) We consider an Erdos-Renyi random graph on n nodes where the probability of an edge being present…

Carol Mavor-2023-24 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History: 'At once, she is one'

13:15 - 15:30 7 December 2023
University of Manchester Professor Emerita Carol Mavor returns to campus as the 2023-2024 Pilkington Visiting Professor in Art History. She will deliver a trio of lectures as well…

Andrea Cairoli -- Physical principles of Drosophila abdomen morphogenesis during metamorphosis [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 11 December 2023
Join us for this seminar by Andrea Cairoli (Crick Institute) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Edward Simpson (Lancaster University)

16:00 - 18:00 11 December 2023
Edward Simpson (Lancaster University): State Highway 31: Infrastructure, climate change and a multi-scalar ethnographic approach to no behaviour change. This talk follows the route…

Film premiere and discussion - MIGRANTS: Joy, Rest & Celebration

16:00 - 17:30 11 December 2023
Supported by the SEED Impact Fund, Migrants: Joy, Rest & Celebration is a short film by Sheril A. Bustaman with Dr Nadiah Ahmad in collaboration with MIDEQ partners at the University…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andreas Swerdlow

13:30 - 14:30 11 December 2023
Title: Graphical calculus: from numerical methods to Feynman diagrams to higher Lie theory and microformal morphisms, part 6 Abstract: The goal of these talks is to explore a number…

Vital Topics: A Nature Positive Economy

17:30 11 December 2023
Beccy Speight, CEO, RSPB, will give this Vital Topics lecture at Alliance Manchester Business School. A Nature Positive Economy As demands on our planet continue to grow, there is…

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