Lectures and seminars

Class, Cultural Knowledge, and Barriers to Mobility - Visiting Leverhulme Professor Annette Lareau

14:30 - 17:30 29 April 2024
Please join us for our very first University of Manchester Department of Sociology annual lecture, given in our 60th anniversary year. We are delighted that our inaugural lecture will…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Diego Martinez

14:00 - 15:00 29 April 2024
Speaker: Diego Martinez (University of Munster) Title: Generalized semigroup dynamics and their C*-algebras Abstract: Dynamical systems, that is, actions of (discrete) groups on locally…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Filippo Baroni

15:00 - 16:00 29 April 2024
Speaker: Filippo Baroni (Oxford) Title: Algorithmic classification of surface homeomorphisms Abstract: Up to homotopy, homeomorphisms of closed surfaces come in three guises: periodic,…

"Managing the Wealth of Nations": PEC Research Seminar

15:00 - 16:30 30 April 2024
What a conceptual and ideas-based approach can tell us about capitalism and economic development, 15th-19th centuries?” Dr Philipp Rössner, Professor of Early Modern History, University…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar - Valerio Izzi, Oulu Finland - Title: Democratization of big data - harnessing available big datasets to create online tools

13:00 - 14:00 30 April 2024
Abstract: The ever-growing wealth of omic datasets has revolutionized our understanding of human health and disease. However, the analysis of vast and complex datasets is challenging…

AMBS Event: In search of a Just Transition: Taking a stakeholder engagement perspective

16:00 - 17:00 30 April 2024
A guest lecture from Professor Fran Ackermann, John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the School of Management, Curtin Business School

LICHENG QIAN: Consumption and Nostalgia in Contemporary China

17:00 - 18:30 30 April 2024
In this in-person talk, Dr Licheng Qian discusses consumption and nostalgia in contemporary China. "Amidst the sweeping social transformations, a nostalgia market has emerged in contemporary…

Macro Seminar - Minchul Yum (Southampton)

16:00 - 17:00 30 April 2024
Title: TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Josh Males

15:00 - 16:00 30 April 2024
Speaker: Josh Males (University of Bristol) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

AMBS Event: A multi-level analysis of net-zero transitions Acceleration and new obstacles

12:00 - 13:00 1 May 2024
At this Original Thinking Lecture, Frank Geels, Eddie Davies Professor of Sustainability Transition, will give his inaugural lecture as Eddie Davies Chair. Net-zero transitions have…

Art Not Evidence: The misuse of rap in criminal trials

17:00 - 18:30 1 May 2024
Keir Monteith KC, in his inaugural lecture for the Law School at the University of Manchester, will review the increased criminalisation of rap music, including the use of lyrics and…

Brownbag - Xiaobing Wang

13:00 - 14:00 1 May 2024
Title: Family Labor Supply under Health Shocks

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 1 May 2024
Dr Javier Sajuria, Queen Mary University of London

Giorgos Minas -- Efficient simulation, analysis and inference for large oscillatory stochastic systems [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 1 May 2024
Join us for this seminar by Giorgos Minas (St Andrews) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences The talk will be hosted by the University…

Hannah Cobb's Inaugural Lecture – Assemblages of Teaching and Learning: Past, Present and Future

16:15 - 18:00 1 May 2024
In the metrics driven audit culture of today’s Higher Education landscape, there is a danger that teaching and learning are reduced to homogenised, transactional processes. In her…

Logic seminar: Sylvy Anscombe

15:15 - 16:30 1 May 2024
Title: Uniformities for Hilbert's Tenth Problem in henselian valued fields Abstract Hilbert's Tenth Problem in its original form asks for an algorithm to determine correctly whether…

MET Seminar - Francesco Giovannoni (Bristol)

17:00 - 18:00 1 May 2024
Title: Pricing Novel Goods Abstract: We study a buyer-seller problem of a novel good for which the seller does not yet know the production cost. A contract can be agreed upon at either…

EACW Research Seminar Series / The Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies

17:00 - 18:30 2 May 2024
Dr Ayesha Hameed (Goldsmiths) will deliver the Henry Box Brown Lecture in American Studies. 'Of Sea Changes and Other Futurisms' Of Sea Changes and Other Futurisms explores two long…

MANCEPT Seminar: Dr Devon Cass, "Equality and Institutions"

16:00 - 17:30 2 May 2024
Dr Devon Cass, University of Manchester - "Equality and Institutions"

2023-24 Full Year: Undergraduate Politics Dissertation Conference

09:00 - 17:00 7 May 2024
Organised jointly by the Politics Department and Juncture [junctureuom.co.uk] student journal, the conference showcases undergraduate research in Politics & IR at the University of…

Algebra seminar - Gregory Kendall

14:00 - 15:00 7 May 2024
Title: The stable module category for infinite groups and some classification theorems Abstract: The stable module category is classically defined for finite groups over a field of…

Macro Seminar - Jeanne Commault (Sciences Po)

16:00 - 17:00 7 May 2024
Title: TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Cassani

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2024
Speaker: Cassani Title: The Pila-Zannier strategy and the Zilber-Pink conjecture Abstract: I will explain how the Pila-Zannier strategy plays out in the context of the Zilber-Pink…

Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute)

14:00 - 15:30 7 May 2024
Professor Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute) will be presenting "Perinatal health in educational attainment: individual and population level relevance" (joint work with…

The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health 10th NCISH Conference 2024

10:00 - 13:00 7 May 2024
Please join us on 7th May for the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health 10th NCISH Conference 2024 Tuesday 7 May, 10am-1pm Online conference (via…

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