Lectures and seminars

Sustainable Futures Seminar: Plastics and Circular Economy in UK

14:00 - 15:00 30 May 2024
This event is open to both internals and externals to The University of Manchester On Thursday 30th May 2024, Sustainable Futures will be hosting our fifth 2024 Seminar in our monthly…

The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: Translation, Teleology & Technology- Digital Humanities Studies of the Ancient World

13:00 - 13:45 30 May 2024
This online talk will focus on the John Rylands Library's rare copy of the medieval Arabic translation of On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body by Galen of Pergamum (d. ca. 216…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Hybrid entrepreneurship and the commercialization of university inventions

15:30 - 16:30 3 June 2024
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 23/24 with Markus Perkmann, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Vice-Dean at Imperial College…

Restructuring of the European semiconductor industry through government subsidies: focus on Germany and implications for GPNs

15:00 - 16:30 3 June 2024
This lecture is hosted by GDI's Global Production Networks, Trade, and Labour (GPNTL) group. Speakers: Gale Raj-Reichert,?Professor of Politics,?Bard College Berlin Tobias Wuttke,…

Addressing Biodiversity Challenges Through Interdisciplinary Research

09:00 - 14:00 4 June 2024
Please note that this event is only open to internals to The University of Manchester About the event: Biodiversity – the variety of life in the world – is essential to human wellbeing…

Algebra seminar - Vlad Vankov

14:00 - 15:00 4 June 2024
Title: Almost finitely presented hyperbolic subgroups over arbitrary rings Abstract: In 1996, Gersten proved that if a group G is hyperbolic and of integral cohomological dimension…

AI-Fun Seminar | Michele Caprio: Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning: Being Precise About Imprecision

10:30 - 11:30 5 June 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals is hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Title: Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning:…

Community-Centred Approaches to Active Travel Policy

13:30 - 15:00 5 June 2024
Policy@Manchester's June seminar will focus on creative community engagement and its impact on active travel policy. Greater Manchester (GM) has among the worst levels of pollution…

Comparative Politics Seminar

15:30 5 June 2024
Dr Vicente Valentim, University of Oxford

Logic seminar: Pietro Freni

15:15 - 16:30 5 June 2024
Title: T-convexity and T-lambda-spherical completions of o-minimal structures. Abstract: After introducing the basic notions relevant to the talk (valued field, o-minimal theory, T-convexity),…

Manchester Infection Seminar Series - Marilena Crescente (Manchester Metropolitan University) - Deciphering the effect of C. albicans on the activation and on the immunodulatory action of platelets

11:00 - 12:00 5 June 2024
The next Manchester Infection Seminar will be by Marilena Crescente (Manchester Metropolitan University) who will present a talk entitled 'Deciphering the effect of C. albicans on the…

Work and Equalities Institute 6th Annual Lecture "Collectivism after Collectivism: orientations to collectivism and its role in post-redundancy lives of ex-steelworkers in the UK and Sweden

11:00 - 12:30 5 June 2024
At this year's annual Work and Equalities Institute lecture, guest speaker Professor Robert MacKenzie will explore orientations to collectivism amongst ex-steelworkers, based on an…

Energy transition, new state capitalism? Changing state roles in the production networks of critical minerals in Chile

14:00 - 15:30 6 June 2024
Seminar organised by the Cities, Politics and Economies (Geography) and Global Production Networks, Trade, and Labour (GDI) research groups. Speaker: Dr. Felipe Irarrázaval, Investigador…

The Rylands Lunchtime Online Seminar: The Making of the Cranach Workshop’s Copy of the Armorial of Bianca Maria Sforza (Rylands German MS 2)

13:00 - 13:45 6 June 2024
We'll be joined by researcher Ben Pope for this online talk focussing on Elector August of Saxony (1526–86) who, in 1565 commissioned Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–86) to make a copy…

Book Launch: “Charaiveti: An Academic's Global Journey“

14:00 - 15:30 7 June 2024
Seminar with Professor Pranab Bardhan (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at University of California, Berkeley). We are happy to welcome Professor Pranab Bardhan, one of…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Challenges of Equity and Engagement in International Scientific Collaboration

15:30 - 16:30 10 June 2024
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 23/24 with Professor Caroline S. Wagner (John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University),…

'Tagaloa x Tangaroa: Pasifika popular music and climate justice' Kirsten Zemke and Luka Leleiga Lim-Cowley

15:00 - 16:30 12 June 2024
Speakers: Dr Kirsten Zemke (University of Aukland) and Luka Leleiga Lim-Cowley (Oxford University) The Pacific region is one of the most severely impacted areas in the world by climate…

Logic seminar: Michael Wibmer

15:15 - 16:30 12 June 2024
Title: Model theory of proalgebraic groups Abstract: The model theory of profinite groups plays an important role in the model theory of fields, especially in the model theory of pseudo…

Logic seminar: Ronnie Nagloo

12:00 - 13:00 12 June 2024
Title: Model theory and Covering maps Abstract: In this talk, we will look at the problem of describing the classification theoretic structure of the sets defined (in DCF) by the differential…

Pankhurst Seminar Series: Digital Health Inequities Edition - Towards a decolonial agenda for digital health in Sub Saharan Africa

13:00 - 14:00 12 June 2024
Our next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities seminar series is on 12th of June, 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99993393007). Prof Sharifah Sekalala from the University of Warwick…

PEC Seminar: Governing the Displaced - Dr Ali Bhagat

15:00 - 16:00 12 June 2024
On Wednesday 12th June at 3pm in Sam Alex A104, Dr Ali Bhagat will be presenting on his new book, Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism. Book summary:…

Behaviour Change Meeting Group seminar series - Dr Lesley Lewis (Somerset Council)

15:00 - 16:00 13 June 2024
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Matt Ryan -- Monkey see, monkey do...monkey sick! Incorporating the Health Belief Model into a simple transmission model [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 13 June 2024
Join us for this seminar by Matt Ryan (CSIRO, Australia) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science The talk will be hosted by the University…

Myanmar's Changing Political and Security Context and Rohingya Repatriation

13:00 - 14:30 18 June 2024
Guest lecture with Professor Sk. Tawfique M. Haque, Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Director of the South Asian Institute of Policy and Governance (SIPG)…

AI-Fun Seminar | Fengxiang He: Building Up Deep Learning Theory: Perspectives of Optimisation and Loss Landscape

10:30 - 11:30 19 June 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals is hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI and our speaker on 19 June is Dr Fengxiang He.…

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