Lectures and seminars

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Jack Birch

15:00 - 16:00 14 November 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…

Econometrics Seminar - Patrik Guggenberger (PSU)

12:00 - 13:00 14 November 2024
Title TBA

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr James Lorenz (York St John University) - Through the Attentive Lens: Film, Time, and Contemplation

16:00 - 17:30 14 November 2024
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid session and can be attended in person or online. To join us online or receive details…

Future Archive and the Biomolecular Humanities - DNA Storage systems and the future of information

12:30 - 14:00 15 November 2024
<strong>Join us for an informal networking lunch to discuss the future of data storage.</strong> Molecular storage solutions for our incipient data crisis are being developed in haphazard…

What's In Your Wardrobe? Telling & Sharing Clothing Stories

10:00 - 12:00 16 November 2024
We invite attendees to bring along items of clothing and share the stories, memories, and connections these special items have for them, demonstrating how clothing can inform and record landmarks in personal lives.

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Prof Rob Black

14:00 - 16:00 18 November 2024
Join Digital Futures and Prof Rob Black for a free event on 18th November to explore the concepts of a proactive cyber defence strategy, through weaponising their trust and utilising…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Michael Dymond

14:00 18 November 2024
Speaker: Michael Dymond (University of Birmingham) Title: Comparing separated nets in Euclidean spaces Abstract: Separated nets of Euclidean spaces, sometimes called Delone sets in…

Sami Hermez (Northwestern University, Qatar) and Sireen Sawalha: My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

15:00 - 17:00 18 November 2024
In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. The book My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the…

Algebra seminar - Gareth Tracey

14:00 - 15:00 19 November 2024
Title: Primitive amalgams and the Goldschmidt-Sims conjecture Abstract: A triple of finite groups (H,M,K), usually written H> M<K, is called a primitive amalgam if M is a subgroup…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Establishing Trading Zones between Knowledge Traditions – Co-Production and Co-Design

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2024
Abstract: In this talk, I reflect on how various knowledge traditions have interacted in the past, and how they can be made to interact more fruitfully today according to the principles…

Macro Seminar - Rhys M. Bidder (King's College London)

16:00 - 17:00 19 November 2024
Title: CBDC and banks: Disintermediating fast and slow

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Ross Paterson

15:00 - 16:00 19 November 2024
Speaker: Ross Paterson (University of Bristol) Title: Quadratic Twists as Random Variables Abstract: This talk will be concerned with the statistical behaviour of Selmer groups.…

PROF YIJIE ZHUANG: The Origins of Hydraulic Societies in China [Research Talk]

17:00 - 18:30 19 November 2024
Join us for an in-person talk with Prof Yijie Zhuang l to learn more about the origins of hydraulic societies in prehistoric China. ABOUT THE TALK: The rapid accumulation of archaeological…

A Political Epistemology of International Development

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2024
Speaker: David Ludwig (Wageningen) The colonial myth of a “civilizing mission” is built on imagining the colonized as ignorant and in need of education by colonial knowledge holders.…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr cHana Morgenstern – Rupture and Reconstruction: The Palestinian Cultural Magazine after 1948

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing…

Brownbag - Usama Jamal

13:00 20 November 2024
Title: tbd

Leticia Marques (Rio de Janeiro State University): "Miscegenation as an insoluble debt: among stories, facts, and artefacts of the Baron of Juparanã's family"

17:00 - 18:30 20 November 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 20 Nov 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel…

Logic seminar: Sebastian Eterovic

15:15 - 16:30 20 November 2024
Title: Algebraic varieties and automorphic functions Abstract: The existential closedness problem studies the intersections of algebraic varieties with the graph of a specified function.…

Material Happiness in Early Modern English Households (Affective Artefacts speaker series)

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2024
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series, courtesy of the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. All welcome and no booking required.

MET Seminar - Dimitri Migrow

17:00 - 18:00 20 November 2024
Title: Disclosure in insurance markets with limited screening (joint with Andriy Zapechelnyuk) Abstract: We investigate the impact of information disclosure, via a statistical instrument,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2024
Diana Bociga University of Manchester Exploring the UK's anti-money laundering network: multiple relationships, structural patterns, and brokerage Roles The UK’s Anti-Money Laundering…

NWBI Present and Future of Synthetic Biology with AI

18:00 - 19:00 20 November 2024
Dear All, The NorthWest Biotech Initiative would like to invite you to Future of Synthetic Biology with AI Webinar. The world of synthetic biology is evolving—curious about how AI…

PSI Seminar: Effect of Resonant Overlaps Between the Optical Bandgaps and Large Twist Angle in the Interlayer Energy Transfer Process

12:00 - 13:00 20 November 2024
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Arka Karmakar. In the post silicon era, type-II transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterostructures (HSs) are predicted to be…

Sustainable Futures Seminar: Sustainable Aviation Fuel | Garment Designing

14:00 - 15:00 20 November 2024
Join us for our November edition of the Sustainable Futures seminar. Attendees will receive a Zoom link by email prior to the event. Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1023583645237?aff=oddtdtcreator…

Econometrics Seminar - Jörg Stoye (Cornell)

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2024
Title: TBA

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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