Lectures and seminars

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…

Book Launch: Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka

15:30 - 17:00 21 November 2024
Join GDI’s State-Society Relations Group for a panel discussion celebrating the launch of David Jackman’s new book, Syndicates and Societies: Criminal Politics in Dhaka (Cambridge University…

Econometrics Seminar - Jörg Stoye (Cornell)

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

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: Work as God’s Intention for Humanity in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures

16:00 - 17:30 21 November 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Revisiting British Humanitarianism: Three Life Stories

13:00 - 13:45 21 November 2024
In this online seminar, Bertrand Taithe and Flora Chatt will use items from collections in the University’s recently established Humanitarian Archive to illustrate the lives of three…

Andrea Pia (LSE): Corallers of Crises: Between the horror and glee of climate inaction

15:00 - 17:00 25 November 2024
In a recent statement, Scientists Rebellion, the international organization of environmental activists with a scientific background, posed the question: "What's the point of documenting…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Amlan Banaji

14:00 25 November 2024
Speaker: Amlan Banaji (Loughborough University) Title: Coincidence and disparity of fractal dimensions for dynamically defined sets Abstract: There are many different ways that one…

Hananeh Aliee -- Causal inference and prediction in single-cell genomics [ONLINE]

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2024
Join us for this seminar by Hananeh Ailee (Sanger) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

MIOIR & SCI Joint Seminar with Dr Lili Jia - Exploring sustainability pathways with action research

15:30 - 16:30 25 November 2024
Exploring sustainability pathways with action research The world’s understanding of sustainability is rapidly evolving. So is our appreciation of the need for sustainable solutions…

Algebra seminar - Scott Harper

14:00 - 15:00 26 November 2024
Title: Coverings of finite groups and derangements Abstract: A finite group is never the union of conjugates of a proper subgroup. Equivalently, a nontrivial finite transitive permutation…

Macro Seminar - Remzi Kaygusuz (Durham/Sabanci)

16:00 - 17:00 26 November 2024
Title: A Different World: Drivers of Income Inequality 1980-2020

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jackie Voros

15:00 - 16:00 26 November 2024
Speaker: Jackie Voros (University of Bristol) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Social Statistics Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2024
Friedrich Geiecke Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, London School of Economics Conversations at Scale: Robust AI-led Interviews with a Simple Open-Source Platform…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Fabio Cuzzolin: Epistemic artificial intelligence

11:00 - 12:00 27 November 2024
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Abstract…

Polygenic risk scores – presentations and speed networking

09:00 - 11:00 27 November 2024
The next event in the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) [https://www.manchesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-events/nihr-manchester-brc-train…

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