Lectures and seminars

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…

Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Marion Turner (Oxford): 'Imagining Medieval Lives'

17:00 - 19:30 27 November 2024
Everyone is warmly invited to the Annual Brook Lecture in Middle English, to take place in: Ellen Wilkinson C1.18 at 5pm on Wednesday 27 November This year's lecturer is Marion Turner,…

Brownbag - Lucía Contreras

13:00 27 November 2024
Title: tbd

International Zones: Impasse and Waiting in a World of State-Making, 1919-1956

13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2024
History guest speaker research seminar. At the end of the First World War, the peacemakers placed a small number of territories in Europe under the direct international administration…

Logic seminar: Alex Wilkie

15:15 - 16:30 27 November 2024
ON ZILBER'S QUASIMINIMALITY CONJECTURE: AN ANALYTIC APPROACH This conjecture concerns the expansion \mathbb{C}_{exp} of the complex exponential field by the usual complex exponential…

Louis Gall -- Agent-based modelling of the intestinal epithelium [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 27 November 2024
Join us for this seminar by Dr Louis Gall (Birmingham) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series can be…

MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal

17:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
Title: Data linkage between Markets: Does the Emergence of an Informed Insurer Cause Consumer Harm? Abstract: A merger of two companies active in seemingly unrelated markets creates…

MET Seminar - Claudia Herresthal

17:00 - 18:00 27 November 2024
Speaker website: http://www.cherresthal.com/ Contact: david.delacretaz@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Cecilia Menenghini, University of Exeter A network approach to study organised crime movement across local communities This talk explores how social network analysis can be used to…

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…

Probability Seminar: Neofytos Rodosthenous (University College London) - Non-zero-sum optimal stopping game with continuous versus periodic exercise opportunities.

15:00 - 16:00 27 November 2024
Neofytos Rodosthenous will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Non-zero-sum optimal stopping game with continuous versus periodic exercise opportunities Abstract: We introduce…

Racial Capitalism Across the Black/White Atlantic

16:00 - 17:30 27 November 2024
Racial capitalism has become a widely used term—pointing to the intimate connections between processes of racialization and of capitalist organization. This talk will focus on an eighteenth-century…

The Problem with Mental Health Awareness: Dr Lucy Foulkes, University of Oxford

13:00 - 14:00 27 November 2024
The Education and Psychology group is pleased to invite you to an upcoming external seminar from Dr Lucy Foulkes, University of Oxford, on ‘the problem with mental health awareness’.…

CTIS Research Seminar: "A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Person-Centred Approach in End-of-Life Care Policies in England and Japan" (Dr Chao Fang)

14:00 - 15:30 28 November 2024
Increasing evidence suggests that a person-centred approach (PCA) improves care outcomes and alleviates pressure on public health systems. However, policy gaps prevent its effective…

DR TIMOTHY HILDEBRANDT: How China Balances the Risks and Benefits of NGOs [Research Talk]

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2024
In this in-person talk, Dr Timothy Hildebrandt from LSE will discuss how China balances the risks and benefits of NGOs. ABOUT THE TALK: In this event, Dr Timothy Hildebrandt reflects…

From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2024
Speakers: Dan Slater (Michigan) and Joe Wong (Toronto) Over the past century, Asia has been transformed by rapid economic growth, industrialization, and urbanization—a spectacular…

Inaugural Annual Healthier Futures Lecture Event

18:00 - 20:30 28 November 2024
The University of Manchester's Healthier Futures research platform is delighted to invite you to our inaugural annual lecture event, taking place at the Renold Innovation Hub, in Manchester's…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester) and Dr Siobhan Jolley (University of Manchester) - In Conversation: On Childlessness

16:00 28 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…

Sikh Heritage in Colonial Collections: Conservation, Digitisation and Community Engagement with Contested Collections

13:00 - 13:45 28 November 2024
This online event introduces a recent collaborative project between Manchester’s Sikh community and the University of Manchester Library (UML). The talk will reflect on what it means…

Bridget Bradley (St Andrews): Affect and Activism in the context of Ecological Anxiety: Towards a militant sentient anthropology

15:00 - 17:00 2 December 2024
Academic, public and political interest in eco-anxiety is steadily growing across the globe, and yet anthropology’s contribution to debates on the topic has been surprisingly slow.…

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