Lectures and seminars

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.…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Mike Whittaker

14:00 2 December 2024
Speaker: Mike Whittaker (University of Glasgow) Title: Self-similar groups and their limit spaces Abstract: A self-similar group (G,X) consists of a group G acting faithfully on a…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexander Shapiro

15:00 - 16:00 2 December 2024
Speaker: Dr Alexander Shapiro (Edinburgh) Title: Towards modular functor in higher Teichmüller theory Abstract: A modular functor is a collection of representations of mapping class…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Forest Time – Landscapes of RETVRN and the memory-politics of ecotherapy

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2024
Abstract: In this talk, I’ll try to connect literatures on psychological culture and environmental racism, through a study of the cultural politics of forest bathing. One of a range…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health December Research Seminar

12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2024
Please join us in December for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar. Tuesday 3rd December, 12:00 - 13:00 *Hybrid Event* For the divisional seminar in December,…

Macro Seminar - Annika Bacher (BI Norwegian)

16:00 - 17:00 3 December 2024
Title: Housing and Savings Behavior across Family Types

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Andrei Yafaev

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2024
Speaker: Andrei Yafaev (UCL) Title: Bi-\Qbar structures and relations between CM periods Abstract: This is a joint work with Z.Gao and E.Ullmo. We introduce the abstract notion of…

SCI Annual Lecture with Harriet Bulkeley: Governing with Nature

15:00 - 16:30 3 December 2024
We are delighted to announce that we are welcoming Professor Harriet Bulkeley for the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture 2024 on Tuesday 3rd December from 3pm in the blended…

Brownbag - Imran Tahir (IFS)

13:00 4 December 2024
Title: tbd

Dams, Power and the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance

15:00 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Speaker: Tom Lavers (GDI) After more than a decade, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the hydrology…

Logic seminar: Michael Benedikt

15:15 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Title: Finite Structures Embedded in Infinite Ones, Then and Now This talk is about a hybrid of finite and infinite model theory, where formulas can reference two kinds of non-logical…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2024
Roberta Bernardi, University of Bristol Who Says What: Identities and Natural Language Inference to Study the Spread of Health Misinformation on Social Media Health misinformation on…

Pedro Mendes Loureiro (CLAS, Cambridge): The prison consensus: incarceration, investment, and inequality in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 4 December 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in…

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir (University Of Manchester) - The Gapeev-Shiryaev Conjecture.

15:00 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Goran Peskir will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Gapeev-Shiryaev Conjecture Speaker: Goran Peskir Abstract: The Gapeev-Shiryaev conjecture can be broadly stated as…

Professor David Alderson’s Inaugural Lecture – Beyond Subcultures: Populism, Hegemony and Cultural Production

16:30 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Alan Sinfield once distinctively theorised both the New Left generally and liberation movements individually as subcultures, but regarded these positively in the context of the defeats…

Roundtable: New Approaches on the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2024
We welcome three guest speakers to our roundtable discussion of Claire Morelon’s new book 'Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague 1914-1920' (Cambridge University Press, 2024).…

Statistics Seminar - Compositional quasi-likelihood and logit models

14:00 - 15:00 4 December 2024
Abstract: A composition vector describes the relative sizes of parts of a thing. Some important modern application areas are microbiome analysis, time-use analysis and archaeometry…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Olivia Malkowski

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2024
Our next Behaviour Change Meeting will be held on Thursday 5th December at 3pm, where we have <b>Olivia Malkowski</b> presenting on <b>‘Towards a precision digital intervention to promote…

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: What Is an Ancient Liturgy?

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

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