Lectures and seminars

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

Equity in Community-Centered Models for Ageing: A Virtual Summit

16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2024
This 90-minute virtual summit — hosted by the Hub for Aging Collaboration and developed in partnership with interdisciplinary scholars from the University of Manchester, UCSF, and Wayne…

Welcome to the Sacrifice Zone(s): Fear and Militarism in Okinawa (Fear Research Network Seminar Series / East Asian Studies Seminar Series)

16:30 5 December 2024
American and increasingly Japanese militarism is an ever-present feature of people’s daily lives in Japan’s southernmost prefecture, Okinawa. Being located closer to Taiwan than to…

‘Solstice and Equinox’ Series with Jeanette Winterson CBE

18:00 - 19:30 5 December 2024
Award-winning writer, acclaimed author and Professor of New Writing at The University of Manchester, Jeanette Winterson returns to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library this…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Benjamin Bedert

14:00 9 December 2024
Speaker: Benjamin Bedert (University of Oxford) Title: Zeros of polynomials with restricted coefficients: a problem of Littlewood Abstract: The study of polynomials whose coefficients…

Pankhurst/Northern Gritstone Seminar, Panel & Drop-in Session

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2024
Thinking about turning your research into a business? Professor Alex Frangi, Northern Gritstone’s Jess McCreadie, and University of Manchester Innovation Factory's (UMIF) Elliott Jennings,…

Samir Ghadiali -- Translational Applications of Mathematical and Computational Modeling in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2024
Join us for this seminar by Samir Ghadiali (Ohio) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

Algebra seminar - Peio Ardaiz

14:00 - 15:00 10 December 2024
Title: McCullough-Miller space for RAAGs Abstract: The McCullough-Miller space is a contractible simplicial complex that admits an action of the pure symmetric (outer) automorphisms…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sacha Mangerel

15:00 - 16:00 10 December 2024
Speaker: Sacha Mangerel (Durham University) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Digital Health Equity seminar: Working in partnership with underserved communities to understand and address digital health inequities

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2024
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on 11th of December 1-2pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/94475096756. Prof Caroline Sanders and colleagues will talk…

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