Lectures and seminars

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2025: 'The Terrorism Nobody is Talking About'

17:00 - 19:30 13 February 2025
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, best-selling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates reveals her two-year undercover…

David Conn: The miscarriages of justice following the Hillsborough disaster (Mark George Memorial Lecture)

17:30 - 19:00 13 February 2025
<strong>About the event</strong> David Conn will deliver the inaugural Mark George Memorial Lecture, which will reflect on the Hillsborough disaster, the families’ longstanding fight…

Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan

16:30 14 February 2025
Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities)…

Cecilia Vergnano (KU Leuven). Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders

15:00 - 17:00 17 February 2025
Since 2015, the reintroduction of (racialised) border controls within the supposedly border-free Schengen area and, in particular, at northern Italian borders – envisaged to contain…

Prof Ruth Baker -- What can identifiable models tell us about regulation of the cell cycle? [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 17 February 2025
Join us for this seminar by Prof Ruth Baker (Oxford) 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 - Ilaria Colazzo

14:00 - 15:00 18 February 2025
Title: Combinatorial Solutions to the Pentagon Equation and Matched Pairs of Groups Abstract: In this talk, I will present a complete classification of finite bijective set-theoretic…

Expert Insight Series | Nuclear Fuel: At the heart of nuclear power

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2025
Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/ZIAkKv7IVOE?si=PSEHIMMofottNhIi This talk will focus on nuclear fuels with Professor in Nuclear Fuel Technology, Tim Abram. Speaker Professor…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Katerina Santicola

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2025
Speaker: Katerina Santicola (Warwick) Title: Størmer's conjecture on arctan identities A Machin-like formula is a technique for computing the digits of pi with high accuracy, involving…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Masha Vladimirova: Fairness in online systems

11:00 - 12:00 19 February 2025
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. Title: Fairness…

EACW research seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester), 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal'

12:30 - 14:30 19 February 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing Research Seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester), 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal' 12.30pm:…

GDI Lecture: Do Courts Grant Indian Women Their Inheritance Claims?

16:30 - 18:00 19 February 2025
Despite inheritance law reform towards gender equality in India, families rarely transfer immovable property to women. Given this, do women use courts to claim their rights? If so,…

Logic seminar: Franziska Jahnke

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2025
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 February 2025
Edmund Chattoe-Brown. University of Leicester. Processes and Theories: Can Agent-Based Modelling Contribute to Our Understanding of Social Networks? Proverbially, to the person who…

Statistics Seminar - Statistical Disclosure Control and Differential Privacy

14:00 - 14:50 19 February 2025
Prof. Natalie Shlomo University of Manchester Abstract For decades, statistical agencies have been disseminating statistical data in the form of microdata from social surveys and…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: David Kennedy

14:00 - 16:00 20 February 2025
The next generation of the internet is on its way, set to transform how we connect and interact online. Join David Kennedy, Director of Arkenox Ltd., to explore the benefits of IPv6…

Expert Insights Series | Reprocessing: The art of recycling nuclear materials

13:00 - 14:00 20 February 2025
Watch the recording: https://youtu.be/_l2kgBGd478?si=7I1MJfNStY4GKpdl This presentation will provide background and information on the reprocessing of nuclear fuel. It will provide…

Free yourself: research, politics and doing (your) right thing - Yunis Alam

13:00 - 14:30 20 February 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Yunis Alam from the University of Bradford shares his research. In this talk I will be exploring a range of themes linked with insider research, ethnography…

Sustainable Futures Seminar: Active Mobility | Climate Action

14:00 - 15:00 20 February 2025
The February edition of the Sustainable Futures Seminar will take place online and will feature Luana Scrivano, who will present on 'Active Mobility and Mental Health: A Scoping Review…

Deana Jovanovic (Utrecht University). Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town

15:00 - 17:00 24 February 2025
This seminar explores the temporal, political and economic effects of theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures, staged in a Serbian industrial town. Based on a decade-long…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Donald Robertson

14:00 24 February 2025
Speaker: Donald Robertson (University of Manchester) Title: A mild mixing rank one system with non-trivial joinings Abstract: In recent work with Jon Chaika an ergodic measure-preserving…

Econometrics Seminar - Maximilian Kasy (Oxford)

12:00 - 13:00 24 February 2025
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MIOIR Seminar Series - Artificial Intelligence, between industrial dynamics and industrial policy

15:30 - 16:30 24 February 2025
Artificial Intelligence, between industrial dynamics and industrial policy In this talk, I will combine three of my ongoing projects to offer a bird's eye view of important trajectories…

'Fare Money' Stories: Transportation and everyday practices in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro

15:00 - 16:30 25 February 2025
This presentation contributes to ongoing debates on Southern urbanisms by arguing that taking money seriously - as a practical, moral and material issue and as an integral part of the…

Algebra seminar - Mark Wildon

14:00 - 15:00 25 February 2025
Title: An introduction to plethysm Abstract: The plethysm product on symmetric functions corresponds to composition of polynomial representations of general linear groups. Decomposing…

Logic seminar: Andrew Harrison-Migochi

15:00 - 16:00 26 February 2025
Title: Effective Lattice Point Counting Abstract: Joint with Raymond McCulloch. We use recent developments in effective o-minimality to obtain an effective version of Barroero and…

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