Lectures and seminars

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Prof Jakob Demant

14:00 - 16:00 10 April 2025
Join Prof Jakob Demant as he explores the rise of specialized platforms and online behaviors, driven primarily by young people using multiple platforms to separate their activities,…

Lovell Lecture - Planetary Defence: Preventing Asteroid impacts

19:30 - 21:00 10 April 2025
A live stream of Professor Alan Fitzsimmons’s lecture about asteroid 2024 YRA and the critical importance of planetary defence. Discover how scientists track cosmic threats and the…

‘Unhelpful and redundant’? Identity, inequality and the BAME controversy - Brett St Louis

13:00 - 14:30 10 April 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Brett St Louis from the University of Manchester shares his research. The BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) acronym has proved highly contentious,…

“It would have slowed down the work” – The Challenges of Gender Sensitive Economic Policy in the EU

15:00 - 16:00 10 April 2025
Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of excellence seminar, co-hosted with Political Economy Centre, UoM

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How Evidential Pluralism mitigates epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation.

15:00 - 16:30 14 April 2025
How Evidential Pluralism mitigates epistemic injustice in evidence-based evaluation. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how Evidential Pluralism, an emerging account of the epistemology…

AI-Fun with ELLIS and the University of Liverpool

11:00 - 13:00 16 April 2025
On Wednesday 16 April, we have an enhanced version of our AI Fun with ELLIS seminar, with two visiting speakers - Prof Andy Cooper and Dr Xenofon Evangelopoulos - from the University…

Expert Insights Series | The global nuclear system: Nuclear safety, security, and safeguards

13:00 - 14:00 16 April 2025
This talk will briefly recap on the history of the global nuclear system and will concentrate on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards - in particular how they developed following…

GDI Lecture: The War on Gaza: Historical Context and Future Possibilities

16:30 - 18:00 23 April 2025
Israeli and Western officials deal with events of October 7 as an isolated incident of violence and as animosity against Jews. Contextualising events provides a different interpretation.…

Webinar: Addressing physical inactivity amongst adults in mid to later life: challenges and strategies

12:00 - 13:00 23 April 2025
In partnership with Dunhill Medical Trust, NIHR Applied Research Collaborations Greater Manchester and North East and North Cumbria, NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Newcastle…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Anna Jove Campabadal

14:00 28 April 2025
Speaker: Anna Jove Campabadal (University of Barcelona) Title: Boundaries of multiply connected Fatou components. A unified approach Abstract: In this talk, we will focus on boundaries…

Maron Greenleaf (Dartmouth College). Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon – Book talk

15:00 - 17:00 28 April 2025
The book Forest Lost (Duke, 2024) is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon. Unlike other forest…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Deploying AI in Organisations

15:30 28 April 2025
Deploying AI in Organisations Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the potential to revolutionise individual organisations and transform the way organisations across sectors — public,…

Algebra seminar - Jay Taylor

14:00 - 15:00 29 April 2025
Title: Modular Reduction of Nilpotent Orbits Abstract: If () is a finite reductive group, where is a prime power, then Lusztig has defined a set of complex irreducible characters UCh(())…

Number Theory Seminar - Jessica Alessandri

15:00 - 16:00 29 April 2025
Speaker: Jessica Alessandri (Bath) Title: The Integral Hilbert Property on some degree-2 del Pezzo surfaces. Abstract: In this talk I will consider a Diophantine equation known also…

NWBI - "Beyond the Degree" entrepreneurship seminar

16:00 - 18:35 29 April 2025
The North West Biotech Initiative is thrilled to invite you to the Beyond the Degree – our annual seminar dedicated to life beyond university academia - the exciting world of biotech…

The Contemporary Recontextualisation of Kuwaiti and Khaleeji Folk Music: From Zuhairiya and Sowt to Tanboura and Bahri Arts

16:00 - 17:00 29 April 2025
Speaker: Adnan Marafi (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) This lecture is part of The Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern…

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