Lectures and seminars

EACW Research Seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice'

13:30 - 15:00 8 May 2025
English, American Studies and Creative Writing research seminar: Dr. Natalie Pollard (Exeter), '21st Century Climate Imaginaries: Activism, Ecopoetry and Environmental Justice' Venue:…

Health Workforce Spring External Seminar

14:00 - 15:30 8 May 2025
You are invited to the Health Workforce Spring External Seminar, hosted by the Division of Medical Education, University of Manchester. This seminar brings together expertise from…

Creative Practice, Politics, and (Post)Colonialism: Roundtable Discussion

15:00 - 16:30 12 May 2025
This roundtable discussion will focus on some of the challenges and insights of using creative practices when addressing issues related to politics, colonialism, and postcolonialism.…

Creativity + AI: Music

12:30 - 14:30 12 May 2025
Presented in partnership by Creative Manchester, Digital Futures and the Turing Innovation Catalyst (TIC) Manchester, the CreaTech 2025 series of events aims to support the development…

Dr Pablo Rodríguez Mier -- CORNETO: A unified framework for joint network inference from prior knowledge and omics data [ONLINE]

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2025
Join us for this seminar by Dr Pablo Rodríguez Mier (Heidelberg, Germany) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Phil Rippon & Gwyneth Stallard

14:00 - 16:00 12 May 2025
Talk I. Speaker: Gwyneth Stallard (The Open University) Title: Wandering domains and non-autonomous dynamics Abstract: Complex dynamics concerns the iteration of analytic functions…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Twisted Pipelines - How Antibiotics Became a Market Failure

16:00 - 17:30 13 May 2025
Antibiotic innovation has slowed since the 1980s and incentivising research and development (R&D) has triggered substantial investment by the international community. This presentation…

Expert Insights Series | Nuclear and geopolitics: Reflections on dealing with hot topics at the IAEA

13:00 - 14:30 13 May 2025
Nuclear and geopolitics: Reflections on dealing with hot topics at the IAEA. This talk will briefly recap on the history of the global nuclear system and will concentrate on the IAEA's…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Colva Roney-Dougal

14:00 - 15:00 13 May 2025
Title: Asymptotic enumeration of permutation groups Abstract: One of the most elementary, but difficult, questions we can ask about a finite group G is how many subgroups it has. An…

Digital Health equity seminar: The impact of patient-facing digital health technologies on equity: a realist review

13:00 - 14:00 14 May 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 14-May 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom. This edition, Shoshana Bloom (founder of Equiti Health) will talk about…

Dylan Bradbury (UoM): "Sounds that tell a world": Mapuzugun, orality and auditory regimes in Argentina

17:00 14 May 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 14 May 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Fiction and Research

14:30 - 16:00 14 May 2025
This online seminar is aimed at researchers who are interested in learning about the different ways fiction relates to social science research. Drawing on Becky and Leah's recently…

GDI Lecture: Living the Urban Periphery: Our Book and Related Thoughts...

16:30 - 18:00 14 May 2025
The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on the complexities of African urban peripheries and the varied nature…

Logic seminar: Nicolai Kraus

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2025
Title: Constructive Ordinal Arithmetic Abstract: Cantor's ordinal numbers can be described as an extension of the natural numbers: 0, 1, 2, ..., omega, omega+1, and so on. Although…

MET Seminar - Peter Klibanoff (Northwestern)

17:00 - 18:00 14 May 2025
Title: Persuasion with Ambiguous Communication Authors: Xiaoyu Cheng, Peter Klibanoff, Sujoy Mukerji and Ludovic Renou Abstract: This paper explores whether and to what extent ambiguous…

The History of the Department in Pictures

14:00 - 15:00 14 May 2025
Abstract We have over 2,000 images of the department dating back to the 1940s: some iconic, some frankly quite obscure. The talk will describe the building of a new system that makes…

Lovell Lecture: The Ingredients for life - OSIRIS-REx mission update

19:30 - 21:00 15 May 2025
What can the Asteroid Bennu reveal about the early days of the Solar System? Join Dr Sarah Crowther for insights into the first published results from NASA's OSIRIS- REx misson - one…

Racial health equity and the question of Black (non?)being: Exploring the uses of Afropessimism in approaches to anti-racist health promotion - Tanisha Spratt

13:00 - 14:30 15 May 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Tanisha Spratt from Kings College London shares her research. SUMMARY Afropessimism is a critical framework that is often used to analyse anti-Black…

Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy (Suriyah Bi)

16:15 - 18:00 19 May 2025
In this hybrid seminar, Dr Suriyah Bi (Cardiff University) introduces research from her recent book 'Bartered Bridegrooms: Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy' published…

Statistics Seminar - Prof. Haavard Rue (KAUST)

15:00 - 16:00 19 May 2025
Why we should care about Variational Bayes Håvard Rue KAUST, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia In this talk I will discuss Variational Bayes (VB), what it is, why we should care, and why…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Mark Wildon

14:00 - 15:00 20 May 2025
Title: Plethyms of symmetric functions: modular isomorphisms and stability. Abstract: The plethysm product of Schur functions corresponds to composition of polynomial representations…

The 2025 Sherman Lecture: Moses Gaster; Scholar, Collector, Rabbi, Activist

17:00 - 18:30 20 May 2025
Under the auspices of the Manchester University Centre for Jewish Studies: Professor Philip Alexander “Moses Gaster (1856-1939) – Scholar, Collector, Rabbi, Activist: His scholarly…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Kristina Ulicna: Decoding Biology by Learning Meaningful Representations of Cell Morphologies from Single-Cell Imaging Phenomaps

11:00 - 12:00 21 May 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. Kristina…

Logic seminar: Abhiram Natarajan

15:00 - 16:00 21 May 2025
Title: Partitioning Theorems for Sets of Semi-Pfaffian Sets, with Applications Abstract: We generalize the seminal polynomial partitioning theorems of Guth and Katz [1, 2] to a set…

Saudi Women’s Activism Through Writing

16:00 - 17:00 21 May 2025
Speaker: Hind Aldossary (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) Join on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/3944838983 This lecture is part…

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