Lectures and seminars

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…

GDI Lecture: The transformative-transdisciplinary imperative: Decolonizing development in a transboundary delta

16:30 - 18:00 21 May 2025
Speaker: Jenia Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur The Sundarbans is the largest contiguous mangroves delta in the world, spanning India and Bangladesh. The delta is…

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…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Protest and Identity Formation in the Time of Covid - The UK in Historical Context

16:00 - 17:30 27 May 2025
This talk will examine the nature of protest activity during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-22. It does so as a case study of the impact of pandemics and epidemics on society – a familiar…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Henry Bradford

14:00 - 15:00 27 May 2025
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Desi Queers: Exploring Intergenerationality in LGBTQ South Asian Cultures in Britain

18:30 28 May 2025
How do ideas, cultures and ways of living ‘move’ across generations in queer contexts? How do queer people’s positions outside of mainstream forms of biological (nuclear family) and…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Colin Williams

14:00 - 16:00 28 May 2025
Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Colin Williams Date: 28th May 2025 Time: 14:00-16:00 Location: The University of Manchester Join us for an engaging seminar on The…

Logic seminar: David Evans

15:00 - 16:00 28 May 2025
TBA

Logic seminar: Boris Zilber

11:00 - 12:30 29 May 2025
TBA

Power and people: Unpacking social value in the nuclear sector | Expert Insights Series

13:00 - 14:00 3 June 2025
Join us for an open and interactive panel exploring the deeper questions around nuclear power's role in society. With space for audience questions throughout, we’ll unpack what "social…

Migrant Colonialism: South American States and European Empires, c.1830-c.1950

16:00 - 17:30 4 June 2025
Please do join us for this special lecture from our Simon Visiting Professor, Lucy Riall, FBA.

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