Lectures and seminars

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Theo Damoulas: Decision Making under the Exponential Family: Distributionally Robust Optimisation with Bayesian Ambiguity Sets

11:00 - 12:00 18 June 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. On 18 June,…

Careers Seminar Series: From Postdoc to a Career in Intellectual Property

13:00 - 14:00 18 June 2025
Date: 18 June Time: 1- 2pm Title: From Postdoc to a Career in Intellectual Property Speakers: Dr Sarah Harvey, Patent Attorney, Mewburn Ellis Location: Online via Zoom Zoom Meeting…

The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Professor Simon Johnson

18:15 - 20:30 19 June 2025
Join us for the annual Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Professor Simon Johnson, alumnus and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics. In this lecture, 'Technology and Global…

The Making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women cultural productions - Roaa Ali

13:00 - 14:30 19 June 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Dr Roaa Ali (University of Manchester) shares her research. SUMMARY This talk explores the emergence of pragmatist feminism within the cultural productions…

Alana Lentin’s The New Racial Regime

15:00 - 16:30 25 June 2025
In The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy Alana Lentin shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through…

Online Talk: Sewing, Slavery and Social Change: Ruth and its Political Moment

19:00 25 June 2025
In 1853 when Elizabeth Gaskell brought out her novel Ruth about a teenage seamstress, her city of Manchester was at the centre of the global cotton trade and her country was on the…

Creativity + AI: Fashion

14:30 - 16:30 26 June 2025
Presented in partnership by Creative Manchester, Digital Futures and the Turing Innovation Catalyst (TIC) Manchester, the CreaTech 2025 series of events is aimed at supporting the development…

The Christian Brethren Archive: Chief Men Among the Brethren

14:30 - 15:30 26 June 2025
Join us at the John Rylands Library for a lecture on the Christian Brethren, hosted by David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Stirling. The John Rylands…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions.

15:00 - 16:30 30 June 2025
How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions. Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute…

35 years of Neuromorphic Systems Engineering by Professor André Van Schaik

13:00 - 14:00 2 July 2025
In this Inaugural Lecture, I will give an overview of my career in Neuromorphic Engineering, some recent achievements of the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems at Western…

Hwee Kuan Lee -- Enhancing Physics Simulations Using Artificial Intelligence[IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 7 July 2025
Join us for this seminar by Hwee Kuan Lee (A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details…

Digital Health equity seminar: Expansion of digital tools in secondary healthcare to reduce inequalities in care access and outcomes

13:00 - 14:00 9 July 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Inequities Seminar Series is on Wed 9-July 2025 at 1-2pm BST via zoom (https://zoom.us/j/92054457125). This edition, Simon Watts and Henry Morriss…

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