Lectures and seminars

2025 Annual International Peace Lecture: The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress.

15:00 - 17:30 8 October 2025
Join us for the 40th Anniversary International Peace Lecture, hosted by the University of Manchester's Department of Politics. For forty years, this renowned series has brought together…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Pablo Moreno Muñoz

11:00 - 12:00 8 October 2025
This month’s AI-Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker lecture will take place in Engineering Building B, room 2B.003. It’s easy to find: from the second floor (where Eng B and Nancy Rothwell…

Brownbag - Keitaro Ninomiya (UIUC)

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
Title TBD

Digital Health Equity Seminar Series - Advocating for digital health equity in the academic and digital health sectors - 8th Oct

13:00 - 14:30 8 October 2025
The next seminar in the Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 8th-Oct, 1-2pm BST (8-9am EDT) via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91546057388. Victoria Betton (co-founder of the…

Dr Caroline Bressey (University College London), The Black Barmaid in England: Sexuality and Performance in Publands of the fin de siècle

16:00 - 18:00 8 October 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

Guest lecture: Place-making and the role of culture in Manchester

17:30 - 20:00 8 October 2025
Creative Manchester and the Manchester Urban Institute are delighted to welcome Luthfur Rahman OBE, former Executive Leader for Culture and Leisure and Manchester City Council Deputy…

Manchester Logic Seminar - Mathieu Anel - cancelled

14:00 - 15:00 8 October 2025
Cancelled!

MET Seminar - Marek Pycia (Zurich)

17:00 - 18:00 8 October 2025
Title: Cost over Content: Information Choice in Trade Authors: Kristof Madarasz & Marek Pycia Abstract: A privately-informed buyer takes an action that impacts the seller’s information.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Karoly Takas (Linkoping University) - Are High-Performing Ethnic Roma Students Excluded from their Minority Peer Group? Friendship, Ethnic Identification, and Labeling

16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2025
It is a puzzle whether and how social exclusion mechanisms hinder the academic performance of disadvantaged minority groups. Using unique social network panel data from elementary school…

Nuno Palma, UoM: African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 8 October 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 8 Oct 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Politics - 2025 Annual Peace Lecture - The Continuous Struggle: Women’s Rights in the Last Four Decades and the Backlash Against Progress

Probability Seminar: Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda - Fringe trees for random trees with given vertex degrees.

15:00 - 16:00 8 October 2025
Gabriel Berzunza Ojeda (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Fringe trees for random trees with given vertex degrees Abstract: In this talk, we…

SQUIDS Seminar: From X-ray to Nonabelian Ray Transforms

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
Speaker: Shubham Jathar (LUT University, Finland) Abstract: This talk surveys ray transforms in tomography, starting from the classical X-ray (Radon) transform and its geodesic generalization…

The hidden human labour powering AI: Introducing the Fairwork Action Research Project

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2025
The hidden human labour powering AI: Introducing the Fairwork Action Research Project Speaker Bio: Mark Graham is the Professor of Internet Geography at Oxford University. He is also…

Early Career Researcher Masterclass on Social Reproduction

11:00 - 13:00 9 October 2025
This ECR masterclass has three aims: (1) to reflect on our research as it relates to the broader landscape of social reproduction research and recent calls for its pluralization, (2)…

Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper

12:00 - 13:00 9 October 2025
Session by Dr Simon Rudkin. Part of the Methods North West lunchtime seminars. Data visualisation is a core component of the empirical process, from data exploration to the evaluation…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Peej Ingarfield

14:00 13 October 2025
Speaker: Peej Ingarfield (University of Manchester) Title: Dimension drop and estimating the gap Abstract: Iterated function systems (IFS) have played a key role in the study of fractals.…

Econometrics Seminar - Rosnel Sessinou (Surrey)

12:00 - 13:00 13 October 2025
Title TBA

Kwame Phillips (University of Southampton). The Multisensorial as Maroon

15:00 - 17:00 13 October 2025
Collins, et al. (2017) invite anthropology into a renewed engagement with contemporary media ecologies and with the transformative potentialities of the multimodal. This position advocates…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexei Bolsinov

15:00 - 16:00 13 October 2025
Speaker: Alexei Bolsinov (Loughborough) Title: Nijenhuis Geometry Abstract: A Nijenhuis structure on a smooth manifold is given by a field $L$ of endomorphisms with zero Nijenhuis…

MIOIR Seminar Series - From Trust to Threat: A Case Study of Fraudulent Research Networks

15:30 - 16:30 13 October 2025
From Trust to Threat: A Case Study of Fraudulent Research Networks Leslie D. McIntosh explores how fraudulent research networks exploit trust in science and why stronger research integrity…

Navigating Power and Precarity: Violence and Resilience among Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong

12:00 - 14:00 13 October 2025
GDI Migration, Refugees and Asylum Research Group Seminar Speaker: Yiqui (Mia) Huang, University of Hong Kong In this seminar, Mia will examine the experiences of Indonesian migrant…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Jialin Wang

14:00 - 15:00 14 October 2025
Title: Some endotrivial modules for the symmetric group Abstract: Let G be a finite group and F a field of characteristic p > 0. An FG-module M is endotrivial if HomF(M, M) \cong F…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kenji Terao

15:00 - 16:00 14 October 2025
Speaker: Kenji Terao (Warwick) Title: An introduction to modular curves Abstract: Modular curves are objects of central importance in arithmetic geometry, parametrizing elliptic curves…

Refugees and the UK housing crisis (HCRI public event)

17:00 14 October 2025
Join the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) for roundtable discussion with four leading scholars on the realities and politics of refugee housing in the UK. SPEAKERS:…

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