Lectures and seminars

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kenji Terao

15:00 - 16:00 14 October 2025
Speaker: Kenji Terao (Warwick) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

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:…

Brownbag - Akos Valentinyi

13:00 - 14:00 15 October 2025
Title TBD

GDI Lecture: Globalisation, Populism, and Trump - Jan Nederveen Pieterse

16:30 - 18:00 15 October 2025
Speaker: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of California Santa Barbara What is the problem, Trump or the United States? American media talk about Trump nonstop, but what about frailties…

MET Seminar - Pawel Dziewulski (Sussex)

17:00 15 October 2025
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2025
Laurence Mylène Brandenberger, University of Zurich

Seminar by Prof Stefanie Wöhl - Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

15:00 - 16:30 15 October 2025
On October 15th, Stephanie Wöhl will be delivering a talk on "Civil Society Challenges to Global Supply Chains: The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive". It is from…

SPRITE+ and Digital Futures: Lunch and Learn with Jennifer Cearns

13:00 - 13:30 15 October 2025
Time & Location 15 Oct 2025, 13:00 – 13:30 Online About the event Join SPRITE+ and our event partner Digital Futures on Wednesday 15th October for Dr Jennifer Cearns' talk 'Through…

Mark Fricker -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 20 October 2025
Join us for this seminar by Mark Fricker (Oxford) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Sarah O'Brien (University of Manchester). Landscapes, timelessness and ambivalence in the nuclearised peninsula of La Hague

15:00 - 17:00 20 October 2025
Abstract to follow. Sarah O'Brien is a Research Associate (Mimesis in Action) in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

What’s happening to women’s mental health - and what must we do?

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2025
Emerita Professor, Linda Gask, joins us to discuss has been happening to women, how are we failing them and what must we do? Over the last decade, we've been rightly concerned about…

Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich (CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

17:00 - 18:30 21 October 2025
Set in interwar Berlin, Brandy Schillace’s book The Intermediaries tells the story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first center for homosexual and transgender rights.…

Macro Seminar - Christoph Albert (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

16:00 - 17:00 21 October 2025
Title: Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data

DKO 2025 Lecture: Seeing Shapes in Data: How Topology Helps Us Understand Biology and Medicine by Professor Heather Harrington

17:00 - 20:00 22 October 2025
Please see the link below to register for this year’s Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture on Wednesday 22nd October 2025, 5-8pm - https://forms.office.com/e/9HAmVa619g The event will…

Dr James Koranyi (Durham University), New Europeans in the Carpathians, 1870s-1930s

13:00 - 15:00 22 October 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

Leandro Minuchin, UoM: Architectures of Exit: Libertarianism, Anarcho-Capitalism, and the Substitution of Politics in Latin America

17:00 - 18:30 22 October 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 22 Oct 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

MET Seminar - Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv)

17:00 22 October 2025
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 22 October 2025
Nynke Niezink, Carnegie Melon University

Econometrics Seminar - Philipp Ketz (PSE)

12:00 - 13:00 27 October 2025
Title TBA

Emmanuelle Ricaud Oneto (CSGA, Dijon). "Our children? Sold to the State. They will come back in cans of tuna”: Analysis of a rumor on social policies in the Peruvian Amazon

15:00 - 17:00 27 October 2025
This presentation suggests taking seriously a rumor circulating among the Maijuna, a Western Tukanoan indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, regarding social policies such as cash…

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