Lectures and seminars

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,…

Logic Seminar - Thorsten Altenkirch

14:00 - 15:00 22 October 2025
Speaker: Thorsten Altenkirch (University of Nottingham) How to Define Type Theories? Traditionally, type theories have been defined extrinsically—by sorting untyped terms. In this…

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

Probability Seminar: Xiong Jin - A Chung-Fuchs Type Theorem for Skew Product Dynamical Systems

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2025
Xiong Jin (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: A Chung-Fuchs Type Theorem for Skew Product Dynamical Systems Abstract: I will present a Chung-Fuchs…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Jonathan Fraser

14:00 - 15:00 27 October 2025
Speaker: Jonathan Fraser (University of St Andrews) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis

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…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Multimarket Competition and Patent Litigation in Platform Markets: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry

15:30 - 16:30 27 October 2025
Multimarket Competition and Patent Litigation in Platform Markets: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry Dmitry Sharapov examines how competition across multiple markets shapes…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Tim Burness

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2025
Title: Simple groups, nilpotent subgroups and their intersections Abstract: Let G be a finite group, let p be a prime and let H be a Sylow p-subgroup. Problems concerning the intersections…

Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement

16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects…

Brownbag - Qiwei He (Edinburgh)

13:00 - 14:00 29 October 2025
Title TBD

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr Matthew Dennis

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Geography Department Research Seminar Dr Matthew Dennis (Geography, SEED, University of Manchester) In search of Schrödinger’s patch: looking for a functional spatial ecology

Logic Seminar - Anna Dmitrieva

14:00 - 15:00 29 October 2025
Speaker: Anna Dmitrieva (University of Manchester) Title TBA Abstract TBA

MET Seminar - Pietro Dall'Ara (Naples)

17:00 29 October 2025
Title: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

MIOIR & MEC Joint Seminar - Educational Diversity and Work Experience Paths Towards Entrepreneurship

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Educational Diversity and Work Experience Paths Towards Entrepreneurship Shiri Breznitz, Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public…

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
Lars Leszczensky, University Frankfurt am Main

The Double Tax and Unsung Stories - Black Women’s Voices in Activism and Economics

15:00 - 17:00 30 October 2025
Join us for a compelling afternoon of insight and inspiration as we mark Black History Month with two powerful voices in Black women’s activism and economic justice. We’re thrilled…

Yasser Roudi -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 3 November 2025
Join us for this seminar by Yasser Roudi (King's) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sudip Pandit

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 2025
Speaker: Sudip Pandit (Kings College London) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan

16:30 - 18:00 5 November 2025
Speaker: Janaki Srinivasan, University of Oxford My talk will be based on my 2022 book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India,…

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr Rakib Akhtar

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2025
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city. Dr. Rakib Akhtar is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Birmingham. An interdisciplinary…

Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025
As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India,…

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