Lectures and seminars

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

MET Seminar - Pietro Dall'Ara (Naples)

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

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

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

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,…

Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)

16:00 - 17:00 11 November 2025
Title: TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Cedric Pilatte

15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2025
Speaker: Cedric Pilatte (Oxford) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan (East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2025
In 1802, the Nagasaki-based translator Shizuki Tadao completed the final volume of a work that presented Japanese readers for the first time with explanations of universal gravitation,…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Chengchun Shi

11:00 - 12:00 12 November 2025
November’s AI-Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker lecture will take place in Nancy Rothwell Building room 3A.012. This is in Core 1, on the third floor. If you go by stairs, once you get…

Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Title TBD

Ed King (Bristol): Addressing Algorithmic Bias through Video Game Design in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 12 November 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Co-organised with the Centre for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture. Wed 12 November…

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025
Joe Labianca, University of Massachusetts

New Heritage Lecture – Jodrell Bank: The Unexpected Observatory

19:30 13 November 2025
Join Tim O'Brien, Associate Director of Jodrell Bank Centre of Astrophysics, as he travels back in time to tell the story of how Jodrell Bank came to be – a world-leading observatory…

Charlotte Al Khalili (University of Sussex). Scales of justice in post-Assad Syria

15:00 - 17:00 17 November 2025
This paper proposes an ethnographic exploration of post-Assad Syria that focuses on ideas and practices of justice in the aftermaths of mass atrocities. Based on fieldwork in the city…

Econometrics Seminar - Sami Stouli (Bristol)

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2025
Title TBA

Jason Hartford -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 17 November 2025
Join us for this seminar by Jason Hartford (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and…

Macro Seminar - Albert Jan Hummel (Amsterdam)

16:00 - 17:00 18 November 2025
Title: TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Edwina Aylward

15:00 - 16:00 18 November 2025
Speaker: Edwina Aylward (UCL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Brownbag - Lory Barile (Warwick)

13:00 - 14:00 19 November 2025
Title TBD

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr. Stephen Roberts

15:00 - 16:00 19 November 2025
When the Wind Blew: Past changes in the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies and tracking historical nuclear bomb tests using lake and peat deposits from the Southern Ocean

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2025
Bernie Hogan, Oxford University

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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