Lectures and seminars

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Matt Chaffe

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2025
TBA

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 2

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

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir - The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2025
Goran Peskir (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process Abstract: A long-standing open problem of L.…

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…

The Rylands Lecture with Alberto Manguel

18:00 - 19:45 13 November 2025
Join us for the first annual The Rylands Lecture delivered by Alberto Manguel director of the Espaço Atlântida, in Lisbon, Portugal. Home to over 40,000 titles selected by Manguel,…

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 14 November 2025
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Maciej Bersewicz Professor of Statistics, Pozna University of Economics…

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…

Putting on the New Self: Representing Conversion with Costume Change in Bible Films (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)

15:00 - 17:00 17 November 2025
Speaker: Dr Katie Turner (public historian and educator)

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Lucas Ruhstorfer

14:00 - 15:00 18 November 2025
TBA

Macro Seminar - Albert Jan Hummel (Groningen)

16:00 - 17:00 18 November 2025
Title: Optimal Climate Policy with Incomplete Markets

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

GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar

16:30 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago…

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

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Christian Bönicke

14:00 24 November 2025
Speaker: Christian Bönicke (Newcastle University) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis

Gaudenz Metzger (University of Manchester). Life in Limbo: Hospice care, photography, and the performance of the everyday

15:00 - 17:00 24 November 2025
Modern Western societies have struggled to find appropriate ways of dealing with the existential situation of dying and death. Under the influence of biomedicine, rationalisation, and…

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