Lectures and seminars

CTIS Research Seminar - A Triple Book Showcase: Recent Trends in Literary Translation Research

14:00 - 16:00 13 November 2025
This collective seminar will feature three short talks showcasing recent key publications in the field of literary translation: Translation as Creative-Critical Practice (2023) by Delphine…

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,…

WEI Seminar with visiting associate professor Jon Las Heras Cuenca

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2025
Challenges of Labour Organisations: Cooperative Paradoxes and Contradictions of Union Renewal in the Basque Country Global capitalism continues to exacerbate social challenges, to…

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

MIOIR Seminar Series with Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)

15:30 - 16:30 17 November 2025
Gaps and Challenges Along the Innovation Lifecycle: The Role of Innovation Intermediaries Speakers: Dr. Guendalina Anzolin, Prof. Eoin O’Sullivan, Dr. Viktória Döme Chair: Prof. Elvira…

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: p-parity conjecture for twists of hyperelliptic curves by Artin representations Abstract: The p-parity conjecture for twists of abelian varieties…

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

Probability Seminar: Vianey Palacios Ramirez - Heavy Tails and Random Measures: New Perspectives via Two Constructions: Subordinators and Stick-Breaking

15:00 - 16:30 19 November 2025
Vianey Palacios Ramirez (Newcastle University) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Heavy Tails and Random Measures: New Perspectives via Two Constructions: Subordinators…

Addressing racialised health inequalities in Sexual health care by using race as a marker of vulnerability to Trichomonas vaginalis infection – what could possibly go wrong? - Ulla McKnight

13:00 - 14:30 20 November 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Dr Ulla McKnight (University of Sussex) shares her research. SUMMARY The seminar examines the controversial use of racialised categories as markers…

John Drake -- Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Emerging Infectious Diseases in a Globalized World [IN PERSON]

15:00 - 16:00 20 November 2025
Join us for this seminar by John Drake (University of Georgia) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology…

REF: AI? A seminar with Richard Watermeyer (University of Bristol)

14:00 - 15:00 20 November 2025
In this talk I will present emerging findings from a study of how generative AI (GenAI) is impacting the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. By means of national consultation…

An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia

21 November 2025
Research Matters: An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia Colleagues from MIE will share brief overviews of different educational issues in Southeast Asia. Miguel Antonio…

Inaugural Lecture: Professor Lasse Rempe, Maths

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2025
Save the Date - Professor Lasse Rempe's Inaugural Lecture Friday, 21 November 2025, 12.00 - 1.00pm, Alan Turing Building, Department of Mathematics, G.107 Lasse Rempe studied mathematics…

Manchester Cancer Research Centre 20th Anniversary Director's Lecture - Professor David Jaffray, Anderson Cancer Center, USA

14:00 - 15:00 21 November 2025
This special Director's Lecture will be held as part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations and International Advisory Board meeting. Guest speaker,…

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

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

14:00 - 15:00 24 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…

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