Lectures and seminars

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

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…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sam Chow

15:00 - 16:00 25 November 2025
Speaker: Sam Chow (Warwick) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Brownbag - Yue (Joyce) Yu

13:00 - 14:00 26 November 2025
Title TBD

GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead

16:30 - 18:00 26 November 2025
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development.…

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr. Jesse Proudfoot

15:00 - 16:00 26 November 2025
Connecting symptoms to social causes: Reading carceral urbanism in Chicago through a drug addiction

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 26 November 2025
Tobias Stark, University of Utrecht

Nicolle Alzamora (UoM): A Tale of Two Invasions: Fictional Excavations of Panama’s Difficult Pasts

17:00 - 18:30 26 November 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 26 Nov 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Prof. Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge), Coercion and Markets: Reconciling Economic and Social Explanations of Slavery in Precolonial West Africa, c1450-c1900

13:00 - 15:00 26 November 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

Ana Gutierrez Garza (University of St Andrews). Making it Through Activism: Precarious masculinities in Madrid

15:00 - 17:00 1 December 2025
Economic exclusion and poverty can create problematic masculinities as they challenge social structures of gender dominance, class mobility and social status. In this paper, I analyse…

Bindi Brook -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 1 December 2025
Join us for this seminar by Bindi Brook (Nottingham) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Econometrics Seminar - Daniel Lewis (UCL)

12:00 - 13:00 1 December 2025
Title TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sam Mansfield

15:00 - 16:00 2 December 2025
Speaker: Sam Mansfield (Manchester) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr. Felipe Magalhães

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2025
Forty years of neoliberalization in Latin American cities: volatility, deindustrialization and the multiplication of extractivism

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2025
Federico Bianchi and Francesco Renzini, University of Milan

Prof. Anja Laukötter (University of Jena), Colonial Botanies and Glocal Legacies: Carl Haussknecht and the 19th-Century Construction of “the Orient” in German History

13:00 - 15:00 3 December 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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