Lectures and seminars

2025 Melland Schill Roundtable: ‘Who Governs When the World Is Falling Apart?’

17:00 - 18:30 19 November 2025
Global governance looks very different today than it did a few decades ago. Traditional diplomacy and international legal frameworks that once structured multilateralism are weakening,…

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

MET Seminar - Yuki Tamura (Ecole Polytechnique)

17:00 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Title: Equal Opportunity in School Choice Lotteries Author: Acelya Altunta¸William Phan & Yuki Tamura Abstract: In Berlin and North Carolina’s Wake County school districts, all…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Trump, Iran and Science

15:30 - 16:30 19 November 2025
Michael E. Rose will explore how the U.S. “Muslim travel ban” influenced the productivity and collaboration of Iranian computer scientists and how they adapted to sustain international…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Bernie Hogan (Oxford University) - Perspective Matters: Egocentric Networks and the Bundling/Grinding Problem in Sheaf Theory

16:00 - 17:30 19 November 2025
Consider a whole network, such as a classroom. Each student can create an egocentric network visually and in metric space through traditional methods. Yet the aggregation of these networks…

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

09:00 - 10:00 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…

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: Drawing maps on equilateral triangles

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2025
Register for Professor Lasse Rempe's Inaugural Lecture: Friday, 21 November 2025, 12.00 - 1.00pm, Alan Turing Building, Department of Mathematics, G.107 This is an opportunity to come…

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,…

A Decolonial Reading of the Nicene Creed from a Dalit Theological Perspective (Religions and Theology Research Seminar)

15:00 - 17:00 24 November 2025
Speaker: Raj Patta (The University of Manchester alumni)

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Christian Bönicke

14:00 - 15:00 24 November 2025
Speaker: Christian Bönicke (Newcastle University) Title: The nuclear dimension of groupoid C*-algebras Abstract: Nuclear dimension is a noncommutative generalisation of Lebesgue covering…

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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