Lectures and seminars

A Decolonial Reading of the Nicene Creed from a Dalit Theological Perspective (Religions and Theology Reserch 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 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…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Anton Farmar

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2025
TBA

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

Ideal Leadership in the Temple Scroll (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)

15:00 - 17:00 1 December 2025
Speaker: Abigail Naidu (PhD candidate, University of Birmingham)

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Peter Rowley/James Bryden

14:00 - 15:00 2 December 2025
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

GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation

16:30 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation…

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

Charis Boutieri (King's College London). Speaking Freedom: The Tunisian public sphere between revolution and democracy

15:00 - 17:00 8 December 2025
This talk will present my forthcoming book, which interrogates the historical formations and contemporary reconfigurations of the Tunisian public sphere. While profoundly delimited…

The Two Worlds of the Reader: Text World and Life-world in a New Theory of Reading (Religions and Theology Reserch Seminar)

15:00 - 17:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Alexander Samely (The University of Manchester)

Digital Trust and Security seminar: Prof Marija Slavkovik

13:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Autonomous Machines as Moral…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Neil Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
TBA

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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