Lectures and seminars

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

Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Prof. Henrietta L. Moore

16:00 - 17:30 2 December 2025
Join us for an inspiring talk by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture! Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture with Professor Henrietta…

AHCP Research Seminars

3 December 2025 - 3 December 2026
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851

Follow the White Rabbit: In defence of conspiracy theories

18:00 - 19:30 3 December 2025
A reporter’s perspective on conspiracy theories with Gabriel Gatehouse, journalist and creator of 'The Coming Storm' podcast. Gabriel Gatehouse has spent many years investigating conspiracy…

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

Logic Seminar - Eric Finster

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Eric Finster (University of Birmingham) Type Theoretic Presentations of Higher Categorical Structures Since the introduction of Homotopy Type Theory, it has been realized…

MET Seminar - Spyros Galanis (Durham)

17:00 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Title: Information Aggregation with Costly Information Acquisition Authors: Spyros Galanis & Sergei Mikhalishchev Abstract: We study information aggregation in a dynamic trading…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Federico Bianchi & Francesco Renzini (University of Milan) - Agent-Based Modelling for Social Network Research: Two Examples

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2025
The seminar will be centred on Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) as a strategy for modelling social networks while avoiding some of the pitfalls of standard statistical models. Because of…

Probability Seminar: Peter Gracar - Lipschitz cutset for fractal graphs and applications to the spread of infections

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2025
Peter Gracar (University of Leeds) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Lipschitz cutset for fractal graphs and applications to the spread of infections Abstract: For Bernoulli…

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 Sarah Fielden Lecture Series: Teaching Education at the Crossroads: Scholarship, Practice and Policy

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2025
For the next in the Sarah Fielden Lecture Series, join Professor Jean Murray, Emeritus Professor at the University of East London, to examine the shifting history of teaching education…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Luana Scrivano

15:00 - 16:00 4 December 2025
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

CTIS Research Seminar - Why Creative and Collaborative Arts Matter in (De)preparing Learners for Critical Intercultural Citizenship?

14:00 - 15:30 4 December 2025
This talk takes you into my journey with the arts and critical intercultural communication education. It investigates the dynamic relationship between creative art-based methods, teaching…

Honouring Dr. Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi: Tribute Seminar and Celebration

14:00 - 16:00 4 December 2025
Join us in person for a heartfelt seminar celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi - a cherished colleague, mentor, and friend whose kindness, intellect, and compassion…

SEED Decolonisation Seminar

12:00 - 13:30 5 December 2025
"Presentation is captioned ""The political dilemmas of decolonisation: Race, migration and the production of knowledge"". The thesis is that decolonisation movements from the Global…

SEED Decolonisation Seminar

12:00 - 13:30 5 December 2025
Presentation is captioned "The political dilemmas of decolonisation: Race, migration and the production of knowledge". The thesis is that decolonisation movements from the Global…

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…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Gabriel Fuhrmann

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Gabriel Fuhrmann (Durham University) Title: Prime periods on the interval Abstract: Given two continuous self-maps f and g on the interval which have all periodic orbits…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Dmitry Roytenberg

15:00 - 16:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Dmitry Roytenberg (Amsterdam) Title: On dg-manifolds with vanishing Atiyah class Abstract: Differential graded (dg) manifolds are a generalization of manifolds comprising…

Maths education seminar: Gemma Crowe and Christiana Charalambous on the history of maths for EDI in teaching

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Gemma Crowe and Christiana Charalambous (University of Manchester) Title: History of Maths for EDI in teaching Abstract: The History for Inclusion & Diversity in Mathematics…

MIOIR Seminar Series - The Building Blocks of Software Work

15:30 - 16:30 8 December 2025
Frank Neffke will explore the building blocks of software work and what they reveal about learning, careers and the spread of programming languages. (Co-authors: Xiangnan Feng, Johannes…

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

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