Lectures and seminars

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…

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

Macro Seminar - Hitoshi Tsujiyama (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 9 December 2025
Title: TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Margherita Pagano

15:00 - 16:00 9 December 2025
Speaker: Margherita Pagano (Imperial) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 9 December 2025
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: José Manuel Aburto Brass Blacker Associate Professor in Demography, London…

Agustin Diz (Edinburgh): After Abundance: Guaraní Settlements and the Making of the Gran Chaco’s Extractive Frontier

17:00 - 18:30 10 December 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Sam Power

11:00 - 12:00 10 December 2025
November’s AI Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker is Sam Power from the University of Bristol Bio: Sam is a Lecturer in the School of Mathematics. Sam received his PhD degree in 2020 from…

Brownbag - Vasudha Wattal

13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2025
Title TBD

Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

16:00 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

Logic Seminar - Pantelis Eleftheriou

15:00 - 16:00 10 December 2025
Speaker: Pantelis Eleftheriou (University of Leeds) Title and abstract to be confirmed

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:30 10 December 2025
Scott Duxbury, UNC Chapel Hill

Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL)

14:00 - 15:30 10 December 2025
Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL), Simon 4.04

Student Voices in the Archives (The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series)

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2025
The University of Manchester’s archives offer a rich resource for researching student life and the history of the institution more generally. In this seminar, Grant Collier (Curator…

Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) ‘On the Urbanity of Sacred Substance: Purity, Sin, and the Flow of Blessing in Addis Ababa’

15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, the Eucharist is regarded as an exceptionally pure substance, and governed by such stringent ritual proscriptions that only a very small number of…

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