Lectures and seminars

GDI Lecture: Rethinking resistance: Sudan’s resistance committees during revolution, peace and war

16:30 - 18:00 25 November 2025
Speaker: Sharath Srinivasan Professor Sharath Srinivasan is the David and Elaine Potter Professor of International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies…

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

Logic Seminar - Azul Fatalini

15:00 - 16:00 26 November 2025
Speaker: Azul Fatalini (University of Leeds) Title and abstract to be confirmed

MET Seminar - Albin Erlanson (Essex)

17:00 - 18:00 26 November 2025
Title: Optimal Allowance with Limited Auditing Capacity Authors: Thomas Brzustowski & Albin Erlanson Abstract: We analyze the mechanism-design problem of a principal allocating…

MIE - Anti Racist Education Network: Countering Islamophobia.

26 November 2025
"November marks Islamophobia Awareness Month, and the Anti-Racist Education Network is pleased to invite you to a special in-person conversation with Professor Salman Sayyid from the…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Tobias Stark (Utrecht University) - Effects of Identity Signals on the Perception of 2nd Generation Immigrants’ Integration in Social Networks

16:00 - 17:30 26 November 2025
The majority of 2nd generation immigrants in Western Europe identify both with the ethnic group of their parents and with the national majority group. Yet their belonging to the national…

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,…

PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart

26 November 2025
PhD work-in-progress seminar with Sam Toscano and Heather Urquhart

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

Bookwork: Extra-Illustration in the John Rylands Library (The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series)

13:00 - 13:45 27 November 2025
This seminar provides an introduction to the rich holdings of extra-illustrated books in the John Rylands Library. It begins with a short exploration of extra-illustration (or ‘grangerization’)…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health Global Mental Health Webinar

14:00 - 15:00 27 November 2025
You are warmly invited to join the upcoming Global Mental Health Webinar titled: Promoting Mental Health through Research and Early Career Researcher Development in Places of Learning…

Insubordinate and captive mobilities: Time and agency in irregularised return trajectories between North and West Africa

13:00 - 14:30 27 November 2025
A Migration, Refugees, and Asylum Research Seminar Speaker: Dr Sabina Barone, UCL In this seminar, I examine how the IOM’s ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration’ (AVRR) programme…

The 3rd Brian Robson Lecture 2025: High Hopes, Hard Realities - Civic Universities at the crossroads

17:00 - 19:00 27 November 2025
Guest speaker: Prof John Goddard OBE Manchester alongside Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds and Birmingham is one of the initial group of civic universities that evolved in the great Northern…

Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG seminar)

10:00 - 11:30 28 November 2025
The subject of the seminar is: ""Learning and response-ability in dangerous times: the challenge of transformation

Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG seminar)

10:00 - 11:30 28 November 2025
The subject of the seminar is: ""Learning and response-ability in dangerous times: the challenge of transformation"

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 -- Airway remodelling in asthma and tissue destruction in emphysema - two sides of the same coin? [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…

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