Lectures and seminars

Megnaa Mehtta (University College London). Retreat or Remain? Notions of a full life and a slow death from Sundarbans’ eroding coastlines

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025
As sea level rise erode coastlines of the Sundarbans, “managed retreat”—a process of relocating people to supposedly safer areas—is put forth by policymakers globally, and in India,…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Gender and the Distribution of Power in Entrepreneurial Teams: Evidence from Denmark

15:30 - 16:30 10 November 2025
Gender and the Distribution of Power in Entrepreneurial Teams: Evidence from Denmark (Joint work with Ali Mohammadi, Copenhagen Business School) Isabelle Solal discusses how gender…

MIOIR Seminar Series with Dr Isabelle Solal

15:30 - 16:30 10 November 2025
MIOIR Seminar Series with Dr Isabelle Solal Gender and the Distribution of Power in Entrepreneurial Teams: Evidence from Denmark (Joint work with Ali Mohammadi, Copenhagen Business…

Reimagining New Towns: Delivering Growth and Place-Making for 21st Century England

17:00 - 18:30 10 November 2025
Join us for an exploration of the New Towns Taskforce Report to Government, a major contribution to the national conversation on housing and place-making. The event will explore how…

The Convent in the Community: How Secular Use of Sacred Space Contributes to Catholic Nuns' Pursuit of the Good in Eastern Indonesia (Religions and Theology Reserch Seminar)

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2025
Speaker: Meghan Rose Donnelly (The University of Manchester)

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Matt Chaffe

14:00 - 15:00 11 November 2025
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Macro Seminar - Vincent Sterk (University College London)

16:00 - 17:00 11 November 2025
Title: The Macroeconomic and Welfare Effects of Energy Price Controls

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Cedric Pilatte

15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2025
Speaker: Cedric Pilatte (Oxford) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 2

Roundtable: Free Trade Unravelling

13:30 - 15:00 11 November 2025
Please join us for a roundtable discussing the ongoing unravelling of the free trade consensus in global trade politics and governance with Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Shamel…

The Heart of the Eye and the Heart of the Sun: The Struggle to Translate Science in Tokugawa Japan (East Asian Studies and CHSTM Joint Seminar)

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2025
In 1802, the Nagasaki-based translator Shizuki Tadao completed the final volume of a work that presented Japanese readers for the first time with explanations of universal gravitation,…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Chengchun Shi

11:00 - 12:00 12 November 2025
November’s AI-Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker lecture will take place in Nancy Rothwell Building room 3A.012. This is in Core 1, on the third floor. If you go by stairs, once you get…

Brownbag - Itay Saporta Eksten

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Title TBD

Digital Health Equity seminar: Bridging the divide in pain management in Pakistan using digital tools

13:00 - 14:00 12 November 2025
Pain is a complex and personal experience that affects people and societies worldwide. Yet, how pain is expressed, understood, and managed can vary greatly across countries and cultures.…

Ed King (Bristol): Addressing Algorithmic Bias through Video Game Design in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 12 November 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Co-organised with the Centre for Digital Humanities, Media and Culture. Wed 12 November…

Logic Seminar - Xiaoduo Wang

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Xiaoduo Wang (University of Manchester) Tame Extensions of Generic Derivations on o-minimal Structures Let $T$ be a complete, model-complete o-minimal extension of the theory…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Andrey Lazarev

12:00 - 13:00 12 November 2025
Speaker: Andrey Lazarev (Lancaster) Title: Duality for graded Lie algebras (joint work in progress with R. Tang) Abstract: Given a finite-dimensional Lie algebra g, its Chevalley-Eilenberg…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Joe Labianca (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) - Affect’s Role in Organizationally-Sponsored Networking

16:00 - 17:30 12 November 2025
Most organizational research on networking focuses on negative emotions toward it; but some people are comfortable with networking or even find it energizing. This mixed methods study…

No one left behind: Supporting disadvantaged groups to adopt electric vehicles

12:30 - 14:30 12 November 2025
Join Policy@Manchester on Wednesday, 12 November for the first GM Policy Hub seminar of 2025/26 to discuss electric vehicles use in Greater Manchester. Domestic transport is the UK’s…

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir - The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2025
Goran Peskir (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Dubins constants for Walsh's spider process Abstract: A long-standing open problem of L.…

Research Seminar, “Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom” with John Las Heras (University of the Basque Country)

12 November 2025
“Unions, Coops, and the Contradictions of Freedom”, John Las Heras, University of the Basque Country

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