Lectures and seminars

An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia

09:00 - 10:00 21 November 2025
"Research Matters: An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia Colleagues from MIE will share brief overviews of different educational issues in Southeast Asia. Miguel Antonio…

An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia

21 November 2025
Research Matters: An Overview of Educational Issues in Southeast Asia Colleagues from MIE will share brief overviews of different educational issues in Southeast Asia. Miguel Antonio…

Inaugural Lecture: Drawing maps on equilateral triangles

12:00 - 13:00 21 November 2025
Register for Professor Lasse Rempe's Inaugural Lecture: Friday, 21 November 2025, 12.00 - 1.00pm, Alan Turing Building, Department of Mathematics, G.107 This is an opportunity to come…

Manchester Cancer Research Centre 20th Anniversary Director's Lecture - Professor David Jaffray, Anderson Cancer Center, USA

14:00 - 15:00 21 November 2025
This special Director's Lecture will be held as part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre's 20th anniversary celebrations and International Advisory Board meeting. Guest speaker,…

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 - 15:00 24 November 2025
Speaker: Christian Bönicke (Newcastle University) Title: The nuclear dimension of groupoid C*-algebras Abstract: Nuclear dimension is a noncommutative generalisation of Lebesgue covering…

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…

Jason Hartford -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 24 November 2025
Join us for this seminar by Jason Hartford (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and…

Maths education seminar: Abi Bown on deprivation and student progress in mathematics

14:00 - 15:00 24 November 2025
Speaker: Abi Bown (Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI)) Title: Deprivation and student progress in mathematics Abstract: In this talk I will present recent data on deprivation…

MIOIR Seminar Series - What Gets Cited? Reference Practices in Patent–Publication Pairs

15:30 - 16:30 24 November 2025
Alfredo Yegros explores how inventors balance knowledge disclosure and protection through citation practices in patent–publication pairs. Abstract: While the relationship between…

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: TBA Contact: sophie.kreutzkamp@manchester.ac.uk

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

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,…

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’)…

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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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