Lectures and seminars

Logic seminar: Boris Zilber

11:00 - 12:30 29 May 2025
Title: Continuous model theory and axioms of quantum mechanics

Sarah Marzi -- Decoding the Cell Type-Specific Epigenome in Alzheimer’s Disease [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 2 June 2025
Join us for this seminar by Sarah Marzi (King's) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. More details about the joint series can be found…

Power and people: Unpacking social value in the nuclear sector | Expert Insights Series

13:00 - 14:00 3 June 2025
Join us for an open and interactive panel exploring the deeper questions around nuclear power's role in society. With space for audience questions throughout, we’ll unpack what "social…

Migrant Colonialism: South American States and European Empires, c.1830-c.1950

16:00 - 17:30 4 June 2025
Please do join us for this special lecture from our Simon Visiting Professor, Lucy Riall, FBA.

GM Policy Seminar: Against the clock: Delivering local climate change targets

13:00 - 14:30 11 June 2025
Join the GM Policy Hub on Wednesday, 11 June for seminar which will explore how local authorities can set, review, and address their climate change targets. In 2020, it was reported…

Creativity + AI: Publishing

15:00 - 17:00 16 June 2025
The rapid expansion of AI is impacting and changing the publishing industry. We will be asking a panel of publishers, authors and librarians to reflect on the pace of change in the…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Epistemic games and causal problems

14:00 - 15:30 16 June 2025
Epistemic games and causal problems: a framework for teaching the evaluation of scientific information. Studies in science education demonstrate that laypeople typically engage with…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Theo Damoulas

11:00 - 12:00 18 June 2025
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Title: TBC…

The Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Professor Simon Johnson

18:15 - 20:30 19 June 2025
Join us for the annual Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture with Professor Simon Johnson, alumnus and winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics. In this lecture, 'Technology and Global…

The Making of pragmatist feminism in Arab American women cultural productions - Roaa Ali

13:00 - 14:30 19 June 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Dr Roaa Ali (University of Manchester) shares her research. SUMMARY This talk explores the emergence of pragmatist feminism within the cultural productions…

Alana Lentin’s The New Racial Regime

15:00 - 16:30 25 June 2025
In The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy Alana Lentin shows how the attacks on Black, Indigenous and anticolonial thought and praxis reveal the processes through…

Creativity + AI: Fashion

14:30 - 16:30 26 June 2025
Presented in partnership by Creative Manchester, Digital Futures and the Turing Innovation Catalyst (TIC) Manchester, the CreaTech 2025 series of events is aimed at supporting the development…

The Christian Brethren Archive: Chief Men Among the Brethren

14:30 - 15:30 26 June 2025
Join us at the John Rylands Library for a lecture on the Christian Brethren, hosted by David Bebbington, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Stirling. The John Rylands…

Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions.

15:00 - 16:30 30 June 2025
How is Who. Evidence as Clues for Action in Participatory Research Interventions. Participatory and collaborative approaches in sustainability science and public health research contribute…

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