Lectures and seminars

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Jonathan Fraser

14:00 - 15:00 27 October 2025
Speaker: Jonathan Fraser (University of St Andrews) Title: Dimensions of orbital sets in complex dynamics Abstract: Let E be a non-empty compact subset of the Riemann sphere and T…

Econometrics Seminar - Philipp Ketz (PSE)

12:00 - 13:00 27 October 2025
Title TBA

Emmanuelle Ricaud Oneto (CSGA, Dijon). "Our children? Sold to the State. They will come back in cans of tuna”: Analysis of a rumor on social policies in the Peruvian Amazon

15:00 - 17:00 27 October 2025
This presentation suggests taking seriously a rumor circulating among the Maijuna, a Western Tukanoan indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon, regarding social policies such as cash…

Mapping Biblical Reception: Questions, Answers, Stories (Religions and Theology – Erhardt Seminars)

15:00 - 17:00 27 October 2025
Speaker: Dr Andrew Mein (The Queen's Foundation)

MIOIR Seminar Series - Multimarket Competition and Patent Litigation in Platform Markets: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry

15:30 - 16:30 27 October 2025
Multimarket Competition and Patent Litigation in Platform Markets: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Industry Dmitry Sharapov examines how competition across multiple markets shapes…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Tim Burness

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2025
Title: Simple groups, nilpotent subgroups and their intersections Abstract: Let G be a finite group, let p be a prime and let H be a Sylow p-subgroup. Problems concerning the intersections…

Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement

16:00 - 18:00 28 October 2025
Join us for the inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, hosted by the University of Manchester's School of Social Science and Department of Sociology. ‘Life’ and ‘death’ affects…

Brownbag - Qiwei He (Edinburgh)

13:00 - 14:00 29 October 2025
Title TBD

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr Matthew Dennis

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Geography Department Research Seminar Dr Matthew Dennis (Geography, SEED, University of Manchester) In search of Schrödinger’s patch: looking for a functional spatial ecology

Logic Seminar - Anna Dmitrieva

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Speaker: Anna Dmitrieva (University of Manchester) Quasiminimality and generic functions One of the well-known accomplishments of model theory is the study of the field of complex…

MET Seminar - Pietro Dall'Ara (Naples)

17:00 - 18:00 29 October 2025
Title: Screening in digital monopolies Author: Pietro Dall'Ara Abstract: A defining feature of digital goods is that damaging and replication are costless: once a high-quality good…

MIOIR & MEC Joint Seminar - Educational Diversity and Work Experience Paths Towards Entrepreneurship

15:00 - 16:00 29 October 2025
Educational Diversity and Work Experience Paths Towards Entrepreneurship Shiri Breznitz, Ralph and Roz Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series - Lars Leszczensky (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Gendered Mechanisms of Social Segregation Among Muslim Youth

16:00 - 17:30 29 October 2025
This talk will present findings from an ongoing research project on why friendships between Muslim and non-Muslim adolescents are relatively rare. The focus is on gender-specific processes…

The Double Tax and Unsung Stories - Black Women’s Voices in Activism and Economics

15:00 - 17:00 30 October 2025
Join us for a compelling afternoon of insight and inspiration as we mark Black History Month with two powerful voices in Black women’s activism and economic justice. We’re thrilled…

Imagining Our Working Lives

14:00 - 16:00 1 November 2025
Join us for a creative, participatory workshop exploring how work shapes our lives, relationships, and aspirations. Open to adults (18+) in Greater Manchester and the North West, including…

Yasser Roudi -- Long-term behaviour of learning machines under closed-loop learning [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 3 November 2025
Join us for this seminar by Yasser Roudi (King's) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sudip Pandit

15:00 - 16:00 4 November 2025
Speaker: Sudip Pandit (Kings College London) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan

16:30 - 18:00 5 November 2025
Speaker: Janaki Srinivasan, University of Oxford My talk will be based on my 2022 book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India,…

Geography Department Research Seminar - Dr Rakib Akhtar

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2025
Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the making of an Indian smart city. Dr. Rakib Akhtar is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Birmingham. An interdisciplinary…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Mai Haiba

15:00 - 16:00 6 November 2025
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

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…

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
TBA

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