Lectures and seminars

DMDS Divisional Seminar - Monday 27 January 2020

13:00 - 14:00 27 January 2020
DMDS Divisional Seminar Date: Monday 27 January 2020 Time: 1.00pm Venue: Stopford Building, Room 2.823/5 Sophia Ananiadou – “Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for Biomedical applications.”…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Caroline M. Parker – University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 27 January 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 27th of January 2020 Dr Caroline M. Parker – University of Manchester Carceral Livelihoods in Puerto Rico Dr Caroline M. Parker will present…

André Macedo (Reading) - Explicit methods for the Hasse norm principle

15:00 - 16:00 28 January 2020
Abstract: Given an extension L/K of number fields, we say that the Hasse norm principle (HNP) holds if every non-zero element of K which is a norm everywhere locally is in fact a global…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 28 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

Keith Butler - Applied machine learning for accelerated materials design and analysis

12:00 - 13:00 28 January 2020
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: I will present work showing…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - TBC - George Witty

14:00 - 15:00 28 January 2020
Speaker: George Witty - University of East Anglia Title & Abstract: TBC ......................... Time: 2pm Place: FA1 There will be tea and biscuits at 1:40. All are welcome.

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 29 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

Bogdanow Masterclass in Holocaust Studies 2020

14:00 - 16:00 29 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University). As part of the annual lecture series…

GDI Lecture with Dr Nick Jepson: In China's Wake: How the commodity boom transformed development strategies in the global south

17:00 29 January 2020
In the early years of the 21st century, breakneck economic growth in China stimulated a boom of unprecedented duration and extent in world markets for metals and fuels. In China’s Wake…

Juan del Nido (Manchester): 'Uber and gladiatorial truths: the moral traction of popular choice in Global South late capitalism'

17:00 - 18:30 29 January 2020
Abstract: Based on my fieldwork into the logics, rhetoric and affects surrounding the Uber conflict in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I will examine how the middle class’ conviction that…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 29 January 2020
Matthew Smith, University of Greenwich Understanding collaboration patterns on UK funded research projects - a network analysis This study provides an examination of inter-organisational…

Special seminar: Discovering essential extracellular receptor-ligand interactions: methods and application to pathogen and leukocyte cellular recognition

12:00 - 13:00 29 January 2020
Gavin is interested in identifying the molecular basis of cellular recognition events both between cells with our own bodies and also with pathogens. To investigate this, he has developed…

CMI Seminar: Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper: A Tool for Visualizing Multidimensional Datasets

15:00 - 16:30 30 January 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Simon Rudkin from Swansea University who will be speaking on the topic: Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper: A Tool for Visualizing Multidimensional…

CODE Seminar: Race, Class and Gender and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Does School Prepare Men for Prison?

12:00 - 13:00 30 January 2020
The potential link between educational ‘failure’ and offending is perennially debated. Research and popular discourses tend to focus on the community, cultural or family backgrounds…

Tyndall Manchester seminar- Professor David Schultz- Atmosfear: Communicating the effects of climate change on extreme weather

12:30 - 13:30 30 January 2020
The potential and serious effects of anthropogenic climate change are often communicated through the soundbite that anthropogenic climate change will produce more extreme weather. This…

Dov Stekel - Mathematical models for spread of antimicrobial resistance

14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2020
(Zochonis Lecture Theatre D) Join us for this seminar by Dov Stekel (Nottingham) as part of the Mathematics in the Life Sciences Series. Abstract: This seminar will cover aspects of…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Professor Thomas Stodulka

16:00 - 18:00 3 February 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 3rd of February 2020 Professor Thomas Stodulka University of Berlin Affective Scholarship, Emotional Economies, and The Coming of Age on the…

Beyond Lecture Capture - does screen casting encourage student engagement? (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 4 February 2020
For the 2018/19 academic year the PLAN30852/60852 Green Infrastructure & Sustainable Cities module produced weekly screen casts to introduce students to the topics being debated in…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christian Fuchs (Westminster): Capitalism and Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet and Communicative/Digital Capitalism

17:30 - 19:00 4 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication…

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