Lectures and seminars

'Denaturalisation and Modernity: Drugs and Racial Capitalism' Anne Pollock [HYBRID]

13:00 - 14:30 19 February 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Anne Pollock (King's College London) shares her research. SUMMARY From the earliest days of European colonialism in the Americas and transatlantic…

AHCP Research Seminars

3 December 2025 - 3 December 2026
Please check the research seminars of the department here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/department-of-art-history-and-cultural-practices-115441163851

Alex Browning -- Identifiability of Stochastic and Spatial Models in Mathematical Biology [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2026
Join us for this seminar by Alex Browning (Melbourne as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Vicente Saavedra Araya

14:00 23 February 2026
Speaker: Vicente Saavedra Araya (University of Warwick) Title: Pointwise ergodic theorems along random sequences Abstract: A central problem in ergodic theory is to understand which…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Leadership, innovation and policy in the age of uncertainty

15:30 - 17:00 23 February 2026
Leadership, innovation and policy in the age of uncertainty This talk explores how Arup - a global professional services firm with over 18,000 members - applies foresight, research,…

‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 23 February 2026
Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) - ‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Coen de Valle

14:00 - 15:00 24 February 2026
TBA

Macro Seminar - Santiago Garcia-Couto (Georgetown Qatar)

16:00 - 17:00 24 February 2026
Title: The Anatomy of the China Shock

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Elvira Lupoian

15:00 - 16:00 24 February 2026
Speaker: Elvira Lupoian (UCL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

'Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC)' Seminar Series - February speaker: Dr Luis Martínez Juárez, UoM Lecturer in Global Health

12:00 - 13:00 25 February 2026
This is an inter-disciplinary seminar series which aims to bring together researchers interested in broadening the understanding and tackling some of the most pressing challenges faced…

Logic Seminar - Calum Hughes

15:00 - 16:00 25 February 2026
Speaker: Calum Hughes (University of Manchester) TBC

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2026
Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich

Probability Seminar: Indrajit Jana - CLT for LES of correlated Non-Hermitian Random Matrices

16:00 - 17:00 25 February 2026
Indrajit Jana (IIT Bhubaneswar) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: CLT for LES of correlated Non-Hermitian Random Matrices Abstract: In this talk, We consider two (or…

CLACS Seminar: Lucía Tiscornia (University College Dublin): Criminal Governance in Unexpected Places: The case of Uruguay

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A THURSDAY, STARTS AT 4PM AND IS NOT IN THE SAM ALEXANDER…

Climate Urbanisation: Climate Strategies and Extended Urbanisation

15:00 - 17:00 26 February 2026
The accelerating impacts of global warming render planetary urbanisation lenses particularly compelling for analysing how municipal climate strategies produce effects extending into…

CTIS Research Seminar - Surviving Translation + Q&A

14:00 - 15:30 26 February 2026
Surviving Translation takes an in-depth look at the ethics of translation – focusing specifically on the traumatic experiences of female migrants. Starting with Charlotte Bosseaux’s…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Terry Soo

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Terry Soo (UCL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis

‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 2 March 2026
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) - ‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’

GDI Lecture: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers

16:30 - 18:00 3 March 2026
GDI Lecture co-organised with the Geography Department Recent technical advances mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Amit Shah

14:00 - 15:00 3 March 2026
TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Happy Uppal

15:00 - 16:00 3 March 2026
Speaker: Happy Uppal (Bristol) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

How (not) to translate a Christian emotion. Fear, Consolation, and Joy in the Sixteenth-century Jesuit Mission to Japan

10:00 - 12:00 4 March 2026
Dr. Linda Zampol D’Ortia (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) This talk considers the rarity of mentions of fear in the literature composed by the Catholic missionaries of the Society…

Logic Seminar - Asaf Karagila

15:00 - 16:00 4 March 2026
Speaker: Asaf Karagila (University of Leeds) TBC

Probability Seminar: John Moriarty - Harmonic envelope representations for multidimensional optimal stopping

15:00 - 16:00 4 March 2026
John Moriarty (Queen Mary University of London) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Harmonic envelope representations for multidimensional optimal stopping Abstract: We…

The New International Economic (Dis)order: On Law, Privatization and Power

04:00 - 17:00 4 March 2026
In 1976, Gillian White published her famous article ‘The New International Economic Order’ in the Virginia Journal of International Law, finding a ‘climate in which some genuine amelioration…

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