Lectures and seminars

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Colva Roney-Dougal

14:00 - 15:00 13 May 2025
Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

Dylan Bradbury (UoM): "Sounds that tell a world": Mapuzugun, orality and auditory regimes in Argentina

17:00 14 May 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 14 May 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Fiction and Research

14:30 - 16:00 14 May 2025
This online seminar is aimed at researchers who are interested in learning about the different ways fiction relates to social science research. Drawing on Becky and Leah's recently…

GDI Lecture: Living the Urban Periphery: Our Book and Related Thoughts...

16:30 - 18:00 14 May 2025
The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on the complexities of African urban peripheries and the varied nature…

Logic seminar: Nicolai Kraus

15:00 - 16:00 14 May 2025
TBA

The History of the Department in Pictures

14:00 - 15:00 14 May 2025
Abstract We have over 2,000 images of the department dating back to the 1940s: some iconic, some frankly quite obscure. The talk will describe the building of a new system that makes…

Lovell Lecture: The Ingredients for life - OSIRIS-REx mission update

19:30 - 21:00 15 May 2025
What can the Asteroid Bennu reveal about the early days of the Solar System? Join Dr Sarah Crowther for insights into the first published results from NASA's OSIRIS- REx misson - one…

Racial health equity and the question of Black (non?)being: Exploring the uses of Afropessimism in approaches to anti-racist health promotion - Tanisha Spratt

13:00 - 14:30 15 May 2025
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Tanisha Spratt from Kings College London shares her research. SUMMARY Afropessimism is a critical framework that is often used to analyse anti-Black…

Statistics Seminar - Prof. Haavard Rue (KAUST)

14:00 19 May 2025
Abstract TBA

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Mark Wildon

14:00 - 15:00 20 May 2025
Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

The 2025 Sherman Lecture: Moses Gaster; Scholar, Collector, Rabbi, Activist

17:00 - 18:30 20 May 2025
Under the auspices of the Manchester University Centre for Jewish Studies: Professor Philip Alexander “Moses Gaster (1856-1939) – Scholar, Collector, Rabbi, Activist: His scholarly…

GDI Lecture: The transformative-transdisciplinary imperative: Decolonizing development in a transboundary delta

16:30 - 18:00 21 May 2025
Speaker: Jenia Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur The Sundarbans is the largest contiguous mangroves delta in the world, spanning India and Bangladesh. The delta is…

Saudi Women’s Activism Through Writing

16:00 - 17:00 21 May 2025
Speaker: Hind Aldossary (PhD Researcher, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) Join on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/3944838983 This lecture is part…

HIMR-sponsored Algebra seminar - Henry Bradford

14:00 - 15:00 27 May 2025
Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

Desi Queers: Exploring Intergenerationality in LGBTQ South Asian Cultures in Britain

18:30 28 May 2025
How do ideas, cultures and ways of living ‘move’ across generations in queer contexts? How do queer people’s positions outside of mainstream forms of biological (nuclear family) and…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Colin Williams

14:00 - 16:00 28 May 2025
Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr Colin Williams Date: 28th May 2025 Time: 14:00-16:00 Location: The University of Manchester Join us for an engaging seminar on 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 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…

AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Laurent Orseau

11:00 - 12:00 16 July 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. Bio: Laurent…

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