Events
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Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Youcheng Sun
14:00 - 15:30 10 October 2023
An Arms Race in Intellectual Property Protection of Deep Learning Models Seminar with Q&A and Networking Date & Time: Tuesday 10th October 2023 | 14.00-15.30 (UK) Venue: Alan Turing Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL Summary: Youcheng Sun will give a seminar titled 'An Arms Race in Intellectual Property Protection...
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GDI Lecture Series: Unpacking the ‘Developing’ Country Classification: Origins and Hierarchies
12:00 - 10 October 2023
The GDI Lecture series is pleased to present a webinar by Dr Deborah Barros Leal Farias of The University of New South Wales. Talk blurb: The division of the world into ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ countries has grown increasingly problematic in the past decades. Nonetheless, it remains embedded in legal documents, foreign policy discourse,...
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Introduction to Quantitative Time Diary Analysis
10 - 17 October 2023
This free online short course aims to introduce participants to time diary data analysis, a multidisciplinary field which has made a sustained contribution to social science over the last 50 years. It is targeted at academics, doctoral students, post-doctoral as well as public and private sector researchers interested in studying how people spend...
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Michael Lewis: Flash Boys & New Tycoons (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)
19:00 - 10 October 2023
'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell?FTX?and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. “One hundred and fifty billion dollars,” he finally said – though he added that he had use for “infinity dollars”.' A master storyteller, Michael Lewis has uncovered some of the biggest stories of our times,...
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Natalie Haynes (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)
19:00 - 11 October 2023
Rock star classicist, author and broadcaster Natalie Haynes returns to MLF to celebrate the publication of her latest non-fiction book, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth. Meet Athene, goddess of war and wisdom; Artemis, goddess of hunting and protector of young girls; Aphrodite, goddess of sex and desire; Hera, Zeus’ long-suffering wife who...
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