Lectures and seminars

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

I'm Just A Large Language Model, Please Excuse Me For Being Racist: Racial Inequalities Manifested In Generative Artificial Intelligence - Dhiraj Murthy

12:30 - 14:00 11 December 2025
-- Please note that the start time of this seminar has been changed to 12.30pm -- In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Dhiraj Murthy (University of Texas in Austin) shares his…

Student Voices in the Archives (The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series)

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2025
The University of Manchester’s archives offer a rich resource for researching student life and the history of the institution more generally. In this seminar, Grant Collier (Curator…

WEI and MiRS Lecture 2025 with Professor Virginia Doellgast

15:00 - 17:00 11 December 2025
Building worker voice and power in AI decisions: Three cases in the German ICT industry Virginia Doellgast (Cornell University, USA), Tobias Kämpf (University of Labour, Germany), Barbara…

The Role of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Multilateral Negotiations

11:00 - 12:00 12 December 2025
Multilateral negotiations are increasingly under strain, making it more important than ever to understand how global agreements are shaped behind the scenes. Dr Andraž Kastelic, a leading…

Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) ‘On the Urbanity of Sacred Substance: Purity, Sin, and the Flow of Blessing in Addis Ababa’

15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, the Eucharist is regarded as an exceptionally pure substance, and governed by such stringent ritual proscriptions that only a very small number of…

Econometrics Seminar - Christophe Gaillac (Geneva)

12:00 - 13:00 15 December 2025
Title TBA

Freya Bull -- Blood and urine: mathematical modelling for health [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 15 December 2025
Join us for this seminar by Freya Bull (UCL) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jakab Schrettner

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2025
Speaker: Jakab Schrettner (UCL) Title: Local constancy of reduction type and related invariants in p-adic families of curves Abstract: Invariants of curves and their Jacobians over…

Brownbag - Chad Brown

13:00 - 14:00 17 December 2025
Title TBD

How to make your research more usable to policy-makers in UK parliament

16:00 - 17:00 18 December 2025
Presentation from Alpesh Maisuria (UWE Bristol) The Higher Education Research Group is delighted to announce that Professor Alpesh Maisuria (UWE Bristol) will be the invited speaker…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Adrian Dawid

15:00 - 16:00 12 January 2026
Speaker: Adrian Dawid (Cambridge) Title: Random walks on the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group Abstract: On a symplectic manifold M, the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms Ham(M)…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Boumediene Hamzi

11:00 - 12:00 14 January 2026
On 14 January, we will have Boumediene Hamzi from Imperial College London, Caltech and the Alan Turing Institute. Talk title: Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing…

Digital Health Equity seminar: Faith and Health: a case study of British Muslims - 14th January 2026

13:00 - 14:00 14 January 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 14-Jan-26, 1-2pm GMT via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/96196306877). Salman Waqar, a GP and…

SQUIDS Seminar: Sampling as Bandits: Evaluation-Efficient Design for Black-Box Densities

14:00 - 15:00 21 January 2026
Speaker: Takuo Matsubara (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: We introduce Bandit Importance Sampling (BIS), a novel class of importance sampling methods designed for scenarios where…

History Department Seminar: Rethinking Black British History: Perspectives from the (Cricket) Field

16:00 - 17:30 27 January 2026
Dr Michael Collins (University College London) Dr Collins will be speaking about his recent book, Windrush Cricket: Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England (OUP 2025).

Campus Projections and Interrupted Flows: What does a campus ‘say’ to students and shape their movements within it?

14:00 - 15:00 28 January 2026
Guest speaker: Richard Budd is a Lecturer in Higher Education in the school of Social Sciences at Lancaster University Research on university campuses tends to be divided into somewhat…

Digital Trust and Security seminar: Justin McKeown

13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2026
Explore adversarial assurance of real-world PETs to address design limits, implementation flaws, and evolving data needs for businesses This event invites participants from all disciplines…

Professor Steven Pierce ’s Inaugural Lecture: The Fetishistic State – Genealogies of Law in Northern Nigeria

16:30 - 18:30 28 January 2026
Guest Speaker Professor Olutayo Adesina, British Academy Global Professor (University of Manchester); Professor of History, University of Ibadan Venue Details The wine reception…

New Lovell Lecture: Be the astronomer

19:30 - 21:00 29 January 2026
René Breton, Professor of Astrophysics at JBCA, invites you to join a unique “choose-your-own-adventure” lecture, where audiences can step into an astronomer's shoes, investigate an…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Julia Münch

14:00 - 15:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Julia Münch (University of Liverpool) Title: Extensions and applications to Sullivan's dictionary Abstract: For generalising complex dynamics to higher real dimensions it…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Robert Tang

15:00 - 16:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Robert Tang (XJTLU, Suzhou, China) Title: Straightening structures on surfaces Abstract: Triangulations are ubiquitous throughout low-dimensional topology and geometry.…

Maths education seminar: Rosa Archer on Lesson Study in Higher Education

14:00 - 15:00 2 February 2026
Speaker: Rosa Archer (University of Manchester) Title: Adapting Lesson Study for Higher Education: Collaborative Pedagogic Inquiry and Professional Learning Abstract: Lesson Study is…

MIOIR Seminar Series - When Experiential Learning Fails

15:30 - 16:30 2 February 2026
When Experiential Learning Fails: How Complexity of Experience Undermines Learning from Failures Learning from failures is widely regarded as a central mechanism of organizational…

Expert Insight Series: A radical reset for nuclear regulation (and what it means for us)

12:30 - 13:30 3 February 2026
Professor Sarah Sharples will be joined by Prof. Andrew Sherry and Mark Bassett, two members of the independent nuclear regulation Taskforce Last year, the Prime Minister established…

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