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

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…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Marie Roth

14:00 - 15:00 3 February 2026
Title: Character sheaves and their restriction to mixed conjugacy classes. Abstract: Introduced by Lusztig in the eighties, character sheaves are the geometrical counterpart of irreducible…

Behavioural Science for the International Health Workforce Winter External Seminar

10:00 - 11:30 4 February 2026
You are invited to our Winter External Seminar, bringing together research and practice to explore how behavioural science can be applied to strengthen health professional education,…

CLACS Seminar: Austin Zeiderman (LSE) "Racial Ecologies in Fluvial Colombia"

17:00 - 18:30 4 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 4 Feb 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

Green Research in Education Group (GRiEG) Seminar: The Morecambe Bay Curriculum’s collaborative approach to educational innovation

13:00 - 14:30 4 February 2026
This session will explore how the Morecambe Bay Curriculum (MBC) movement has been embedding place-based environmental education into everyday practice across the North West coast.…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series Martin Everett (Manchester) Assessing eigenvector type centrality for disconnected graphs.

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2026
Eigenvector centrality (Bonacich 1972) is one of the most used centrality measures in social network analysis. When applied to disconnected graphs, it typically assigns non-zero values…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Rebecca Turner

15:00 5 February 2026
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Hiroe Ishihara (University of Tokyo) "Reconstructing Relational Values: Constitutive Values, Norm Circles, and Cultural Assemblages"

16:00 - 18:00 5 February 2026
Abstract: Calls for transformative change in sustainability highlight the need to understand how environmental values are formed, sustained, and transformed. Yet, most frameworks still…

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