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

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…

Linguistics and English Language Seminar: The Optimal Assignment Principle

13:00 - 15:00 5 February 2026
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Quantitative, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics Research Group The idea that languages are shaped by a constellation…

'Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures in Remote Canada’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 9 February 2026
Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) - ‘Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures in Remote Canada’

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Eng-Jon Ong

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2026
Speaker: Eng-Jon Ong (Queen Mary University of London) Title: Discrete spectrum in S-adic substitution dynamical systems via the balanced pair algorithm Abstract: Substitutions and…

Eder Zavala -- Mathematical analysis of endocrine rhythms and wearable time series data [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2026
Join us for this seminar by Eder Zavala (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Anna Pratoussevitch

15:00 - 16:00 9 February 2026
Speaker: Anna Pratoussevitch (Liverpool) Title: Discreteness of Ultra-Parallel Complex Hyperbolic Triangle Groups Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss discreteness criteria for…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Eoghan McDowell

14:00 - 15:00 10 February 2026
Title: Zeros of characters of symmetric groups Abstract: Interest in zeros of characters stretches back to Burnside's classical result that every non-linear character has a zero, and…

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 10 February 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Ridhi Kashyap Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science, University…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Joey Bose

11:00 - 12:00 11 February 2026
On 11 February, we will have Joey Bose from Imperial College London. If you cannot attend in person, please register via the Ticketsource link provided and you will receive the link…

Digital Health Equity seminar: Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity?

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 11th-Feb, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91477080182. Robin van Kessel (London…

Ingural Lectures: Prof Will Fletcher and Prof Seth Schindler

15:30 - 18:00 11 February 2026
You are warmly invited to join the School of Environment, Education and Development at The University of Manchester for inaugural lectures from Will Fletcher, Professor of Physical…

Logic Seminar - Martin Bays

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2026
Speaker: Martin Bays (University of Oxford) Groups from non-expansion in higher dimension Call a complex polynomial f(x,y) _expanding_ if there is e>0 such that for all sufficiently…

Lunchtime seminar with Prof Audrey Osler: Where are you from? No, where are you really from?

12:30 - 13:30 11 February 2026
MIE Anti-Racist Education Network would like to invite you to a lunch-time seminar with Professor Audrey Osler who will be speaking about her recently published book 'Where are you…

MIE Anti-Racist Education Network: Where are you from? No, where are you really from?

12:30 - 13:30 11 February 2026
We would like to invite you to a lunch-time seminar with Professor Audrey Osler who will be speaking about her recently published book 'Where are you from? No, where are you really…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.

16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2026
Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked to involvement in voluntary organizations. Yet, we know little about the origin…

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