Exhibitions, Seminar

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

14 January - 11 February 2026
This academic year, the University of Manchester is celebrating 75 years since Alan Turing established the Turing Test by spotlighting the work of early career researchers on the future…

Architecture for the People Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003

7 November 2025 - 28 February 2026
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People -------------------------------------------------- For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens…

Architecture for the People: Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003

7 November 2025 - 28 February 2026
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens and met diverse civic needs by designing hundreds…

Cosmic Threads Community Quilt

24 January - 27 March 2026
In honour of Jodrell Bank’s 80th anniversary, we have partnered with UK textile artist Anne Kelly to create an extraordinary community quilt. Featuring over 200 contributions from members…

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…

Architecture for the People Manchester City Architect’s Department, 1902-2003

08:00 11 - 23:30 28 February 2026
Public Exhibition: Architecture for the People -------------------------------------------------- For 101 years, the City Architect’s Department in the Town Hall served the citizens…

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…

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…

Probability Seminar: Jose Pedraza Ramirez - Optimal Prediction of the Last r-Excursion Time of Brownian Motion Models

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2026
Jose Pedraza Ramirez (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Optimal Prediction of the Last r-Excursion Time of Brownian Motion Models Abstract:…

SQUIDS-Statistics Joint Seminar: Automatic Tuning for Gradient-based Bayesian Inference

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
Speaker: Professor Christopher Nemeth (Lancaster University) Abstract: In Bayesian inference, the central computational task is to approximate a posterior distribution—often by designing…

Exhibition: MossWorlds - Re-Storying Urban Lives

12 February - 2 March 2026
Now exhibiting in the Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor: MossWorlds – Re-Storying Urban Lives Until 2 March 2026 Samuel Alexander Glass Corridor The exhibition showcases the mosses…

MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives

17:30 - 19:15 12 February 2026
Join us for the launch of the 'MossWorlds: Re-storying Urban Lives' exhibition, followed by a panel discussion. This exhibition showcases the mosses of Manchester, from the 19th century…

Songs and poems of Gaza during the genocide

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2026
Dr Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster Host: Dr Moshe Behar In my talk, I will highlight examples of poetry and songs from the Gaza Strip within the context of the genocide in…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Anton Izosimov

15:00 - 16:00 16 February 2026
Speaker: Anton Izosimov (Glasgow) Title: The dimer model and dynamical incidence geometry Abstract: The dimer model is an archetypal model of statistical physics. In recent years,…

Maths education seminar: Mark MacDonald on embedding groupwork throughout the maths curriculum

14:00 - 15:00 16 February 2026
Speaker: Mark MacDonald (Lancaster University) Title: Embedding groupwork throughout the maths curriculum Abstract: Traditional mathematical coursework is now usually susceptible to…

‘“In the thick of it’: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 16 February 2026
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Victoria) - ‘“In the thick of it’: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba’

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Matt Westaway

14:00 - 15:00 17 February 2026
Title: Quantizations of nilpotent orbits in positive characteristic Abstract: Nilpotent coadjoint orbits in a reductive Lie algebra play an important role in the representation theory…

Macro Seminar - Hanbaek Lee (Cambridge)

16:00 - 17:00 17 February 2026
Title: Dancing on the Saddles: A Geometric Framework for Stochastic Equilibrium Dynamics

Careers Seminar Series - Careers in Biological Services Management (open to PhD students and staff)

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2026
The first FBMH careers seminar series of 2026 will take place on Wednesday 18 February 2026 from 1-2pm, where we will hear from Joanna Stanley and Ian Millar who have moved from postdoc…

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