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

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…

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…

Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson

15:30 - 17:00 12 February 2026
Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception. About the lecture The University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture…

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…

Keynote speech: Researching Professionals and Doing Research Critically - Professor Emerita Helen Gunter

15:00 - 16:00 13 February 2026
Professor Gunter’s lecture will examine what it means for educational professionals to practice as researching professionals, and the risks and challenges of undertaking critical approaches…

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

‘She says she would like to know more about me’: Minoritised applicants’ doctoral subjectivity formation in the pre-application stage

15:00 - 16:00 17 February 2026
Guest lecture from Emily F. Henderson, Professor and Director of the Doctoral Education and Academia Research Centre (DEAR) at the University of Warwick Doctoral admissions tend to…

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…

Educating Out Prejudice through LGBT+ History Month

17:00 - 18:00 18 February 2026
Guest lecture from Sue Sanders, co-founder of UK LGBT+ History Month In this guest lecture, Sue will explore how we can use LGBT+ History Month - and other months dedicated to minoritised…

Logic Seminar - Mervyn Tong

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2026
Speaker: Mervyn Tong (University of Cambridge) Higher-arity distality and hypergraph regularity In recent years, the intersection of model theory and combinatorics has been a fertile…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Alessandro Lomi (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano) Modeling Social Networks with Changeable Nodes

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2026
One of the defining features of social networks is that their nodes—social agents—are not fixed entities but actively reconfigure their internal structure in response to changes in…

Probability Seminar: Jorge Yslas Altamirano - Heavy-tailed phase-type distributions

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2026
Jorge Yslas Altamirano (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Heavy-tailed phase-type distributions Abstract: Heavy-tailed phase-type random variables…

SQUIDS Seminar: Kernel Quantile Embeddings and Associated Probability Metrics

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2026
Speaker: Dr Masha Naslidnyk (University College London) Abstract: Embedding probability distributions into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) has enabled powerful non-parametric…

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