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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

Alex Browning -- Identifiability of Stochastic and Spatial Models in Mathematical Biology [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2026
Join us for this seminar by Alex Browning (Melbourne as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Vicente Saavedra Araya

14:00 23 February 2026
Speaker: Vicente Saavedra Araya (University of Warwick) Title: Pointwise ergodic theorems along random sequences Abstract: A central problem in ergodic theory is to understand which…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Leadership, innovation and policy in the age of uncertainty

15:30 - 17:00 23 February 2026
Leadership, innovation and policy in the age of uncertainty This talk explores how Arup - a global professional services firm with over 18,000 members - applies foresight, research,…

‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 23 February 2026
Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) - ‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Coen de Valle

14:00 - 15:00 24 February 2026
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Macro Seminar - Santiago Garcia-Couto (Georgetown Qatar)

16:00 - 17:00 24 February 2026
Title: The Anatomy of the China Shock

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Elvira Lupoian

15:00 - 16:00 24 February 2026
Speaker: Elvira Lupoian (UCL) Title: Torsion subgroups of modular Jacobians Abstract: In 1977 Mazur proved that the rational torsion subgroup of the Jacobian of the modular curve…

'Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC)' Seminar Series - February speaker: Dr Luis Martínez Juárez, UoM Lecturer in Global Health

12:00 - 13:00 25 February 2026
This is an inter-disciplinary seminar series which aims to bring together researchers interested in broadening the understanding and tackling some of the most pressing challenges faced…

Logic Seminar - Calum Hughes

15:00 - 16:00 25 February 2026
Speaker: Calum Hughes (The University of Manchester) Title: Elementary axiomatisations of the (2,1)-category of groupoids Abstract: Axiomatising the notion of a set is not an entirely…

MET Seminar - Stefan Trautmann (Heidelberg, Tilburg)

17:00 - 18:00 25 February 2026
Title: A choice-based approach to the measurement of inflation expectations Authors: Olga Goldfayn-Franka, Pascal Kieren, Stefan Trautmann Abstract: Economists widely rely on measures…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich, .THE STRUCTURE OF LOCAL FDI EMBEDDING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2026
This study examines how structural characteristics of countries’ local inward and outward FDI networks influence economic development across different stages of development. Drawing…

Probability Seminar: Indrajit Jana - CLT for LES of correlated Non-Hermitian Random Matrices

16:00 - 17:00 25 February 2026
Indrajit Jana (IIT Bhubaneswar) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: CLT for LES of correlated Non-Hermitian Random Matrices Abstract: In this talk, We consider two (or…

CLACS Seminar: Lucía Tiscornia (University College Dublin): Criminal Governance in Unexpected Places: The case of Uruguay

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A THURSDAY, STARTS AT 4PM AND IS NOT IN THE SAM ALEXANDER…

Climate Urbanisation: Climate Strategies and Extended Urbanisation

15:00 - 17:00 26 February 2026
The accelerating impacts of global warming render planetary urbanisation lenses particularly compelling for analysing how municipal climate strategies produce effects extending into…

CTIS Research Seminar - Surviving Translation + Q&A

14:00 - 15:30 26 February 2026
Surviving Translation takes an in-depth look at the ethics of translation – focusing specifically on the traumatic experiences of female migrants. Starting with Charlotte Bosseaux’s…

MIOIR–GDI Seminar on Africa’s Innovation Pathways, Professor Erika Kraemer-Mbula

15:30 - 16:30 26 February 2026
Join the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and the Global Development Institute jointly hosted seminar, on Africa’s Innovation Pathways, delivered by Simon Visiting Professor…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Terry Soo

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Terry Soo (UCL) Title: Entropy when the system is non-stationary Abstract: In joint work with Zemer Kosloff, we will discuss the dynamical properties of a seemingly innocuous…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Lasse Rempe

15:00 - 16:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Lasse Rempe (Manchester) Abstract. In 1965, cartographer L. P. Lee proposed using a conformal map of a tetrahedron to the sphere as the basis for a map projection with less…

Maths education seminar: Louise Walker on peer and self feedback

14:00 2 March 2026
Speaker: Louise Walker (University of Manchester) Title: Using peer and self-feedback to develop mathematical study skills. Abstract: This talk will describe how we developed the How…

‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 2 March 2026
Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) - ‘Against Capture: The Political Life of Creative Anthropology’

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Amit Shah

14:00 - 15:00 3 March 2026
Title: Infinite discrete cluster categories and the index Abstract: The “cluster category” is a categorification of the cluster algebra, which has opened the door to a vast and growing…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Happy Uppal

15:00 - 16:00 3 March 2026
Speaker: Happy Uppal (Bristol) Title: Lines on del Pezzo surfaces Abstract: One of the crowning achievements of classical algebraic geometry is the Cayley–Salmon theorem, which states…

How (not) to translate a Christian emotion. Fear, Consolation, and Joy in the Sixteenth-century Jesuit Mission to Japan

10:00 - 12:00 4 March 2026
Dr. Linda Zampol D’Ortia (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) This talk considers the rarity of mentions of fear in the literature composed by the Catholic missionaries of the Society…

Logic Seminar - Asaf Karagila

15:00 - 16:00 4 March 2026
Speaker: Asaf Karagila (University of Leeds) Title: Intermediate models of ZF and weak versions of the Axiom of Choice. Abstract: It is a well-known fact that two models of ZFC with…

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