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

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’

GDI Lecture: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet, Brett Christophers

16:30 - 18:00 3 March 2026
GDI Lecture co-organised with the Geography Department Recent technical advances mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.…

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…

GDI Lecture: Roundtable on Taxation and Development

16:30 - 18:00 4 March 2026
African states raise more revenue through taxation than the combined total of overseas development assistance, foreign direct investment, and remittances. Yet, on average, they only…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Shan Shi University of Manchester. Embedded Regional Origins: A Longitudinal Mapping of Collaboration Networks in China’s Music Industry (BADHEAD, 1999–2023)

16:00 - 17:30 4 March 2026
Abstract: This study examines the formation of collaborative networks in China’s music industry through BADHEAD, a sub-label of Modern Sky, one of the leading music companies headquartered…

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