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

Alternative Ecological Futures

16:00 - 17:00 18 March 2026
Please join us for this exciting EACW research seminar event, taking place on Wednesday 18 March, from 4–5 pm, in Sam Alex A113. The session will feature talks by Professor Allison…

CLACS Seminar: Luis Schenoni (UCL): "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America"

17:00 - 18:30 18 March 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 18 March 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Dr Carolyn Swinney

13:00 - 15:00 18 March 2026
Explore how Software Defined Radios expose & detect radio?frequency vulnerabilities across 5G, autonomous systems & critical infrastructure This event invites participants from all…

Logic Seminar - Jesse Sigal

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2026
Speaker: Jesse Sigal (University of Edinburgh) TBC

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 18 March 2026
Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore Italy

Macro Seminar - Evi Pappa (Carlos III Madrid)

12:00 - 13:00 23 March 2026
Title: TBA

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Adam Maskalaniec

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2026
Speaker: Adam Maskalaniec (Warsaw) Title: k-contact geometry in relativistic hydrodynamics Abstract: We develop a rigorous geometric framework for the study of relativistic spin…

‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 23 March 2026
Joanna Cook (University College London) - ‘Bringing Something New into Being: Joy and Natality in Anthropology’

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Anja Meyer

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2026
TBA

Logic Seminar - Charlotte Bartnick

15:00 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Charlotte Bartnick (Universität Freiburg) TBC

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Andrew Parker University of Durham

The Fear of a Shrinking Nation: Chronologies of the Future and the Collapse of Everyday Life in Japan

16:00 25 March 2026
Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford) The fear that the nation is shrinking, potentially into oblivion, prevails in contemporary Japan. Every year, stories about record-low fertility…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Rubén Izquierdo López

15:00 - 16:00 30 March 2026
Speaker: Rubén Izquierdo López (ICMAT, Madrid) Title: The geometry of variational problems: An introduction to multisymplectic geometry Abstract: It is well known that autonomous…

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 14 April 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: András Vörös Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, University of Birmingham Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Gabriella Pizzuto

11:00 - 12:00 15 April 2026
April's invited speaker will be Gabriella Pizzuto from the University of Liverpool. Title and abstract to follow. Gabriella is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and…

‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness' - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2026
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) - ‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness'

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 22 April 2026
Eleanor Power London School of Economics

CoDE seminar: 'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps

13:00 - 14:30 23 April 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Alison Phipps (York St John University) shares her research. SUMMARY What are the relationships between sexual violence, sexual fear, social…

‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 27 April 2026
Vita Peacock (King's College London) - ‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’

Macro Seminar - Francesco Zanetti (Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 28 April 2026
Title: TBA

Dialogues on Enhancing Inclusive Practice: Co-leading with Fairness, Respect, Inclusion and Compassion

14:30 29 April 2026
Guest speakers: Vanita Sundaram and Kathryn Asbury, Co-Heads of the Department of Education, University of York In this talk we discuss how we developed our co-leadership model, arising…

Including ‘seldom heard’ voices in longitudinal qualitative research: Focusing on families with a learning disabled child and families with experience of domestic violence

16:30 29 April 2026
Presentation by Professors Vanita Sundaram and Kathryn Asbury, Co-Heads of the Department of Education, University of York In preparing for its new UK-wide Early Life Cohort study…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 29 April 2026
Yannan He University of Manchester

‘New and Old Seekers of Alien Minds: Religion, AI, and the Non-Human Other’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 4 May 2026
Beth Singler (University of Zurich) - ‘New and Old Seekers of Alien Minds: Religion, AI, and the Non-Human Other’

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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