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

GDI Lecture: Beyond the World Bank: The Fight for Universal Social Protection in the Global South

16:30 - 18:00 22 April 2026
Speaker: Matthew Greenslade, Economist and former employee of the UK Department for International Development Matthew Greenslade describes the damage being done by the World Bank's…

Logic Seminar - Jonathan Kirby

15:00 - 16:00 22 April 2026
Speaker: Jonathan Kirby (The University of East Anglia) TBC

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

Nathaniel Andrews (UoM, History): ''Anarchist childhoods in Buenos Aires, 1890-1945'

17:00 - 18:30 22 April 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 22 April 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander…

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…

New Lovell Lecture - Down to Earth Astronomy: A Tour of the Radio Universe

23 April 2026
Dr. Emma Chapman, (Royal Society Fellow), takes us on a cosmic journey through radio astronomy. Discover secrets of pulsars, galaxies, and black holes and why listening to the sky changes everything. 19.30 - 21.00

MIOIR Seminar Series - From Neighborhoods to Careers: Adolescent Segregation and High-Status Jobs in Adulthood

15:30 - 16:30 27 April 2026
From Neighborhoods to Careers: Adolescent Segregation and High-Status Jobs in Adulthood The influence of neighborhood environments on children’s future outcomes has received growing…

Multispecies Deconstructions of the “Human" within International Human Rights Law

13:00 - 15:00 27 April 2026
Critical multispecies studies reveal that the philosophical, social, and legal pedestal on which human subjects are placed within Western modernity rests on faulty foundations. This…

‘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’

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jenny Roberts (KCL)

15:00 - 16:00 28 April 2026
Speaker: Jenny Roberts (KCL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Alternative democratic spaces: environmentalism and Algerian youth politics

16:30 29 April 2026
Dr Jessica Northey, Coventry University Host: Dr Ikram Bennai Abstract: The uprisings in the Arab world since 2011 brought profound changes. The Algerian hirak of 2019 constituted…

Christabel Pankhurst Lecture 2026: PUSHing for Justice: Women, Power and the Unfinished Fight for Equality

16:00 - 18:30 29 April 2026
Join us for the Annual Christabel Pankhurst Lecture as our guest speaker, trailblazing legal leader and equality advocate Dr I. Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC. reflects on what it truly means…

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…

GDI Lecture: The Toxic Effects of Border Violence, Claire Loughnan

16:30 - 18:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Claire Loughnan, University of Melbourne The recent deaths of US citizens at the hands of that country’s ICE agents signal disturbing patterns of violence and misconduct that…

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…

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