Exhibitions, 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 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…

Building China: People’s Infrastructure

1 March - 31 May 2026
"Building China: People’s Infrastructure" invites audiences to encounter China from the kitchen table and the street corner rather than the skyline. Bringing together photographs and…

Communities of Environmental Knowledge

12:00 - 14:00 29 April 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring the ways community support and involvement connect to environmental action. Community support and involvement are crucial to the success…

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…

Logic Seminar - Orla McGrath

15:00 - 16:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Orla McGrath (University of Leeds) Title: Partial Difference Algebraic Groups Abstract: A difference algebraic group is a subgroup of the general linear group defined by…

MET Seminar - Alkis Georgiadis-Harris (Warwick)

17:00 - 18:00 29 April 2026
Title: Perfect Secrecy in the Wild Authors: Costas Cavounidis, Massimiliano Furlan & Alkis Georgiadis-Harris Abstract: Alice wishes to reveal the state X to Bob, if he knows some…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Yannan He University of Manchester. Effects of Classroom Parental Networks on Students’ Academic Performance.

16:00 - 17:30 29 April 2026
Abstract: As suggested by social capital theories, parents could obtain resources from network ties that benefit themselves and their children. Parental networks are of particular importance.…

Probability Seminar: Gechun Liang - Forward Optimized Certainty Equivalent and FBSDE

15:00 - 16:00 29 April 2026
Gechun Liang (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Forward Optimized Certainty Equivalent and FBSDE Abstract: We extend the notion of forward performance…

SQUIDS Seminar: Optimizing the Dynamics of the Frequency Bias in Fourier Features Neural Networks

13:00 - 14:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Professor Matias Courdurier (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations often learn signals capturing low-frequency structure before…

Linguistics and English Language Seminar: 'Computational Linguistics Will Not Solve All Your Problems'

13:00 30 April 2026
Speaker: Jonathan Dunn, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The age of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created an over-confidence in computational experiments. As a computational…

New Exhibition - Curious Universe: Cosmic Titans

1 May - 20 September 2026
Part of our new, Curious Universe series, Cosmic Titans is a touring exhibition where art and science combine to untap our imagination and explore the quantum universe!

Pure maths colloquium - Radha Kessar

14:00 - 15:00 1 May 2026
Speaker: Radha Kessar (University of Manchester) Title: Rationality and quaternion blocks Abstract: To each indecomposable factor (block) of a finite group algebra over a field of…

‘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’

Colonising the Ear: Experimental Phonetics and the Taming of the Tongue

16:30 - 18:00 5 May 2026
THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. FIND THE LINK TO TEAMS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a range of technologies and institutional systems emerged…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Anja Meyer

14:00 - 15:00 5 May 2026
Title: tbc Abstract: tbc

Macro Seminar - Davide Melcangi (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

16:00 - 17:00 5 May 2026
Title: The Investment Channel of Monetary Policy: Disentangling Firm Heterogeneity

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Joseph Harrison (Warwick)

15:00 - 16:00 5 May 2026
Speaker: Joseph Harrison (Warwick) Title: Sum-product phenomena in algebraic groups Abstract: The cardinality of sumsets and product sets can be regarded as quantitative indicators…

MIE Anti-racist Education Network: The Racial Pedagogies of the Development Film in the Americas

14:00 - 15:30 5 May 2026
The MIE Anti-Racist Education Network and the American Studies Research Group warmly invite you to a seminar on 'Racial Pedagogies of the Development Film in the Americas' by Molly…

Laura Balán (Universidad de los Andes): When the Other Looks Back: Mock Ethnography and the Deconstruction of Otherness in O Peixe

17:00 - 18:30 6 May 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 6 May 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be online. You can follow it here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2…

Logic Seminar - Floris Vermeulen

15:00 - 16:00 6 May 2026
Speaker: Floris Vermeulen (University of Münster) Title: Kontsevich-Zagier in valued fields Abstract: A period is a real number which is the measure of a semialgebraic set defined…

Probability Seminar: Hong Duong - Ergodicity and asymptotic limits for the generalized/relativistic Langevin dynamics

15:00 - 16:00 6 May 2026
Hong Duong (University of Birmingham) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Ergodicity and asymptotic limits for the generalized/relativistic Langevin dynamics Abstract: We…

Webinar: Improving How Physical Activity is Assessed in Primary Care

12:00 - 13:00 6 May 2026
The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing May webinar will focus on “Improving How Physical Activity is Assessed in Primary Care” See below for further information and the sign-up…

Digital Trust and Security Seminar: Tao Wen

13:00 - 15:00 7 May 2026
Explore a series of interconnected studies that examine human behavior and decision-making processes within social networks This event invites participants from all disciplines and…

HIMR Sponsored Seminar: Katie Bentley -- Temporal regulation of vascular patterning: in silico, in vitro and in vivo [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 7 May 2026
Join us for this seminar by Katie Bentley (KCL/Crick) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and…

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