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

‘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…

Fascism: Histories and Meanings

17:30 - 19:00 6 May 2026
Domenico Cangiano (Universitá Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Federico Marcon (Princeton University) In conversation with: Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester) Martin Kristoffer…

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…

Stephen Mossman's Inaugural Lecture – ‘Spirituality and a Military Order: God’s House in Medieval Strasbourg’

16:30 - 18:30 6 May 2026
One focus of Stephen Mossman's research for more than a decade has been the commandery of the Knights Hospitaller in medieval Strasbourg, founded by the financier and mystical writer…

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…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Neil Howlett

15:00 - 16:00 7 May 2026
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

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…

Gender Equality and Economic Growth: An Overlapping Generations Approach

17:00 - 19:00 7 May 2026
Join us as esteemed economist Pierre-Richard Agénor shared insights from his upcoming book ‘Gender Equality and Economic Growth: An Overlapping Generations Approach’, exploring the…

Healthier Futures Annual Lecture 2026

16:30 - 19:00 7 May 2026
Getting Better: The Policy and Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities We are excited to announce this year's Healthier Futures Annual Lecture, featuring Professor Clare Bambra, one…

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…

Linguistics and English Language Seminar: Human-AI Hybrid Language Production – Evidence from a Multi-Dialectal, Longitudinal Corpus

13:00 - 14:00 7 May 2026
Speaker: speaker: Dr Gan Qiao, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Abstract: With large language models increasingly embedded in everyday writing, language production is becoming…

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