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

Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: Professor C. Riley Snorton

16:30 - 18:00 25 May 2026
Professor C. Riley Snorton: ‘An Ambiguous Heterotopia, Or Some Informal Remarks on “Biology” After Samuel Delany, Judith Butler, and Sylvia Wynter’ No booking required, all welcome.…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Neil Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 26 May 2026
Title: Springer Fibres, Parabolic Induction & Stacking Maps in Classical Type Abstract: Fibres coming from the Springer resolution on the nilpotent cone are incredibly rich algebraic…

PGR SEED-Interdisciplinary Research Seminar- "The Role of Future Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Development, Human Resources, and Employability"

10:00 - 12:00 26 May 2026
The Role of Future Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education Development, Human Resources, and Employability"" This seminar will bring together two distinguished speakers to lead…

Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: PProfessor Sarah Richardson

15:00 - 16:30 26 May 2026
Professor Sarah Richardson: ‘A Sceptical Empiricist's Guide to Sex Difference Science’ No booking required, all welcome. This year, the Sexuality Summer School returns with the theme…

Sexuality Summer School: Film Screenings programed with Club Des Femmes and introduced by So Mayer

17:45 - 20:30 26 May 2026
Film Screenings programed with Club Des Femmes and introduced by So Mayer: Laws of Love / Gesetze der Liebe (Magnus Hirschfeld, 1927); Sanctus (Barbara Hammer, 1990) Tickets required,…

Probability Seminar: Yanzhao Yang - A New Solution to Time Inconsistent Stopping Problem

15:00 - 16:00 27 May 2026
Yanzhao Yang (University of Oxford) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: A New Solution to Time Inconsistent Stopping Problem Abstract: Time inconsistency is a situation…

Sexuality Summer School Performance Reading: All the Devils

19:00 - 21:00 27 May 2026
All the Devils (written by Jonathan Larkin; produced by Jayne Compton, Switchflicker; funded by The National Lottery Community Fund) No booking required, all welcome. This year, the…

Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: Professor Kane Race

16:00 - 17:30 27 May 2026
Professor Kane Race: ‘Hijacking Neuroscience: Psychoactive Performatives’ No booking required, all welcome. This year, the Sexuality Summer School returns with the theme On the Biological.…

Sexuality Summer School Performance: Second Trimester

20:00 28 May 2026
By Krishna Istha and Geetha Shankar Directed by Milli Bhatia Four years ago, Krishna told his mum he was trying to get pregnant and she freaked out. Like, massively freaked out.…

Sexuality Summer School Plenary Lecture: Professor Celia Roberts

10:00 - 11:30 28 May 2026
Professor Celia Roberts: ‘Experimenting with Hormones’: Celia Roberts is a Professor in the School of Sociology at the Australian National University, Canberra. Prior to this she worked…

Insights from the 2026 UK Innovation Report and what it means for the North West

12:30 - 14:30 2 June 2026
Organised and hosted by: The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research at Alliance Manchester Business School, Accenture, and the North West Business Leadership Team Join us for…

SQUIDS-NASC Joint Seminar: Metropolis-Hastings Acceptance Behavior for Bayesian Inversion with Random Forward Solvers

12:00 - 13:00 2 June 2026
Speaker: Emil Løvbak (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) Abstract: In various application domains, one wishes to determine which parameter values should be used for a model…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Prof Felix Naughton

15:00 - 16:00 4 June 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…

Lovell Lecture - Antimatter Matters: The Large Hadron Collider Experiment at CERN

4 June 2026
Part of our Curious Universe series, Professor Chris Parkes explains why antimatter matters in this Lovell Lecture exploring the world’s most powerful particle accelerator: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Matthew Nicol

14:00 8 June 2026
Speaker: Matthew Nicol (University of Houston) Title: Stable laws for slowly mixing dynamical systems Abstract: Stable laws are a generalization of the central limit theorem. We investigate…

Evangelina Petsalaki -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 8 June 2026
Join us for this seminar by Evangelina Petsalaki (EMBL-EBI) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Lucia Cipolina Kun

11:00 - 12:00 10 June 2026
June's invited speaker will be Lucia Cipolina Kun from Meta. Lucia is a Research Scientist at META’s FAIR lab, working on large language model (LLM) agents for scientific discovery.…

Digital Health Equity seminar: Visual aspects of digital exclusion

13:00 - 14:00 10 June 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 10th-Jun, 1-2pm via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95221111981. Sam Waller (University of Cambridge)…

Hive of Pride: Colonisation, criminalisation & community building - Fight for LGBTQ+ rights globally

17:00 - 18:00 10 June 2026
It’s 2026, but a third of the world’s countries still criminalise consensual same-sex relationships. Many of these laws are a direct legacy of colonialism and empire building, reinforced…

Ke Yuan -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 15 June 2026
Join us for this seminar by Ke Yuan (Glasgow) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences…

Frederick Douglass: A Global Life (SOLD OUT)

18:30 - 20:00 18 June 2026
Exploring the legacy and continued relevance of this remarkable abolitionist campaigner and advocate for social justice. Join us for the Inaugural Frederick Douglass Lecture, presented…

PPERC Launch: 'The Political Economies of Fossil Fuel Phase Out'

15:00 - 17:00 18 June 2026
Launch of the People, Place and Energy Research Centre with a guest lecture by Professor Peter Newell Launch of PPERC position paper on place-based energy transformations with Nannette…

MCRC 20th Anniversary Seminar - ‘Cancer in a time of conflict: from political economy to systems engineering’

15:00 - 16:30 22 June 2026
Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard Sullivan Venue: Oglesby Cancer Research Building lecture theatre Date: Monday 22nd June 2026, 15:00-16:30 (BST) How do you deliver life-saving cancer…

Developmental Dilemmas, Power, and Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Lens for Policy Analysis

11:00 - 12:00 23 June 2026
Speaker: William D. Ferguson, Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics Grinnell College Why do well-meaning developmental policies so often fail? Consider the recent collapse of…

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