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

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.

Benjamin Maier -- From Multi-Omics Data to Executable Mechanistic Models of Cell Signalling [IN PERSON]

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

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…

Departmental Seminar: “Formal Methods at Industrial Scale, Before and After AI” by Dr Claudia Cauli, Principal Research Engineer, Huawei R&D

14:00 - 15:00 10 June 2026
Over the past two years, my team at Huawei Cloud has applied formal methods to production cloud infrastructure. We deployed model checking, deductive verification, and SMT encodings,…

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 -- Mapping the landscape of histomorphological cancer phenotypes with self-supervised learning [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…

Departmental Seminar: "Trust in Open Systems: Security, Privacy, and Cryptography from Distributed Ledgers to Decentralized AI" by Dr. Zhipeng Wang

13:00 - 14:00 17 June 2026
Open and decentralized systems, such as blockchain and collaborative AI systems, are reshaping how we think about computation, coordination, and trust. By removing central authorities,…

Seminars in 'Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC)

12:00 - 13:00 17 June 2026
This is a reminder for our next seminar on Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC). This is an interdisciplinary seminar series which aims to bring together researchers…

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…

SQUIDS Seminar: Bayesian inference for rough feature reconstructions

11:00 - 12:00 23 June 2026
Speaker: Lassi Roininen (LUT University in Finland; currently a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge) Abstract: Edges in imaging, that is sharp discontinuities in intensity, pose…

WEI Seminar with Professor Keith Townsend

14:00 - 15:30 23 June 2026
Informality, Pathways, Time and the Future: Gaps and Future of Employee Voice Research Professor Keith Townsend, Department of Management, Griffith University, Australia Abstract…

Albatross Lecture 2026: Nature and Climate Justice

13:40 - 17:00 24 June 2026
Join us on 24th June 2026 for an inspiring talk with Birdgirl, Dr Mya-Rose Craig, aka Birdgirl, on the urgent need to protect our planet. Mya-Rose is a British-Bangladeshi ornithologist,…

Legal Frameworks and Personal Experiences: Egg Donation in Japan and Taiwan (Chiaki Shirai) HYBRID

16:00 - 17:30 24 June 2026
Jointly hosted by the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives (SoSS) and East Asian Studies (SALC) Legal Frameworks and Personal Experiences: Egg Donation in Japan and Taiwan…

Legal Frameworks and Personal Experiences: Egg Donation in Japan and Taiwan (Hybrid)

16:00 - 17:30 24 June 2026
Japan has no legal framework governing donor conception. In contrast, Taiwan has legislation that guarantees donor anonymity and restricts egg donation to infertile, legally married…

Professor Christian Goeschel’s Inaugural Lecture: Senses, Emotions, and Politics in Germany in 1933

17:00 - 19:00 24 June 2026
Abstract: In the current global crisis of liberal democracy, a menacing threat of right-wing populism, and war in Europe and elsewhere, a fresh analysis of the Nazi capture of power…

Thomas Ashton Institute Lunch and Learn (online): Managing violence and aggression in retail

12:30 - 13:30 25 June 2026
Join the Thomas Ashton Institute for our first Lunch and Learn session, exploring the growing challenge of violence and aggression in the retail sector. Delivered by Dr Kara Ng and…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Abby Moffat

15:00 - 16:00 2 July 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…

FBMH GenAI in Teaching Seminar Series

11:00 - 12:00 3 July 2026
Please come and join us Friday July 3rd @ 11am in person in the Emmeline Suite at the Pankhurst Institute, or virtually via Teams, for the next in our series showcasing the creative…

The Hidden Architecture: Systems that Shape Research Culture

12:00 - 14:30 8 July 2026
Join us for an informal research café exploring how the infrastructures available dictate the boundaries of the research done. Universities and cultural institutions must change to…

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