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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

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

15:00 - 16:30 28 September 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…

Soumhya Venkatesan (Manchester) and Adam Reed (St Andrews) "Democratic Epistemology, Anyone? Approaches to and Images of Knowledge as Radically Open to All Comers"

15:00 - 17:00 28 September 2026
This paper, based on ethnographic fieldwork among British Spiritualists in Edinburgh by Adam Reed and pub philosophers in Liverpool by Soumhya Venkatesan, seeks to propose an anthropologically…

Brownbag Seminar: Pengguang Lu

13:00 - 13:50 29 September 2026
Title: Heterogeneous Diagnostic Expectations and Wealth Inequality

Macro Seminar - Stephen Terry (University of Michigan)

16:00 - 17:00 29 September 2026
Abstract: Idiosyncratic shocks shape firm decisions and the value functions they maximize. Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset, we document significant departures from the widely…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 30 September 2026
Balazs Vedres Central European University Network tension and collaborative creativity

SPA Lab Policy Seminar "An overview of spatial cohesion policies in the EU (and the UK), past policies and future challenges"

14:00 - 15:30 30 September 2026
Drawing on more than three decades of leading spatial cohesion, regional development and environment policy making, Hon Prof Elisa Ferreira will present an overview of how spatial cohesion…

FBMH GenAI in Teaching Seminar series

14:00 - 15:30 1 October 2026
Please come and join us Thursday October 1st @ 14:00 in person in the Emmeline Suite at the Pankhurst Institute, or virtually via Teams, for the next GenAI in Pedagogy. Instead of…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ashwin Bhat

14:00 5 October 2026
Speaker: Ashwin Bhat (University of Birmingham) Title: Constructing Non-Rectifiable Delone Sets Abstract: Delone sets, also known as separated nets, are point sets in Euclidean space…

Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) "LATE WORK: Imagination, Form and the Creative Life of Anthropology"

15:00 - 17:00 5 October 2026
What might it mean to think of anthropology through lateness, as a way of staying with forms of thought that remain difficult, unresolved, excessive, or somehow out of time with the…

Frankie Patten-Elliott -- Modelling drug binding to biological ion channels [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2026
Join us for this seminar by Frankie Patten-Elliott (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Illuminating the Dark Sides of Innovation: Controversial Innovation and Peripheral Opportunity

15:30 - 16:30 5 October 2026
Professor Johannes Glückler, Chair of Economic Geographies of the Future at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich), will explore how innovation becomes controversial and…

On super exterior powers and Berezinians

15:00 - 16:00 5 October 2026
Abstract: I will speak about power expansions of the function $R(z)=\mathrm{Ber}(E+ zA)$, where A is a linear operator in a superspace (or a supermatrix). Berezinian is the superanalog…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Henrique Mendes da Silva e Souza

14:00 6 October 2026
Title: Cohomological asymptotics for linear groups Abstract: For a finitely generated subgroup H of a complex semisimple Lie group G, we investigate how the cohomology groups H^i(H,V)…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sam Streeter (Bristol)

15:00 - 16:00 6 October 2026
Speaker: Sam Streeter (Bristol) Title: Hilbert property for del Pezzo surfaces of degree one Abstract: Various conjectures in arithmetic geometry predict the abundance of rational…

Brownbag Seminar: Antonio Nicolò

13:00 7 October 2026
Title: It can’t happen here: Democratic Backsliding and the Complacency Trap Authors: Edoardo Grillo and Antonio Nicolò Abstract: We study how institutions and citizens interact to…

Departmental Seminar: “Trustworthy AI for Subtle Visual Signals” – Dr Xinqi Fan, Manchester Metropolitan University

13:15 - 14:15 7 October 2026
Abstract Some of the informative visual evidence appears as small changes that are easy to overlook. Learning from these subtle signals remains challenging for AI systems. This talk…

Guillaume Candela (University of Cardiff) "Recovering Hidden Histories: Reconstructing Trajectories and Experiences of Racialised and Enslaved Individuals in Colonial Paraguay"

17:00 - 19:00 7 October 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 7 October 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can…

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