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

New Exhibition: The North Revisited

10 October 2026 - 24 January 2027
A joint exhibition bringing together John Bulmer’s The North and Simon Hill’s The North Revisited exploring how the North of England has changed and endured across six decades of documentary…

Schinkel in Manchester 1826-2026

7 September 2026 - 2 January 2027
An exhibition of architectural models by students from the Manchester School of Architecture of early nineteenth buildings in Berlin and Manchester created to celebrate the bicentenary…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 14 October 2026
Neah Gondal Boston University

CoDE seminar: 'Black Liverpool: West African, West Indian and Afro-American culture at the end of the 20th Century' Stephen Small

13:00 - 14:30 15 October 2026
In this lunchtime seminar from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), Professor Stephen Small (University of California, Berkeley) shares his research. ABSTRACT This talk…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Africa

15:30 - 16:30 19 October 2026
Erik Stam, Professor of Strategy, Organization and Entrepreneurship, Utrecht University, the Netherlands will be discussing entrepreneurial ecosystems in Africa. Productive entrepreneurship…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 21 October 2026
Chris McCarty University of Florida

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 28 October 2026
Laura Koehly National Human Genome Research Institute

Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics

13:00 - 15:00 29 October 2026
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Critical and Strategic Raw Materials under Open Strategic Autonomy: Are Mining Capabilities in the EU Regions in Line with the Targets?

15:30 - 16:30 9 November 2026
Simona Iammarino, Professor of Applied Economics, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy, will be discussing the geography of mining technologies in Europe and their role…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2026
Telmo Menezes

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

18 November 2026
Harald Waxenecker Masaryk University University of Groningen

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 November 2026
Raina Brands UCL

Ghost in the Machine: The Battle for the Human Mind

13:00 - 15:00 26 November 2026
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 December 2026
Tom Lintner University of Manchester

MIOIR Seminar with Mercedes Delgado (Associate Professor in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School)

15:30 - 16:30 7 December 2026
Save the date for our upcoming MIOIR Seminar with Mercedes Delgado, Associate Professor in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School. Full details…

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

The John Rylands Library

Manchester Museum

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