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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

Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 12 October 2026
Abstract TBC Andrew Irving is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Humanitarianism Under Pressure

17:00 - 18:00 12 October 2026
Humanitarianism is under growing pressure - and the ways we understand humanity, war, suffering and accountability are changing. Join Prof Bertrand Taithe (HCRI) for a special online…

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…

Online Course in Social Network Analysis (Mitchell Centre)

2 October - 11 December 2026
The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester is excited to introduce a new semester-long online course called the Mitchell Autumn School on Social…

SALIENT Lunch & Learn Webinar Series 2026

12:00 30 April - 12:30 26 November 2026
SALIENT Lunch and Learn Webinars are your chance to:? Discover the latest developments in the world of National security and resilience? Hear short TED-style talks by experts on related…

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…

SEERIH Primary Science ECT Mentor Programme 2026-27

09:00 30 September 2026 - 16:00 30 June 2027
Join our ECT Community today! Fully funded, expert-designed and delivered professional development for Early Career Teachers in Greater Manchester. Please note that this Programme…

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Patrick Radden Keefe

19:30 - 20:45 12 October 2026
A gripping evening with Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing. Patrick joins us to discuss his new work London Falling - a riveting true story of…

AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Jin Zhu

11:00 - 12:00 14 October 2026
Our invited speaker on 14 October will be Jin Zhu from the University of Birmingham. Title: Statistics-Powered Detection of LLM-Generated Text Abstract: Large language models (LLMs)…

British Academy Lecture 2026: Professor Stefano Bartolini

17:00 - 19:00 14 October 2026
Rule Making Rules: The Origins of Western Political Institutions and Why They Matter Today. The University of Manchester is delighted to host Professor Stefano Bartolini, Emeritus…

Manchester Literature Festival presents The Observer Book Club with Yann Martel

19:30 - 20:45 14 October 2026
Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel, internationally acclaimed for the modern classic Life of Pi, visits Manchester Literature Festival for this exclusive North West event to discuss…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

CoDE seminar: Transnational Black culture in Liverpool in the final decades of the 20th century: legacies of West Africa in the so-called ‘second city of empire’ 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 Throughout…

Solving industrial challenges through bioprocess optimisation

12:00 - 13:00 15 October 2026
Dr Sebastian Cosgrove from Keele University will be speaking at the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst (IBIC) October webinar. Where he'll share some of the industrial partnerships…

WCLC: Tom Hicks

13:10 - 13:50 15 October 2026
Guernsey-born pianist Tom Hicks, hailed for his magnificent pianism and engaging personality, is a Yamaha Artist with an international profile. He has performed as a recitalist across…

SOLD OUT: Manchester Literature Festival presents Sufiyaan Salam and Monika Radojevic

17:00 - 18:15 18 October 2026
Discover two fresh and uncompromising voices from Stormzy’s #Merky Books as Sufiyaan Salam and Monika Radojevic come together to discuss their acclaimed debut novels and the stories…

Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) Title TBC

15:00 - 17:00 19 October 2026
Abstract TBC Gabriel Marques Camargo recently completed his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

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…

Training course on in situ experiments and digital volume correlation

09:00 19 - 17:00 20 October 2026
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful experimental technique that computes 3D full-field displacement and strain maps from volumes images acquired during a deformation process…

David Wood (UCL, London) "The Andes on the Small Screen: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Translation"

17:00 - 19:00 21 October 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 21 October 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can…

GDI Lecture: The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise

16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2026
In this lecture, GDI’s Pritish Behuria will launch his recent Open Access book, The Political Economy of Rwanda’s Rise. Drawing on a decade of research and more than 580 interviews,…

Lane Lecture 2026: The Evolution of Evidence and the Changing Nature of Employment: What this means for the work of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council

16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2026
In collaboration with the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Thomas Ashton Institute is delighted to announce that registration for this years Annual Lane Lecture…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

Using QGIS to map 2021/22 census data from the UK Data Service

10:00 - 12:30 21 October 2026
A table of numbers is not always the best way to present census data, often we want to visualise the information as a map to help people see patterns quickly. This free online workshop…

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