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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

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…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)

16:00 - 17:00 15 October 2026
Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.

Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) "Mobile Quilombos: The Making of Black Territories in the White City"

15:00 - 17:00 19 October 2026
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of “mobile quilombos” through an analysis of Afro-Brazilian religious occupations of public space, exploring how the circulation of axé produces…

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…

Susanna Röblitz --Mathematics in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 19 October 2026
Join us for this seminar by Susanna Röblitz (Bergen) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Beyond the Ethics Board: Strengthening Ethical Practice in Qualitative Humanities and Social Science Research

12:00 - 16:30 20 October 2026
This event will mark the launch of a new report on 'Strengthening Ethical Practice in Qualitative Humanities and Social Science Research', funded by the University of Manchester’s Enhancing…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Paolo Marimon

14:00 20 October 2026
TBA

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…

Logic Seminar - Zachiri McKenzie

15:00 21 October 2026
Speaker: Zachiri McKenzie (University of Chester) TBA

Manchesterism, the Manchester Model and Inclusive Growth

16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2026
Manchester has often been presented as one of the UK's most successful examples of place-based economic development. But what can the "Manchester Model" really tell us about boosting…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 21 October 2026
Chris McCarty University of Florida Foundations of Personal Network Analysis and Recent Applications Personal network analysis, sometimes called egocentric network analysis, is a subfield…

Lorenzo Ferrarini (University of Manchester) "Filmic Relationality: Towards an Ethnographic Ecocinema"

15:00 - 17:00 26 October 2026
Abstract: Rooted in ecocriticism and ecomedia studies, the field of ecocinema counts by now a significant volume of scholarship analysing works as diverse as Hollywood catastrophic…

Logic Seminar - Raheleh Jalali

15:00 28 October 2026
Speaker: Raheleh Jalali (University of Bath) TBA

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…

Hydrocide: water is natural, scarcity is political

15:00 4 November 2026
Dr Bayes Ahmed (Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, UCL). Chair: Mehebub Sahana; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B.

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) "From Recognition to Misrecognition: Indigeneity, the AI Dialectic and the Anthropomorphic Temptation"

15:00 - 17:00 9 November 2026
Abstract: What happens when a social anthropologist conducts a sustained dialectical exchange with an AI system on a topic he knows intimately through decades of ethnographic fieldwork?…

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…

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