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

CTIS Research Seminar - Reimagining Subtitling: A reception study of a new Enhanced Subtitling practice

14:00 - 15:30 21 October 2026
Over the past decade, audiovisual content has expanded across multiple languages, featuring more creative on-screen text. This shift has increased the demand for faster subtitling and…

David Wood (UNAM) "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 (Samuel Alexander A202)…

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…

Logic Seminar - Zachiri McKenzie

15:00 21 October 2026
Speaker: Zachiri McKenzie (University of Chester) Title: Transitive Containment in subsystems of set theory Abstract: Transitive Containment (TCo) says that every set is contained…

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…

Probability Seminar: Ben Lees

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2026
Ben Lees (University of Leeds) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Discrete lattice models as complex spin systems Abstract: It has long been known that some important spin…

Prof Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine), China in Five Bookshops: A Quintet of Travel Tales

16:00 - 18:00 21 October 2026
China in Five Bookshops: A Quintet of Travel Tales Prof Jeff Wasserstrom (UC Irvine) Wednesday, Oct 21, 4pm Sam Alex A112 This talk will use the speaker’s visits to unusual bookshops…

SQUIDS Seminar: Sean Holman

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2026
Speaker: Sean Holman (University of Manchester) Title: Confidence intervals for Landweber reconstruction using randomised normal operator approximation Abstract: We analyse the propagation…

Statistics Seminar - Hera Shi (UCL)

14:00 - 15:00 21 October 2026
Title: Empirical Bayes Transfer Learning for Cross-Ancestry Mendelian Randomization Abstract: Limited genome-wide association study (GWAS) sample sizes in underrepresented populations…

Mathematics of Waves and Materials Seminar - Yuze Huang

15:00 - 16:00 22 October 2026
Title: Metal additive manufacturing: From melt pools to metal structures By Yuze Huang (Lecturer in laser manufacturing, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University…

NASC Seminar: LeanFun: formalised, verified spectral methods and the trouble with numerics in Lean

12:00 - 13:00 23 October 2026
Speaker: Timon Gutleb (Leeds) Abstract: LeanFun is an experimental project to formalise orthogonal polynomials, special functions and the mathematics underlying spectral methods in…

Departmental Seminar: “Cracking the Kinematic Code” – Professor Cristina Becchio, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

15:30 - 16:30 26 October 2026
Abstract: Our movements carry information about what we intend, decide, and feel. How is this information encoded, and how do others read it out? I present a framework for quantifying…

Fraser Sanders: Infinite-dimensional thermodynamic systems

15:00 - 16:00 26 October 2026
Abstract: Contact geometry is a very natural setting in which to study thermodynamics, due to the fact that the first law of thermodynamics, dS=dU/T , can be thought of as constraining…

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…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Daniel Shiu (Manchester)

15:00 27 October 2026
Speaker: Daniel Shiu (Manchester) Title: Admissible sets of integers in imaginary quadratic fields of class number 1 Abstract: Let O_K be the ring of integers of a number field K.…

Brownbag Seminar: Maria Plakhtieva

13:00 - 13:50 28 October 2026
Title: How do acute health shocks impact individual preferences? Evidence from Employment Decisions. Author: Maria Plakhtieva Abstract: This paper studies whether acute health shocks…

Fusion Exchange

14:00 - 15:30 28 October 2026
This meeting will consist of a 25 minute talk by Mohamad Abdallah, Tritium Plant Lead and Senior Tritium Scientist at Type One Energy, followed by 5 minute talks by PhD students and…

GRiEG Seminar: African Indigenous Ontologies for Decolonial Climate Change Education and Resilience

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2026
The presentation will argue that resilience requires epistemic plurality, to which African Indigenous ontologies and decolonial climate change education make vital contributions. Colonial…

Logic Seminar - Raheleh Jalali

15:00 28 October 2026
Speaker: Raheleh Jalali (University of Bath) Title: The Power of Structural Rules: Proof-Size Lower Bounds for Linear Logics Abstract: Proving non-trivial lower bounds on proof size…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 28 October 2026
Laura Koehly National Human Genome Research Institute Communal Coping and Social Networks in Families Affected by Rare Genetic Conditions. Families caring for children with rare genetic…

Probability Seminar: Yihan Zhang

15:00 - 16:00 28 October 2026
Yihan Zhang (University of Bristol) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Eigenvalue and Eigenvector Approximation for Random Matrices Using Low-Degree Polynomials Abstract:…

Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham) 'Desperate Circumstances: Negotiating Abortion as Crime and Healthcare in the Late Russian Empire'

12:00 - 13:30 28 October 2026
Sasha Rasmussen (University of Nottingham) 'Desperate Circumstances: Negotiating Abortion as Crime and Healthcare in the Late Russian Empire' History Research Seminar, hosted by Europe…

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