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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Colours in the Field: Cotton, Empire and alternative futures in India

16:30 - 18:00 3 November 2026
Join us for an exhibition launch and panel discussion on the colonial legacies of India’s extractive cotton monocultures. Exhibition Overview: Combining archival research with natural…

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…

The Annual Teddy Chester Lecture - Why is the NHS so hard to Manage?

18:00 - 19:00 9 November 2026
In this lecture, Professor Mary Dixon-Woods will focus on the complexities and hardships of managing the NHS and what solutions and improvements could be made. Why is it so hard to…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Bim Gustavsson

14:00 10 November 2026
TBA

AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Aurelien Bibaut

11:00 - 12:00 11 November 2026
Our invited speaker on 11 November will be Aurelien Bibaut from Netflix. Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Bio: Bibaut received his PhD from Berkeley under the supervision of Mark van der…

Logic Seminar - Andrew Brooke-Taylor

15:00 11 November 2026
Speaker: Andrew Brooke-Taylor (University of Leeds) TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2026
Telmo Menezes CAMS (Centre d'analyse et de mathématique sociales) Interpretable by Design: Semantic Hypergraphs for Human-Centered Text Analysis Semantic Hypergraphs (SH) offer a knowledge…

Perla Polanco (Manchester) "Oil Nationalism and the Coloniality of Resource Extraction in Mexico" and Mauricio Rentería (Manchester) "Racialised Mobility Within Lima's Dominant Class"

17:00 - 19:00 11 November 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 11 November 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can…

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