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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

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…

EACW Research Seminar: Trans Visibility

16:00 - 17:00 12 November 2026
Short paper by Prof. Eagan Dean (Freiburg Center for Advanced Study/College of Wooster (USA)), followed by response and conversation with our own Dr. Gareth Gavin. (Dean will be sharing…

Research Café: Muslim creativity, resistance and community wellbeing

12:00 - 14:30 12 November 2026
How can creativity be mobilised to build solidarities, create community care networks, and offer healing? We ask how creativity can be mobilised to build solidarities, create community…

To be announced

15:00 - 16:00 16 November 2026
Abstract: To be announced

Yael Navarro (University of Cambridge) "Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe"

15:00 - 17:00 16 November 2026
Abstract: In this seminar, I will give an account of my return to my field notebooks and library materials on Antakya, Turkey, after the city’s complete destruction with the earthquakes…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

18 November 2026
Harald Waxenecker Masaryk University University of Groningen Relational Traces of Corruption: Persistence, Disruption, and Adaptation in Longitudinal Multilevel Networks

Lewis Lab Seminar - Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University)

16:00 - 17:00 19 November 2026
Vigyan Ratnoo (Utrecht University) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.

Ana Carolina Balthazar (UCL, London) "Shame, Anger, and the Emotional Logics of British Politics

15:00 - 17:00 23 November 2026
Engaging critically with recent interdisciplinary arguments linking repressed economic shame to anger and resentment among right-wing voters, in this paper I draw on long-term ethnographic…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Market studies approaches to innovation: insights on concerned markets and Innovation Support Organisations

15:30 - 16:30 23 November 2026
Professor Katy Mason, Pro-Vice Chancellor & Dean of Salford Business School, and Professor Martin Spring, Professor Emeritus of Operations Management at Lancaster University Management…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

Nicholas Trajtenberg "Do Opportunity Effects Travel?" and Olga Sanchez de Ribera "Evaluating a community-based domestic violence programme in the Dominican Republic”

17:00 - 19:00 25 November 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 25 November 2026, 5pm (UK time). The event will be in person and online. You can…

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…

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