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

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: Safe Adaptive Policy Learning Abstract: Offline policy learning can require less information than accurate…

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…

SQUIDS Seminar: Bill Lionheart

15:00 11 November 2026
Speaker: Bill Lionheart (University of Manchester) Title: At last an SVD for EIT Abstract: 40 years ago when I started working on Electrical Impedance Tomography I thought I should…

TAI Lunch and Learn: When Ai Enters the Real World: Risk, Resilience and Human Judgement in Engineering

12:30 - 13:00 11 November 2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming engineering practice, creating new opportunities and challenges. This online Lunch and Learn explores how AI is being used in real-world…

The mobility trap: transport exclusion in global south cities

12:00 - 13:30 11 November 2026
Geaography Research seminar with Professor Karen Lucas (Department of Geography, UoM). Chair: Saska Petrova; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B

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…

Katarzyna Rejzner: TBA

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…

'The gender pay gap amongst high educated workers' - Arthur Lewis Lecture

17:00 - 19:30 17 November 2026
Join us for the Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture as our guest speaker Dame Rachel Griffith, Professor of Economics, reflects on the gender pay gap, and why it is still so prevalent in highly…

Expert Insights Series | Radiation and electronics: electrical safety in nuclear environments

14:00 - 15:00 17 November 2026
Join us in person or online. Electronic systems form the backbone of large-scale projects in fields such as energy production and general scientific experiments. These systems are…

Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University), 'A story with a happy ending? Writing the biography of the German-Jewish photographer Fred Stein (1909-1967) today'

15:00 - 17:00 18 November 2026
Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University), 'A story with a happy ending? Writing the biography of the German-Jewish photographer Fred Stein (1909-1967) today' History Research Seminar, hosted by Modern British Studies

Logic Seminar - Andrew Brooke-Taylor

15:00 18 November 2026
Speaker: Paul Levy (University of Birmingham) TBA

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

Morgan Centre special seminars: The ageing of family change - Torbjörn Bildtgård & A new gift for the barren ones: Examining the introduction of egg donation in Norway – Ingvill Stuvøy

15:00 - 17:00 18 November 2026
Please join us for a special double seminar featuring two visiting researchers at the Morgan Centre for Research Into Everyday lives. Light refreshments will be available from 3pm.…

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…

GRiEG Seminar: Ecological Islamophobia

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2026
The seminar will unveil emerging work on Ecological Islamophobia: Muslim Experiences of Environmental Harm in East London, examining how environmental issues such as poor air quality,…

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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