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

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…

The mobility trap: transport exclusion in global south cities

15:00 11 November 2026
Prof. 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…

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…

From pans to point bars: applications of multiple elevated temperature infrared stimulated

15:00 18 November 2026
Dr Tessa Spano (Department of Geography, UoM). Chair: Abi Stone; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B

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…

Geographies of Anticipation: AI growth zones, data centres, and post-industrial futures

15:00 25 November 2026
Prof. Karen Lai (Department of Geography Durham University). Chair: Chloe Fox-Robertson; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B

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…

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (UCLA) "The Momentinho and the March: Temporalities of Struggle in Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement"

15:00 - 17:00 30 November 2026
Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork with Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST), this talk presents material from the recently published Pathways to Utopia (Indiana…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 December 2026
Tom Lintner University of Manchester

The gendered half-life of deindustrialization: Industrial masculinities in East and West German shipbuilding

15:00 2 December 2026
Dr. Nora Mariella Küttel (Institute for Geography, University of Bremen). Chair: Sarah Marie Hall; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B

Lewis Lab Seminar - Jane Humphries (University of Oxford)

16:00 - 17:00 3 December 2026
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.

Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) "Wife-Work in an Evangelical Rio: Pleasure, Protection and the Minimally Safe Bedroom"

15:00 - 17:00 7 December 2026
This talk begins from an unlikely scene: a sex costume party hosted by an evangelical pastor in a woman’s home in Rio de Janeiro, where lingerie is prayed over as a tool of marital…

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