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

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…

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

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…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Are Female Inventors Geographically Constrained? Gender Differences in Team Collocation

15:30 - 16:30 7 December 2026
Mercedes Delgado, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) with Luca Gius, Bocconi University, will present research examining whether female…

Laura Bunt-MacRury (Centro de Estudios Agropecuarios, Cusco, Peru) "The Political Ecology of Biodiversity in the Andes"

17:00 - 19:00 9 December 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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 9 December 2026
Mark Wittek CEU Network Ecologies of Cultural Production: Evidence from Jazz and Science Scholars have studied the social organization of scientific and cultural fields extensively…

Andrew Littlejohn (Leiden University) "Ecologizing Safety in Post-Tsunami Japan"

15:00 - 17:00 14 December 2026
As oceans rise worldwide, many governments are intensifying efforts to defend the towns and cities bordering them. Advocates of coastal infrastructure often argue that the best way…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Brita Nucinkis

14:00 15 December 2026
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The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem

13:00 - 15:00 28 January 2027
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…

Luis Medina Cordova (Birmingham, Languages) "The Andes beyond the Andean: Mangrove Networks in Contemporary Ecuadorian Literature"

17:00 - 19:00 3 February 2027
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 3 Feb 2027, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can follow…

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