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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

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.

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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…

Manchester Institute of Innovation Research written in white on teal

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…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Miriam Norris

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2026
TBA

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…

Logic Seminar - Mira Tartarotti

15:00 - 16:00 9 December 2026
Speaker: Mira Tartarotti (University of Oxford) TBA

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…

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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…

Patterned pufferfish scales demonstrating a Turing pattern in the natural world

Owen Rackham -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 14 December 2026
Join us for this seminar by Owen Rackham (Southampton) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Brita Nucinkis

14:00 15 December 2026
TBA

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…

“It’s alive!”: Prometheus, Frankenstein, and the Cyborgs

13:00 - 15:00 25 February 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…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Intergalactic Network: The real origins of the Internet

13:00 - 15:00 18 March 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…

A Tale of Beer, Chile, and Syn: Cybernetics in the service of socialism

13:00 - 15:00 20 April 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…

Algorithms against Neurons: The great schism between AI and cybernetics

13:00 - 15:00 27 May 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…

Transcendence or Termination?: Cybernetics, transhumanism, and the future

13:00 - 15:00 24 June 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…

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