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

I'm Just A Large Language Model, Please Excuse Me For Being Racist: Racial Inequalities Manifested In Generative Artificial Intelligence - Dhiraj Murthy

12:30 - 14:00 11 December 2025
-- Please note that the start time of this seminar has been changed to 12.30pm -- In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Dhiraj Murthy (University of Texas in Austin) shares his…

Student Voices in the Archives (The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series)

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2025
The University of Manchester’s archives offer a rich resource for researching student life and the history of the institution more generally. In this seminar, Grant Collier (Curator…

WEI and MiRS Lecture 2025 with Professor Virginia Doellgast

15:00 - 17:00 11 December 2025
Building worker voice and power in AI decisions: Three cases in the German ICT industry Virginia Doellgast (Cornell University, USA), Tobias Kämpf (University of Labour, Germany), Barbara…

The Role of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Multilateral Negotiations

11:00 - 12:00 12 December 2025
Multilateral negotiations are increasingly under strain, making it more important than ever to understand how global agreements are shaped behind the scenes. Dr Andraž Kastelic, a leading…

Diego Maria Malara (University of Glasgow) ‘On the Urbanity of Sacred Substance: Purity, Sin, and the Flow of Blessing in Addis Ababa’

15:00 - 17:00 15 December 2025
In Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, the Eucharist is regarded as an exceptionally pure substance, and governed by such stringent ritual proscriptions that only a very small number of…

Econometrics Seminar - Christophe Gaillac (Geneva)

12:00 - 13:00 15 December 2025
Title TBA

Freya Bull -- Blood and urine: mathematical modelling for health [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 15 December 2025
Join us for this seminar by Freya Bull (UCL) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Jakab Schrettner

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2025
Speaker: Jakab Schrettner (UCL) Title: Local constancy of reduction type and related invariants in p-adic families of curves Abstract: Invariants of curves and their Jacobians over…

Brownbag - Chad Brown

13:00 - 14:00 17 December 2025
Title TBD

How to make your research more usable to policy-makers in UK parliament

16:00 - 17:00 18 December 2025
Presentation from Alpesh Maisuria (UWE Bristol) The Higher Education Research Group is delighted to announce that Professor Alpesh Maisuria (UWE Bristol) will be the invited speaker…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Boumediene Hamzi

11:00 - 12:00 14 January 2026
November’s AI Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker is Boumediene Hamzi from Imperial College London, Caltech and the Alan Turing Institute. In Dr Hamzi’s own words: “My current research…

New Lovell Lecture: Be the astronomer

19:30 - 21:00 29 January 2026
René Breton, Professor of Astrophysics at JBCA, invites you to join a unique “choose-your-own-adventure” lecture, where audiences can step into an astronomer's shoes, investigate an…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2026
Christina Prell University of Groiningen

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Eng-Jon Ong

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2026
Speaker: Eng-Jon Ong (Queen Mary University of London) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 10 February 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Ridhi Kashyap Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science, University…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2026
Kasimir Dederichs University of Oxford

Macro Seminar - Hanbaek Lee (Cambridge)

16:00 - 17:00 17 February 2026
Title: TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2026
Pietro Casari Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

Macro Seminar - Santiago Garcia-Couto (Georgetown Qatar)

16:00 - 17:00 24 February 2026
Title: TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2026
Bruce Cronin University of Greenwich

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 March 2026
Shan Shi University of Manchester

Macro Seminar - Johanna Wallenius (Stockholm)

16:00 - 17:00 10 March 2026
Title: TBA

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 10 March 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: Mónica Hernández Alava Professor in Health Econometrics, University of Sheffield Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 March 2026
Zsofia Boda University of Essex

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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