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

Charis Boutieri (King's College London). Speaking Freedom: The Tunisian public sphere between revolution and democracy

15:00 - 17:00 8 December 2025
This talk will present my forthcoming book, which interrogates the historical formations and contemporary reconfigurations of the Tunisian public sphere. While profoundly delimited…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Gabriel Fuhrmann

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Gabriel Fuhrmann (Durham University) Title: Prime periods on the interval Abstract: Given two continuous self-maps f and g on the interval which have all periodic orbits…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Dmitry Roytenberg

15:00 - 16:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Dmitry Roytenberg (Amsterdam) Title: On dg-manifolds with vanishing Atiyah class Abstract: Differential graded (dg) manifolds are a generalization of manifolds comprising…

Maths education seminar: Gemma Crowe and Christiana Charalambous on the history of maths for EDI in teaching

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Gemma Crowe and Christiana Charalambous (University of Manchester) Title: History of Maths for EDI in teaching Abstract: The History for Inclusion & Diversity in Mathematics…

MIOIR Seminar Series - The Building Blocks of Software Work

15:30 - 16:30 8 December 2025
Frank Neffke will explore the building blocks of software work and what they reveal about learning, careers and the spread of programming languages. (Co-authors: Xiangnan Feng, Johannes…

The Two Worlds of the Reader: Text World and Life-world in a New Theory of Reading (Religions and Theology Research Seminar)

15:00 - 17:00 8 December 2025
Speaker: Alexander Samely (The University of Manchester)

Digital Trust and Security seminar: Prof Marija Slavkovik

13:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Autonomous Machines as Moral…

Fear Research Network Seminar Series: Dr Raamy Majeed (The University of Manchester) – 'Fear, Humiliation and Political Grievances'

16:00 - 17:30 9 December 2025
This talk explores how humiliation and fear turn economic insecurity into political grievances. Fear from financial or social uncertainty creates vulnerability, but this doesn’t usually…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Neil Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2025
Title: Springer Fibres, Parabolic Induction & Stacking Maps Abstract: The fibres coming from the Springer resolution on the nilpotent cone are incredibly rich algebraic varieties that…

Macro Seminar - Hitoshi Tsujiyama (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 9 December 2025
Title: When Economic Shocks Reduce Divorce but Increase Intra-Household Inequality

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Margherita Pagano

15:00 - 16:00 9 December 2025
Speaker: Margherita Pagano (Imperial) Title: Wild Brauer classes via prismatic cohomology Abstract: Let K be a number field and X be a smooth and proper variety over K, I will explain…

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 9 December 2025
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: José Manuel Aburto Brass Blacker Associate Professor in Demography, London…

Agustin Diz (Edinburgh): After Abundance: Guaraní Settlements and the Making of the Gran Chaco’s Extractive Frontier

17:00 - 18:30 10 December 2025
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 10 Dec 2025, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building,…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Sam Power

11:00 - 12:00 10 December 2025
November’s AI Fun and ELLIS Invited Speaker is Sam Power from the University of Bristol Bio: Sam is a Lecturer in the School of Mathematics. Sam received his PhD degree in 2020 from…

Brownbag - Vasudha Wattal

13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2025
Title TBD

Digital Health Equity seminar: A co-production approach to understanding diversity issues in digital research

13:00 - 14:00 10 December 2025
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 10-Dec 1-2pm via Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/98736638103). Anita Banerji, Jasmine Folz, Ella…

Dr Liam Liburd (Durham University), An Accidental History of Prisons and Race in Late Twentieth Century Britain

16:00 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Department of History Guest Seminar

GDI Lecture: The rise and fall of the UK aid budget: How has the NGO landscape changed over the last 20 years?

16:30 - 18:00 10 December 2025
Speakers: Tom Baker (Save the Children UK) in conversation with Alex Molton and Fin Hanna (GDI Postgraduate Students) Cuts to the UK aid budget represent just the latest in a more…

Logic Seminar - Pantelis Eleftheriou

15:00 - 16:00 10 December 2025
Speaker: Pantelis Eleftheriou (University of Leeds) On the global linear Zarankiewicz problem The global Zarankiewicz's problem for hypergraphs asks for an upper bound on the number…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

15:00 - 16:30 10 December 2025
Scott Duxbury, UNC Chapel Hill

Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL)

14:00 - 15:30 10 December 2025
Research Seminar, “Theorizing the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism" with Aleksandra Piletic (UCL), Simon 4.04

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…

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