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

Careers Seminar Series - Careers in Biological Services Management (open to PhD students and staff)

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2026
The first FBMH careers seminar series of 2026 will take place on Wednesday 18 February 2026 from 1-2pm, where we will hear from Joanna Stanley and Ian Millar who have moved from postdoc…

Educating Out Prejudice through LGBT+ History Month

17:00 - 18:00 18 February 2026
Guest lecture from Sue Sanders, co-founder of UK LGBT+ History Month In this guest lecture, Sue will explore how we can use LGBT+ History Month - and other months dedicated to minoritised…

Logic Seminar - Mervyn Tong

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2026
Speaker: Mervyn Tong (University of Cambridge) Higher-arity distality and hypergraph regularity In recent years, the intersection of model theory and combinatorics has been a fertile…

MET Seminar - Roberto Corrao (Stanford)

17:00 - 18:00 18 February 2026
Title: Resilience vs. Fragility: Global Properties of Economies with Endogenous Production Networks Authors: Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Roberto Corrao, Joel Flynn, and Giacomo Lanzani…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series, Alessandro Lomi (University of Italian Switzerland, Lugano) Modeling Social Networks with Changeable Nodes

16:00 - 17:30 18 February 2026
One of the defining features of social networks is that their nodes—social agents—are not fixed entities but actively reconfigure their internal structure in response to changes in…

Probability Seminar: Jorge Yslas Altamirano - Heavy-tailed phase-type distributions

15:00 - 16:00 18 February 2026
Jorge Yslas Altamirano (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Heavy-tailed phase-type distributions Abstract: Heavy-tailed phase-type random variables…

SQUIDS Seminar: Kernel Quantile Embeddings and Associated Probability Metrics

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2026
Speaker: Dr Masha Naslidnyk (University College London) Abstract: Embedding probability distributions into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) has enabled powerful non-parametric…

'Denaturalisation and Modernity: Drugs and Racial Capitalism' Anne Pollock [HYBRID]

13:00 - 14:30 19 February 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Anne Pollock (King's College London) shares her research. SUMMARY From the earliest days of European colonialism in the Americas and transatlantic…

Alex Browning -- Identifiability of Stochastic and Spatial Models in Mathematical Biology [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 23 February 2026
Join us for this seminar by Alex Browning (Melbourne as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Leadership, innovation and policy in the age of uncertainty

15:30 - 17:00 23 February 2026
Leadership, innovation and policy in the age of uncertainty This talk explores how Arup - a global professional services firm with over 18,000 members - applies foresight, research,…

‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 23 February 2026
Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) - ‘Fieldnotes, Library Scans and the Ethnographic Narrative After Catastrophe’

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Coen de Valle

14:00 - 15:00 24 February 2026
TBA

Macro Seminar - Santiago Garcia-Couto (Georgetown Qatar)

16:00 - 17:00 24 February 2026
Title: The Anatomy of the China Shock

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Elvira Lupoian

15:00 - 16:00 24 February 2026
Speaker: Elvira Lupoian (UCL) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

'Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC)' Seminar Series - February speaker: Dr Luis Martínez Juárez, UoM Lecturer in Global Health

12:00 - 13:00 25 February 2026
This is an inter-disciplinary seminar series which aims to bring together researchers interested in broadening the understanding and tackling some of the most pressing challenges faced…

Logic Seminar - Calum Hughes

15:00 - 16:00 25 February 2026
Speaker: Calum Hughes (University of Manchester) TBC

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

Probability Seminar: Indrajit Jana - CLT for LES of correlated Non-Hermitian Random Matrices

16:00 - 17:00 25 February 2026
Indrajit Jana (IIT Bhubaneswar) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: CLT for LES of correlated Non-Hermitian Random Matrices Abstract: In this talk, We consider two (or…

CLACS Seminar: Lucía Tiscornia (University College Dublin): Criminal Governance in Unexpected Places: The case of Uruguay

16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS ON A THURSDAY, STARTS AT 4PM AND IS NOT IN THE SAM ALEXANDER…

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