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

AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Jin Zhu

11:00 - 12:00 14 October 2026
Our invited speaker on 14 October will be Jin Zhu from the University of Birmingham. Title: Statistics-Powered Detection of LLM-Generated Text Abstract: Large language models (LLMs)…

British Academy Lecture 2026: Professor Stefano Bartolini

17:00 - 19:00 14 October 2026
Rule Making Rules: The Origins of Western Political Institutions and Why They Matter Today. The University of Manchester is delighted to host Professor Stefano Bartolini, Emeritus…

Brownbag Seminar: Lucía Contreas

13:00 - 13:50 14 October 2026
Title: Less Simple, Less Distortionary? Evidence from Costa Rica’s Corporate Tax Reform Authors: Lucía Contreas and Jonathan Garita Abstract: This paper studies how firms respond…

Logic Seminar - Jennifer Pi

15:00 14 October 2026
Speaker: Jennifer Pi (University of Oxford) Title: An invitation to model theory for operator algebras Abstract: Operator algebras are structures with an algebraic flavour that are…

Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin), Interactive Cartography: Saving the World one Map at a Time

12:00 - 13:30 14 October 2026
Mark Ravina (University of Texas at Austin), Interactive Cartography: Saving the World one Map at a Time co-hosted by the History Research Seminar and the Japanese Studies Sam Alex A 201

MET Seminar - Tan Gan (LSE)

17:00 - 18:00 14 October 2026
Title: Robust Delegation Authors: Ricardo Alonso, Tan Gan & Ju Hu Abstract: We study delegation rules by principals uninformed of the underlying state (external uncertainty) and the…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 14 October 2026
Neha Gondal Boston University Mapping Meaning Structures using Directed Network Graphs on Association Rules John Mohr (1998) persuasively argued that formal or structural meaning analysis…

Probability Seminar: Huy Chau

15:00 - 16:00 14 October 2026
Huy Chau (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: A general framework for pricing and hedging under local viability Abstract: a new approach for solving…

CoDE seminar: Transnational Black culture in Liverpool in the final decades of the 20th century: legacies of West Africa in the so-called ‘second city of empire’ Stephen Small

13:00 - 14:30 15 October 2026
In this lunchtime seminar from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), Professor Stephen Small (University of California, Berkeley) shares his research. ABSTRACT Throughout…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Christopher Meissner (UC Davis)

16:00 - 17:00 15 October 2026
Christopher Meissner (UC Davis) will present at the Arthur Lewis Lab Seminar.

The Banners of Ed Hall: Art,Activism & Civic Action in Contemporary Britain

17:30 - 19:00 15 October 2026
Join us for an event on the history, politics and stories behind banners in art and activism. Ed Hall has been making trade union, campaign and gallery banners since 1984 when he worked…

Gabriel Marques Camargo (University of Manchester) "Mobile Quilombos: The Making of Black Territories in the White City"

15:00 - 17:00 19 October 2026
Abstract: This paper examines the concept of “mobile quilombos” through an analysis of Afro-Brazilian religious occupations of public space, exploring how the circulation of axé produces…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Africa

15:30 - 16:30 19 October 2026
Erik Stam, Professor of Strategy, Organization and Entrepreneurship, Utrecht University, the Netherlands will be discussing entrepreneurial ecosystems in Africa. Productive entrepreneurship…

Susanna Röblitz --Stochasticity in regulatory networks: A key for cellular differentiation and reproductive success [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 19 October 2026
Join us for this seminar by Susanna Röblitz (Bergen) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Beyond the Ethics Board: Strengthening Ethical Practice in Qualitative Humanities and Social Science Research

12:00 - 16:30 20 October 2026
This event will mark the launch of a new report on 'Strengthening Ethical Practice in Qualitative Humanities and Social Science Research', funded by the University of Manchester’s Enhancing…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Paolo Marimon

14:00 20 October 2026
Title: All mixed identities are singular in groups with no algebraicity. Abstract: We show that if a group admits an action with no algebraicity, then all of its mixed identities are…

David Wood (UCL, London) "The Andes on the Small Screen: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Translation"

17:00 - 19:00 21 October 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…

GDI Lecture: The Political Economy of Rwanda's Rise

16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2026
In this lecture, GDI’s Pritish Behuria will launch his recent Open Access book, The Political Economy of Rwanda’s Rise. Drawing on a decade of research and more than 580 interviews,…

Lane Lecture 2026: The Evolution of Evidence and the Changing Nature of Employment: What this means for the work of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council

16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2026
In collaboration with the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Thomas Ashton Institute is delighted to announce that registration for this years Annual Lane Lecture…

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