Seminar

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

'Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures in Remote Canada’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 9 February 2026
Philipp Budka (University of Vienna) - ‘Sovereignty by Design: Community Infrastructures in Remote Canada’

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: Discrete spectrum in S-adic substitution dynamical systems via the balanced pair algorithm Abstract: Substitutions and…

Eder Zavala -- Mathematical analysis of endocrine rhythms and wearable time series data [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 9 February 2026
Join us for this seminar by Eder Zavala (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Anna Pratoussevitch

15:00 - 16:00 9 February 2026
Speaker: Anna Pratoussevitch (Liverpool) Title: Discreteness of Ultra-Parallel Complex Hyperbolic Triangle Groups Abstract: In this talk, we will discuss discreteness criteria for…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Eoghan McDowell

14:00 - 15:00 10 February 2026
Title: Zeros of characters of symmetric groups Abstract: Interest in zeros of characters stretches back to Burnside's classical result that every non-linear character has a zero, and…

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…

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Joey Bose

11:00 - 12:00 11 February 2026
On 11 February, we will have Joey Bose from Imperial College London. If you cannot attend in person, please register via the Ticketsource link provided and you will receive the link…

Digital Health Equity seminar: Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity?

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 11th-Feb, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91477080182. Robin van Kessel (London…

Logic Seminar - Martin Bays

15:00 - 16:00 11 February 2026
Speaker: Martin Bays (University of Oxford) Groups from non-expansion in higher dimension Call a complex polynomial f(x,y) _expanding_ if there is e>0 such that for all sufficiently…

Lunchtime seminar with Prof Audrey Osler: Where are you from? No, where are you really from?

12:30 - 13:30 11 February 2026
MIE Anti-Racist Education Network would like to invite you to a lunch-time seminar with Professor Audrey Osler who will be speaking about her recently published book 'Where are you…

MIE Anti-Racist Education Network: Where are you from? No, where are you really from?

12:30 - 13:30 11 February 2026
We would like to invite you to a lunch-time seminar with Professor Audrey Osler who will be speaking about her recently published book 'Where are you from? No, where are you really…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Kasimir Dederichs (University of Oxford) Join to connect? Voluntary involvement, social capital, and socioeconomic inequalities.

16:00 - 17:30 11 February 2026
Access to social capital is stratified by socioeconomic status and has been cross-sectionally linked to involvement in voluntary organizations. Yet, we know little about the origin…

SQUIDS-Statistics Joint Seminar: Automatic Tuning for Gradient-based Bayesian Inference

13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
Speaker: Professor Christopher Nemeth (Lancaster University) Abstract: In Bayesian inference, the central computational task is to approximate a posterior distribution—often by designing…

Songs and poems of Gaza during the genocide

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2026
Dr Atef Alshaer, University of Westminster Host: Dr Moshe Behar In my talk, I will highlight examples of poetry and songs from the Gaza Strip within the context of the genocide in…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Anton Izosimov

15:00 - 16:00 16 February 2026
Speaker: Anton Izosimov (Glasgow) Title: The dimer model and dynamical incidence geometry Abstract: The dimer model is an archetypal model of statistical physics. In recent years,…

‘“In the thick of it’: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 16 February 2026
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (University of Victoria) - ‘“In the thick of it’: Releasing pressure in Santiago de Cuba’

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
Alessandro Lomi Università della Svizzera, Italy

'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…

‘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

'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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

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

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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