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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

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Bethany Nichol

15:00 5 November 2026
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

COEH Online Semiinar Series: Sleep and health in extreme environments: adaptation is the word - Prof Pierluigi Cocco

16:00 - 17:00 5 November 2026
Prolonged stay in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme (ICE) environments, where the regular light/dark cycle is absent, can induce sleep deprivation and a cascade of adverse mental and…

Collecting Nature: Histories, Legacies and Living Worlds

12:00 - 14:30 5 November 2026
Join us for a panel discussion on natural collections and the work of Henry Dresser. This event is of interest to those interacting with natural history collections. What does it…

Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (University of Kent) "From Recognition to Misrecognition: Indigeneity, the AI Dialectic and the Anthropomorphic Temptation"

15:00 - 17:00 9 November 2026
Abstract: What happens when a social anthropologist conducts a sustained dialectical exchange with an AI system on a topic he knows intimately through decades of ethnographic fieldwork?…

Jakub Stavina: An introduction to quantum information geometry

15:00 - 16:00 9 November 2026
Abstract: In this talk, we present the framework of quantum information geometry. We first review key concepts in quantum statistical mechanics, focusing on the Hamiltonian, thermal…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Critical and Strategic Raw Materials under Open Strategic Autonomy: Are Mining Capabilities in the EU Regions in Line with the Targets?

15:30 - 16:30 9 November 2026
Simona Iammarino, Professor of Applied Economics, Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L’Aquila, Italy, will be discussing the geography of mining technologies in Europe and their role…

Seminars in 'Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC)'

15:00 - 16:10 9 November 2026
Join us for the next Health and Health Systems in the Global Context (HHSGC) seminar, with Professor Echezona E. Ezeanolue, Director of the IVAN Research Institute, University of Nigeria.…

The Annual Teddy Chester Lecture - Why is the NHS so hard to Manage?

18:00 - 19:00 9 November 2026
In this lecture, Professor Mary Dixon-Woods will focus on the complexities and hardships of managing the NHS and what solutions and improvements could be made. Why is it so hard to…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Bim Gustavsson: Sylow branching coefficients

14:00 - 15:00 10 November 2026
Title: Sylow branching coefficients Abstract: In this talk we give a survey about the so-called Sylow branching coefficients; why they are interesting, what is known and what is not known.

AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Aurelien Bibaut

11:00 - 12:00 11 November 2026
Our invited speaker on 11 November will be Aurelien Bibaut from Netflix. Title: Safe Adaptive Policy Learning Abstract: Offline policy learning can require less information than accurate…

Logic Seminar - Andrew Brooke-Taylor

15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2026
Speaker: Andrew Brooke-Taylor (University of Leeds) TBA

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 11 November 2026
Telmo Menezes CAMS (Centre d'analyse et de mathématique sociales) Interpretable by Design: Semantic Hypergraphs for Human-Centered Text Analysis Semantic Hypergraphs (SH) offer a knowledge…

Perla Polanco (Manchester) "Oil Nationalism and the Coloniality of Resource Extraction in Mexico" and Mauricio Rentería (Manchester) "Racialised Mobility Within Lima's Dominant Class"

17:00 - 19:00 11 November 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 11 November 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can…

Probability Seminar: Anastasiia Kovtun

15:00 - 16:00 11 November 2026
Anastasiia Kovtun (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Dickman Distribution: Historical Perspectives and New Multidimensional Generalisations…

Pure maths colloquium - Richard Webb

13:30 - 14:30 11 November 2026
Speaker: Richard Webb (University of Manchester) Title: Finding surface subgroups in mapping class groups Abstract: Many infinite groups can be studied by associating geometric spaces…

SQUIDS Seminar: Bill Lionheart

15:00 11 November 2026
Speaker: Bill Lionheart (University of Manchester) Title: At last an SVD for EIT Abstract: 40 years ago when I started working on Electrical Impedance Tomography I thought I should…

TAI Lunch and Learn: When AI Enters the Real World: Risk, Resilience and Human Judgement in Engineering

12:30 - 13:00 11 November 2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming engineering practice, creating new opportunities and challenges. This online Lunch and Learn explores how AI is being used in real-world…

The mobility trap: transport exclusion in global south cities

12:00 - 13:30 11 November 2026
Geaography Research seminar with Professor Karen Lucas (Department of Geography, UoM). Chair: Saska Petrova; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B

CTIS Research Seminar - Warming Our Hands with Moonlight: Intercultural Encounters with Tibetanness on Chinese Digital Platforms

14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2026
Intercultural communication scholarship has often prioritised encounters across national borders, race issues, and nationalism discourses, with less attention to everyday interethnic…

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