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

Debating Issues of War and Peace in the Islamic Tradition

17:00 24 March 2026
Professor Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University (online) Host: Dr Tom Woerner-Powell Abstract: War and peace are universal themes in which Muslim scholars throughout history have taken…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Anja Meyer

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2026
Title: Pure mathematics in medicine Abstract: Traditionally, pure mathematics is described as the kind of maths we do without any regard to applications. However, this divide is rather…

Panel: Marking the completion of British Library Endangered Archives Project EAP1531

16:00 - 18:00 24 March 2026
We are pleased to invite you to a panel marking the completion of EAP1531, a British Library Endangered Archives Project that digitised and catalogued two endangered archival collections…

Logic Seminar - Charlotte Bartnick

15:00 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Charlotte Bartnick (Universität Freiburg) Title: Definable groups in differentially closed fields of positive characteristic Abstract: Definable groups in theories of fields…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series. Andrew Parker University of Durham. It’s Not Me, It’s You: The Effect of Alter’s Brokerage Orientations on an Individual’s Leader Identity

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2026
Understanding how individuals come to see themselves as leaders is critical for organizations. While prior research has primarily focused on individual characteristics and experiences…

Probability Seminar: Gechun Liang - Forward Optimized Certainty Equivalent and FBSDE

15:00 - 16:00 25 March 2026
Gechun Liang (University of Warwick) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Forward Optimized Certainty Equivalent and FBSDE Abstract: We extend the notion of forward performance…

Sea Ice in the Climate System

15:00 - 16:30 25 March 2026
Lecture from Dr Amy McGuire, Geography, University of Manchester Part of the Geography Department Research Seminars series

SQUIDS-NASC Joint Seminar: Generalized Friendship Paradoxes in Network Science

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2026
Speaker: Professor Desmond J. Higham (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: Generalized friendship paradoxes occur when, on average, our friends have more of some attribute than us.…

The Fear of a Shrinking Nation: Chronologies of the Future and the Collapse of Everyday Life in Japan

16:00 25 March 2026
Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford) The fear that the nation is shrinking, potentially into oblivion, prevails in contemporary Japan. Every year, stories about record-low fertility…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Rubén Izquierdo López

15:00 - 16:00 30 March 2026
Speaker: Rubén Izquierdo López (ICMAT, Madrid) Title: The geometry of variational problems: An introduction to multisymplectic geometry Abstract: It is well known that autonomous…

GM Seminar: Can AI help us tackle air pollution?

13:00 - 14:30 31 March 2026
This event is part of the GM Policy Hub Seminar Series. In each seminar we focus on a different regional policy agenda, with a University of Manchester academic presenting their research…

Webinar: Inequalities in later life

12:00 - 13:00 8 April 2026
The NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing April webinar will focus on “Inequalities in later life” See below for further information and the sign-up link, please come along if…

SOCIAL STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES

14:00 - 15:30 14 April 2026
Please join us for the Social Statistics Seminar, we have coffee and cake. We are very pleased to welcome: András Vörös Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods, University of Birmingham Title: TBA Abstract: TBA

AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Gabriella Pizzuto

11:00 - 12:00 15 April 2026
April's invited speaker will be Gabriella Pizzuto from the University of Liverpool. Title and abstract to follow. Gabriella is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and…

Shilpa Garg -- Maths in the Life Sciences Seminar [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 20 April 2026
Join us for this seminar by Shilpa Garg (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness' - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2026
Madeleine Reeves (University of Oxford) - ‘Squatting socialism: politicising shelter and its absence in a state 'without homelessness'

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Tomasz Kosciuszko

15:00 - 16:00 21 April 2026
Speaker: Tomasz Kosciuszko Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1

Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne and Sara Eldén)

13:00 - 15:00 21 April 2026
Light refreshments will be available from 1pm Kaisa Kuurne (University of Turku, Finland) and Sara Eldén (Malmö University, Sweden) In this joint Morgan Centre seminar, we consider…

Logic Seminar - Jonathan Kirby

15:00 - 16:00 22 April 2026
Speaker: Jonathan Kirby (The University of East Anglia) TBC

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 22 April 2026
Eleanor Power London School of Economics

Nathaniel Andrews (UoM, History): ''Anarchist childhoods in Buenos Aires, 1890-1945'

17:00 - 18:30 22 April 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 22 April 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander…

Probability Seminar: Pavel Gapeev - Perpetual American Standard and Lookback Options in Models with Progressively Enlarged Filtrations

16:00 - 17:00 22 April 2026
Pavel Gapeev (London School of Economics) will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: Perpetual American Standard and Lookback Options in Models with Progressively Enlarged Filtrations…

CoDE seminar: 'Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism' - Alison Phipps

13:00 - 14:30 23 April 2026
In this CoDE lunchtime seminar, Professor Alison Phipps (York St John University) shares her research. SUMMARY What are the relationships between sexual violence, sexual fear, social…

‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’ - Social Anthropology Seminar Series

15:00 - 17:00 27 April 2026
Vita Peacock (King's College London) - ‘Why Privacy is Powerful in Germany’

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