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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

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Ashwin Bhat

14:00 5 October 2026
Speaker: Ashwin Bhat (University of Birmingham) Title: Constructing Non-Rectifiable Delone Sets Abstract: Delone sets, also known as separated nets, are point sets in Euclidean space…

Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University) "LATE WORK: Imagination, Form and the Creative Life of Anthropology"

15:00 - 17:00 5 October 2026
What might it mean to think of anthropology through lateness, as a way of staying with forms of thought that remain difficult, unresolved, excessive, or somehow out of time with the…

Frankie Patten-Elliott -- Modelling drug binding to biological ion channels [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2026
Join us for this seminar by Frankie Patten-Elliott (Manchester) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Illuminating the Dark Sides of Innovation: Controversial Innovation and Peripheral Opportunity

15:30 - 16:30 5 October 2026
Professor Johannes Glückler, Chair of Economic Geographies of the Future at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich), will explore how innovation becomes controversial and…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Henrique Mendes da Silva e Souza

14:00 6 October 2026
Title: Cohomological asymptotics for linear groups Abstract: For a finitely generated subgroup H of a complex semisimple Lie group G, we investigate how the cohomology groups H^i(H,V)…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Sam Streeter (Bristol)

15:00 - 16:00 6 October 2026
Speaker: Sam Streeter (Bristol) Title: Hilbert property for del Pezzo surfaces of degree one Abstract: Various conjectures in arithmetic geometry predict the abundance of rational…

Brownbag Seminar: Antonio Nicolò

13:00 7 October 2026
Title: It can’t happen here: Democratic Backsliding and the Complacency Trap Authors: Edoardo Grillo and Antonio Nicolò Abstract: We study how institutions and citizens interact to…

Guillaume Candela (University of Cardiff) "Recovering Hidden Histories: Reconstructing Trajectories and Experiences of Racialised and Enslaved Individuals in Colonial Paraguay"

17:00 - 19:00 7 October 2026
This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Wed 7 October 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person and online. You can…

Logic Seminar - Valentina Disarlo

15:00 7 October 2026
Speaker: Valentina Disarlo (The University of Manchester) Title: The model theory of the curve graph Abstract: The curve graph of a finite-type surface is a countable graph whose…

MET Seminar - En Hua Hu (Oxford)

17:00 - 18:00 7 October 2026
Title: What makes a matching market congested Authors: Justin Hadad & En Hua Hu Abstract: We study a decentralized matching market where each applicant sends a fixed number of applications,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 16:30 7 October 2026
Jana Diesner Technical University of Munich What we know and wrongly assume about the how and why of link formation in collaboration networks Large-scale bibliometric analyses allow…

Pure maths colloquium - Martin Orr

13:30 - 14:30 7 October 2026
Speaker: Martin Orr (University of Manchester) Title: Rational points on algebraic curves Abstract: Understanding rational solutions of polynomials in two variables is a classical…

EACW Seminar: Radical Data Histories

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2026
Prof. Lauren Klein (Emory) in conversation with EACW's own Dr. Jo Taylor about Klein's new book, Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science (MIT Press, Oct 2026).

Lewis Lab Seminar - David Chilosi (King's College London)

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2026
We will be holding our first Lewis Lab Seminar of this semester on 8 October, from 4 to 5 pm at Sam Alex_A215. David Chilosi (KCL) will present ''Shifting margins of trade in the long…

Andrew Irving (University of Manchester) "Between Thought and Expression, Lies a Lifetime: The Inner Lifeworlds of Motor Neurone Disease"

15:00 - 17:00 12 October 2026
Abstract: “Between thought and expression” sang Lou Reed “lies a lifetime”: a lyric that evokes the strange distance between people’s internalised realms of being and their public expression…

Martin Falcke -- Constitutive relations of cell motility and Ca2+ signalling and the role of noise [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 12 October 2026
Join us for this seminar by Martin Falcke (Berlin) as part of the Maths in the Life Sciences seminar series (and the online North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data…

Heilbronn Algebra Seminar - Malcolm Chen

14:00 13 October 2026
TBA

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster)

15:00 - 16:00 13 October 2026
Speaker: Giovanna De Lauri (Lancaster) Title: TBC Abstract: TBC Room: Frank Adams 1, Alan Turing Building

A socio-ecological feminist dialogue

15:00 14 October 2026
Dr Giulia Mininni, Dr Ariana Tozzi and Dr Lin Zhang (Department of Geography, UoM). Chair: Aliki Koutlou; 3pm in Coupland 3 Building, Theatre B.

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)…

Logic Seminar - Jennifer Pi

15:00 14 October 2026
Speaker: Jennifer Pi (university of Oxford) TBA

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…

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…

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