Seminars run by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences are open to all our postgraduate students and academic staff, and some are also open to members of the public and other institutions.
We have seminars from these areas in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences:
- School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature
- School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- School of Education, Languages and Linguistics
School of Area Studies, Sociology, History, Politics and Literature
Seminars open to all ³ÉÈ˶¶Òõ PGRs and staff
5 November 2025
11.00am-12.00pm
‘… discharging her duties throughout in a most satisfactory manner’: Battle of Jutland widows, welfare, and work during the First World War.
Melanie Bassett
I Can’t sing a Vietnamese nursery rhyme to my baby: Foreign Wives and Mothers in the Linguistic Borderlands in Taiwan
Isabelle Cockel
19 November 2025
2.00pm-4.00pm
Assessing Security Trends in the West African Sahel
Aoife McCullogh (LSE), Katherine Pye (LSE), Ed Stoddard
21 November 2025
3.00pm-5.00pm
Decolonising Spaces and Social Theory: Film Screening as part of the nationwide ‘Our Shared Futures: Climate & Migration Community’ Film Festival: Dead As A Dodo (2022), dir. Leena Habiballa — 5 minutes; Until The Last Drop (2020), dir. Tim Webster & Ernesto Cabellos — 25 minutes
Marianela Barrios Aquino and George Ackers
3 December 2025
10.00am-1.00pm
AEGIS Round Table: Technology-facilitated GBV in the Age of AI: redefining Safety and Accountability
Location TBC
3 December 2025
11.00am-12.00pm
PhD Presentation: Working together across borders: Northern European environmental NGOs and bird protection in times of crises
Dimitra Kiousi
Hybrid
Meeting ID: 367 474 010 000 7 | Passcode: uF6gt9DN
3 December 2025
1.00pm-2.30pm
Decolonising Spaces and Education, Social Justice and Transformation: Decolonial Dialogues: An open (and moderated) conversation about contemporary decolonial politics and what that means within and beyond the University
Charlotte Morris and Pedro Salgado
21 January 2026
2.00pm-5.00pm
AEGIS: Inaugural Symposium: Nafisa Bedri: Gendered Conflict, Unyielding Spirit: The Cultural Power of Sudanese Women
Location TBC
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Seminars open to all ³ÉÈ˶¶Òõ PGRs and staff
22 October 2025
5.30pm
Eye Tracking in Missing Persons Investigations
Dr Craig Collie
3 December 2025
4.30pm
Pathways to Impact: Cross Border Economic Crime
Dr Branislav Hock and Dr David Shepherd
School of Education, Languages and Linguistics
Seminars open to all ³ÉÈ˶¶Òõ PGRs and staff
13 November 2025
11.00am - 12.30pm
Language and Education research seminar. This will include two short research talks from UoP alumni and then a Q&A/open discussion. The research focus is on Malaysian secondary schools.
Pravin Balakrishnan (King's College London) & Nasharil N Ramli (The University of Manchester)
19 November 2025
2.00pm - 3.00pm
Finding the Minotaur: AI and Child Protection in the UK. Please note this talk covers content that may be sensitive.
Dr Sue Roberts
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All our faculties run seminars open to academics and students within the University and in the global research community.