The Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) Human Sciences Seminar Series is an invited speaker and research seminar organised by the Philosophy section of MMU’s Department of History, Politics and Philosophy.
The series, which has run for over forty years, was founded by Philosopher David Melling and Professor Wolfe Mays in 1979. It was created out of a desire to explore the various human sciences in a systematic way from the standpoint of critical philosophy.
The 2026 series, Philosophies of Resistance, will explore the philosophical thought that has resisted colonial, racial and carceral oppression.
The series aims is to question the role that philosophical ideas have played – and continue to play – in collective struggles for social justice, and human emancipation more broadly.
The three seminars in the series are:
Each seminar includes an academic talk followed by an ‘in-conversation’ discussion between the speaker(s) and a local political activist, and questions from the audience.
A 15-minute refreshment break is included.
Suitable for 18+
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