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Adrian Leftwich memorial lecture: Cathy Boone - Spatial inequality in African political economy: rethinking uneven development

17:00 13 November 2019
Catherine Boone is Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is interested in patters conducted research on industrial, commercial…

Antoine Gaillard - Flow and stability of a viscoelastic liquid curtain

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2019
Antoine Gaillard (University of Manchester) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series, to be held in Frank Adams 1, Alan Turing Building. Abstract: Liquid curtains are…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 25 September - 13:55 20 November 2019
Back due to popular demand, this autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics again! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for Beginners’ in a relaxed and friendly environment.…

CGP Seminar with Louiza Odysseos

13:30 - 15:00 13 November 2019
Please join the Critical Global Politics Research Cluster for a seminar with Louiza Odysseos (University of Sussex). Louiza Odysseos is Professor of International Relations in the…

Cézanne at the Whitworth

24 August 2019 - 1 March 2020
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist,…

D&E Research Cluster Seminar with Lawrence McKay: Spatial inequalities and political discontent in the UK

15:30 - 17:00 13 November 2019
Please join the Democracy and Elections Research Cluster for a seminar with Lawrence McKay on 'Spatial inequalities and political discontent in the UK'. Lawrence is a Doctoral Researcher…

Daily Telescope Walking Tours

9 January 2019 - 9 January 2020
New for 2019! Daily Telescope Walking Tours Everyday 3.15pm We’ll be hosting our popular Telescope Walking Tours daily for 2019 where you can join one of our friendly Explainers…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

Elizabeth Price

25 September 2019 - 1 March 2020
Bringing together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video - this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and…

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Family Stargazing Night

19 October 2019 - 8 February 2020
6pm – 9pm Calling all budding young stargazers. You are invited to join us for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. During our fun-packed evening you will enjoy…

Frank Dondelinger - A Bayesian Multi-Task Approach for Detecting Global Microbiome Associations

14:00 13 November 2019
Frank Dondelinger, lecturer in biostatistics at the Centre for Health Informatics, Computation and Statistics at Lancaster University, joins us for the Statistics seminar series. …

Gareth Jones - Powers are easy to avoid

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2019
Gareth Jones joins us for the logic seminar. Suppose that a set is definable in the expansion of the real field by restricted analytic functions, and is also definable in the expansion…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Introduction to Astrophotography

23 October 2019 - 26 February 2020
Introduction to Astrophotography Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November, 15th January and 26th February, 7.30pm – 10pm Jodrell Bank's popular Introduction to Astrophotography workshops…

JMCE Seminar with Dr Ruairidh Tarvet: Northern Nationalisms: Renegotiating Swedish and Danish National Identities

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2019
Please join the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for a seminar with Dr Ruairidh Tarvet (University of Edinburgh), entitled 'Northern Nationalisms: Renegotiating Swedish and Danish National…

Li Yuan Chia: Unique Photographs

18 May - 15 December 2019
In his lifetime, Li Yuan Chia (1929-1994) travelled from China, to Taiwan, Bologna and London but found his home in a house that he bought in 1972 from Winifred Nicholson in Banks at…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2019
Emma Seddon, Newcastle University The human in the loop: assembling machine translation and professional identity with ethnography and SNA Translators seem to be on a professional…

Nadia Sidorova(UCL) - Localisation and delocalisation in the parabolic Anderson model

15:00 - 16:00 13 November 2019
Nadia Sidorova (UCL) joins us for the Probability seminar series. The parabolic Anderson problem is the Cauchy problem for the heat equation on the integer lattice with random potential.…

Nuclear Graphite Technology Course

12 - 13 November 2019
The Nuclear Graphite Research Group of The University of Manchester are hosting a short course in Nuclear Graphite Technology on 12-13 November 2019. Around 20% of UK electrical power…

One Giant Leap: Talk and Tour

12 October - 17 November 2019
One Giant Leap: Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon, 13:30-16:00 NEW DATES ANNOUNCED! 2019 marks 50 years since humans first set foot on another celestial body. And so, in this,…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Dr Jonathan Mitchell (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 13 November 2019
*Title: Self-Locating Content in Visual Experience and the H-Replacement Account *Abstract: According to the Self-Location Thesis certain types of visual experiences have self-locating…

Seminar: The Effect of Moderating Physical Activity Goals based on Self-Trackers’ Self-Efficacy

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2019
Join us for our next Computer Science Mercury Talk with speaker Deema Alqathani in Kilburn L.T 1.5 Many self-trackers lose interest in tracking, disengage and ultimately they even…

Sociology Seminar: 'Political Astroturfing on Social Media: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign'

14:00 - 15:00 13 November 2019
The next Sociology seminar is given by David Schoch, University of Manchester. At the very latest since the Russian Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) intervention in the U.S. presidential…

Tapestries

12 October 2019 - 1 March 2020
A tapestry is a coming together of people or things, usually thread, to make an intricate whole. This exhibition shows the breadth of the textiles at the Whitworth that are made with…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

UMDS: Autumn Season Show - The Wolf From The Door by Rory Mullarkey

19:00 - 20:15 13 November 2019
The University of Manchester Drama Society (UMDS) proudly presents their first performance of the Autumn Season 2019 with their fantastic annual autumn season show. THE WOLF FROM…

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

17 August 2019 - 5 July 2020
Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity In the middle of the nineteenth century wallpaper design suddenly became diverse. English manufacturers began to excel at the quick production…

Visualising Data and Undertaking Behavioural Studies

13:00 - 14:30 13 November 2019
Staff only event. As part of the recent redevelopment of Alliance Manchester Business School we have constructed two new facilities funded by Research England – a Data Visualisation…

Young, Rich & Famous

10:00 1 October 2019 - 17:00 1 January 2020
In this digital age of collecting selfies and more on social media, what does immortality mean? Manchester Museum’s latest installation at Manchester’s Central Library, Young, Rich…

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