Campus visit/tour, Lecture

Sherman Community Lecture in Jewish Studies 2016: Dr. Yulia Egorova (Durham University) - "Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: History, Experience, Context"

19:30 - 21:00 8 May 2016
The annual Sherman Community Lecture

2016 MICRA annual public lecture - Ageing and frailty: Game changers for our health and care services

18:30 - 20:00 11 May 2016
Rapid population ageing is changing the nature of modern health and care systems for good. Many people remain in good health as they age and we need to continue the push on prevention…

Celebration of Religions and Theology at Manchester

14:15 - 15:45 12 May 2016
You are warmly invited to join us from 2.15 - 3.45 pm on 12 May 2016 in Lecture Room D, Simon Building for a special event celebrating Religions & Theology in Manchester. Members of…

Lovell Lecture: Einstein's Relativity: Tested to the Limit (with Pulsars)

19:30 - 21:30 12 May 2016
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was published in 1915. In over a century it has not failed a single time despite hundreds of tests and experiments. One of the most extreme environments…

Critical MASS: Postgraduate Conference

12:00 - 17:30 13 May 2016
Keynote speaker: Professor Zoe Trodd “The Antislavery Usable Past: Protest Memory and the Movement Against Contemporary Slavery” Zoe Trodd is Professor of American Literature in…

Susan Stanford Friedman (Wisconsin-Madison), 'Modernist Studies: Why Planetary? How Planetary?'

16:00 - 18:00 16 May 2016
Northern Modernism Seminar: A Research Day with Susan Stanford Friedman OPEN LECTURE (everyone welcome) Modernist Studies: Why Planetary? How Planetary? The lecture will discuss…

Sexuality Summer School: Professor Patricia White (Swarthmore), Public Lecture: "Lesbian Reverie: Carol as History and Fantasy"

18:00 24 May 2016
Rather than a forward-looking lesbian representation, Todd Haynes’s Carol, an adaptation by Phyllis Nagy of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, The Price of Salt, looks to images and affective…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Freddie Rokem: Reading Kafka/Staging Kafka

17:00 - 19:00 25 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** The lecture is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies, Drama…

Campus Visit (Year 8/9)

7 June 2016
An exciting opportunity for pre-16 learners to visit the University Campus, experience a welcome talk from a member of staff at the University and a campus tour from current Student…

Manchester Soldier, Manchester Historian: Exploring the Life and Legacy of Mark Hovell

15:00 - 17:00 9 June 2016
2016 marks the centenary of the death of the historian, Mark Hovell. Hovell was born in Manchester in 1888, and had been a student and later a lecturer at the University of Manchester…

Greater Manchester Higher- University of Manchester Campus visit. Year 10

15 June 2016
These university visits provide learners with the opportunity to visit a university campus and gain an insight into student life and the range of courses available. The visit will consist…

Campus Visit (Year 8/9)

21 June 2016
An exciting opportunity for pre-16 learners to visit the University Campus, experience a welcome talk from a member of staff at the University and a campus tour from current Student…

Campus Visit (Year 10)

23 June 2016
An exciting opportunity for pre-16 learners to visit the University Campus, experience a welcome talk from a member of staff at the University and a campus tour from current Student…

New Light from Manchester on Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts - A Public Lecture

18:00 - 19:00 28 June 2016
Dr Sarit Shalev-Eyni joins us from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to show what we can discover from the illuminations of the Hebrew manuscripts within The University of Manchester's…

Exploring the Universe from Jodrell Bank; Heritage Lecture Series

19:30 - 21:00 30 June 2016
Our understanding of the Universe has changed dramatically since Sir Bernard Lovell first arrived at Jodrell Bank in December 1945. The radio telescopes built here have allowed us to…

Dr Qi Zhou, Associate Professor of Law, University of Leeds

13:00 - 15:00 4 July 2016
Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and other: An illustration of the implementation of EC Directives. Followed by Q&A session. This event is free. However, places are limited,…

2016 Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture: Science, technology and industrial strategy - What government can and cannot do

14:15 - 15:30 25 July 2016
The 2016 Fred Jevons Science Policy Lecture will be delivered by the Rt. Hon the Lord Willetts, the Executive Director of the Resolution Foundation, and Former Minister for Universities…

Cheshire and the Viking World - Guest Lecture

06:30 - 20:30 8 September 2016
Professor Richard Morris, OBE presents an illustrated lecture, ‘Cheshire and the Viking World’, hosted by The Tabley House Collection Trust. As an archaeologist with strong links to…

Treasures of the Black Cultural Archives

13:00 - 14:00 8 September 2016
Lunchtime talk by Victoria Northridge, Collections Manager at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, who will be giving a talk/presentation to share one of their collections: that…

ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Piyushimita Thakuriah on Seeing Cities through Big Data: Emerging Topics in Urban Informatics

09:00 - 10:30 12 September 2016
The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through…

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