Conferences

Art History Careers Day

10:30 - 16:00 29 October 2016
This year’s AAH Careers Day will be hosted by the University of Manchester in the newly refurbished Whitworth Gallery. This event is aimed at recent graduates, undergraduates, sixth-form…

Methods Fair 2016

10:30 - 16:30 4 November 2016
Come and find out about the range of research methods being used across the social sciences and beyond at the methods@manchester Methods Fair. A full programme will be available on…

7th Annual Culture and International Mental Health Conference

09:00 - 17:00 9 November 2016
The conference will explore the field of Culture and Global Mental Health and will be led by two extremely accomplished Senior Academic Clinicians: Professor Nusrat Husain & Professor…

Historical Geographies of Higher Education in Greater Manchester

10:00 - 16:30 9 November 2016
This one-day symposium will be a significant opportunity to examine the historical development of higher and further education, its geographical expansion, architectural expression…

Launch of the Greater Manchester Academic Centre for Acute Tissue Injury and Trauma Care (GM-CAT)

13:30 - 17:30 9 November 2016
Join us for the official launch of the Greater Manchester Academic Centre for Acute Tissue Injury and Trauma Care (GM-CAT). This new alliance works across MAHSC partners and aims to…

7th Annual Culture and International Mental Health Conference

09:00 - 17:00 10 November 2016
The conference will explore the field of Culture and Global Mental Health and will be led by two extremely accomplished Senior Academic Clinicians: Professor Nusrat Husain & Professor…

Connecting Research and Practice in Children and Young People’s Mental Health

09:00 - 16:00 22 November 2016
A variety of research projects from across the UK focussing on children and young people’s mental health will be presented in this one-day free conference. The day will be both multi-disciplinary…

An exploration of religious voices and identities in higher education

09:00 - 17:00 28 November 2016
This one-day conference brings together researchers, lecturers and students who share an interest, be it personal, teaching or research-based, in the topic of religion in higher education.…

Open Minds XII: Student Philosophy Conference

2 - 3 December 2016
We are pleased to announce our twelfth Open Minds philosophy conference. After a very successful decade as a conference for PhD students (and recently awarded PhDs), we are continuing…

Presentation from The Royal Society: Funding Opportunities

02:00 - 16:00 5 December 2016
We are pleased to announce that The Royal Society is visiting the University on 5 December to lead an open presentation, Q&A and networking session. The session will focus on the funding…

MA Politics Conference 2016

15 December 2016
The conference will showcase the best Masters level research in Politics in the UK. We want to encourage students to think of themselves as researchers and have a chance to experience…

Cultures of Anti-Racism

09:00 - 18:00 3 February 2017
This conference aims to explore anti-racist ideas and practices in the domain of cultural production in order to investigate how cultural producers approach questions of race and racism…

Migration and Families in Europe: National and Local Perspectives at a Time of Euroscepticism

12:30 7 - 17:30 8 February 2017
Organised by CoDE this two-day international conference brought together researchers, practitioners in government and voluntary sectors and postgraduate students to discuss migration…

From Malacca to Manchester: Curating Islamic Collections Worldwide

23 - 24 February 2017
This conference will explore and appraise current and developing practices in the curating of museum collections of Islamic art and material culture around the world, in Europe and…

Quine and Naturalism

13:30 6 - 16:00 7 March 2017
*PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE. Now G.030/31, Arthur Lewis Building.* A two-day workshop organised by the Forum for Quine and the History of Analytic Philosophy, funded by the Royal…

2017 Budget “Hack” Day

10:00 - 16:00 8 March 2017
Wednesday, 8 March Drop in anytime: 10:00 – 16:00 Club Academy, University of Manchester Students’ Union, Oxford Road Watch the budget live, with expert speakers, Manchester academics…

Early Influences on Lewis

09:30 - 17:30 8 March 2017
*PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF VENUE. Now G.030/31, Arthur Lewis Building.* A workshop organised as part of the 'Age of Metaphysical Revolution' research project. No booking required;…

Neuroscience and Mental Health Domain Day on Language

09:00 - 16:30 21 March 2017
The Neuroscience and Mental Health Domain is holding a 'Language Day' on Tuesday March 21st in which people working on typical and atypical speech and language processing and production…

Hallsworth Conference on China and the Changing Global Order

23 - 24 March 2017
How is China’s rise changing the global order? This question has become increasingly salient since the beginning of the 2010s, when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is widely assumed…

Technical Skills Day

09:30 - 16:00 30 March 2017
The Fourth Technical Skills Day will be held in the seminar room and lounge of the AV Hill Building on Thursday 30th March; this is an all-day event that includes informative seminars…

Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath

10:00 31 March - 15:30 1 April 2017
This conference will explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen media has responded to the recent economic crisis. Since 2008, the economic context of precariousness and its…

‘Comment is free, but facts are sacred’: The Guardian in Local, National, and Global History

09:00 - 17:30 6 April 2017
Keynote speaker: Martin Wainwright, journalist, author and former Northern Editor of the Guardian. This conference celebrates the rich history of the Guardian (formerly Manchester…

PhilChat Conference: Race, Gender and Class in Philosophy

12:00 - 17:00 28 April 2017
PhilChat is a conference for undergrads, aimed at promoting the voices of underrepresented groups in philosophy. The conference ran last year for the first time, to great success. This…

William Blake: The Man from the Future

12:30 - 16:30 5 May 2017
William Blake, the most protean figure in British culture, is always in the process of being re-born, re-worked and re conceived. It is simply a fact of historical life that he is an…

The Profession We Want: Practical Ways to Improve Philosophy

09:30 15 - 16:30 16 May 2017
The discipline of philosophy has for a long time been a needlessly difficult environment for women and the members of other groups, and some progress has been made, especially over…

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