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FBMH International Women's Day: Accelerating Gender Parity

12:00 - 15:00 5 March 2018
Join us as Angela Saini, award winning British scientist and author, visits the University of Manchester to give a public talk, as part of our International Women’s Day celebrations.…

Perseverance and pushing boundaries in modern engineering: the bloodhound story

15:30 - 17:00 7 March 2018
Come along to hear Richard Noble OBE discuss his Bloodhound Project on 7th March 2018 in Renold Building C16. This talk is open to all University staff and students and is being…

Wednesday Talks: Sonia Boyce

12:30 - 14:00 7 March 2018
Wednesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. Sonia Boyce is an artist…

Marie Stopes Re-assessed

14:00 - 16:00 10 March 2018
Marie Stopes re-assessed: reluctant Mancunian, sexual revolutionary, birth control pioneer. Marie was controversial in her lifetime, but since the Second World she has been maligned…

Wonder Women: From Petticoats to Microscopes

13:30 - 14:00 12 March 2018
From archaeologists to academics, from the curious to the curators, there is a long history of pioneering women who have shaped Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester. This…

The Institute for Fiscal Studies Public Talk in partnership with The University of Manchester

13:00 - 15:00 23 March 2018
Institute for Fiscal Studies Public Talk on Friday 23 March 2018: How should we think about trade in the era of Brexit and “America First”? What is the value of trade? What effects…

‘Mutations in Citizenship’: Activist and translational perspectives on migration and mobility in the age of globalisation

09:00 - 17:00 23 March 2018
An interdisciplinary research symposium on the themes of migration, translation and citizenship, produced with the generous support of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies…

Confucius Institute Talk: Changing Food Practices in Urban China

13:00 - 14:00 26 March 2018
The rapid increase in meat consumption amongst the urban Chinese middle classes is problematised across the international research and policy literatures as a key contributor to global…

Research Lifecycle Programme - progress so far

12:30 - 14:00 28 March 2018
The Research Lifecycle is a five-year programme of investments to support The University of Manchester in meeting its goal of being one of the top 25 research universities in the world,…

Confucius Insitute Talk: Everyday Matters - Urbanisation and Sanitation in China

13:00 - 14:00 16 April 2018
This talk is about the different ways in which every day hygiene practices in urban China influence how long-term residents, newcomers from the rural countryside and other groups in…

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Connecting The World

15:00 - 18:00 20 April 2018
The Society for Anglo Chinese Understanding invites to a panel discussion on China’s Belt and Road - or 21st Century Silk Road - Initiative, which has been hailed as “the greatest economic…

MRC Proximity to Discovery Phase 4 – Funding to support interactions with industry

12:15 - 14:00 2 May 2018
The Business Engagement Team is pleased to announce that we have been awarded £237,000 from MRC to deliver Phase 4 of the MRC Proximity to Discovery (P2D) Industry Engagement Fund,…

Can an Art Museum be Useful?

16:00 - 17:30 16 May 2018
Emerita Professor Helen Rees Leahy in conversation with Alistair Hudson, Director, Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth, Honorary Professor in Useful Art, University of Manchester.

Hidden Histories – The Women of the English Civil War

13:15 - 13:45 21 May 2018
Collection Bites – 21st May 2018 "Hidden Histories - The Women of the English Civil War" with Catherine Tindsley 2018 has become known by many as the ‘Year of the Woman’, and as we…

What role can photography play in addressing global development challenges?

17:30 - 18:30 23 May 2018
Development meets... photography NGO photography is a key way of communicating and representing development to multiple stakeholders. Participatory photography is being used to engage…

Confucius Institute Talk: White-collar Beauties: Gender, Sexuality and Power in Urban China

13:00 - 14:00 24 May 2018
This talk is about the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization,…

Stealing Smiles: Changes in Dentistry during the 20th Century

17:30 - 19:00 24 May 2018
To coincide with National Smile Month and 70 years of the National Health Service, this conversation between medical historian Dr Richard Barnett, and Dr Margaret Wilson, Dental clinician…

Collection Bites; Snakes - Serpentine Symbolism in Myth and Culture

13:15 - 13:45 18 June 2018
Snakes - Serpentine Symbolism in Myth and Culture With Dara Laughlin Snakes are one of the most common fears in the modern world, despite the fact that most of us will never come into…

The ethics of research using existing data - analysing without consent

11:00 - 16:00 18 June 2018
Royal Statistical Society and NCRM Current difficulties of data usage stem from access to data being much greater than consent to use it for research purposes. In social science, previously…

Ancient Objects. New Writings

15:00 - 16:00 19 June 2018
Meet the four artists who are creating new pieces of work inspired by Ancient objects in the Manchester Museum’s collections. The artists have been commissioned to select an object…

Mitzi Cunliffe: An American in Manchester

14:30 - 15:30 30 June 2018
A talk and conversation to commemorate the centenary of the ‘Sculptor for Architecture’ 2.30 pm on Saturday 30 June at the Whitworth Free Professor Ann Sumner and Antonia Cunliffe…

Resistance Under the Crown: Black Education and Radical Activism in Britain, 1965-1988 feat. Dr. Richard D. Benson II

16:00 - 18:00 10 July 2018
A public talk delivered by Dr. Richard D. Benson II (Spelman College) titled 'Resistance Under the Crown: Black Education and Radical Activism in Britain, 1965-1988.' This event is…

The Political Economy of Killer Robots

16:00 - 17:30 16 July 2018
Frank Pasquale is professor of law at the University of Maryland, an affiliate fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project, a member of the Council for Big Data, Ethics…

Confucius Institute Public Talk: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Food Therapy & Well-being

18:00 - 19:00 26 September 2018
Chinese herbal medicine is concerned with the correction of internal imbalances as opposed to simply responding to symptoms and patients are encouraged to actively participate in the…

How Our Schools Fail Black Children… and what we can do about it: Discussion event

17:30 - 20:00 2 October 2018
Join the Unison Black Members Committee and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre (AIUC) for a discussion of the past, present and future of the education of black and Asian children in the UK.

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