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The 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Clare Chambers, Against Marriage

23 February 2019
The Philosophy Department at the University of Manchester is proud to present the 2019 Dorothy Emmet Lecture: Professor Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge),"Against Marriage: An…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sander Gilman (Emory): ‘The Humanities Make You a Better Person! A Foundational Myth About Higher Education’

17:00 - 19:00 26 February 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Sander Gilman (University Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University) will deliver…

Package Factories: Warehouses as New places For Contemporary Working-class (David Gaborieau)

17:30 26 February 2019
The backstage of contemporary capitalism is a vast logistical network through which goods and materials pass from one end of the planet to the other. In order to produce this circulation,…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isonometric and Oblique Drawings" by Dr. Ray Lucas

12:30 - 16:30 27 February 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Drawing Parallels: Knowledge Production in Axonometric, Isonometric and Oblique Drawings" by Dr. Ray Lucas

University Accommodation Tours

09:30 - 13:00 27 February 2019
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours* of some of our halls of residence on most Wednesday mornings from November until the end of March, between…

Governing mega-science projects: The Square Kilometre Array journey from "grassroots" to the world's largest radio telescope

12:00 - 13:00 1 March 2019
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope with eventually over one square kilometre (one million square metres)…

"The Many Lives of Leonardo" - Luke Uglow

14:00 - 15:00 2 March 2019
Dr Luke Uglow, Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester will give an illustrated lecture about the legends and myths of the artist’s afterlife from the 16th to 21st century.…

Campus visit for school and college groups

14:00 - 15:30 5 March 2019
Teachers of post-16 students may bring groups of their pupils to visit The University of Manchester campus, in order to get a taste of university life and experience first-hand the…

Using a portable luminescence reacher

17:00 - 18:00 5 March 2019
Dr Abi Stone (University of Manchester) will be giving a talk on 'Using a portable luminescence reader: Making sand glow out in the field, or back in the lab, to unravel site stratigraphies…

Bragg Lecture 2019: Prof Rashid Sunyaev

15:00 - 16:00 6 March 2019
What is the Bragg Lecture? Sir Lawrence Bragg was Langworthy Professor at the University of Manchester from 1919 to 1937. From 2016, the School of Physics and Astronomy has presente…

Campus visit for school and college groups

14:00 - 15:30 6 March 2019
Teachers of post-16 students may bring groups of their pupils to visit The University of Manchester campus, in order to get a taste of university life and experience first-hand the…

GDI Lecture Series: Property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa with Franklin Obeng-Odoom

17:00 - 18:30 6 March 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Associate Professor Franklin Obeng-Odoom as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Property, institutions, and social stratification…

University Accommodation Tours

09:30 - 13:00 6 March 2019
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours* of some of our halls of residence on most Wednesday mornings from November until the end of March, between…

X-Ray and Microwave Cosmology: Synergy and Competition What can we expect from SRG/eRosita and new ground-based microwave telescopes?

15:00 - 17:30 6 March 2019
Our Universe is fled by cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) which is extremely isotropic and has an excellent blackbody spectrum at temperature 2.726 Kelvin, with no departures…

The Samuel Ferguson Lecture: Professor Kathryn Tanner (Yale University) - ‘Grace and the Temporalities of Capitalism’

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2019
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

Guided Campus Visit

13:30 - 15:30 13 March 2019
Can’t come to one of our open days? Join us for one of our regular guided visits of our campus instead and get a feel for the facilities, amenities and atmosphere you’ll enjoy as a…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Daniela Caselli, 'The Modernist Child'

17:00 - 19:00 13 March 2019
The child is a familiar figure in Romantic and Victorian studies but is much less visible in early twentieth-century literature criticism. This lecture will argue that there is much…

University Accommodation Tours

09:30 - 13:00 13 March 2019
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours* of some of our halls of residence on most Wednesday mornings from November until the end of March, between…

Henry Box Brown Lecture: Darnell Hunt (University of California Los Angeles)

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2019
The 2019 Hollywood Diversity Report: Old Story, New Beginning Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of California,…

JRRI Annual Lecture 2019. Jenny Uglow: 'Walter Crane: Fairytales, Manchester and Utopian Socialism'

17:30 - 19:30 14 March 2019
The 2019 JRRI Annual Lecture is presented by historian and writer, Jenny Uglow. Walter Crane: Fairytales, Manchester and Utopian Socialism Walter Crane, Director of the Manchester…

GDI Lecture Series: Agrarian crises, institutional innovation and gender: Can group farming provide an answer? with Prof Bina Agarwal

17:00 - 18:30 20 March 2019
The Global Development Institute and the Post Crash Economics Society is pleased to host Prof Bina Agarwal part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Agrarian crisis and institutional…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture: Marie-Louise Coolahan (National University of Ireland: Galway), ‘The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women's Writing’

17:00 - 18:30 20 March 2019
Stachniewski Memorial Lecture

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