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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…

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…

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.

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…

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

Valid and reliable assessment and feedback (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

10:00 - 11:00 20 March 2019
Valid and reliable assessment and feedback

The Annual Gillian White Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 25 March 2019
The Annual Lectures concentrate on international economic law and aim to commemorate the legacy of the first woman to be appointed professor in law in mainland Britain, Professor…

EAC Research Seminar: Peter Sabor (McGill) ‘Frances Burney d'Arblay and Hester Maria ('Queeney') Thrale Elphinstone: The Arc of a Sixty-Year Friendship’

17:00 - 18:30 27 March 2019
Peter Sabor holds the Canada Research Chair in Eighteenth-Century Studies at McGill University, where he is Director of the Burney Centre. He is the author and editor of more than twenty…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Do Daycare Centres Offer an Effective Solution to Challenges Faced by Older People Living in Dalian, China?" by Dr. Alan Lewis & Wenting Yu

12:30 - 14:30 27 March 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Do Daycare Centres Offer an Effective Solution to Challenges Faced by Older People Living in Dalian, China?" by Dr. Alan Lewis & Wenting Yu

MCRC Director's Lecture: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

16:15 - 17:15 27 March 2019
Join Professor Rob Bristow at the Oglesby Cancer Research Building for the next seminar in his MCRC Director's Lecture series. Title: "Intervention in cancer through the tumour suppressive…

Lovell Lecture: Dr. Tana Joseph

19:30 - 21:00 28 March 2019
Multi-messenger Astronomy Dr. Tana Joseph Light is not the only thing that carries information about the Universe and its contents. Particles, like neutrinos and cosmic rays, can also…

Science co-operation beyond Brexit

17:30 - 20:00 28 March 2019
The 2019 Jevons Lecture in Science Policy given by Robert-Jan Smits, Open Access Envoy of the European Commission. The event will take place on Thursday 28 March 2019, 5.30pm with…

Joy for Ever: How to use art to change the world and its price in the market

29 March - 9 June 2019
In 1857 John Ruskin (1819-1900) delivered one of his most important public lectures in response to the Great Art Treasures exhibition in Manchester, the largest art exhibition ever…

Prof Megan Jobson Inaugural Lecture and Wine Reception

15:00 - 17:00 29 March 2019
The Inaugural lecture of Megan Jobson, followed by a wine reception in C1, Great Hall, Sackville building, will be taking place on Friday 29 March 15:00. Seeking synergies in separation…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Mark Payne (Chicago): 'Occupation and Mentation in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction'

17:00 - 19:00 2 April 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Mark Payne (Professor of Classics, University of Chicago) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Occupation…

Colloquium: Machine learning and big scientific data: What can AI do for the facilities?

15:00 - 17:00 2 April 2019
Professor Tony Hey, the Chief Data Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council at Harwell, presented at the second University of Manchester at Harwell colloquium. There…

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: ‘Theorizing Catastrophe’ led by Mark Payne (Chicago)

13:00 - 15:00 3 April 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Mark Payne (Professor of Classics, University of Chicago) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled ‘Theorizing…

Constitutional Law, Federalism and Human Rights in Argentina

17:00 - 18:00 3 April 2019
On Wednesday 3rd April, Prof Pablo Gutierrez, an expert in Public Law at the Universidad Nacional del Comahue (Argentina), will deliver a presentation entitled 'Constitutional Law,…

EAC Research Seminar: John Plotz (Brandeis) 'Laughter is from Mars: Science Fiction as Satire and Game'

17:00 - 18:30 3 April 2019
John Plotz is a professor of English at Brandeis University who specializes in Victorian literature and the novel. He is the author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics…

Schuster Colloquium - Professor Lucie Green - Origins and Impact of Space Weather

15:00 - 16:30 3 April 2019
What is the Schuster Colloquium? The Schuster Colloquium is organised by the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester. It takes place about half a dozen times…

Adaptive testing using Möbius (Maple TA) (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

13:00 - 14:00 15 April 2019
Adaptive testing using Möbius

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