Lecture

CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Led by Dominique Rogers (Antilles)

13:00 - 15:00 8 May 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Spring 2019 programme, 'Work, Leisure, Culture'. Dominique Rogers (University of the Antilles) will lead a Key Ideas seminar. Preparatory readings for…

GDI Lecture Series: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities with Edgar Pieterse

16:30 - 18:00 8 May 2019
The Global Development Institute is pleased to host Edgar Pieterse as part of the GDI Lecture Series, talking about: Ambitious and ambiguous public investments in African cities Urban…

Schuster Colloquium - Professor Timothy Spiller - Quantum Technologies

15:00 - 16:30 8 May 2019
Professor Timothy Spiller (University of York) Quantum technologies are new disruptive technologies in which fundamental aspects of quantum physics are instrumental in providing advantages…

Designing for mobile learning (Teaching Online Workshop Series)

11:00 - 12:00 9 May 2019
Designing for mobile learning

Professor Liam Harte's Inaugural Lecture, 'Irish Autobiography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'

17:30 - 19:00 15 May 2019
You are invited to attend Professor Liam Harte's Inaugural Lecture, 'Irish Biography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'. Despite being an ancient and widespread practice in Irish culture,…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Liam Harte, 'Irish Autobiography: Singular Lives, Plural Selves'

17:00 - 19:00 15 May 2019
Despite being an ancient and widespread practice in Irish culture, autobiography has received far less critical attention than the nation’s poetry, drama and prose fiction. This lecture…

Engraving China’s Last Golden Age

12:00 - 13:30 16 May 2019
The recent discovery of a complete set of engravings of European Palaces in Yuan Ming Yuan at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, and the presence of a complete set…

Sexuality Summer School Lecture, ‘Beside Her in Time: A Conversation with Elizabeth Freeman’

12:00 - 14:00 20 May 2019
Sexuality Summer School Lecture Elizabeth Freeman (UC Davis) ‘Beside Her in Time: A Conversation with Elizabeth Freeman’ Chair: Jackie Stacey (Manchester)

David Olusoga OBE Inaugural Professorial Lecture: "Identity, Britishness and the Windrush"

17:30 - 18:30 22 May 2019
Historian, broadcaster and film-maker David Olusoga OBE will deliver his inaugural professorial lecture since joining The University of Manchester as a Professor of Public History.…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "British Television and the Abolition of Every Possibility of Remoteness" by Dr. Léa-Catherine Szacka

12:30 - 14:30 22 May 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "British Television and the Abolition of Every Possibility of Remoteness" by Dr. Léa-Catherine Szacka

Sexuality Summer School Public Event: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Symposium

10:00 - 21:00 22 May 2019
Part of Sexuality Summer School: Queer Dialogues, 20-24 May 2019, University of Manchester Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Symposium (Sponsored by York University and the Eve Kosofsky…

Sexuality Summer School Public Lecture: Madhavi Menon (Ashoka University)

17:00 - 19:00 23 May 2019
Part of Sexuality Summer School: Queer Dialogues, 20-24 May 2019, University of Manchester Public Lecture: Madhavi Menon (Ashoka University, India and author of A History of Desire…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Prof. Jerome de Groot

17:00 - 19:00 29 May 2019
I will be giving my Professorial Inaugural on the 29 May, wearing a cape (kind of) and talking about hifalutin things (+ jokes). It would be lovely to see you all for it. I'm learning…

Work and Equalities Insitute Second Annual Lecture: Young women and men and the future of work and family formation

16:00 - 18:00 4 June 2019
Most literature and public debate on the future of work revolves around the impact of technology, potential for job loss, changes in work design and new concepts of organisation and…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Tim O’Brien

20 June 2019
Lovell Lecture: The Universe Live from Jodrell Bank Professor Tim O’Brien Thursday 20th June, 7:30pm Jodrell Bank Observatory helped pioneer the exploration of the invisible Universe…

MARG 2019 Lecture series "Comparaison in the Cold War: Thinking Third World Urbanisation Through the Second World" by Dr. Lukasz Stanek

12:30 - 14:30 26 June 2019
MARG 2019 Lecture series "Comparaison in the Cold War: Thinking Third World Urbanisation Through the Second World" by Dr. Lukasz Stanek

Osborne Reynolds Lecture - Climate’s holy trinity: how cogency, tenacity & courage could yet deliver on our Paris commitments

16:00 - 17:00 11 July 2019
It is over twenty-eight years since the UN’s first major climate report and over a quarter of a century since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit – such heady days of international hope and optimism.…

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