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'What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations?' - Anne McBride inaugural lecture

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
The People, Management and Organisations division will be hosting a special lecture on 6 November 2019 as part of a cross-school AMBS inaugural lecture series. The lectures provide…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 25 September - 13:55 20 November 2019
Back due to popular demand, this autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics again! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for Beginners’ in a relaxed and friendly environment.…

Cameron Hall - Chains and rings of spherical magnets

14:00 - 14:50 6 November 2019
Cameron Hall (University of Bristol) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Note the unusual room - G.207 in the Alan Turing Building. Abstract: Neodymium-iron-boron…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra): Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics and False Confessions in the Age of “True Crime”

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
This event is part of CIDRAL's Work, Leisure, Culture strand. Tammy A. Gales (Hofstra University) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Netflix and Change?: Forensic Linguistics…

Collection Bites: See the world one sketch at a time

12:15 6 November 2019
Drawing and sketching in art galleries and museums was once the staple of every artist’s practice and it is perhaps a surprise that today, in a time when a person may be more likely…

Confucius Institute Film Club

15:00 - 17:00 6 November 2019
We are holding our Film Club, one of our intercultural activities for students, once again from October 2019! The club provides a platform for students to engage in inter-cultural…

CPPI Seminar with Ben Noble: Consolidation or Constraint? A Theory of Legislative Closures and Openings in Authoritarian Regimes."

15:30 - 17:00 6 November 2019
Please join the CPPI Research Cluster for Dr Ben Noble (University College London) presenting on "Consolidation or Constraint? A Theory of Legislative Closures and Openings in Authoritarian…

Cézanne at the Whitworth

24 August 2019 - 1 March 2020
This exhibition celebrates an extraordinary collection of drawings and prints by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) that has been gifted and placed on long-term loan to the Whitworth by gallerist,…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

EEE Jobs Club

13:00 - 14:30 6 November 2019
Come along to the first in a series of our NEW EEE ‘Jobs Club’ events Expert advice and tips on how to achieve success in whatever roles you’re applying for, this is an opportunity…

Elizabeth Price

25 September 2019 - 1 March 2020
Bringing together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video - this exhibition engages with Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and…

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Family Stargazing Night

19 October 2019 - 8 February 2020
6pm – 9pm Calling all budding young stargazers. You are invited to join us for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. During our fun-packed evening you will enjoy…

Instruments of Change

19 March 2019 - 31 December 2020
Instruments of Change is an exhibition that showcases objects from the Beswick Collection at the Museum of Medicine and Health, telling the stories of the people of Manchester whose…

Introduction to Astrophotography

23 October 2019 - 26 February 2020
Introduction to Astrophotography Wednesdays 23rd October, 20th November, 15th January and 26th February, 7.30pm – 10pm Jodrell Bank's popular Introduction to Astrophotography workshops…

JMCE Seminar with Dr. Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan- Brexit: Path dependency, unintended consequences and the Article 50 Process

14:00 - 15:00 6 November 2019
Please join the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for a seminar with Dr. Nieves Perez-Solorzano Borragan (University of Bristol) entitled 'Brexit: Path dependency, unintended consequences…

Lane P. Hughston (Goldsmiths University of London) - Lévy-Ito Models in Finance

14:00 - 15:00 6 November 2019
We propose a class of financial models in which the prices of assets are Lévy-Ito processes driven by Brownian motion and a dynamic Poisson random measure. Each such model consists…

Li Yuan Chia: Unique Photographs

18 May - 15 December 2019
In his lifetime, Li Yuan Chia (1929-1994) travelled from China, to Taiwan, Bologna and London but found his home in a house that he bought in 1972 from Winifred Nicholson in Banks at…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 6 November 2019
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

MANCEPT Seminar with Simon Caney

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2019
Please join the MANCEPT research cluster for a seminar with Simon Caney (Warwick). Simon's interests primarily lie in the application of political philosophy to global politics. He…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 6 November 2019
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University Post hoc identification of essential properties of the social networks from a complex simulation base

Niall HD Geraghty (UCL/ILAS): 'Repaying evil with a blessing: León Ferrari’s illustrated Nunca más and beyond'

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2019
León Ferrari (1920-2013) was and remains one of the most provocative visual artists in twentieth-century Argentina. His artistic practice (incorporating painting, collage, sculpture,…

Novel isotopic window into old crust: tracing Earth’s tectonic regime through the evolution of its continental crust

13:00 - 14:00 6 November 2019
Dr Marc-Alban Millet, Cardiff University, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The extraction of the continental crust from the mantle,…

Omar Leon Sanchez - Existence of PPV-extensions over differentially large fields.

15:00 - 16:00 6 November 2019
Join us for this seminar, part of the Logic Seminar Series. Note the unusual room: University Place 3.213 In a 2016 paper, Crespo, Hajto, and van der Put proved that if a differential…

One Giant Leap: Talk and Tour

12 October - 17 November 2019
One Giant Leap: Jodrell Bank and the Race to the Moon, 13:30-16:00 NEW DATES ANNOUNCED! 2019 marks 50 years since humans first set foot on another celestial body. And so, in this,…

Roundtable with New Doctoral Students in Art History

17:00 - 18:30 6 November 2019
Florrie Badley and Kylie Gilchrist, Doctoral Candidates in Art History and Cultural Practices Roundtable with New Doctoral Students in Art History

Seminar: The Cache-Aware Roofline Model and Application Characterization in L.T 1.5

14:00 - 15:00 6 November 2019
Please join us for the forthcoming Computer Science Atlas Talk with speaker Professor Leonel Sousa Abstract: Simple models and analysis methods, such as Cache-Aware Roofline Model,…

Tapestries

12 October 2019 - 1 March 2020
A tapestry is a coming together of people or things, usually thread, to make an intricate whole. This exhibition shows the breadth of the textiles at the Whitworth that are made with…

The long way to steady state fusion plasmas - the superconducting stellarator device Wendelstein 7-X

14:30 - 16:00 6 November 2019
The stable generation of high temperature hydrogen plasmas (ion and electron temperature in the range 10-20 keV corresponding to about 100-200 million "K) is the basis for the use of…

The Reno at the Whitworth

15 March 2019 - 1 March 2020
For a period of one year Linda Brogan and a group of local residents, who went to the Reno nightclub in the 1970s and 80s, will occupy the Whitworth. The Reno, located in Moss Side,…

Tours at Two

14:00 20 April 2018 - 14:45 31 December 2019
Each day our public tours are led by our Visitor Team and are an insightful view into our history, collections, exhibition spaces, architecture and park. Daily tours are designed for…

Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity

17 August 2019 - 5 July 2020
Unreformed: Wallpaper and Design Diversity In the middle of the nineteenth century wallpaper design suddenly became diverse. English manufacturers began to excel at the quick production…

What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations?

17:00 - 19:00 6 November 2019
Anne McBride, Professor of Employment Relations, will give a talk on “What are we learning from studying new ways of working in healthcare organisations – and can it lead to changes…

Young, Rich & Famous

10:00 1 October 2019 - 17:00 1 January 2020
In this digital age of collecting selfies and more on social media, what does immortality mean? Manchester Museum’s latest installation at Manchester’s Central Library, Young, Rich…

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