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Linnean Society: Irene Manton Lecture 2019

17:00 - 19:00 5 December 2019
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society will host the 2019 Irene Manton lecture at The John Rylands Library. The lecture celebrates and…

FSE Inaugural Lecture Series - Department of Computer Science, Prof Daniel Dresner

17:00 11 December 2019
You are invited to the inaugural professorial lecture i the Department of Computer Science of Professor Daniel Dresner, Department of Computer Science Title: The Attack on a Cyber…

Vital Topics breakfast event: What’s next for wellbeing

08:00 - 09:30 11 December 2019
Hear from a panel of experts with a wealth of knowledge about wellbeing in the workplace: Judith Grant, Director of Health and Wellbeing at MACE David Roomes, Group Director - Health,…

Lovell Lecture: Professor Teresa Anderson

19:30 - 21:00 12 December 2019
Lovell Lecture Jodrell Bank Observatory: World Heritage Site Professor Teresa Anderson Thursday 12th December, 7:30pm Jodrell Bank is the UK’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site. Join…

Clinch Power: Enhancing the student experience through a Pedagogy of Play (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

14:00 - 15:30 14 January 2020
This session explores the contribution of games and “play “like activities to enhancing teaching and learning in lectures, seminars and academic advisement. Drawing from theoretical…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 28 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies 2020

18:00 - 19:30 29 January 2020
We are delighted to announce that the sixth series of Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies will be given by Prof. Dina Porat (Tel Aviv University) . The event is open to the public;…

GDI Lecture with Dr Nick Jepson: In China's Wake: How the commodity boom transformed development strategies in the global south

17:00 29 January 2020
In the early years of the 21st century, breakneck economic growth in China stimulated a boom of unprecedented duration and extent in world markets for metals and fuels. In China’s Wake…

Data Visualisation Observatory and Behavioural Research Laboratory tour for University of Manchester staff

15:00 - 16:00 3 February 2020
Following the success of our staff tours in November, we are holding another tour at 3pm on 3 February 2020.

Beyond Lecture Capture - does screen casting encourage student engagement? (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 4 February 2020
For the 2018/19 academic year the PLAN30852/60852 Green Infrastructure & Sustainable Cities module produced weekly screen casts to introduce students to the topics being debated in…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christian Fuchs (Westminster): Capitalism and Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet and Communicative/Digital Capitalism

17:30 - 19:00 4 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christian Fuchs, professor of media and communication studies and Director of the Communication…

Dr Joanne Konkel, Inaugural Lister Lecture: Tissue-specific control of immune responses in the oral mucosa

11:30 - 12:30 4 February 2020
Maintaining integrity of mucosal barrier surfaces, the major interfaces between our inside body and the outside world, presents unique challenges to the immune system. Each barrier…

Where students are coming from: Student experience and teaching at A Level (Humanities Teaching Academic Workshops 2019-20)

14:00 - 16:00 11 February 2020
In this session we will discuss where students are 'at' when they finish A levels and start undergraduate study. This will include monitoring of different groups of students, including…

GDI Lecture with Dr Jelmer Kamstra and Zoe Abrahamson: Civil society aid as balancing act - Navigating between managerial and social transformative principles

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2020
The civil society policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands saw big shifts in 2015/2016, with its budget halved and its focus shifted from service delivery to lobby…

SEED Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series: Profs Caroline Bond and Aminu Mamman

16:00 - 18:00 13 February 2020
The inaugural professorial lectures of Aminu Mamman (Global Development Institute) and Caroline Bond (Manchester Institute of Education) will take place from 4pm in the Cordingley Lecture…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Bryan Cheyette (Reading), 'Beyond Ghettos of the Imagination: From Venice to L.A.'

17:00 - 19:00 18 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Bryan Cheyette, Professor of English Literature, University of Reading, will deliver a public…

Turing Talks 2020 - Digital Twins: The Next Phase of the AI Revolution?

18:30 - 20:00 19 February 2020
Speaker: Mark Girolami, Programme Director for the Alan Turing Institute-Lloyd’s Register Foundation Programme in Data-Centric Engineering, University of Cambridge The idea of an Intelligent…

The Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture 2020 POSTPONED

18:00 - 20:00 26 February 2020
POSTPONED POSTPONED POSTPONED Unfortunately, the Arthur Lewis lecture has been postponed and will no longer be held on the 26 February. We will be in touch with further details…

Sir Peter Bazalgette Inaugural Lecture

17:30 - 18:30 3 March 2020
Join us for Sir Peter Bazalgette's inaugural lecture at The University of Manchester. Sir Peter will deliver his inaugural lecture on campus following his appointment as Honorary…

How and why should I develop distance and online courses? (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 4 March 2020
In the workshops we will explore the different ways you might develop distance and online courses and materials, and why doing so might enhance your on-campus teaching and your career.…

POSTPONED: GDI Lecture with Prof Lyla Mehta: The politics of climate change, uncertainty and transformation in marginal environments

17:00 - 18:30 4 March 2020
UNFORTUNATELY THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW. The scale and impacts of climate change remain deeply uncertain. This is particularly true…

Inaugural Lecture of Arthur Garforth

15:00 - 17:00 6 March 2020
We invite you to join Professor Arthur Garforth as he delivers his Inaugural Lecture, titled "Catalysis and the Circular Economy " Catalysis is involved at some point in the processing…

POSTPONED: GDI Lecture with Prof Lauchlan Munro: What can we learn when we compare neoliberalism with other things that don’t exist?

17:00 - 18:30 11 March 2020
UNFORTUNATELY THIS LECTURE IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RE-ARRANGED. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW. Frustrated by constantly hearing about an ideology, neoliberalism, that no one adheres to,…

CANCELLED: Bragg Lecture: What fate for the Antarctic ice sheet?

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2020
Unfortunately this event is now cancelled. We hope to rearrange for later in 2020.

Prehistory to Primary Schools Project (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Prehistory to Primary Schools is a project established in 2018 by the department of archaeology which takes the cutting edge research at the University of Manchester and uses it to…

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