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CIDRAL Key Ideas seminar: Bryan Cheyette (Reading), 'The Metaphorical Thinking of Zygmunt Bauman'

14:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Professor Bryan Cheyette (Professor of English Literature, University of Reading), will lead…

Confucius Institute Talk: Contemporary Chinese Printmaking

16:30 - 17:30 19 February 2020
To celebrate the launch of our contemporary Chinese woodblock print exhibition 'The Soul of the Black Earth', we will be joined by artist Dr Weimin He from Oxford. Dr He is one of the…

Creative Manchester presents Music on Campus

12:15 11 February - 13:30 24 March 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: In light of the developing situation around COVID-19 and the Government’s latest advice for people to avoid non-essential contact, we have taken the decision…

Creepy Crawly Chronicles Creative Writing

10:30 - 11:30 19 February 2020
Wednesday 19 Feb 10.30 – 11.30am Creepy Crawly Chronicles Creative Writing Find out more about our Creepy Crawly Chronicles Story Competition - and get some tips from children’s author…

Creepy-Crawly Chronicles Children’s Story Competition

7 December 2019 - 9 March 2020
From ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘Charlotte’s Web’ to 'Spiderman’, insects have inspired countless much-loved stories and comics. Enter your ideas into our story competition to…

Critical Global Politics PhD Researcher Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 19 February 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a PhD Researcher seminar. Jana Fey The everyday politics of mental health in international relations: producing neoliberal subjects through…

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…

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…

Engagement@Manchester: Creating Accessible STEM Outreach Activities

13:00 - 14:30 19 February 2020
In the last few years, a number of projects in the Faculty of Science and Engineering have aimed to make science accessible and engaging for young people with sensory impairments. In…

Environmental exposures and effects on the brain: cognitive performance and mental health

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2020
Dr Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Dr Juana Maria…

Exhibition: The Soul of the Black Earth - 60 years of Contemporary Chinese Printmaking

19 February - 13 March 2020
The Confucius Institute is delighted to bring this fascinating exhibition to Manchester, telling the story of four generations of printmakers from Heilongjiang Province in the north-east…

Family crafts: Cuffs of power

10:30 - 12:00 19 February 2020
Drop in for free family crafting where you can make and take home your very own cuffs of power. Long ago, people would wear and carry objects to keep them safe. Come along and make…

Feb Half Term - Magnificent Minibeasts

14:00 18 - 16:00 20 February 2020
Tuesday 18, Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 February: 2-4pm Magnificent Minibeasts Enjoy creative half term fun about inspiring insects, scintillating spiders and captivating creepy…

February Half-Term: Meet the Expert

12:00 17 - 12:00 21 February 2020
Here’s your chance to meet one of our resident science and astronomy experts. You’ll learn all about their work, plus have the chance to ask the space questions you’ve always wanted to ask!

February Half-Term: Space Crafts

15 - 23 February 2020
Join us for our arts and crafts activities centred around all things space! Whether you enjoy drawing or making, drop-in anytime between 11am-4pm and find something for all the family to enjoy.

Franziska Jahnke - Characterizing NIP henselian valued fields

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
Franziska Jahnke joins us for the logic seminar. Abstract: (Joint work with Sylvy Anscombe) In this talk we characterize NIP henselian valued fields modulo the theory of their residue…

Grubtime Natter

12:30 - 13:30 19 February 2020
Grubtime Natter Wednesday 19 February 12.30-1.30pm Sylvia’s Space Scarabs, Moths and Spiders – find out more about some of the stories of the beasts featured in Beauty and the Beasts…

GUY: A New Musical

19:30 - 21:30 19 February 2020
Finding love isn’t easy when you're fat, gay and nerdy. Luckily for Guy, you can be anybody online… leo&hyde’s award-winning electronic musical is Queer As Folk meets Bridget Jones…

Innovating with Industry: The Academic Perspective

11:30 - 13:30 19 February 2020
Join a lunchtime workshop with Rob Bristow, Paul Townsend and guests to gain the academic perspective of working with industry, with the opportunity to learn about best practice, the…

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…

Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis

19 February 2020
Outline The course covers basic concepts in longitudinal design and analysis. The morning session focuses on the strengths and methodological difficulties of the longitudinal approach…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 19 February 2020
Luis Ospina-Forero, University of Manchester Network Comparison Statistics based on Subgraph counts and their potential application. While the number of network comparison methods…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Thomas Smith (Manchester)

15:10 - 16:55 19 February 2020
Title: Collectivity in Action Abstract: A staple of the joint action literature is the good case/bad case pair. For some phi, in each case, some agents are phi-ing. In the good case,…

Professor Wendy Moncur: 'Keeping Secrets Online' - Digital Trust & Security Guest Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:30 19 February 2020
What strategies do people deploy in keeping secrets online? And how can these strategies be re-purposed to; (i) enhance the capacity of UK security agencies to detect & mitigate threats…

Schuster Colloquium - Probing the dielectric constant on the nanoscale: from thin films to DNA and confined water

15:00 - 16:00 19 February 2020
Join us for the February Schuster Colloquium with speaker Dr Laura Fumagalli. The talk will first review the work of Laura's team in which they developed scanning probe microscopy…

Science show: The science of a world heritage site

15 - 23 February 2020
Show Times: 11am, 12pm, 2.30pm Jodrell Bank became a World Heritage site in July 2019. In this show find out about some of the important moments in this site’s history which make it such an important place.

Stargazing Night

15 November 2019 - 20 March 2020
7pm – 10pm Join us at Jodrell Bank for an unmissable opportunity to get started in astronomy. You’ll learn how to navigate the skies and locate the stars in our inflatable Planetarium,…

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 Coevolution of Industry Architecture, Geography, and Innovation in Mobile Phone Manufacturing, 1992-2012

12:00 - 13:30 19 February 2020
We examine the shifting geography and architecture of the mobile handset industry over the entire ‘outsourcing era,’ leveraging data on virtually every significant supply relationships…

The Complete Works: Lindsey Hilsum

18:45 - 20:30 19 February 2020
Part of: The Complete Works: Year 1 – Hope & Resistance , The Complete Works: Year 1 – Hope & Resistance Editor, critic & broadcaster Ellah Wakatama OBE curates and presents this…

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,…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2020
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Tinkering Studio

10:00 - 14:00 19 February 2020
Monday 17 – Friday 21 February 2020 A hands on, creative studio for trying out ideas and playing with materials. Throughout the week, our studio will be full of nuts, bolts, tools…

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…

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…

Utopias

31 January - 4 October 2020
Utopia is, at its essence, about creating a perfect world, yet in this way, it is always in opposition with the present. In his seminal book Utopia (1516), Thomas More gave name and…

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