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#WENFORUM presents: WHY'S CLIMATE JUSTICE A FEMINIST ISSUE?

18:00 - 21:00 11 March 2020
Why's Climate Justice a Feminist Issue? Come join the conversation for an evening of discussion with stalls and refreshments. Join us for an evening of lively discussion hosted by…

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…

Critical Global Politics Research Seminar with Malte Riemann

15:30 - 17:00 11 March 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Malte Riemann. Malte will present his work 'A Violent Cure? A critical analysis of public-health-based approaches to violence…

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…

Dr Martin Lawlor Memorial Lecture – 'How Do We Prevent Suicide?' - Professor Louis Appleby CBE

18:00 - 19:00 11 March 2020
How do we prevent suicide? - Professor Louis Appleby CBE [https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/ The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health] (NCISH)…

Empowering decision makers by predicting and managing uncertainty in disease outbreaks

14:00 - 15:00 11 March 2020
Veronica Bowman (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, UK) Abstract There are many models and techniques for disease forecasting over a huge range of spatial and temporal scales,…

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…

Institute for Fiscal Studies Public Talk: – hosted by The University of Manchester - 'Should the government stay out of our kitchen?'

17:00 - 20:45 11 March 2020
Over the last few years the government has introduced a number of policies aimed at altering people's diets - with the most notable new addition being the soft drinks levy. In this…

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…

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

13:00 - 14:00 11 March 2020
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…

MUMS - Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1

13:10 - 14:00 11 March 2020
MUMS Chamber Orchestra accompanies soloist Sebastian Mueller performing Paganini’s fierce Violin Concerto No. 1, renowned for its extreme demands on the soloist with its fiendishly…

National Launch of On Digital Trust

18:00 - 20:00 11 March 2020
We are delighted to invite you to the national launch of our latest publication, On Digital Trust on the 11th of March in London. Putting humans at the centre of digital trust and…

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,…

Rebecca Shipley - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 14:50 11 March 2020
Rebecca Shipley (UCL) joins us for the Physical Applied Mathematics Series.

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,…

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…

Collection Bites: Understanding Urine

13:00 - 14:00 12 March 2020
Discover how the colour, smell and even taste of urine was central to the diagnosis of many diseases from ancient medicine to the laboratories of the 19th century. Join us during your…

CTIS Seminar: Translation, Bookishness, and the Materiality of the Page

14:00 - 15:30 12 March 2020

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Helen Jacobus (University of Manchester) ‘A Response to the Alleged "Fallacy of Jaubert's Hypothesis" and the Flood Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

14:00 - 16:00 12 March 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

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