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(Cancelled) Social Anthropology Public Lecture and Wine Reception - Dr Shane Green - Please register on our Eventbrite page (Details included below)

16:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
Title: Not Being Punk or Mexican-American while Predicating the Wildebeest of Our Future Abstract: This talk departs from a now abandoned historical question: When exactly did the…

Advanced Astrophotography Lecture

19:30 - 21:30 18 March 2020
This advanced workshop offers Astrophotographers the chance to extend their knowledge and help them achieve breath-taking night sky photography. The session follows on from an Introduction…

Arts and Higher Education in the Criminal Justice Sector

12:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has now been postponed. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/coronavirus-update--17-march-2020/

Cancelled - Exploring the Excitement among Data, Network, Optimisation and Control Research Seminar

13:00 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been postponed. A new date will be announced shortly. There are many challenges and opportunities, such network connection, big data, machine…

CANCELLED - N Brown Industrial Problem Solving Day

14:00 - 17:00 18 March 2020
............................................ Unfortunately, we have had to cancel the problem-solving day due to an N Brown decision to cancel all public events in line with COVID-19…

Cancelled. Grubtime Natter

12:30 - 13:30 18 March 2020
Caring for the health & wellbeing of our visitors, staff & volunteers is our priority. To reduce the risk of Covid-19 from Tues 17 March our events & schools programme is cancelled.…

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.

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 Aoileann Ní Mhurchú

15:30 - 17:00 18 March 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Aoileann Ní Mhurchú entitled 'Voice, Imperialism and Struggles in Language'. Aoileann is a Lecturer in International Politics…

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…

Dan Lucas - Layer formation and transition to turbulence in horizontally shearing stably stratified flows

14:00 - 14:50 18 March 2020
Dan Lucas (Keele) joins us for this seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series. Title: Layer formation and transition to turbulence in horizontally shearing stably stratified…

GDI Lecture with Prof Kathryn Hochstetler: Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa

17:00 - 18:30 18 March 2020
Wind power has expanded quickly in Brazil, while solar power lags there and both wind and solar power have struggled to take off in South Africa. Prof Kathryn Hochstetler argues that…

Identification of predictive and causal biomarkers of disease" Spring School

13:00 16 - 13:00 19 March 2020
The Spring school will take place at the University of Manchester 1pm 16th - 1pm 19th March 2020. It will cover a range of topics including: · Types of bimedical/biomarker data…

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…

Known Unknowns: The Pros, Cons and Consequences of Known Donation

18:30 - 20:00 18 March 2020
A free-to-attend public event in London. The event is produced by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) in partnership with the University of Manchester's Morgan Centre for Research…

Latin & Ballroom for Beginners: Free Taster Session

13:05 - 13:50 18 March 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has been postponed. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/coronavirus-update--17-march-2020/

MES Seminar - Barbara Rossi (UPF)

13:30 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Title: TBA

NCHS: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 - 09:30 18 March 2020
Tai Chi is a form of gentle exercise based on Tai Chi Chuan, a martial art with roots in ancient China. The underlying principles of Tai Chi facilitate improved coordination of body,…

NVivo for Qualitative Data Analysis

18 March 2020
This course introduces NVivo as a data management tool. The structure of the training session will be a combination of formal presentation alongside the practical application. Those…

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…

Seminar: Mercury Talk. Recent Developments in Automated Higher-Order Theorem Proving

14:00 - 15:00 18 March 2020
Please join us for the next Mercury talk with speaker Ahmed Bhayat on Wednesday 18 March 2020 at 2pm in Kilburn L.T 1.5 Higher-order logic is the natural language for many areas of…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture 2020

17:00 - 18:00 18 March 2020
Join us for the Stachniewski Memorial Lecture, which will be delivered by Dr Farah Karim-Cooper. Farah Karim-Cooper will talk about ‘Gesture and Empathy in the Shakespearean Theatre’…

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,…

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

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 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…

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…

Using smartphone collected data: Experience Sampling Methodology and Intense Longitudinal data analysis.

14:00 - 17:00 18 March 2020
In honour of the late Professor Graham Dunn, The Centre for Biostatistics decided to rename their biannual seminar series to honour his contribution. The second Graham Dunn Seminar…

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…

Warning of volcanic eruptions in Campi Flegrei, southern Italy

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2020
Prof Chris Kilburn, UCL Hazard Centre, UCL, London, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The land carbon sink is calculated to be…

Webinar: Investigating religion in the UK - what data can I use?

15:00 - 16:00 18 March 2020
This free webinar, jointly organised by Understanding Society, CeLSIUS, the SLS-DSU is designed for anyone who would like to know more about sources of survey data available for investigating…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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