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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…

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.

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…

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…

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’…

CANCELLED - HCRI Public Lecture: Working with age-disputed young migrants

10:00 - 11:00 20 March 2020
Unfortunately, the public lecture has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. Public lecture: working with age-disputed young migrants with Laura Gibbons, Public Law…

Improving employability skills with the use of video (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 8 April 2020
The workshop will take attendees through the experience and outcomes of exploring a non-traditional assessment format. Video was used for both group and individual assessment to enhance…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Christina Lupton (Copenhagen): 'Queer Times for the Straight Book: Michel Serres and Maggie Nelson'

17:00 - 19:00 21 April 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Queer Times…

Annual Ombudsman Lecture

18:30 - 20:30 5 May 2020
Improving patient safety: using evidence and insight to prevent suicide in mental health care In partnership with The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law (ManReg)…

Digitally Skilled: Unlocking Staff Digital Literacy (Humanities Teaching Academy Workshops 2019-20)

13:00 - 14:00 7 May 2020
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The Dorothy Emmet Lecture - Prof Jane Heal, University of Cambridge

17:00 - 18:15 11 May 2020
The Dorothy Emmet Lectures commemorate Dorothy Emmet, an eminent mid-20th Century philosopher and head of the Philosophy Department at Manchester for over 20 years. The lectures are…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge): 'Insurgent Empire: Shades of Resistance'

17:00 - 19:00 12 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Insurgent…

Lockdown Lecture: Brian Cox

12:00 - 13:00 18 May 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

Lockdown Lectures - Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell

12:00 - 13:00 20 May 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Brian Klug (Oxford), 'Unasking the Jewish Question'

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Brian Klug (University of Oxford) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Unasking the Jewish…

Lockdown Lectures: Cary Cooper

12:00 - 13:00 22 May 2020
Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown? Then why not join some of the nation’s foremost…

Lockdown Lectures: Kostya Novoselov

12:00 - 13:00 27 May 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

Lockdown Lectures: Danielle George

12:00 - 13:00 1 June 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College): 'Complicity, Dissent, and the Palestinian Intellectual'

17:00 - 19:00 8 June 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programme. Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'Complicity, Dissent,…

Lockdown Lectures: Perdita Barran

12:00 - 13:00 8 June 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

Lockdown Lectures: David Olusoga

12:00 - 13:00 10 June 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

Lockdown Lectures: Dan Davis

12:00 - 13:00 15 June 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

Lockdown Lectures: Michael Wood

12:00 - 13:00 17 June 2020
Lockdown Lectures from The University of Manchester Are you looking for something more than your next Netflix box-set binge or Spotify ‘top 100’ playlist to help you through the lockdown?…

Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current perspectives and future directions

09:00 - 16:00 3 July 2020
The Division of Psychology and Mental Health is pleased to launch the publication of Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions. The event will include…

International Festival of Public Health

09:00 - 17:00 16 July 2020
The International Festival of Public Health - bringing together hundreds of delegates from across the country in a wide range of fields and stages of their careers to attend plenary…

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