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(Cancelled) Global Harmonies Choir

17:30 - 19:00 23 March 2020
The Confucius Institute Global Harmonies Choir is returning Monday 27 January. With rehearsals every Monday, our Choir showcases songs from around the world and is a wonderful way to…

(cancelled) Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Nayanika Mathur

16:00 - 18:00 23 March 2020
Entrapment: new ways of seeing big cats in India This paper is taken from my forthcoming book, Crooked Cats, which is centred upon understanding how humans live in close proximity…

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…

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…

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…

Literature Live: Frances Leviston and Kirsty Logan

19:30 - 20:45 23 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/

Moved to Online Delivery: Policy Training Session for University of Manchester Students

09:30 - 16:00 23 March 2020
Are you a University of Manchester student interested in understanding the ‘policy’ world? How decisions that affect us all are made? How research is used to inform politicians’ views?…

Professor Mike Levi: "Responses to Cyber-Enabled Scams and Fears of Cybercrime" - Digital Trust & Security Guest Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:30 23 March 2020
Responses to Cyber-Enabled Scams and Fears of Cybercrime: Rethinking the Standard Models Government strategies have involved adapting counter-terrorism models to all serious and organised…

Science Learning at Home

20 March - 30 June 2020
Jodrell Bank Observatory is the UK’s latest UNESCO World Heritage Site and an icon for British science and engineering. For the last 75 years, the pioneering scientists and researchers…

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…

Water Research at Manchester

12:30 - 15:30 23 March 2020
An inter-disciplinary workshop to bring researchers together who are working on water-related issues To coincide with World Water Day on the 22 March Manchester Environmental Research…

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: The Aging Brain Proteome- Alessandro Ori, Liebniz Institute on Aging

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: The Aging Brain Proteome Alessandro Ori, Liebniz Institute on Aging Host: Chiara Francavilla

CANCELLED - HCRI Research Seminar - Putin's Human Rights

16:00 - 19:00 24 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. HCRI Research Seminar with Sergei Nikitin, former Head of Amnesty International office…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rob Kurinczuk - Local Langlands in families

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2020
Speaker: Rob Kurinczuk Title: Local Langlands in families Abstract: For general linear groups over a p-adic field, local Langlands in families (established recently by Helm-Moss)…

NCHS: Walking for Wellbeing

12:00 - 13:00 24 March 2020
Escape the everyday and explore the art outdoors. Walking for Wellbeing is an excellent way to get active, explore what’s on your doorstep and make new friends. Tuesdays, 12 -1pm Saturdays,…

Vandita Patel (Manchester) - Shifted powers in the Fibonacci sequence

15:00 24 March 2020
Abstract: The explicit determination of perfect powers in (shifted) non-degenerate, integer, binary linear recurrence sequences has only been achieved in a handful of cases. In this…

[Cancelled] Linda Li - Institutional contradictions and change: Challenges for Hong Kong and a globalizing China

12:30 - 13:30 24 March 2020
How can we assess the challenges and opportunities for Hong Kong and China given the conspicuous conflicts as witnessed in the unrest of 2019? This seminar contextualizes the inquiry…

Cancelled: Gender and Devolution: How can we address gender inequality at a local level?

14:00 - 16:30 25 March 2020
More than 15 million citizens (a quarter of the UK population) live in combined authority areas and are affected by decisions devolved from Whitehall. It is vital therefore that there…

CANCELLED: IHPO seminar Prof Erik Schokkaert "Justice in health: equality of opportunity or equality of well-being?"

10:30 - 12:00 25 March 2020
Unfortunately, the research seminar has been cancelled. We aim to reschedule later in the year. Please join us at the IHPO seminar series on 25 March 2020 in AMBS Lecture theatre…

History lunchtime seminar: Chrisoula Lionis - Humour in States of ‘Occupation’: Contemporary Art and Cultural Resilience in Palestine, Greece and Australia

13:00 - 13:50 25 March 2020
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