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CANCELLED Marco Iglesias - Title TBA

12:00 - 13:00 21 April 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division - Julie Welburn, University of Edinburgh

15:00 - 16:00 21 April 2020
Advances in Biosciences Seminar: Microtubule motor cooperation in cell division Julie Welburn, University of Edinburgh Host: Chiara Francavilla

Cancelled: Jodrell Bank: 75 Years of science

20 April - 13 November 2020
-Please note that these events have been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak- 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of Jodrell Bank Observatory. Since 1945, this globally significant…

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…

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…

Jam and Magic Lanterns: A Victorian Year with the Leicesters of Tabley - A Talk

17:00 - 18:30 21 April 2020
You are cordially invited by Lord and Lady de Tabley, their children - John, Catherine, Meriel, Eleanor and Margaret - and their beloved dog Trim (watch your ankles as he’s inclined…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Higher group cohomology and PSL(2,q) - Jack Saunders

14:00 - 15:00 21 April 2020
Speaker: Jack Saunders - University of Birmingham Title: Higher group cohomology and PSL(2,q) Abstract: Given a finite group G acting irreducibly on a vector space V, the first cohomology…

Manchester Neurimaging Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 21 April 2020
Manchester Neuroimaging Seminar Series Dr Fabien Chauveau, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre 'Virtual histology of the brain with X-ray phase-contrast imaging'

Richard Kirkby - PRC Under Mao: The Anti-Urban Myth

12:30 - 13:30 21 April 2020
Super-urbanisation is the PRC’s avowed policy of today, and it is in a sense one of continuity with the 1949-1978 era. State strategies dating back to the First Five Year Plan gave…

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…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge': Led by Christina Lupton (Copenhagen)

14:00 - 16:00 22 April 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Christina Lupton (University of Copenhagen) will lead a CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar entitled Michel…

Critical Global Politics Research Seminar with Joe Turner

15:30 22 April 2020
Please join the CGP Research Cluster for a seminar with Joe Turner entitled 'Making Love, Making Empire'. Joe is a Lecturer at the University of York. Joe's research focuses on the…

Gabriel Neiva (Manchester): 'Amerindian traditions in fictional writings: A literary panorama of the Guianas'

17:00 - 18:30 22 April 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies seminar series. Abstract: The national literatures of the Guianas, when contrasted with Amerindian oratures, present some…

History lunchtime seminar: Misha Ewen - Women and the economy in the early modern English Empire

13:00 - 13:50 22 April 2020
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Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire) 'Embracing change: 'economical reform' at the 18th-century Bank

16:00 - 18:30 23 April 2020
4.15 - 5.30: 23 April (Uni Place_3.204) Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire) 'Embracing change: 'economical reform' at the 18th-century Bank of England'

Assessing the evidence: Qualitative research

10:00 - 13:00 23 April 2020
Due to the current Coronavirus situation our face to face CPD session has been converted into online webinar. Intended Learning Objectives: • Ensure an understanding of how qualitative…

Collection Bites: From Smokestacks to Sandcastles CANCELLED

13:00 - 14:00 23 April 2020
In this collection bite we'll be taking a closer look at the work of Manchester's Wood Street Mission charity, and the summer trips that began in the 1800s for children living in poverty.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Bell (University of Manchester) ‘Mortality Patterns and Bereavement Language in 1 Thessalonians: the Impact of Children in the Community of the Text’

14:00 - 16:00 23 April 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…

History research seminar: Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire) 'Embracing change: 'economical reform' at the 18th-century Bank of England'

16:15 - 17:30 23 April 2020

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Kristin Aune (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry) “Religious Student Societies in Universities – Division and Cohesion”

16:00 23 April 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session.

WCLC: Michelle Assay (piano) and David Fanning (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 23 April 2020
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This event has now been cancelled. Please see further information here: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/coronavirus-update--1-april-2020/

Webinar: Web-scraping for Social Science Research: Websites as a Source of Data

15:00 - 16:00 23 April 2020
Vast swathes of our social interactions and personal behaviours are now conducted online and/or captured digitally. In addition to common sources such as social media/network platforms…

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