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CANCELLED Fabio Nobile - Title TBA

12:00 - 13:00 28 April 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

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…

Childhood Obesity – an introduction to Health Promotion

13:00 - 16:00 28 April 2020
Due to the current Coronavirus situation our face to face CPD session has been converted into online webinar. Intended Learning Objectives: • Define health and the underlying…

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…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rob Kurinczuk - Galois distinguished l-modular representation of p-adic GL(n)

14:00 - 15:00 28 April 2020
Speaker: Rob Kurinczuk - University of Bristol Title: Galois distinguished l-modular representation of p-adic GL(n) Abstract: I will present some results on Galois distinguished…

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…

The English public health reforms: Success or failure?

13:30 - 15:00 28 April 2020
Join us at the IHPO webinar series on 28 April via Zoom. Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihpo-webinar-david-buck-english-public-health-reforms-success-or-failure-tickets-102156444676…

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…

[Cancelled] Fabio Lanza - “To Make Life More Beautiful:” Gender, Industrial Labour, and Collectivization during the Great Leap Forward

12:30 - 13:30 28 April 2020
In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of Chinese city residents, including their relationship to…

Cancelled - Is Earth’s atmosphere growing, or shrinking?

13:00 - 14:00 29 April 2020
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled. Dr Sami Mikhail, MinSoc Distinguished Lecturer, University of St Andrews, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences…

Cancelled - Seminar: Mercury Talk. Smart Measure of Social Withdrawal in Parkinson's disease

14:00 - 15:00 29 April 2020
Due to the University closure (Coronavirus), we have postponed this talk and will hold it on a future date. Please join us for the next Mercury Talk with speaker Heng Zhang on Wednesday…

CANCELLED: Dr Maite Conde (Cambridge): tbc

17:00 - 18:30 29 April 2020
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

History lunchtime seminar: Henry Miller - The material culture and practice of petitioning in the UK, 1780-1918

13:00 - 13:50 29 April 2020
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Immunology in a Pandemic - Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Facebook Live event

13:00 - 14:00 29 April 2020
Join us for a Facebook Live event this Wednesday at 1pm. Immunologists Elizabeth Mann, Sheena Cruickshank, Tracy Hussell, Madhvi Menon and John Grainger will be answering your questions…

The Carcanet Cat: Printing demo CANCELLED

11:15 - 11:30 29 April 2020
See our Columbian Printing Press in action as we print the purrrfect cat! Paws for a print to learn about Manchester-based Carcanet Press. To celebrate 50 years of poetry publishing,…

CoDE Seminar: Blackness and Brownness at the Intersection: Critical Thoughts Concerning Race, Debility and Disability

12:00 - 13:00 30 April 2020
This seminar is presented by Viji Kuppan, PhD Student at Leeds Beckett University in the Centre for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He will draw from previous writing presented in…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Kirsi Cobb (Cliff College) ‘Revenge Through Song: Reading the Song of Miriam as a Response to Trauma’

14:00 - 16:00 30 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…

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