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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…

Cancelled: Stars and Stones

2 May - 7 October 2020
-Please note that these events have been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak- 2nd May, 13th May, 24th June, 11th July, 9th September and 7th October Stars and Stones offers…

Coding Demonstrations: Programming for Social Science Research

16:00 6 - 17:00 27 May 2020
Computational methods for collecting, cleaning and analysing data are an increasingly important component of a social scientist’s toolkit. Central to engaging in these methods is the…

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…

Imran Perretta: the destructors

8 May - 4 October 2020
The Whitworth presents a new 2-screen film by London-based artist Imran Perretta. Drawing on the artist’s own experience as a young man of Bangladeshi heritage, the film explores personal…

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…

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 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…

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 Malgorzata Zimon - Title TBA

13:00 - 14:00 12 May 2020
This seminar has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Cathy Hsu (Heilbronn) - Eisenstein congruences and an explicit non-Gorenstein R=T

15:00 12 May 2020
Abstract: In his seminal work on modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal, Mazur studied the existence of congruences between certain Eisenstein series and newforms, proving that Eisenstein…

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…

Intercultural Public Health

10:00 - 13:00 12 May 2020
Due to the current Coronavirus situation our face to face CPD session has been converted into online webinar. The CPD session will look at how culture impacts on health and wellbeing.…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Dimitris Michailidis - Bases of simple representations of Temperley-Lieb algebras of type B

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2020
Speaker: Dimitris Michailidis Title: Bases of simple representations of Temperley-Lieb algebras of type B Abstract: Inspired from the study of certain models in physics, Martin and…

Webinar: Being a Computational Social Scientist

13:00 - 14:00 12 May 2020
Scientific research and teaching is increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only…

CANCELLED: Ramsden Gybbon-Monypenny Commemorative Lecture: Val Fraser (Essex) on Gordon Brotherston

16:00 - 18:00 13 May 2020
Ramsden Gybbon-Monypenny Commemorative Lecture jointly organised by Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Val Fraser…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'The Idea of Decolonization': Led by Priyamvada Gopal (Cambridge)

11:00 - 13:00 13 May 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Priyamvada Gopal (University of Cambridge) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'The Idea…

Inequalities and ageing

13:00 - 16:00 13 May 2020
Due to the current Coronavirus situation our face to face CPD session has been converted into online webinar. Advances in health care has helped people to live longer than ever.…

The spread of livestock, dairy and millet into the eastern steppes: Biomolecular perspectives from the Altai mountains and the Mongolian steppe

13:00 - 14:00 13 May 2020
Prof Cheryl Makarewicz, University of Kiel, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The spread of domesticated plants and animals across…

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