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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…

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…

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?…

NMHD Special Seminar by Prof Francisco Silveira Guimaraes,1st June at 1pm.

13:00 - 14:00 1 June 2020
The seminar will be presented by Professor Francisco Silveira Guimaraes “Cannabinoid therapies and mechanisms in mental health disorders” . You will need to register to join via Eventbrite:…

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/SALC Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 2 June 2020
Colleagues from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures will present their new publications.

Crisis of empire in Hong Kong: The art of being poorly governed

13:00 - 14:00 2 June 2020
The Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation at The University of Manchester invites you for a virtual session. In light of recent Hong Kong protests and longer history of democracy…

IME Virtual Alumni Workshop: Making your MSc go further

11:45 - 13:15 2 June 2020
We would like to invite you to this MSc Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Virtual Alumni Workshop. The subject of this workshop is ‘Making your MSc go further’. It will consist…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Philippe Meyer - Dirac operators for colour Lie algebras

14:00 - 15:00 2 June 2020
Speaker: Philippe Meyer - University of Oxford Time: 2pm Title: Dirac operators for colour Lie algebras. Abstract: The notion of colour Lie algebra, introduced by Ree (1960), generalises…

RBKS and the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection - A Talk by Rachel Midgely

19:00 - 20:30 2 June 2020
Rachel Midgley’s talk introduces Rachel Kay Shuttleworth (1886- 1967), maker, collector and the founder of the famous National Trust textile collection and the last member of the Shuttleworth…

Webinar: Introduction to Text-Mining

13:00 - 14:00 2 June 2020
Text-mining is one of many data-mining techniques that social scientists are using to turn unstructured (or more accurately, semi-unstructured) material into structured material that…

Cancelled - Seminar: The Reachability Problem for Petri Nets is Not Elementary

14:00 - 15:00 3 June 2020
Due to the University closure (Coronavirus) this talk is postponed and we will hold it on a future date. Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas Talk with speaker Ranko Lazic,…

Manchester Live: Choosing what and where to study

11:00 - 12:00 3 June 2020
Tune in to receive top tips when choosing a degree programme and university. How do you make a decision when there are nearly 40,000 courses available at more than 370 Higher Education…

The Carcanet Cat: Printing demo CANCELLED

11:15 - 11:30 3 June 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,…

GEIC Webinar Series- Thermal Management using 2D Materials

14:00 - 15:00 4 June 2020
This free webinar is part of the ‘Challenges and Opportunities’ Series of Webinars hosted by the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre. Dr Liam Britnell will deliver this webinar,…

Toddler Tales CANCELLED

11:00 - 11:45 4 June 2020
Find a cosy corner, pull up a cushion and listen to fun stories. Join in playtime, creating a story world of your own. Free, no need to book, just drop in. Family friendly, children 5 yrs and under.

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?…

Organizing copresence in physical and virtual creative spaces: A comparison of two songwriting camps

15:00 - 16:00 8 June 2020
Join us for MIOIR External Seminar Series 19/20, webinar hosted by Elke Schüßler and co-author Benjamin Schiemer. To join this webinar, please sign up via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/m…

CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminar: 'Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique': Led by Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College)

12:00 - 14:00 9 June 2020
This event is part of CIDRAL's Public Intellectuals, Popularity and Populism programmes Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College) will lead a Key Ideas seminar entitled 'Queer Palestine and…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Edward Jones-Healey - Twists of rational Cherednik algebras

14:00 - 15:00 9 June 2020
Speaker: Edward Jones-Healey - University of Manchester Title: Twists of rational Cherednik algebras Abstract: Rational Cherednik algebras arose as degenerations of Cherednik’s double…

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