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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?…

Lockdown Lectures: David Olusoga

12:00 - 13:00 10 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?…

Lockdown Lectures: Dan Davis

12:00 - 13:00 15 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?…

Lockdown Lectures: Michael Wood

12:00 - 13:00 17 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?…

Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current perspectives and future directions

09:00 - 16:00 3 July 2020
The Division of Psychology and Mental Health is pleased to launch the publication of Attachment Theory and Psychosis: Current Perspectives and Future Directions. The event will include…

International Festival of Public Health

09:00 - 17:00 16 July 2020
The International Festival of Public Health - bringing together hundreds of delegates from across the country in a wide range of fields and stages of their careers to attend plenary…

Meet the Chemistry academics

11:00 22 - 13:00 23 July 2020
If you're interested in STEM, we have a number of lectures over two days for you to meet academics and understand a bit more about their area of interest.

Our Boldest Effort to Answer our Oldest Question: The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

16:00 - 17:00 7 October 2020
Some 500 years ago, a growing awareness of cracks in the Ptolemaic model led to the Copernican revolution - a paradigm shift in our understanding in which we came to realize that the…

Q&A with Professor Craig Clunas

17:15 - 18:30 14 October 2020
Q&A with Professor Craig Clunas 'The Modernity of Chinese Art in the Early Twentieth Century' Professor Clunas will discuss his lecture on 'The Modernity of Chinese Art in the Early…

Symposium to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester

10:00 - 15:00 17 October 2020
We are delighted to announce a day-long symposium on 17th October to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 5th Pan-African Congress which was held in Manchester. Organised by our Africa…

Eithne Quinn (University of Manchester), ‘Manchester Murder Rap: Prosecution Gang Narratives and the Use of Black Youth Expressive Culture in Creating a Joint Enterprise Case’

17:00 - 19:00 20 October 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

HCRI Landmark Lecture: When Wounds Travel

15:00 - 17:00 22 October 2020
Join Dr Omar Dewachi (Rutgers University) and chair Dr Stephanie Sodero (HCRI) virtually, for a fascinating discussion on the movement of wounds: physical, social and political. Decades…

Sarah Price (University of Sheffield), ‘Crisis or Evolution? The Continuing Challenge of Finding Audiences for Classical Music’

17:00 - 19:00 17 November 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

All the dark we cannot see: the state-of-the-art in direct searches for particle dark matter

15:00 - 16:30 18 November 2020
One of the major challenges of modern physics is to decipher the nature of dark matter. Astrophysical observations provide ample evidence for the existence of an invisible and dominant…

Professor Cath Noakes delivers the Lane Lecture 2020 - "Droplets and Aerosols – the complex physics of respiratory disease transmission"

16:00 - 18:00 18 November 2020
Professor Cath Noakes will deliver this year’s virtual Lane Lecture: Droplets and Aerosols – the complex physics of respiratory disease transmission COVID-19 has presented us with…

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