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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…

Glacier loss and the climate change crisis: Evidence from Patagonia and the last glacial maximum

13:00 - 14:00 16 June 2020
The Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation at The University of Manchester invites you for a virtual session. Globally, mountain glaciers are shrinking and receding, resulting in…

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…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Sira Gratz - SL(k)-friezes

14:00 - 15:00 16 June 2020
Speaker: Sira Gratz - University of Glasgow Title: SL(k)-friezes Abstract: Classical frieze patterns are combinatorial structures which relate back to Gauss' Pentagramma Mirificum,…

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 Great Science Share for Schools

16 June 2020
The #GreatSciShare is an annual campaign to inspire young people to share their scientific questions with new audiences. It welcomes parents/carers, families, teachers and STEM organisations…

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…

Virtual Open Week

15 - 19 June 2020
Join us for your chance to experience our campus and find out more about our courses - all from the comfort of your own home! To register your interest please visit: https://www.manchester.ac.uk/stud…

Webinar: Text-Mining: Basic Processes

13:00 - 14:00 16 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…

AMBS Diversity & Equality Committe focusing on early career fellowships

15:00 - 16:30 17 June 2020
This session is targeted at early career researchers (specifically Final Year PhD students or PDRAs) who are considering their next career steps in academia. The session will include…

BASEES Polish Studies Group 2020 event Roundtable: ‘Best Ways of Achieving Academic and Social Impact’

11:00 - 13:00 17 June 2020
Key Question: ‘What are our strategies of disseminating research on Poland?’ With: Janek Gryta, (University of Bristol) and Samantha K Knapton (University of East Anglia) Key Question:…

Insights into the immunological response to COVID-19

15:30 - 16:30 17 June 2020
The MAHSC Seminar Series Professor Tracy Hussell - 'Insights into the immunological response to COVID-19' Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) is a partnership between…

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?…

Mitchell Centre Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 17 June 2020
Nikita Basov, St Petersburg University "Socio-semantic network analysis of meaning structures" Please contact david.schoch@manchester.ac.uk for zoom link

Passing through the gates of “conscience cleansing” and “diversiasm” to a public sector world of more BAME CEOs

12:00 - 13:00 17 June 2020
Join us for the next IHPO webinar on 17th June at 12pm via Zoom. Please register your interest at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihpo-webinar-dr-owen-williams-tickets-107680924544…

Salters' Festival

10:00 - 15:00 17 June 2020
These one day hands-on science activities are aimed at school students in Years 7 and 8. Salters' Festivals are organised by the Salters' Institute, and are designed to encourage young…

The Carcanet Cat: Printing demo CANCELLED

11:15 - 11:30 17 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,…

GECS Seminar: Denes Hnisz "Transcriptional condensates in health and disease"

13:00 - 14:00 18 June 2020
GECS Seminar Denes Hnisz - Max Planck Institute, Germany "Transcriptional condensates in health and disease" Via Zoom contact organiser for details

GEIC Webinar Series – TBC

14:00 - 15:00 18 June 2020
This free webinar is part of the ‘Challenges and Opportunities’ Series of Webinars hosted by the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre. The subject and host of this webinar will be…

Jessica Harrison-Hall - China - A History in Objects

14:00 - 15:00 18 June 2020
China’s history and geography are wonderfully rich and varied, yet it is neither as self- contained nor as isolated as is often thought. China’s written past and its material culture…

Finds Liaison

10:00 - 16:00 19 June 2020
Finds Liaison 10am-1pm and 1.30-4pm Heather Beeton , the Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme will be in Manchester Museum. Come and see her if you have you need…

Curator Tour: Carcanet CANCELLED

11:00 - 11:30 20 June 2020
Explore the story of Manchester’s Carcanet Press, as we delve into our newest exhibition. Celebrate the enduring power of poetry, discover how the Press continues to promote new poets…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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