Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Gary Younge on the US Election

18:00 - 19:00 19 November 2020
A talk by Professor Gary Younge on the US election followed by a live Q&A chaired by Professor Angelia Wilson Donald Trump's presidency was widely criticised for race-baiting violating…

Diana G. Maynard (University of Sheffield), ‘Monitoring Violations Against Journalists’

17:00 - 19:00 24 November 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

Irene Manton Lecture 2020

17:00 - 19:00 3 December 2020
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health in collaboration with The Linnean Society of London will host the 2020 Irene Manton lecture. Celebrating the significant contribution made…

Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky): ‘“It’s Not Just the Same”: How Rituals and Religions Cope with Crises’

17:00 - 19:00 8 December 2020
CIDRAL Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries

End of term Lecture: Historical Revisionism and Genocide Denial

15:00 - 17:00 10 December 2020
EXACT DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED. Join Remembering Srebrenica, a charity memorialising the Bosnian genocide in 1995, along with a survivor from the genocide and a leading academic in…

"How Memory Survives" - The 2020 Agnes Heller Annual Sociology Lecture, with Alice Bloch

07:30 - 09:00 17 December 2020
The 2020 Agnes Heller Sociological Lecture is organised by the Department Of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Australia (which explains the early start for UK-based viewers). This…

Bogdanow Online Holocaust Event 2021

18:00 - 19:00 9 February 2021
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the 2021 Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies will be delivered by Oscar-winning film director László…

Black holes, information and wormholes

15:00 - 16:30 10 February 2021
In the 1970s, Hawking showed that black holes, like any finite-temperature system, radiate energy and so eventually evaporate away entirely. However, his calculations showed something…

Bogdanow Masterclass 2021 'Film in the Face of Historical Crisis' - for University of Manchester students and staff

14:00 - 16:00 10 February 2021
The University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the 2021 Bogdanow Lecture in Holocaust Studies will be delivered by Oscar-winning film director László…

CIDRAL Online Events - Covid-19 and the Medicalization of Social Life

17:00 - 19:00 23 February 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries James Heartfield (Independent Researcher), ‘Covid-19 and the Medicalization of Social Life’…

CIDRAL Online Events - ‘China’s Mass Internment of the Uyghurs and the Role of Scholarship’

17:00 - 19:00 2 March 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries: Rian Thum (University of Manchester), ‘China’s Mass Internment of the Uyghurs and the Role…

International Women's Day: Choose to Challenge

12:30 - 13:30 8 March 2021
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH) is delighted to host an event to mark International Women’s Day (IWD) 2021 on Monday 8 March. We will be joined by guest speaker Dr…

International Women's Day: School of Health Sciences event

16:00 - 18:00 8 March 2021
The Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health's School of Health Sciences (SHS), is delighted to host an event to mark International Women's Day (IWD). The event features four fantastic…

CIDRAL Online Events - ‘Historical Apologies: Legitimate Means to Recover from Crises?’

17:00 - 19:00 16 March 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries James Murphy (University of the West of England), ‘Historical Apologies: Legitimate Means to…

What fate for the Antarctic ice sheet?

15:00 - 16:30 17 March 2021
Antarctica is a distant, unfamiliar place. We hear of ice shelves collapsing, giant icebergs breaking away, glaciers crumbling: but how much we do know about the fate of this great…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum