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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…

Daily Telescope Talks

22 August - 29 November 2020
Join a Telescope Talk where one of Jodrell Bank's friendly Explainers will tell you all about the might Lovell telescope. You’ll find out more about how the Grade 1 listed Telescope…

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…

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…

Paul Bresslof - Biological pattern formation: beyond classical diffusion-based morphogenesis

16:00 - 17:00 7 October 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Paul Bressloff (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the…

Prometheus: executive level learning and development conference for leaders from the UK 3rd Sector

09:30 - 14:45 7 October 2020
Prometheus is a free to attend executive level learning and development conference for leaders from the UK 3rd Sector. It is Alliance Manchester Business School’s annual programme…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Siobhán Jolley (University of Manchester) ‘Asking for it? Lessons from Mary Magdalene in a culture of sexual violence.’

14:00 - 16:00 8 October 2020
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. This semester all sessions will take place online via Zoom. To register to attend, please email siobhan.jolley@manchester.ac.uk.…

Webinar: Data in the spotlight: UK and cross-national surveys

15:00 - 16:00 8 October 2020
Did you know that data from major social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, the Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England can be accessed for research…

Artist in Residence Beauty and the Beasts: falling in love with insects

11:00 - 16:00 9 October 2020
Artist in Residence Beauty and the Beasts: falling in love with insects Artist Kate Eggleston-Wirtz was commissioned by Manchester Museum to create an ‘Insect Hotel’ within the Beauty…

Artist in Residence Beauty and the Beasts: falling in love with insects

11:00 - 16:00 10 October 2020
Artist in Residence Beauty and the Beasts: falling in love with insects Artist Kate Eggleston-Wirtz was commissioned by Manchester Museum to create an ‘Insect Hotel’ within the Beauty…

Cancelled - See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly

09:15 - 11:15 10 October 2020
Sat 10 Oct: 9.15-11.15am See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly Join us for early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their…

Ed Morrisey - Studying the fixation and spread of mutations in human epithelium by combining modelling and deep learning

14:00 - 15:00 12 October 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Ed Morrisey (Oxford) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

SEERIH Science Spotlight: "So what?" Making science school improvement worth it!

16:00 - 17:15 12 October 2020
Christina Whittaker, SEERIH Professional Development Champion, will be leading us through reflective practice in primary science. For more details and to register, please click on…

Watercooler Ponderings

11:00 - 12:00 12 October 2020
A chance to meet colleagues and share thoughts about current events that have traditionally taken place at the watercooler fountain or in the kitchen. To book a place, please go to…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Karin Erdmann

13:00 - 14:00 13 October 2020
Speaker: Karin Erdmann - University of Oxford Title: Quivers for p-blocks of weight 2 for symmetric groups This is motivated by the problem of classifying such blocks up to Morita…

Online Talk: The Wellbeing Benefits of Indoor Plants

15:00 - 16:00 13 October 2020
Join us to discover simple steps of growing plants indoors and find ways of using our natural environment to combat stress and worries, one seedling at a time. Becoming a student often…

Peter Gries - COVID-19 and the Future of China's relations with the West, Revisited

12:30 - 13:30 13 October 2020
Webinar: Will future historians look back at 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic as the start of a new Cold War? Professor Gries addressed this question in a webinar last May, and will revisit…

Imagined avant-gardes in Latin American literature: a posthegemonic outlook

16:00 - 17:00 14 October 2020
This presentation traces the presence of fictional avant-garde artists in Latin American literary works from the 1970s onwards, aiming to redefine the notion of a Latin American avant-garde…

Merle Behr - Learning Compositional Structures

14:00 - 15:00 14 October 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Merle Behr (UC Berkeley) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Pankhurst Seminar: A Green New Deal for the UK: Why, What, How, and Other Important Questions

13:00 - 14:00 14 October 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated calls for a ‘new deal’ for the British economy. It has highlighted the neglect of public services, the precarity of jobs, deep socio-economic inequalities,…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Dr Joe Morrison (Queen's University Belfast)

15:15 - 16:50 14 October 2020
This year we are running all of our research seminars online using Zoom. If you would like to attend, and are not included on our events mailing list, please email Dr Stephen Ingram…

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…

Sociology seminar- Conceptualising Morality in terms of Practice: Challenges and Contributions (Owen Abbott)

15:45 - 16:45 14 October 2020
This seminar sets out the arguments firstly for conceptualising of morality as an ordinary facet of social living, and secondly for why an interactionist relational sociology provides…

Thomas Cubaud - Multiphase flow regime transitions with high-viscosity fluids in microchannels

14:30 - 15:30 14 October 2020
Thomas Cubaud (Stony Brook) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email alice.thompson@manchester.ac.uk…

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