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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…

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…

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…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr James Sedlacek (Nazarene Theological College) ‘Is the Perfect Tense in the Pauline Corpus a ‘Front-grounding’ Tense or a ‘Backgrounding’ Tense?‘

14:00 - 16:00 15 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.…

How can nuclear play a part in a post-COVID-19 net zero future?

14:30 - 15:30 15 October 2020
Join us for an online panel discussion on Thursday 15 October at 2:30pm. As the UK looks to implement a green recovery whilst sticking with existing targets for net zero, what does…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Kristin Aune (Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, University of Coventry) - “Religious Student Societies in Universities – Division and Cohesion”

16:00 - 17:30 15 October 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

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