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"Exploring Blockchain in the Cultural Sector" Conference

16 October 2020
Blockchain is an open, decentralised and distributed technology, which is often associated to cryptocurrencies. However, blockchain is more than a digital money infrastructure and it…

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

11:00 - 16:00 16 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 Finds Liaison

10:00 - 16:00 16 October 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…

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…

MaRMN seminar via Zoom

13:00 - 14:00 16 October 2020
The Regeneration of Articular Cartilage through Activation & Fate-augmentation of Tissue-resident Skeletal Stem Cells, Dr Matthew Murphy

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

11:00 - 16:00 17 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…

David Olusoga in conversation

14:00 - 15:00 17 October 2020
David Olusoga, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester, will feature in conversation as part a tripartite University Initiative celebrating the 75th anniversary…

Manchester Writes: Manchester Creative Writers Discussion and Readings

15:00 - 17:00 17 October 2020
This event is part of a tripartite University Initiative celebrating the 75th anniversary of the fifth Pan-African Congress that took place in Manchester in October 1945. Date: Saturday…

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…

Building back better: Engineering a post-pandemic biology-based economy

15:30 - 17:00 19 October 2020
Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by Dr Claire Holland, Research Associate in Responsible Innovation at the MIOIR and SYNBIOCHEM.…

Teaching, Scholarship & Research (TSAR)

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2020
An informal and supportive session to provide an opportunity to discuss scholarship ideas, protocols, activities, results, presentations and publications. To book a place, please go…

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

Lo-co-gov-3.0

13:00 20 October 2020
An interactive Mind-Lab on local empowerment, collaborative (co)-governance, and the potential for a collective local intelligence, at a time of uncertainty and disruption…. This is…

Macro Seminar - Liliana Varela (LSE)

16:00 - 17:00 20 October 2020
Title: The Micro and Macro Dynamics of Capital Flows

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Olivier Dudas - Macdonald polynomials and decomposition numbers for finite unitary groups

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2020
Speaker: Olivier Dudas - Université de Paris VII Title: Macdonald polynomials and decomposition numbers for finite unitary groups Abstract: (work in progress with R. Rouquier)…

Pao-chen Tang - Hou Hsiao-Hsien Pre-Taiwan New Cinema: Review & Discussion of Cheerful Wind

12:30 - 13:30 20 October 2020
Webinar: Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien rose to global fame in the mid 1980s with his films that were associated with the artistic movement of Taiwan New Cinema, such as A Time…

Bruno Martins - Round the clock: single-cell dynamics of circadian processes in cyanobacteria

13:00 - 14:00 21 October 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Bruno Martins (Warwick) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Nádia Farage (IFCH - UNICAMP): Comrades: naturism and pacifism in Lima Barreto

17:00 - 18:30 21 October 2020
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar. This talk will be online: https://zoom.us/j/93328853287 Meeting ID: 933 2885 3287 Nadia Farage graduated…

Vital Topics webinar: How a digital boost can help small businesses survive and thrive in the wake of COVID-19

17:00 - 18:30 21 October 2020
In conversation with Sherry Coutu: How a digital boost can help small businesses survive and thrive in the wake of COVID-19 The pandemic has particularly impacted SMEs with forecasts…

Webinar: Data for dissertations

15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2020
Are you doing or supervising a dissertation this year? This free webinar will talk you through options for using secondary data available from the UK Data Service in undergraduate…

What has changed for teenagers’ mental health and opportunities since the UK COVID-19 outbreak?

11:30 - 12:30 21 October 2020
Policy@Manchester presents: In conversation with Dr Ola Demkowicz This has been a difficult time for teenagers, raising lots of difficult feelings and concerns. There is no "one size…

Balancing access, cost and quality: reforming Australian general practice

11:00 - 12:30 22 October 2020
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 22nd October. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/bq2CatkZjWo Abstract: The Australian health system…

Researching Black British History

12:00 - 14:00 22 October 2020
Discover the fantastic collections available for researching Black British History and learn more about research techniques and challenges. In this 2-hour workshop, History staff…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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