Events at The University of Manchester

Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

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…

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…

The 2021 Dorothy Emmet Lecture

18:15 - 19:30 18 March 2021
The University of Manchester Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the 2021 Dorothy Emmet Lecture. Miranda Fricker will be asking 'How is forgiveness a gift?'. The event will…

From MOOCs to COVID - Teaching and Learning Opportunities arising from Necessity -POSTPONED

15:30 - 16:30 25 March 2021
An Inaugural lecture by Professor Ralf Becker from the Department of Economics We are very pleased to announce that Professor Ralf Becker will deliver an Inaugural lecture on 25 March…

Getting on top of the standard model: Hunting for new physics with top quarks

16:00 - 18:00 31 March 2021
Join us for next online event in our inaugural lecture series, with speaker Yvonne Peter from our Department of Physics and Astronomy. The search for the most fundamental building…

CIDRAL Online Events - ‘Political Apologies Across Cultures’

17:00 - 19:00 13 April 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries Juliette Schaafsma et al. (Tilburg University), ‘Political Apologies Across Cultures’ ZOOM…

The Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture 2021

17:30 - 19:00 15 April 2021
On 15th April 2021, the School of Social Sciences welcomes one of the most senior UNHCR officials in the Mediterranean, an area that has been the epicentre of refugee flows into Europe…

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