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

11:00 - 16:00 23 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: 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…

Daisy Johnson and Sophie Mackintosh in conversation with Jeanette Winterson

12:00 - 13:00 23 October 2020
Two rising stars of the UK literary scene, both Daisy Johnson and Sophie Mackintosh excel in creating atmospheric tales centred around women and girls. Sophie’s dystopian Blue Ticket…

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…

Maaza Mengiste In conversation with Kamila Shamsie

16:00 - 17:00 23 October 2020
These aren’t the days to pretend you’re only a wife or a sister or a mother, she says. We’re more than this. In her stunning Booker Prize shortlisted novel, The Shadow King, Maaza…

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

11:00 - 16:00 24 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…

Artists Talk - Beauty and the Beasts; falling in love with insects

11:00 - 11:30 24 October 2020
Saturday 24 October 11-11.30am Artist Kate Eggleston-Wirtz has been commissioned by Manchester Museum to create an ‘Insect Hotel’ in response to our Beauty and the Beasts: Falling in…

Half Term: Alien Hunt!

24 October - 1 November 2020
Aliens have arrived at Jodrell Bank! Seek them out across the site in our brand new scavenger hunt. Hunt them all and discover the hidden clue to finding life in space. Self-guided…

Half Term: Fancy Dress!

24 October - 1 November 2020
We know its hallowe’en soon and you may not be able to dress up and trick and treat like usual, so, this half term, we’re inviting children to visit us in their best fancy dress! We…

Romalyn Ante, Will Harris & Nina Mingya Powles

12:00 - 13:00 24 October 2020
Three exciting young poets read from their debut collections. What unites the work of all three is their exploration of the self, what it means to be multi-heritage in today’s world,…

Tayari Jones & Brit Bennett n conversation with Ellah P. Wakatama

16:00 - 17:00 24 October 2020
How do you live with the kind of secret that could explode someone’s entire life? In Tayari Jones’ Silver Sparrow, Dana and her mother have always known that James, their father and…

Ali Smith in conversation with Kamila Shamsie

14:00 - 15:00 25 October 2020
Well, that’s what art is, maybe. Something that impresses mysteriously on you and you don’t know why. Over the past four years, Ali Smith has created both a work of art and a chronicle…

Angela Davis & Jackie Kay in conversation

18:00 - 19:00 25 October 2020
Angela Davis is an icon who, for over 50 years, has inspired others through her political thinking, activism and leadership. One of the world’s most prominent social justice campaigners,…

Laleh Haghverdi - Reconstruction of gene expression dynamics from scRNA-seq data in cell differentiation

14:00 - 15:00 26 October 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Laleh Haghverdi (Max Delbruck) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Webinar: Data in the spotlight: Qualitative and mixed methods data

15:00 - 16:00 26 October 2020
Did you know that qualitative and mixed methods data can be accessed for research? The UK Data Service provides access to a range of qualitative and mixed-methods data, including…

Windows of Creativity Art Trail

26 October - 4 December 2020
Monday 26 October until Friday 4 December Windows of Creativity Art Trail Free, Everyone, Drop by From the Wild in Art team who brought the award winning Bee in the City trail to Manchester…

Fabio Lanza - “To Make Life More Beautiful:” Gender, Industrial Labour, and Collectivization during the Great Leap Forward

15:30 - 16:30 27 October 2020
Webinar: In the years between 1958 and 1962, the Urban Commune movement was promoted as a radical effort to change the daily lives of Chinese city residents, including their relationship…

Half Term Family Activity - Paper Flowers

11:00 - 11:45 27 October 2020
Paper Flowers (online event) Tuesday 27 October 11-11.45am Manchester Museum is delighted to be hosting an installation by paper artist Kate Kelly as part of the Windows of Creativity…

Macro Seminar - Alexander Rodnyansky (Cambridge)

16:00 - 17:00 27 October 2020
Title: The Bond Lending Channel of Monetary Policy

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Simon Peacock

13:00 - 14:00 27 October 2020
Speaker: Simon Peacock - University of Manchester Title: The modular isomorphism problem and how not to solve it. Abstract: A central theme in group representation theory is to…

Manchester Connected Health Ecosystem: The East Netherlands - Your Gateway to Europe

10:00 - 11:30 27 October 2020
The October 2020 Manchester Connected Health Ecosystem event will focus on the East Netherlands as a gateway for UK businesses in Europe. The Netherlands is a life sciences & health…

Morgan Centre seminar: On not having children in an age of austerity: Reproductive rights, delays and defaults (Sarah Marie Hall)

15:00 - 16:00 28 October 2020
This talk will explore findings from an ISRF-funded fellowship on fertility, austerity and social reproduction. Reproduction represents a considerable concern in contemporary Europe,…

PSDP Masterclass 1: Robot Overlords: Lessons learnt from co-designing a large collaborative course for interdisciplinary learners

10:00 - 12:00 28 October 2020
Last year we developed a new UCIL course unit, designed to prepare any of our undergraduates for a world in which Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning is becoming increasingly…

Sungyon Lee - Interfaces: wind, droplets, and bubbles

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2020
Sungyon Lee (Minnesota) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Interfaces: wind, droplets, and bubbles Abstract: In this talk, we will present…

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