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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…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Harry Geranois - On self-extensions of irreducible modules over symmetric groups

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2020
Speaker: Harry Geranois Title: On self-extensions of irreducible modules over symmetric groups Abstract: We work within the context of the modular representation theory of symmetric…

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

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 1 June: Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Recent Developments

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – June Session Interviewer Falsification in Survey Research: Recent Developments Joseph Sakshaug (German Institute for Employment Research) Join…

Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21

16:00 3 November 2020 - 17:00 1 June 2021
The Department of Social Statistics is pleased to invite everyone interested in quantitative social research to a series of online seminars. The events will be held once a month throughout…

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…

'Bursting bubbles: new perspectives on volcanic eruptions from the communities who experience them

13:00 18 November 2020
Prof Jenni Barclay, UEA, Norwich, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Some 800 million people live within 100 km of an active volcanic…

A feminist perspective on the fight against antimicrobial resistance

12:00 - 12:45 18 November 2020
In support of World Antibiotic Awareness Week, The University of Manchester's 'Action on Antibiotic Drug Resistance' is delighted to announce that the Annual Lecture will be given by…

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…

Architecture for the Majority World: Symposium

14:00 - 17:00 18 November 2020
Symposium with Peggy Deamer (Yale University, USA), Manuela Boatca (University of Freiburg, Germany), and Ibrahim Mahama (Tamale, Ghana). The Symposium will debate the global expansion…

Bike Registration Event Cancelled

09:00 - 13:00 18 November 2020
Unfortunately this event has been cancelled due to the latest National lockdown restrictions. Apologies for any inconvenience. Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted…

GDI Webinar: Covid-19, Garment Workers, and the Development Challenge in the Global South

16:30 - 18:00 18 November 2020
Mark Anner will share findings from his survey data on the impact of March 2020 order cancellations by major apparel brands and retailers with global supplier factories (USD 40 billion),…

Olivier Devauchelle - Boltzmann statistics in alluvial rivers

14:00 - 15:00 18 November 2020
Olivier Devauchelle (IPGP) 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…

Pankhurst Seminar: The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 2020
The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture with Professor Oliver Richmond, Politics, University of Manchester

Probability Seminar

15:00 18 November 2020
https://zoom.us/j/96232578264 Meeting ID: 962 3257 8264 Speaker: Dominik Schmid (TU Munich) Title: Mixing times for the exclusion process Abstract: The exclusion process is one…

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…

Saeed Shoaie - Systems Biology of Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease

14:00 - 15:00 18 November 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Saeed Shoaie (King's College) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Sheena Kalayil (Modern Languages), ‘Being a Writer of Colour in the UK Literary Industry’

16:00 - 18:00 18 November 2020
CIDRAL Key Ideas Seminars

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Basak Sarac - Lesavre - University of Manchester

14:30 - 16:00 18 November 2020
Social Anthropology Seminar Wednesday 18th of November 2020 Dr Basak Sarac - Lesavre University of Manchester 14:30 – 16:00pm https://zoom.us/j/97257899519 Nuclear Remains On Time,…

Teaching, Scholarship & Research (TSAR)

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 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…

The Book of Shanghai: Chen Danyan & Wang Zhanhei in conversation

14:00 - 15:00 18 November 2020
Join us for a literary exploration of the city of Shanghai as part of a very special event, showcasing Comma's city anthology The Book of Shanghai, which features ten contemporary Chinese…

CoDE Seminar: Black and Brown at the Intersection: Critical Thoughts Concerning Race, Debility and Disability

14:00 - 15:30 19 November 2020
In this seminar Viji Kuppan draws from previous writing presented in the book, The Fire Now (Johnson et al, 2018) called, Crippin’ Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Colour…

CTIS Research Seminars 2020-2021 | Media Accessibility: New environments, New Hybrid Audiovisual Modalities by Anna Matamala (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

13:00 - 14:30 19 November 2020
Media Accessibility: New environments, New Hybrid Audiovisual Modalities This session will consist of two parts, both of which aim to illustrate how integrating knowledge from other…

Let’s Talk about Food (online event)

11:00 - 12:00 19 November 2020
An In Conversation film with live Q&A, hosted by researchers in Humanities and Plant Sciences. Part of Being Human Festival Gain an insight into historical research by Dr Rachel Winchcombe…

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