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CTIS | Research Seminar

13:00 - 14:00 3 December 2020
Translation as Circumspection: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Heidegger It is common in Translation Studies to worry a lot about theory. A perennial question from students…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Helen Jacobus (University of Manchester) ‘A Response to the Alleged "Fallacy of Jaubert's Hypothesis" and the Flood Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls’

14:00 - 16:00 3 December 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.…

ESID webinar - The Politics of Addressing Africa's Urban Challenge

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2020
Urbanisation is occurring at a faster rate in Africa than in any other continent. Whether countries are able to use this to achieve higher levels of economic development, & ensure more…

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…

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…

Online workshops: Online tools for accessing and analysing census data from the UK Data Service: Census Aggregate data, Flow data and Microdata

12:00 1 - 12:00 16 December 2020
Do you want to know how to use online tools to access and analyse UK census data from the UK Data Service? The UK Data Service is a rich source of census data. In December, we are…

Seminar With Lindsay Reckson (Haverford College)

17:00 - 18:30 3 December 2020
Discussion of pre-circulated chapter from Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press 2020), co-hosted by Gordon Fraser (University of Manchester)…

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…

Webinar: Data management basics

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2020
This free introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to learn about research data management. Data management is essential to make sure that well organised, well documented,…

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…

EU AI policy and AI policy support at the European Parliament

15:30 - 17:00 7 December 2020
Join us for the Joint Seminar hosted by Manchester Institute of Innovation Research and Digital Futures with guest speaker Philip Boucher, European Parliament. To join this webinar,…

Literature and Racism Panel Discussion (part of MACFEST)

17:00 - 18:00 7 December 2020
Join MACFEST for an exciting panel on Legacies of colonialism: Reading and Writing as a Resistance with Emily Zobel Marshall and Leyla Aboulela. A reader in Postcolonial Literature…

Crime Surveys User Conference 2020

09:30 - 15:30 8 December 2020
NB times are TBC This free annual conference, organised by the UK Data Service, will be held online due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The user conference brings data producers…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Roy Oste - Ghent University - Deformations of unitary Howe dual pairs

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2020
Speaker: Roy Oste - Ghent University Title: Deformations of unitary Howe dual pairs Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the deformation of the Howe dual pairs $(\mathrm{U}(n),\mathfrak{u}(1,1))$…

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

Watercooler Ponderings

12:00 - 13:00 8 December 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…

Building the mammal back

13:00 - 14:00 9 December 2020
Dr Katrina Jone, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. The origin of mammals is…

Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Biomedical Materials inaugural conference

10:00 - 15:00 9 December 2020
Join us as we showcase the exciting research we’re carrying out with academics, clinicians and our industry partners. We are also delighted to host two international keynote speakers,…

Computer Science Atlas Talk

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2020
Join us for the next Computer Science Atlas Talk (online) on Wednesday 9 December 2020 Joining details: https://zoom.us/j/94871425671 Title: Interacting with Socially Intelligent…

Eleanor Archer - Random walks on decorated Galton-Watson trees

15:00 - 16:00 9 December 2020
Eleanor Archer (Tel Aviv) will speak in the Probability seminar. https://zoom.us/j/91491645346 Abstract: Random trees are the building blocks for a range of probabilistic structures,…

Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova - An Integrative Mathematical-Experimental Approach to Pulsatile Hormone Dynamics

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series…

Meta-Optics for night vision technologies

10:00 - 11:00 9 December 2020
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Professor Dragomir Neshev. In this talk, Professor Neshev will introduce the recently established Australian Centre of Excellence for…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Simon Walgenbach (University of Manchester)

15:15 - 16:50 9 December 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…

What does an architect need to know?

14:00 9 December 2020
What does an architect need to know? Hear from Alan Lewis (MARG, Manchester), Diana Osmolska (MARG, Manchester), and Fionn Stevenson (University of Sheffield).

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