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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…

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 - 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

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…

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…

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,…

GDI Webinar: A panel on the social and economic impact of Covid-19

15:30 - 17:00 9 December 2020
Covid-19 has defined 2020 and it's impact will long be felt after the year has ended. In this panel discussion, we will hear from three leading academics on how the pandemic has affected…

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).

“O Alienista": The Quixotic Science

17:00 - 18:00 9 December 2020
This paper aims to examine notions of science and madness in O Alienista (1881) by Machado de Assis. It focuses on how the plot structure of the novella satirises the progressive philosophy…

CoDE Seminar: Media, ‘Diversity’ and Racial Capitalism: A Case Study on the UK Publishing Industry

14:00 10 December 2020
In this paper, Anamik Saha produces a critical account of the ‘diversity’ paradigm that characterises creative industries policy. Drawing from a recent AHRC-funded project ‘Rethinking…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Nicholas Kay (King’s College, London) ‘The Concept of ‘ir in 11Q19: Spatiality’

14:00 - 16:00 10 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.…

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…

ESID webinar - The politics of learning reforms: How can governments be held to account?

15:00 - 16:15 10 December 2020
Developing countries have been more successful at widening access to education than raising learning outcomes partly because it is harder to build political support for learning reforms…

Katja Levy & Knut Benjamin Pissler: Charity With Chinese Characteristics [Book Launch]

12:30 - 13:30 10 December 2020
Webinar: Why do Chinese set up charitable foundations? How do Chinese foundations operate in the People's Republic of China? Which role can and do they play in the authoritarian system?…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Andrew Boakye (University of Manchester) “Apostles Behaving Badly: Peter, Paul and Black Lives Matter”

16:00 - 17:30 10 December 2020
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This semester the seminars will take place online via Zoom - please register to receive the link by emailing…

Webinar: Depositing your data with Reshare

15:00 - 16:00 10 December 2020
Join our free interactive online webinar, where you will learn everything you need to know in order to archive data using our self-deposit repository, ReShare. If you are an ESRC…

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