Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

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…

"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…

Regulatory choices - Making work safer?

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2021
Join us for the inaugural Thomas Ashton Institute annual lecture - with guest speaker Dr David Snowball. The current pandemic has brought to light and amplified new and existing challenges…

The Annual Harry Street Lecture - Academic Year 2020/2021

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2021
‘UK Constitutional Reform – Westminster or Whitehall? We’re often told that there is no real understanding of the separation of powers in the UK constitution. Its efficient secret…

Getting materials manufactured – why politics and policy matter!

16:00 - 18:00 26 April 2021
Professor Laura Cohen Online Inaugural Lecture We live in challenging times from a political and environmental perspective. There is a real urgency to develop new materials and novel…

The Chemical Microscope – a view from the edge

15:00 - 17:00 29 April 2021
Professor Nicholas Lockyer Online Inaugural Lecture Since its invention in the 16th Century the ‘modern’ optical microscope has proved an essential instrument in scientific advancement…

CIDRAL Online Events - Climate Crisis and the Far Right (title TBC)

17:00 - 19:00 4 May 2021
CIDRAL ONLINE EVENTS - SPRING 2021 (Semester Two) Lecture Series: Crises and Recoveries Andreas Malm (Lund University), on Climate Crisis and the Far Right (title t.b.c.) ZOOM Link…

CIDRAL Online Events - Book Launch & Conversation

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2021
Book Launch & Conversation: The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (Organised by the Jewish-Muslim Research Network, University of Michigan)…

Affecting change: Kevin Gillan and Damien Gayle on the power of protest

18:00 - 22:30 2 June 2021
A two-part Guardian masterclass that explores the intriguing roots of protest movements and how social movement came to be, and how the they have evolved. The roots of protest and social…

Not set in stone: Why we need fewer statues and more honesty - Gary Younge at the Hay Festival

14:00 - 14:50 4 June 2021
Gary Younge is giving this year's Aneurin Bevan lecture at the Hay Festival. He will be introducing his research on statues, empire and memorialisation. Introduced by Ian Goldin. …

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

Search