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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…

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…

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?…

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…

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…

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: 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…

Cancelled - See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly

09:15 - 11:15 12 December 2020
Cancelled - Sat 12 December: 9.15-11.15am See, Make and Do at the Museum - Autism-Friendly Join us for early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs,…

Teaching, Scholarship & Research (TSAR)

13:00 - 14:00 14 December 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…

‘A marvellous order’: the spatial and economic structures that make agglomeration economies work in Greater Manchester

15:30 - 17:00 14 December 2020
Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by Francesca Froy, Research Associate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Emily Rudman

13:00 - 14:00 15 December 2020
Speaker: Emily Rudman Title: The cyclic homology of $k[x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d]/(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d)^2$ Abstract: The Hochschild homology of the ring $k[x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d]/(x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_d)^2$…

SALC Book Launch

17:00 - 19:00 15 December 2020
SALC Book Launch

Christian Bick - Oscillators on evolving networks: Fast and slow evolution

13:00 - 14:00 16 December 2020
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Christian Bick (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

Introduction to National Facilities - Diamond Synchrotron Imaging

11:00 - 12:00 16 December 2020
This is the first seminar in The University of Manchester at Harwell Ideas Forum Imaging series. The aim of this series is to increase networking of academics and researchers across…

Online Talk: Discover China's popular winter food with Sam Sin

18:00 - 19:00 16 December 2020
Find out how people in China celebrate the Christmas season and what foods are eaten at this time of year. Following our successful face-to-face and virtual Chinese cooking tutorials,…

When Systems Fail: Covid-19, NHS acute hospitals and public health

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2020
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 16th December. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/nKkHTAeNUXM Abstract: The seminar will introduce…

Xiaoqin Guo - Heat kernel estimates for random walks in an i.i.d. balanced random environment

15:00 - 16:00 16 December 2020
Xiaoqin Guo (Cincinnati) will speak in the Probability seminar. We consider a random walk in an i.i.d. random environment in the integer lattice with no drift. It is known that the…

"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…

ESID webinar - The Politics of Building State Capacity in Africa: What Role for 'Pockets of Effectiveness'?

17 December 2020
Why do some parts of the state in developing countries function much more effectively than others? What role do these ‘pockets of effectiveness’ (PoEs) play in delivering development…

Morgan Centre seminar: 'Birth and Death: relations and connections' - Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

14:00 - 15:00 17 December 2020
Birth and death are usually conceived in opposition: birth as a beginning, death an end, birth as a source of hope and optimism and death the cause of grief. In this talk we will outline…

PSDP How can we help?

13:00 - 14:00 17 December 2020
An opportunity to discuss small group sessions and practice/share any approaches with a warm and friendly group.

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