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CIDRAL Online Events - ‘The Egyptian Coffee House’

14:00 - 16:00 23 March 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Amina Elbendary and Dalia Moustafa, ‘The Egyptian Coffee House’ ZOOM Link - click on joining links Passcode: 932176

Letters to a President - A National Writing Competition for School Pupils

21 January - 30 April 2021
This spring the University of Manchester’s programme in American Studies is asking UK school students in Years 9- 13 to write “Letters to a President”, to the incoming US presidential…

Macro Seminar - Tim Lee (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 23 March 2021
Title: Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Michael Livesey - Towards RoCK blocks for double covers of symmetric and alternating group

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Speaker: Michael Livesey Title: Towards RoCK blocks for double covers of symmetric and alternating group Abstract: In this talk I will give an overview of RoCK blocks and their significance…

One Reason Why Aerospace Needs Geologists: How Mineral Dust Damages Engines

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Dr Rory Clarkson, Rolls Royce, joins us for a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. Sand and mineral dust is increasingly becoming a problem for…

Politics Pankhurst Seminar with Professor Francesca Gains: Metro Mayors: Who are They and What do They Do? - A Pre-Election Primer

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2021
Politics Pankhurst Seminar with Professor Francesca Gains Metro Mayors: Who are They and What do They Do? - A Pre-Election Primer March 23d 2021 1-2pm Zoom meeting ID:…

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…

Tobias Ross - The Chinese Football Dream: How voluntarily-driven is China’s private football boom? [Early Career Researcher Workshop]

12:30 - 13:30 23 March 2021
Since initiating a set of large-scale reforms in the field of football at the highest political level in 2014, China is aiming to become a leading football nation by 2050. With a clear…

Webinar: Tables and Pivot Tables in Excel

14:00 - 15:30 23 March 2021
Tables were introduced into Excel in 2007 but are still not that commonly used. Perhaps because casual users think they are using tables all of the time, after all their data is in…

Annual Bragg Lecture - Dr Tamsin Edwards

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
What fate for the Antarctic ice sheet? Antarctica is a distant, unfamiliar place. We hear of ice shelves collapsing, giant icebergs breaking away, glaciers crumbling: but how much…

Evaluating culture change in the English NHS: Learning and insights for culture change post-Covid 19

12:30 - 13:30 24 March 2021
Join us at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation (IHPO) seminar series on 24 March. Zoom Recording: https://youtu.be/7t-EsuiuapU Abstract: The Culture and Leadership Programme…

Explore your planet

13:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
The aim of this virtual event is to demonstrate how A level Physics, Maths, Chemistry and Biology are both applicable and essential to the study of the Earth and the environment. …

Fire, explosion, flood and pestilence: how to build a resilient world post-pandemic

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2021
Professor Neil Bourne, MACE, is presenting the first talk, hosted by the Institute of Physics, in a series from experts within the field of high strain-rate / pressure phenomena. COVID-19…

Gabriel Neiva (Manchester): Amerindian traditions in fictional writings: A literary panorama of the Guianas

17:00 - 18:30 24 March 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930

Institutional racism and social justice activism in the Church of England

17:30 - 18:30 24 March 2021
Join us for an online event with Fr. Azariah France-Williams on what it means to do anti-racist work in the Church of England and other institutions. This event will feature a public…

Irmgard Bischofsberger - Instabilities and flow-induced defects in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

14:00 - 15:00 24 March 2021
Irmgard Bischofsberger (MIT) 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…

Jen Creaser - Domino-like transient dynamics at seizure onset

13:00 - 14:00 24 March 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Jen Creaser (Exeter) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found…

Manchester Connect

14:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
We're offering students the opportunity to book a one-to-one session with a member of University staff! As we aren't currently visiting schools and colleges in person, Manchester Connect…

Morgan Centre seminar: The Affective Temporalities of Friendships (Kinneret Lahad)

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
"When will we meet?" "It's been ages since we last spoke", or "We must catch up soon", are just some of the commonplace and seemingly insignificant sayings between friends. In this…

Realist Utopia: Houses and Neighbourhoods in 1920s and 1930s Milan

17:15 - 18:15 24 March 2021
Francesca Billiani (Italian Studies, University of Manchester) Realist Utopia: Houses and Neighbourhoods in 1920s and 1930s Milan Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fr…

Ryoki Fukushima - Number of paths in oriented percolation as zero temperature limit of directed polymer

15:00 - 16:00 24 March 2021
Ryoki Fukushima (University of Tsukuba) will speak in the Probability seminar. Consider the number of open paths in the supercritical oriented percolation. It is known to grow exponentially,…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Christophe Nihan (University of Lausanne) ‘Ashdod’s Mice and Yhwh as a Plague God: Versions and Contexts in 1 Samuel 5’

14:00 - 16:00 25 March 2021
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.…

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…

Remote vs face-to-face interpreting – Does it make a difference in interpreter performance?

10:00 - 11:30 25 March 2021
Remote interpreting has traditionally been the least preferred option when face-to-face interpreting was infeasible (Skinner et al, 2018). Interpreters typically prefer face-to-face…

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