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Call for Submissions: Chinese Language Video Festival

25 March - 15 April 2021
Take part in the first ever Chinese Language Video Festival which has recently launched to celebrate this year's United Nations Chinese Language Day. The event, organized by UNOG (the…

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…

How can we ensure young people’s wellbeing is central to the recovery?

16:00 - 17:00 25 March 2021
Join Policy@Manchester and the SMF for a virtual event discussing how we can build better wellbeing in schools across the UK. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a conversation about…

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…

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Roger Robinson Hosted by Malika Booker

19:30 25 March - 12:00 30 April 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 25 March 2021 and be available to watch until 30 April. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. One of the most prominent…

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…

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…

How could big environmental data shape the futures of forest landscapes?

15:30 - 17:00 26 March 2021
We invite you to participate in our upcoming webinar on ‘How could big environmental data shape the futures of forest landscapes?’. The proliferation of ‘big data’ opens up exciting…

John Voight, Dartmouth College - Definite quaternion orders with stable cancellation - Pure Mathematics Colloquium

15:00 - 16:00 26 March 2021
Speaker: John Voight, Dartmouth College Series: Pure Mathematics Colloquium Date and Time: Friday 26th March 2021, 3pm - 4pm Title: Definite quaternion orders with stable cancellation…

Online Talk: Gardening by the Moon – an insight into sustainable farming with Mark Frith

16:00 - 17:00 30 March 2021
Join us on 30 March for an online talk with experienced Horticulture Therapist Mark Frith, where we will be discussing the long-standing principle of gardening by the phases of the…

Pedagogy Journal Club

13:00 - 14:00 30 March 2021
A monthly session to meet and discuss a journal article or paper. The choice of article will be based on current issues as well as the Faculty’s teaching strategy. To book a place,…

Computer Science Mercury Talk

14:00 - 15:00 31 March 2021
Join us for the next Computer Science Mercury Talk (online): https://zoom.us/j/98440686007 Speaker: Kaled Alshmrany Host: Lucas Cordeiro Title: FuSeBMC: A White-Box Fuzzer for…

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…

Hegemonic mainstream populism and state racism in Britain and France

31 March 2021
The rise of right populist nationalist parties, described as a ‘silent counter-revolution’ (Ignazi, 1992) has indeed succeeded in shifting mainstream agendas, particularly on particular…

Interpretation and applicability of ultra-high resolution STM and NC-AFM to the study of molecular and 2D systems

13:00 - 14:00 31 March 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Adam Sweetman. The last decade has seen a dramatic improvement in our ability to characterize surfaces at the atomic scale via scanning…

Manchester Connect

14:00 - 16:00 31 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…

Manchester Live - Student Life

14:00 - 15:00 31 March 2021
A recent graduate will be chatting all about student life at The University of Manchester, including everything from the Students' Union and student societies to sport, accommodation,…

We can't breathe: Gary Younge in conversation with Zubaida Haque about race, class and Covid

13:45 - 15:15 31 March 2021
This event is organised by the Political Studies Association (PSA) as part of their 2021 annual conference. The Coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have thrown issues…

Manchester Connect

14:00 - 16:00 7 April 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…

CoDE Seminar: Researching and Understanding Institutional Racism in Higher Education

14:00 - 15:30 8 April 2021
Sofia Akel presents her Insider-Outsider research examining the role of race in shaping experiences of students of colour at Goldsmiths Sofia Akel is an education activist and researcher,…

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Caleb Femi Hosted by Vanessa Kisuule

19:30 8 - 12:00 30 April 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 8 April 2021 and be available to watch until 30 April. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. A rising star on the British…

Webinar: Introduction to the UK Data Service

11:00 - 12:00 8 April 2021
The UK Data Service holds the UK’s largest collection of research data. This introductory webinar is for anyone with an interest in social research who wants to hear about the vast…

What Matters in Funding: The Value of Research Coherence and Alignment in Evaluators’ Decisions

15:30 - 17:00 12 April 2021
Join us for Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 20/21, webinar hosted by guest speaker, Dr. Fabiana Visentin, Assistant Professor at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University.…

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