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"At Least We Don't Do That Here." How Europe (Mis)Understands Black America (Gary Younge)

18:00 - 19:00 12 April 2021
This talk, from Professor of Sociology, Gary Younge, marks the opening of the British Sociological Association's 70th Anniversary Annual Conference, and it is open to all. Britain's…

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…

Dr Petra Tjitske Kalshoven: For a familiar future: The power of habit in England’s nuclear heartland

16:00 - 17:30 12 April 2021
Dr Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, University of Manchester Title: For a familiar future: The power of habit in England’s nuclear heartland Abstract: This is a story of two recent energy-related…

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- 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…

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…

Novel Voices -Cherie Jones and Nekesa Afia in conversation with Ellah Wakatama

19:00 - 20:00 12 April 2021
Cherie Jones is the author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House. She is a lawyer based in Barbados. She won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 1999. She then studied Creative…

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…

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.…

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…

Climate Change: Why complexity appears to hinder -- but may actually help -- humanity to act?

13:00 - 14:00 13 April 2021
Politics Pankhurst Seminar with Dr. Paul Tobin Climate Change: Why complexity appears to hinder -- but may actually help -- humanity to act? April 13th 2021 1-2pm Zoom…

CPC&HSR Seminar – Three PhD presentations by current postgraduate students at the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services research

13:00 - 14:00 13 April 2021
We are pleased to invite you to this CPC&HSR seminar where three of our postgraduate students will present about their interesting PhD studies. • Alyaa Ajabnoor will present a talk…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Stacey Law

13:00 - 14:00 13 April 2021
Speaker: Stacey Law title: Sylow branching coefficients and a conjecture of Malle and Navarro abstract: The relationship between the representation theory of a finite group and that…

Social Statistics Seminar - 4pm, 13 April: Methodological Challenges and Theoretical Opportunities for Collecting Large Personal Networks in Large Samples

16:00 - 17:00 13 April 2021
Social Statistics Seminars 2020/21 – April Session Methodological Challenges and Theoretical Opportunities for Collecting Large Personal Networks in Large Samples Gert Stulp (University…

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