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Alien Hunt!

24 April - 20 June 2021
Alien Hunt! Saturday 24th April – Sunday 20th June Aliens have arrived at Jodrell Bank! Seek them out across the site in our brand new scavenger hunt. Hunt them all and discover the…

Astronomy Photographer of the Year

24 April - 31 October 2021
Astronomy Photographer of the Year Saturday 25 September – Sunday 31 October The Royal Observatory Greenwich’s hugely popular Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition opens at…

Book Launch - Albena Yaneva 'Crafting History'

14:00 - 16:00 5 May 2021
Book Launch of Albena Yaneva (2020) Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy, Cornell University Press https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501751844/crafting-history/…

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)…

CIDRAL Online Events - Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Neuroscience

14:00 - 16:00 5 May 2021
CIDRAL Online Events - Spring 2021 (Semester Two) Key Ideas Seminars Alex Samely, ‘Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Neuroscience’ ZOOM link - click on joining links Passcode: 741431

Computer Science Research Talk: : Exposing Previously Undetectable Faults in Deep Neural Networks

14:00 - 15:00 5 May 2021
You are welcome to the forthcoming Research Talk in Computer Science (online) Joining details: Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91635482399 Speaker: Isaac Dunn Host: Dr Lucas…

Daily Telescope Talks

24 April - 20 June 2021
Daily Telescope Talks Saturday 24th April – Sunday 20th June Join one of our expert Explainers for a short talk on the giant Lovell Telescope. You’ll learn all about its fascinating…

Damien Lamberton - On the American put in the Heston model

15:00 - 16:00 5 May 2021
Damien Lamberton (Université Gustave-Eiffel) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study some qualitative properties of the American put price in the Heston model. In particular,…

Free Cog Webinar

14:00 - 15:30 5 May 2021
On 5th May, MICRA held a specialist webinar, targeted towards clinicians and practitioners and academics. The event was to discuss a new instrument which measures executive and cognitive…

Grete Stern: modernist photography and indigeneity in Argentina

17:15 - 18:15 5 May 2021
Ignacio Aguiló (Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Manchester) Grete Stern: modernist photography and indigeneity in Argentina Please pre-register on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.c…

Ho-Kei Chan - Confinement-induced columnar crystals: A route to new architecture in the scientific world

14:00 - 15:00 5 May 2021
Ho-Kei Chan (Harbin Institute of Technology) joins us for this virtual seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series This seminar will be held via Zoom. Please email chris.johnson@manchester.ac.uk…

Making the Unknown Knowable

15:00 29 April - 16:30 27 May 2021
Making the unknown knowable has always been located at the heart of scientific activity. Yet, whether the goal is to understand extreme environments, outer space or the universe (Helmreich,…

Manchester Literature Festival Spring 2021 Online Events- Kazuo Ishiguro & Jackie Kay in Conversation

19:30 19 April - 12:00 17 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Mon 19 April 2021 and available to watch until 17 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Do you believe in the human heart?’…

Mark Chaplain - A Mathematical Framework for Modelling the Metastatic Spread of Cancer

13:00 - 14:00 5 May 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Mark Chaplain (St. Andrews) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Natalie Diaz NEW COMMISSION Hosted by Mary Jean Chan

22 April - 21 May 2021
This event will be first broadcast at 7.30pm on Thursday 22 April 2021 and available to watch until 21 May. The event will be pre-recorded and captioned. ‘Natalie Diaz is a poet who…

Pablo Hernández Sau (UoM): "Mimesis at Spanish Louisiana. Colonial interaction in late eighteenth century Mississippi"

17:00 - 18:00 5 May 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930 ABSTRACT: In 1763, Bourbon…

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…

Sociology seminar: 'The social significance of dining out' (Alan Warde)

15:45 - 16:45 5 May 2021
Alan Warde will discuss research from his book, co-authored by Jessica Paddock and Jennifer Whillans, 'The social significance of dining out: A study of continuity and change'. All welcome.

Teaching, Scholarship & Research (TSAR)

13:00 - 14:00 5 May 2021
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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Holly Morse (University of Manchester) ‘Falling for the Devil: Eve and the Witch’

14:00 - 16:00 6 May 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.…

Manchester Access Programme - Meet Your Tutor

6 May 2021
MAP students are supported by an Academic Tutor (a member of university staff or postgraduate researcher) to write a 1,500 word original essay on a subject of their choice. We provide…

Manchester Digital Collections: Tokens of Affection

12:00 - 12:45 6 May 2021
Join Angie McCarthy and Tony Richards from the John Rylands Research Institute and Library Imaging Team as they explore how portrait photographic jewellery has always been a sentimental…

Supporting the Supporters 2021

09:30 - 15:00 6 May 2021
This annual CPD event is aimed at professionals and supporters of care-experienced young people, including social workers, foster carers, personal advisors and designated teachers.…

COVID-19 Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Experiences

16:00 - 17:00 7 May 2021
In the latest of our series of webinars (in partnership with The International Emergency Managers Society – TIEMS, and Capacity Building International - CBI) our speakers will explore…

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