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#ReconstructionWork: Publishing in the Wake of Black Lives Matter With Margaret Busby and Anamik Saha

18:00 - 19:15 23 November 2021
Coordinated by The Stuart Hall Foundation in partnership with the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE). The Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020 produced an unprecedented…

Conversations on Urban Ageing and Social Infrastructure

15:00 - 16:00 23 November 2021
Urban Ageing and Social Infrastructure: Creating spaces for an ageing society, the role of critical social infrastructure In the second conversation in this series on urban ageing,…

Decision Manchester

1 September - 31 December 2021
All students who successfully complete the Manchester Access Programme will be eligible to submit a MAP Decision Manchester application form to The University of Manchester. Submission…

Exchanges: Recent Additions to the Collection

2 July 2021 - 1 May 2022
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Family life across public/private settings: Towards a reconceptualisation of ‘family’ (Vanessa May)

15:00 - 17:00 23 November 2021
Vanessa May will be presenting a paper titled Family life across public/private settings: Towards a reconceptualisation of ‘family’ as part of 'Domestic | Private | Familial - 4'…

Family Stargazing, Online!

18 November - 12 December 2021
Family Stargazing, Online! Thursday 18th November 6pm – 7pm Sunday 12th December 4pm – 5pm An opportunity for the whole family to explore our solar system and beyond from the comfort…

Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis

12 November - 10 December 2021
Longitudinal data is essential in a number of research fields as it enables analysts to concurrently understand aggregate and individual level change in time, the occurrence of events…

Love Thy Neighbour - Asia Triennial Manchester 2021

12 - 24 November 2021
With a two-week interdisciplinary programme of art, poetry, film, immersive installation and performance, ATM21 will investigate how we can build a more compassionate relationship with…

Macro Seminar - Edouard Schaal (CREI)

16:00 - 17:00 23 November 2021
Title: Herding through Booms and Busts (joint with Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel)

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Alexander Stasinski

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2021
Speaker: Alexander Stasinski - Durham Title: Rationality of representation zeta functions of compact p-adic analytic groups Abstract: A representation zeta function of a group G…

Outdoor Explorers

4 August 2021 - 17 August 2022
Whether you live in a city or town, countryside or seaside, you will find all sorts of nature on your doorstep. Just like the scientists and researchers who have collected and studied…

Peter Martin - Book Launch: “China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy”

12:30 - 13:30 23 November 2021
Please join the Manchester China Institute for a book launch of Peter Martin’s China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy. In the book, Martin charts China's transformation…

Social Statistics Seminars 2021/22

1 October 2021 - 30 June 2022
We are pleased to announce this year's Social Statistics Seminars. Our speakers: 12/10: Iris Gomez-Lopez (University of Michigan) 02/11: David Haziza (University of Ottawa) 07/12:…

Standardisation and Deviation: The Whitworth Story

2 July 2021 - 1 February 2022
Founded in 1889 through Sir Joseph Whitworth’s legacy, the Whitworth was established to honour one of Britain’s greatest mechanical engineers. A proponent of standardisation, Sir Joseph…

Still Parents: Life after Baby Loss

24 September 2021 - 4 September 2022
Still Parents is the first exhibition of its kind, creating a platform to share personal stories open conversations and break the wall of silence that continues to surround baby loss.…

Telescope Talks

25 September 2021 - 29 May 2022
Telescope Talks (weekends only) Times: 11am, 12pm, 2:15pm and 3:15pm Come and join one of our expert Explainers for a talk about the Lovell telescope. You’ll learn all about the fascinating…

Abeyamí Ortega (UoM): 'The ‘mestizo gaze’ and the ‘scopic regime of mestizaje’: Racial logics, visual culture, and citizenship in Mexico'

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be on campus (Samuel Alexander A101) but you can also follow it via Zoom.…

Brownbag - Katsushi Imai

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2021
Title: Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Education and Labour Market Outcomes in the Future Generation?

Christophe Ley - Directional statistics and protein bioinformatics: a flexible approach

14:00 - 15:00 24 November 2021
Christophe Ley, Associate Professor of Statistics at the Department of Applied Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Ghent University is our speaker for the Statistics seminar…

GDI Lecture Series: How can we bridge the gap between local and global knowledge in urban development research?

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2021
Conceptualising the realities of cities in the global South is often characterised by ‘informality’ which continues to be key of the urban fabric. Transformation of cities to sustainability…

Jian Ding - A New Correlation Inequality for Ising Models with External Fields

15:00 - 16:00 24 November 2021
Jian Ding (University of Pennsylvania) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study ferromagnetic Ising models on finite graphs with an inhomogeneous external field, where a subset…

Original Thinking Webinar with Brahim Saadouni

16:30 - 17:30 24 November 2021
Our Original Thinking webinar series showcases some of the world-leading research from colleagues at Alliance MBS. This episode will be hosted by Brahim Saadouni, Professor of Accounting…

Reinhard Bürger -- The effects of epistasis and linkage on the invasion of locally beneficial mutations

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2021
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Reinhard Bürger (Vienna) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be…

The new EPSRC NNUF Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation (RADER) and Williamson Research Centre Laboratories - Research capabilities and opportunities

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2021
Profs Kath Morris and Jon Lloyd from the The University of Manchester will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

VerSoX B07-B: A new beamline for high-throughput XPS and ambient pressure XAS

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2021
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. David Grinter. Dr. Grinter will present a new beamline at Diamond Light Source, B07-B, dedicated to soft X-ray spectroscopy under…

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