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Applied Seminar - Mauro Rota (Rome)

13:00 - 14:00 25 November 2021
Title: TBA

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 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…

International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War

16:00 - 18:00 25 November 2021
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute and the Centre for Jewish Studies are hosting this Seminar on Jewish humanitarianism. In 1914, seven million Jews across Eastern Europe…

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…

Nano in Medicine & Health Lecture Series: Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine - Professor George Malliaras, University of Cambridge

14:00 - 15:00 25 November 2021
On behalf of the Nanomedicine Lab at the Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health and the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) we are delighted to invite you to our…

Online Talk: Collecting and Displaying China at the National Museum of Scotland

18:00 - 19:00 25 November 2021
A new East Asia gallery opened at the National Museum of Scotland in February 2019 as the final stage of the Museum’s fifteen-year transformation and renovation. The new gallery presents…

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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Katherine Brown (University of Birmingham) “Extremist Myths and Extremist Masculinities in Indonesia, Philippines and Pakistan”

16:00 - 17:30 25 November 2021
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid session and can be attended in person or online. Please register to receive the Zoom link…

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…

Suzanne Lacy: What kind of city? A manual for social change

26 November 2021 - 10 April 2022
The Whitworth presents the first major UK presentation of multiple works of US artist Suzanne Lacy, a pioneer of social practice and community organising for almost five decades. In…

Christmas Shopping Weekends

27 November - 5 December 2021
Christmas Shopping Weekends 27-28 November and 4-5 December 10am -6pm It’s that time of year again! Hot chocolates, mince pies, snow glistening around a scenic Lovell telescope, and…

Stars Science Show

27 November - 5 December 2021
Stars Science Show 27-28 November and 4-5 December 11:30, 13:30*, 14:30 and 16:00 Now the nights are getting darker why not come and find out all about the Stars in our new live science…

MIOIR Seminar Series - How Canadian firms mitigate innovation barriers to (try to) remain innovative

15:30 - 16:30 29 November 2021
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 21/22, webinar hosted by Catherine Beaudry, Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Industrial…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata - ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’

16:00 - 18:00 29 November 2021
Samuli Schielke and Mukhtar Shehata ‘What literature does to writers. Intersections of writing and life from Alexandria’ From 2010 to 2019, the anthropologist Samuli Schielke and…

Annual Lane Lecture 2021: Long-COVID: should this be in the occupational disease fast lane? With guest speaker Dr Lesley Rushton

16:00 - 18:00 30 November 2021
Long-COVID: should this be in the occupational disease fast lane? Since January 2020 the UK has experienced waves of infection due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus…

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