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Brownbag - Jasmin Fliegner

12:00 - 13:00 15 December 2021
Title: TBA

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…

Maria Elena Bedoya Hidalgo (Manchester): 'Naming the past: On antiquities, collecting practices and musealization in the Andes, 1892-1915'

17:00 - 18:30 15 December 2021
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be online via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930 Abstract:…

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…

PGCE Secondary: Information Session

18:00 - 19:00 15 December 2021
Join our Information Session for an introduction to the PGCE teacher training courses for Secondary level, with an overview of the different subjects available at The University of…

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.…

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…

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…

Timo Schlüter - Limit theorems for a random walk on oriented percolation

15:00 - 16:00 15 December 2021
Timo Schlüter (University of Basel) will speak in the Probability seminar. We consider a directed random walk $X=(X_n)_n$ in a random environment on $\Z^d$. The environment is given…

What can AI do for Arts, Culture & Creativity Research at UoM?

15:00 - 16:30 15 December 2021
New technologies in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are providing unprecedented access to cultural heritage, creating new cultural experiences, offering new ways to respond…

Collection Encounter- Unfurling the past: Emperor Kangxi’s birthday scroll

10:30 - 12:00 16 December 2021
Join us and researcher Anastasiia Akulich as we unravel and reveal Beijing's bustling countryside life in this unique scroll. Created for the Emperor Kangxi’s birthday, this magnificent…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr Dominika Kurek-Chomycz (Liverpool Hope University) 'Teaching, Just Not ex cathedra: Women from the Letters of Paul in Patristic Literature.’

14:00 - 16:00 16 December 2021
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. All sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

PGCE Primary: Information Session

18:00 - 19:00 16 December 2021
Join our Information Session for an introduction to the PGCE teacher training for Primary level, with an overview of the course at The University of Manchester, followed by a Q&A with…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert “CANCELLED”

13:10 - 14:00 16 December 2021
Brahms: String Quartet No. 2, in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2 Brahms was even more awed by the prospect writing string quartets than he was by symphonies, reportedly composing and destroying…

The Limits of Racial Representation: Race, Culture, & Media

17:00 - 18:15 16 December 2021
A conversation between Herman Gray (UC Santa Cruz) and Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths). How has the politics of racial representation changed in the past thirty years? Professor Herman Gray…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert (with Michel Lethiec and David Fanning) “CANCELLED”

19:30 - 21:00 17 December 2021
Thierry Muller: Clarinet Quintet (first performance), with Michel Lethiec Kryštof Maratka: Clarinet Quintet ‘Arboretum of Time’, with Michel Lethiec (UK Premiere) Dvorák: Piano Quintet,…

Reconstructing posture and locomotion of the stem amniote Orobates using x-ray motion analysis, musculoskeletal models, and bio-inspired robotics

13:00 - 14:00 17 December 2021
Prof John Nyakatura from the Humboldt University, Berlin will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Aidan O'Keeffe - Regression discontinuity designs for time-to-event outcomes: An approach using accelerated failure time models

14:00 - 15:00 12 January 2022
Aidan O'Keeffe, Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Regression discontinuity…

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