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ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR

22 January - 31 December 2022
Be blown away by the stunning images in this year’s Astronomy Photography of the Year exhibition from The Royal Observatory Greenwich. IMAGE: Polar Lights Dance © Dmitrii Rybalka

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…

Franklin (UMDS MIFTA Performance)

19:00 - 20:00 16 February 2022
After their generator gets wrecked in a violent storm, researchers at ice station Franklin call for help. When it becomes clear that the crop they’ve been studying may corrupt that…

GDI Lecture Series: Understanding the contemporary food crisis: structural causes, structural solutions

17:00 - 18:30 16 February 2022
Around the world hunger continues to be a pervasive issue. This talk summarizes current evidence regarding global hunger and demonstrates that its principal cause is not to be found…

Indigeneity, Material Cultures, Affectivity; Workshop

13:00 - 14:30 16 February 2022
This workshop will be an opportunity to further explore the topics introduced in the public talk ‘Indigeneity, Material Cultures, Affectivity; Talk’. Participants will also have a chance…

Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Manchester): "On Coalition and Cosmopolitics: Notes for a Recent History of Indigenous Cultural Production in Brazil"

17:00 - 18:30 16 February 2022
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.…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 16 February 2022
Ossi Mokryn University of Haifa The rich get richer, but what else? Observations in network growth over time” The temporal changes in complex systems of interactions have excited…

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…

Ritabrata Dutta - Probabilistic Forecasting with Conditional Generative Networks via Scoring Rule Minimization

14:00 - 15:00 16 February 2022
Ritabrata Dutta, Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick is our speaker for the Statistics seminar series. Title: Probabilistic Forecasting…

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:…

Sociology seminar: Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES): why are we still talking about ‘inclusion’?

14:45 - 15:45 16 February 2022
Speaker: Nafhesa Ali (SCI, University of Manchester) Abstract: The ‘Towards Inclusive Environmental Sustainability (TIES)’ project is a 3-year Leverhulme funded project and the first…

Stachniewski Memorial Lecture (online): Jyotsna Singh, 16 February - all welcome

17:30 - 18:30 16 February 2022
English, American Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester are very pleased to invite you to the Stachniewski Memorial Lecture for 2022 (online). This event commemorates…

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…

The Door Opened: 1980s China - Photographs by Adrian Bradshaw

26 January - 6 July 2022
One can argue that nostalgia is the strongest emotion, a pure mixture of wistfulness and melancholy. Adrian Bradshaw, an English photographer, brings that sense of yearning into full…

Brendan McGeever (Birkbeck)

13:00 17 February 2022
Further details to follow. Follow @ethnicityuk on twitter for the latest details.

Ehrhardt Seminar: David Bell, University of Manchester ‘Mortality Patterns and Bereavement Language in 1 Thessalonians: The Impact of Children in the Community of the Text’

14:00 - 15:30 17 February 2022
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. Sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via Zoom. To register to attend online,…

Franklin (UMDS MIFTA Performance)

19:00 - 20:00 17 February 2022
After their generator gets wrecked in a violent storm, researchers at ice station Franklin call for help. When it becomes clear that the crop they’ve been studying may corrupt that…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dominic Budhi (University of Manchester) “So That We May be Children of God Together': Manchester Cathedral's Public Theology of Racial Justice”

16:00 - 17:30 17 February 2022
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…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Conserving and Researching a Collection of 19th Century Obstetrical and Gynaecological Images

12:00 - 13:00 17 February 2022
Join us for an online lunchtime seminar exploring a very rare collection of prints and drawings used to teach midwifery in the 19th century. Rebecca Whiteley (Shreeve Fellow in the…

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