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A conversation with Kodo Nishimura

17:45 - 19:00 23 March 2022
A conversation with Kodo Nishimura, Buddhist monk, makeup artist and LGBTQ+ activist, and author of This Monk Wears Heels.

A Month of Celebrations: International Women's Day Lunchtime Speakers - The Contribution of Women across the Lifespan in the Covid-19 Crisis

16 - 30 March 2022
A month of celebrations for international women's day: lunchtime talks to highlight women's contribution to the Covid- across the lifespan To celebrate International Women’s Day on…

Alexis Prevost - First passage percolation with long-range correlations and applications to random Schrödinger operators

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2022
Alexis Prevost (University of Cambridge) will speak in the Probability seminar. I will present some results on first passage percolation (FPP) when the passage times have long-range…

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

Avant-garde and arts-based methods in qualitative research - Online

21 - 23 March 2022
This course will give you an overview of avant-garde and arts-based approaches of doing qualitative research and provide you with basic knowledge about creative methods in the social…

Brownbag - Raffaele Rossi

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2022
Title: Taxing Consumption in Unequal Economies

Carolina Cambre (Concordia University): "Molecular insurrections: An experiment in Visual Narrative Inquiry in Buenos Aires, Argentina"

17:00 23 March 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series 2020/21. This event will be via Zoom. Here is the link: https://zoom.us/j/94462492930 I remember…

Democracy and Elections Cluster Seminar Series – Semester 2 2021-22 - Florian Foos - London School of Economics and Political Science

15:30 - 17:00 23 March 2022
Florian Foos (London School of Economics and Political Science) Making the Case for Democracy Please contact Val Lenferna - val.lenferna@manchester.ac.uk for the zoom address

English, American Studies, and Creative Writing Research Seminar - Inaugural seminar in the EAC critical race studies seminar series

17:00 23 March 2022
Dr Amy Bride (UoM), 'Monsters of Colour, Monsters of Means: Undead Consumers and the Race-Profit Correlation in Gothic American Fiction' The black-white binary of American gothic literature,…

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…

GDI Lecture: Shifting South: Regional Value Chains, South-South Trade and Decent Work in Sub Saharan Africa

16:30 - 18:00 23 March 2022
How is garment and horticultural trade changing in sub-Saharan Africa? How important are domestic and regional value chains supplying retailers within Africa? Are product and social…

Islamic Manuscript Cultures; Workshop

13:00 - 14:30 23 March 2022
This workshop delves deeper into the topics introduced in our public talk ‘Islamic Manuscript Cultures’. Participants will see some of the finest examples of manuscripts from the University…

Logic Seminar - Richard Matthews (Leeds)

15:00 - 16:00 23 March 2022
Title: Constructing the Constructible Universe Constructively Abstract: Gödel's Constructible Universe, L, was introduced to show the consistency of the axiom of choice and the generalized…

Matthew Hennessy - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 23 March 2022
Matthew Hennessy (University of Bristol, Engineering Maths) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Abstract: Polyelectrolyte gels are soft,…

Michael Sieber -- What does microbiota composition tell us, and how do “microbiota” meet their host?

13:00 - 14:00 23 March 2022
(via Zoom) Join us for this seminar by Michael Sieber (Max Planck Evolutionary Biology, Germany) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences.…

Mitchell Centre seminar series

16:00 - 17:00 23 March 2022
Mirco Schönfeld University of Bayreuth Networks in Context Analyzing networks in humanities research often involves aggregating diverse and many-faceted information about the objects…

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…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert (with Michel Lethiec)

19:30 - 21:30 23 March 2022
Thierry Muller: Clarinet Quintet (UK Premiere), with Michel Lethiec Kryštof Maratka: Clarinet Quintet ‘Arboretum of Time’, with Michel Lethiec (UK Premiere) Brahms: …

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:…

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…

Training Course on Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets

09:00 23 - 17:00 24 March 2022
A 2 day training course covering theory and computer-based practical works using the Thermo Scientific™ Amira-Avizo Software. Lab/synchrotron X-ray tomography has emerged as one of…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 13:55 24 March 2022
Sofia Gubaidulina: Reflections on the Theme B-A-C-H Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, L.91 Debussy’s String Quartet of 1893, written when the composer was 31 years old,…

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