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GM Connected Health Ecosystem: Deep dive into the GM Care Record – connecting health and care across Greater Manchester

13:00 - 15:00 26 April 2022
The next Connected Health Ecosystem of 2021 will be held virtually on Tuesday 26 April 2022, 13.00 - 15.00. Health and care organisations across Greater Manchester have accelerated…

Writing and Industrial Revolution, 1795 - 1835 with Jon Mee

17:15 - 19:00 26 April 2022
In this online event, Professor Jon Mee (University of York) presents, “All that the most romantic imagination could previously have conceived”: Writing an Industrial Revolution 1795…

Online Talk: Conversations with Dante

18:00 - 19:00 28 April 2022
Join us for this online event live from The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, as we bring together 700 years of Dante’s history in books. Dr Guyda Armstrong (Senior Lecturer…

Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture 2022

17:30 - 18:30 3 May 2022
"Disability rights: a global phenomenon?" - Sir Tom Shakespeare In this talk, Tom will offer us an overview of the disability movement, in Britain, America and across the world, and…

Serial Production and Individualisation in Late Medieval Silk Weaving; Talk

16:00 - 18:00 3 May 2022
Join Michael Peter (Abegg-Stiftung) for a conversation that will bring together textile studies, material culture studies, and the history of consumption. This event is organised by…

The Renaissance of Recipes; Talk

16:00 - 18:00 17 May 2022
Join Amanda Herbert (Durham University), Elaine Leong (UCL), Alisha Rankin (Tufts University) for a conversation about the most recent trends in research on early modern medical, cosmetic,…

Devolved Vision: Granada TV and the Future of British TV

16:00 - 17:30 18 May 2022
An event to mark the return of the Granada TV Archive to Manchester as part of the British Pop Archive at the John Rylands Library: Granada TV has a very significant place in British…

Confucius Institute Talk: The portrayal of gay characters in Chinese cinema

18:00 - 19:00 24 May 2022
This talk will introduce the audience to the changing representations of gay characters in films from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The films that will be explored include,…

Trans Healthcare: Possible Futures

18:00 - 20:00 7 June 2022
A roundtable discussion exploring the possible futures of trans healthcare provision in the UK About this event Part of a broader project on trans healthcare and creativity, this…

Folk Music, Migration and Bangladeshi Heritage in the North-West: A Panel Discussion with a Difference

14:00 - 18:00 18 June 2022
Learn about the rich heritage of Bengali folk music and efforts to preserve it in the North-West in this interdisciplinary panel discussion on Bangladeshi migration to the region and…

IN CONVERSATION: Dr David R Williams (Harvard University, USA) and Dr Omolade Femi-Ajao

12:00 - 13:00 11 July 2022
Join us after the Plenary [https://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:t1s1-l4fxiwac-hukk5b Racism and Health: Past Challenges and Current Opportunities] to hear our guest speaker,…

Racism and Health: Past Challenges and Current Opportunities

09:45 - 11:30 11 July 2022
Following the [https://www.nhsrho.org/events/health-race-and-racism-international-conference/ NHS Race and Health Observatory conference], a Plenary will be held at The University of…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Zooming into the earth of patents: Methodological steps to examine their potential harms

15:30 - 16:30 26 September 2022
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23, webinar hosted by Professor Elisa Giuliani and Dr Gianluca Biggi from REMARC – Responsible Management…

Online Launch of the Mary Hamilton Papers: Digital Edition

11:00 - 13:00 27 September 2022
Register to join us Online on Tuesday 27th September to celebrate the launch of the digital edition of the Mary Hamilton Papers. The Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers project started…

Confucius Institute Talk: 'Illustrations of the Grand Ceremony': Behind the Composition

18:00 - 19:00 4 October 2022
This talk will focus on the recently premiered musical composition "Illustrations of the Grand Ceremony", a piece commissioned by the Manchester Confucius Institute to celebrate their…

A.M. Homes in Conversation (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

15:00 - 16:30 8 October 2022
‘If I can pull us back into one conversation, the question is how to reclaim our America, a traditional America that honours the dreams of our forefathers.’ In a hotel in Phoenix, Arizona…

An Evening with Kamila Shamsie (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

19:30 - 21:00 8 October 2022
How much can a childhood friendship developed into adulthood withstand? Maryam and Zahra are lifelong friends despite differences of class, politics and lifestyles. Their relationship…

Kit de Waal (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

16:00 - 17:30 9 October 2022
'I live with the dread that one day when my young muscles rebel, can take no more stillness and the brutal confinement of my very self, I will stand and strip naked and burst out of…

Guilt by Association: race, culture and criminalization

14:30 - 16:00 10 October 2022
In a recent controversial conspiracy case in Manchester several Black teenagers were found ‘guilty by association’ after prosecutors used social media messages and references to drill…

Carl Phillips (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

19:00 - 20:30 13 October 2022
Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading with Carcanet ‘A poet of enchantment and persuasion’ (The Los Angeles Review of Books). One of America’s most celebrated poets, published…

David Olusoga in Conversation with Ellah P Wakatama (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022)

19:00 - 20:30 15 October 2022
A special ‘in conversation’ with David Olusoga, the British historian, broadcaster, presenter and author of Black and British: A Forgotten History. David will discuss his role as a…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Informal institutions and Entrepreneurship: A Review and Framework

15:30 - 16:30 17 October 2022
Informal institutions and Entrepreneurship: A Review and Framework There are stable and persistent country differences in entrepreneurship. These cannot be explained by economic…

Cosey Fanni Tutti & Jon Savage (part of Manchester Literature Festival 2022) CANCELLED

19:00 - 20:30 20 October 2022
What do performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti, pioneering electronic musician Delia Derbyshire and medieval mystic Margery Kempe have in common? Join Cosey and Jon Savage as they discuss…

MIOIR Seminar Series - What is the future of scientific theory in the era of proxy? Measures and algorithmic decision-making

15:30 - 16:30 24 October 2022
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23, webinar hosted by Dirk Lindebaum, Professor in Organisation and Management at Grenoble Ecole de Management…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Scholarly use of social media for impact and visibility

15:30 - 16:30 26 October 2022
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23, webinar hosted by Marcel Bogers, Full Professor of Open & Collaborative Innovation at the Innovation,…

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