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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

Decolonise East Asian Studies - What is the British Chinese Identity?

12:30 - 13:30 5 May 2022
This wide-ranging talk aims to unpack the complex and personal reality of the British Chinese Identity. Feiya Hu, Grace Wilding and Jamie Chi will be joining us to discuss the British-Chinese…

Depositing your data with ReShare

11:00 - 12:30 5 May 2022
This is a workshop designed to give participants a virtual tour of ReShare, where you will learn everything you need to know in order to archive data using our self-deposit repository.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Sherry Ashworth, University of Manchester, ‘It's complicated: the relationship between Esther and Mordecai, mediated by Charles Dickens' Bleak House’

14:00 - 15:30 5 May 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,…

MANCEPT Research Seminars - Mihaela Mihai, Edinburgh University ‘Feeling Responsible: Ecological Grief and the Oscillating Pendulum of Hope’

16:00 - 17:30 5 May 2022
MANCEPT Research Seminars Mihaela Mihai Edinburgh University ‘Feeling Responsible: Ecological Grief and the Oscillating Pendulum of Hope’ Details to be confirmed

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…

Red Talks -'Stressed (stressing) socionatures: Urban metabolism, water scarcity and seawater desalination in Chile under a neoliberal paradigm

16:00 - 17:00 5 May 2022
The Resources, Environment, and Development (RED) Research Group –formerly known as the ‘Agrarian change and Political ecology’ group– in the Global Development Institute at the University…

Reproducibility Bootcamp - online

26 April - 24 May 2022
Ideally, research is collaborative, well-documented, sharable, and can be reproduced by others (or by the original researchers at a later point in time). Not only does this make a researcher’s…

Social Statistics Research Event: New Developments in Combining Probability and Non-probability sampling

13:30 - 16:00 5 May 2022
Social Statistics Research Event, University of Manchester May 5th 2022 New Developments in Combining Probability and Non-probability sampling Non-probability sampling is receiving…

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.…

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 Annual Gillian White Lecture 2022

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2022
The Human Right to Development as a New Foundation for International Economic Law Professor Dr. Diane Desierto is Professor of Law and Global Affairs, and Faculty Director of the…

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…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Designing Dante in Manuscript and Print: Strategies of the Page

12:00 - 13:00 5 May 2022
Join this lunchtime talk to explore three iconic Dante items from the Rylands collections and how they reveal a multitude of design and presentation choices. Guyda Armstrong, curator…

WCLC - The University of Manchester Nigerian Gospel Singing Ensemble

13:10 - 13:55 5 May 2022
The public debut of the Music Department’s Nigerian Gospel Singing Ensemble, engaging with popular and diverse gospel music repertoires of Nigeria. Second- and third-year students showcase…

Composing Collections - Musical Responses to Delia Derbyshire

14:00 - 16:00 6 May 2022
Drop-in for a concert inspired by music pioneer Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001), a key figure in the development of electronic music and sound design in Britain. Postgraduate composition…

Film screening: Dante’s Inferno- reimagined in sound

18:00 - 20:00 6 May 2022
As part of the global Inferno project to bring to life Dante's vision of Hell using sound, Cities and Memory developed a unique collaborative soundtrack to the 1911 silent film L'Inferno.…

Songs We Learn from Trees: Ethiopian Amharic Poetry in English

18:30 - 20:00 7 May 2022
Ethiopian poets celebrate Songs We Learn from Trees (Carcanet, 2020), the first anthology of Amharic poetry in English. About this event Join us for an evening of bilingual readings…

Alternative fuels and propulsion for shipping and aviation

10:00 - 15:30 9 May 2022
This workshop will include two sessions both focusing on alternative fuels and propulsion systems for shipping and aviation. Opening remarks by Prof. Alice Larkin Session 1: 10:00-12:00…

Blackwell's: Rebecca Zahabi in conversation with Jeanette Winterson

18:30 - 20:30 9 May 2022
Join us for the official launch of Rebecca Zahabi new novel THE COLLARBOUND About this event We're thrilled to be welcoming Rebecca Zahabi to the shop to launch her debut adult novel…

DCS Next Generation Seminar Series: Dr Julia Kamenz, Rijksunversiteit Groningen, Netherlands: “How to get safely in and out of mitosis”

13:00 - 14:00 9 May 2022
When: Monday 9 May 2022, 13:00 – 14:00 BST (Pizza from 12:30) Where: Oglesby Cancer Research Building (OCRB) Lecture Theatre, 555 Wilmslow Rd, Manchester M20 4GJ Dr Julia Kamenz…

Reflective Bookmaking – observing and reflecting on experiences through making simple reflective books

10:00 - 17:00 9 May 2022
When in the midst of an experience connected to your research, it can be hard to find a good way to keep track of and reflect on it, both in general and in the context of your research…

Guobin Yang - “An Absolutely Ordinary Person”: Stories from the Wuhan Lockdown

12:30 - 13:30 10 May 2022
A conversation with Guobin Yang about lockdowns from Wuhan to Shanghai. The sealing off of Wuhan from January 23 to April 8, 2020 was an unprecedented event in modern world history.…

Work and Equalities Institute Fourth Annual Lecture: Can workers be organised if the state isn’t? Digitalisation, work and employment in emerging and developing economies

10:00 - 11:30 10 May 2022
The role of the state in work and employment has traditionally been examined primarily at the macro level, focusing on its role as a regulator and employer in the context of employment…

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