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A Memory of Dust: Heroin Addiction and Polydrug use in Post-industrial Scotland

16:00 - 18:00 10 October 2022
Laura Roe (University of St Andrews) Chair: Sonja Dobroski

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

Black History Month lecture delivered by Professor David Olusoga OBE

10:00 - 11:30 10 October 2022
To celebrate Black History Month join us for a lecture with award-winning writer, historian and broadcaster, Professor David Olusoga OBE. The University of Manchester’s Professor 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…

PGCE Secondary: Virtual information session

18:00 10 October 2022
A combination of impressive academic rankings and committed school partnerships means a PGCE from The University of Manchester will set you up for a bright future in teaching with a…

Qualitative Methods Training for Manchester City Council, Autumn 2022

3 - 31 October 2022
We ran five qualitative methods training sessions for members of Manchester City Council as part of our CAPE project. After introducing the foundations and principles of qualitative…

Data in the spotlight: Large scale social surveys

10:00 - 11:30 11 October 2022
Did you know that data from major social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, the Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England can be accessed for research…

Disasters and gender: presence and absence (HCRI Landmark Lecture)

17:30 - 19:00 11 October 2022
The HCRI 2022 Landmark Lecture will be given by UCL's Prof. Maureen Fordham, an expert on community-based disaster risk reduction and vulnerability analysis, focusing on the inclusion…

Kailing Xie - Love in the 'Chinese' way: making new national role models under Xi

12:30 - 13:30 11 October 2022
WEBINAR: When the Western concept of "true love” first came to China at the beginning of the twentieth century, China’s New Culturalists critiqued its absence in a traditional arranged…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Simon May

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2022
Speaker: Simon May - Leeds Title: A non-commutative resolution for discriminants of complex reflection groups. Abstract: In this talk I will introduce the complex reflection groups…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Martin Orr

15:00 - 16:00 11 October 2022
Speaker: Martin Orr (University of Manchester) Title: Galois bounds for unlikely intersections in a product of modular curves Abstract: The Zilber-Pink conjecture predicts that there…

Advanced electrocatalysts for sustainable energy technologies

12:00 - 13:00 12 October 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Laurie King. The annual production of hydrogen is over 70 million tons, with > 96% generated from fossil fuels (mostly by steam methane…

Comparative Politics

16:00 - 17:30 12 October 2022
Puren Aktas (University of Manchester): “Understanding clinical autonomy through discretion: The case of NHS England” Leou Yang (University of Manchester): “Reimagination of Contemporary…

Critical Global Politics

14:00 - 15:30 12 October 2022
Professor Peter Gries (University of Manchester): “How Gendered Stereotypes of Race Shape Anti-Chinese Covid-related Prejudice”

Logic Seminar - Pantelis Eleftheriou (Leeds)

15:15 - 16:15 12 October 2022
Title: An unbounded version of Zarankiewicz's problem Abstract: Zarankiewicz's problem for hypergraphs asks for upper bounds on the number of edges of a hypergraph that has no complete…

Manchester Digital Epidemiology School

09:00 12 - 17:30 14 October 2022
The Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis is hosting the 4th Manchester Digital Epidemiology School. The event is an exciting three-day course where participants will learn all about…

Marc Hodes - Physical Applied Mathematics Seminar

14:00 12 October 2022
Marc Hodes (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University) joins us for this in-person seminar in the Physical Applied Mathematics Series Title: Adiabatic section flow resistance…

Martin Larsson - Propagation of chaos for maxima of particle systems with mean-field drift interaction (online)

15:00 - 16:00 12 October 2022
Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon University) will speak in the Probability seminar. We study the asymptotic behavior of normalized maxima of real-valued particles with mean-field drift…

MET Seminar - Battal Dogan (Bristol)

17:00 - 18:00 12 October 2022
Title: Equitable Allocation of Vaccines in a Supply Network (with Madhav Raghavan)

Mitchell centre Seminar series

16:00 - 18:00 12 October 2022
Nick Crossley University of Manchester Music Worlds and Event Networks In earlier work I have conceptualised and analysed 'music worlds' (e.g. the punk scene in London in 1976) as…

Reverse engineering the locomotion of an early tetrapod: Insights from an multi-disciplinary approach

14:00 - 15:00 12 October 2022
Dr. John Nyakatura from Humbolt Universitat zu Berlin will present this week’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Seminar

Training Course on In situ experiments and Digital Volume Correlation

09:00 12 - 17:00 13 October 2022
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful experimental technique that computes 3D full-field displacement and strain maps from volumes images acquired during a deformation process…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: George Brooke (University of Manchester) ‘Performing Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament’

14:00 - 15:30 13 October 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,…

Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano) and Duncan Glenday (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 13 October 2022
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vaughan Williams with a programme including his major song cycle, The House of Life. The performance will include Songs of Enchantment…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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