Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

GDI Lecture Series - FutureDAMS: Addressing the water-energy-food-environment challenge

15:00 - 16:30 19 October 2022
Following the completion of the interdisciplinary FutureDAMS project in early 2022, this lecture will be delivered by the project leads who will reflect on what they have learned through…

Behind Closed Doors

18:00 - 20:00 24 October 2022
Over a third of the population have tried illegal drugs and a tenth take them regularly. Yet the possession of drugs is illegal. In the context of prohibitionist drug policies, how…

The Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 26 October 2022
Newly appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Nazir Afzal, is one of the UK’s leading advocates for social justice. Nazir spent many years with the CPS, and later joined…

LOVELL LECTURE SERIES: PROFESSOR TIM O’BRIEN: MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS

3 November 2022
PROFESSOR TIM O’BRIEN: MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS 3rd November, 7.30pm - 9pm A series of public lectures named in honour of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Founder and first Director of…

Interconnected Worlds of Electronics Global Production Networks After the Pandemic

16:00 - 17:30 7 November 2022
Based on his recent monograph Interconnected Worlds (Stanford University Press, June 2022), this presentation offers some key observations on the co-evolutionary trajectories of electronics…

GDI Lecture Series - Transformative change from below in a context of climate-related uncertainties: praxis, patches and politics - POSTPONED

15:00 - 16:30 9 November 2022
Climate-related uncertainties have tended to be defined by experts and bureaucrats (the ‘above’), mostly ignoring local perspectives and knowledges. Living in landscapes characterised…

Professor Richard Jones’ inaugural lecture

16:00 - 17:00 14 November 2022
Lecture title From self-stratifying films to levelling up: A random walk through polymer physics and science policy. Lecture abstract How could you make a paint-on solar cell? How…

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture by Professor Kevin Buzzard: Will computers replace mathematicians?

18:00 - 20:30 15 November 2022
For decades now, computers have been much better than humans at calculating. But mathematical research is not all about calculating -- humans make conjectures and prove theorems. Until…

GDI Lecture Series - Understanding migration dynamics in the Horn of Africa

15:00 - 16:30 16 November 2022
The Horn of Africa (HoA) is a region with a long history of crises, including conflict, natural disasters, and mass displacement of people both within and across its borders. It is…

AN IMPERFECT ACCOUNT OF A COMET

18 November 2022 - 16 April 2023
An Imperfect Account of a Comet is an audio-visual installation by Lynda Laird celebrating the celestial discoveries of the 18th century astronomer Caroline Herschel. The work is presented…

GDI Lecture Series - Lost Lands: Indigenous People and Land Rights in East Africa - POSTPONED

15:00 - 16:30 23 November 2022
Indigenous people’s land claims meet with suspicion and distrust. This lecture will explore examples of indigenous people’s claims to lost lands. It reads these claims through the lens…

School of Environment, Education and Development Inaugural Lectures

04:30 - 06:30 23 November 2022
O?n Wednesday, 23 November, join the School of Environment, Education and Development for our winter inaugural lectures with Professor Terry Hanley and Professor Sarah Marie Hall from…

APOLLO REMASTERED

3 December 2022 - 16 April 2023
To coincide with the 50th anniversary of our last steps on the Moon, Andy Saunders will present a small selection of remastered photographs from the final mission of the programme –…

SCI Annual Lecture 2022: In Conversation with Kate Raworth

15:00 - 18:00 6 December 2022
The Sustainable Consumption Institute is delighted to welcome Kate Raworth (author of Doughnut Economics) at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, for the…

Confronting Racism Denial - Public lecture by Professor Camara Jones

17:00 - 18:30 7 December 2022
Join our public lecture on confronting racism denial, given by Professor Camara Jones. The lecture will be chaired by Professor Bridget Byrne, Director of CoDE. The lecture and questions…

Irene Manton Lecture 2022

17:30 - 19:00 8 December 2022
Join us to celebrate and commemorate the significant contribution made by women to the Natural Sciences at the 2022 Irene Manton lecture. The lecture is free to attend and is open…

Living in a Material World Exhibition

09:00 - 17:00 8 December 2022
A free exhibition curated by University of Manchester Art Gallery and Museum Studies students invites all to consider how materials have shaped medicine and healthcare, from the 19th…

LOVELL LECTURE SERIES: PROFESSOR CHRIS LINTOTT: HOW TO BE SURPRISED BY THE UNIVERSE

19:30 - 21:00 8 December 2022
A series of public lectures named in honour of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Founder and first Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory. Jodrell Bank is proud to be relaunching the Lovell Lecture…

GDI Lecture Series - Batman Saves the Congo: How Celebrities Disrupt the Politics of Development

15:00 - 16:30 14 December 2022
Can a celebrity be a “disrupter,” promoting strategic partnerships to bring new ideas and funding to revitalize the development field—or are celebrities just charismatic ambassadors…

THE ROYAL INSTITUTION CHRISTMAS LECTURES LIVE!

18:00 - 20:30 15 December 2022
Photo credit: Paul Wilkinson Photography Space Dome, First Light Pavilion Jodrell Bank Centre for Engagement are honoured and very excited to announce that we will be live streaming…

The Prostate Gap - A Photographic Exhibition Exploring Under-Represented People With Prostate Cancer

6 January - 10 February 2023
The Prostate Gap A Photographic Exhibition Exploring Under-Represented People With Prostate Cancer Duration: 6 January 2023 – 10 February 2023 Venue: Oglesby Cancer Research Centre…

PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER CONSELICE: ORIGINS: THE BIG BANG TO INTELLIGENT LIFE AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN

19:30 - 21:00 19 January 2023
A series of public lectures named in honour of Sir Bernard Lovell, the Founder and first Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory. Jodrell Bank is proud to be relaunching the Lovell Lecture…

EUCLID: Learning constitutive models without stress data

15:00 - 16:00 31 January 2023
Note: This is a hybrid event and will be both in-person and through zoom. Abstract of the lecture: Despite the recent advances in data-driven methods, constitutive modelling of materials…

Optimizing LES closure models through Reinforcement Learning

15:00 - 16:00 14 February 2023
Please note that this is an online-only event. Abstract of lecture: Reinforcement learning (RL) is considered as the third learning paradigm, besides unsupervised and supervised learning.…

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