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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

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…

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…

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…

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…

Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing

10:00 - 11:30 14 October 2022
This workshop is the first of two on ‘Introduction to Copyright’. The first session focuses on copyright considerations in the context of publishing while the second session focuses…

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…

Undergraduate Open Day

15 October 2022
An open day at The University of Manchester is the perfect way to come and get a feel for life at one of the UK’s largest single-site universities. Representatives from courses and…

Coloniality, Global Health, and Reparations

16:00 - 18:00 17 October 2022
Eugene Richardson (Harvard Medical School) Chair: Peter Wade

Coloniality, Global Health, and Reparations

16:00 - 18:00 17 October 2022
Eugene Richardson (Harvard Medical School) Chair: Peter Wade

Introduction to copyright: Copyright issues in secondary data use

10:00 - 11:30 17 October 2022
This second session on copyright focuses on copyright considerations in the context of secondary data use. By the end of the session, attendees will have a better understanding of copyright…

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…

A Conversation with Maria Repnikova on Chinese Soft Power

17:00 - 18:00 18 October 2022
WEBINAR: This multi-ranging talk between Dr. Maria Repnikova of Georgia State University & MCI Director Prof. Peter Gries will address the issue of Chinese soft power, with a particular…

An introduction to 2021 Census geography datasets

10:00 - 11:00 18 October 2022
To support users of the latest round of the census, the UK`s national statistics agencies are starting to release datasets describing the geography of the census. These datasets include…

ESRC Festival of Social Science Returns to Manchester for its 20th anniversary

18 October - 13 November 2022
We are delighted to announce that between 22nd October to 13th November, the annual ESRC Festival of Social Sciences returns to Manchester for its 20th anniversary, with events taking…

Global Political Economy

11:00 - 12:30 18 October 2022
Laura Macdonald (Carleton University, Canada): “Field Work and Participant Action Research for Progressive Politics”. This an open talk as part of the invitation-only PhD masterclass…

Macro Seminar - Christine Braun (Warwick)

16:00 - 17:00 18 October 2022
Title: Measuring the Productivity of Working from Home Abstract: We document a doubling of hours worked at home in the US from 2003 to 2019. We propose a model where workers choose…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Shezad Mohammed

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2022
Speaker: Shezad Mohammed - Manchester Title. The Weil descent functor in the category of algebras with free operators. Abstract, Weil restriction is a result of algebraic geometry…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Alex Torzewski

15:00 - 16:00 18 October 2022
Speaker: Alex Torzewski (King's College London) Title: Lawrence-Venkatesh bounds for curves in families Abstract: We outline how the method of Lawrence-Venkatesh to bound rational…

Racial Bias and the Bench: A response to the Judicial Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 2020-2025

18:00 - 19:30 18 October 2022
Please join us for the launch of a new report that raises urgent questions about racial attitudes, procedures and practices in the English and Welsh justice system focusing on judicial…

Brownbag - Christopher Wallace

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2022
Title: Evidence Disclosure in Competitive Markets

Yalin Zheng -- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare with Applications in Eye Diseases and Beyond [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2022
Join us for this seminar by Yalin Zheng (Liverpool) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here…

[Internal UoM Event] Additive Manufacturing Innovation Club Monthly Meeting

14:00 - 15:00 19 October 2022
This is a monthly meeting of the Additive Manufacturing Innovation Club. Innovation Spotlight: Marco Domingos will talk about 3D printing with biomedical applications The purpose…

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