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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…

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…

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…

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…

Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis - Online

27 January - 24 February 2023
Longitudinal data is essential in a number of research fields as it enables analysts to concurrently understand aggregate and individual level change in time, the occurrence of events…

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.…

Generative methods in Machine learning: Applications in science and engineering

15:00 - 17:00 21 February 2023
Note: this is a hybrid learning event. It is most beneficial to attend in-person Learning objectives: 1. To provide the audience with an accessible overview of the theory of generative…

Sunny Xin Liu & Michael Wood - Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War [Book Launch Conversation]

17:00 - 18:30 23 February 2023
[IN-PERSON] This event is part of a new Chinese Culture Lecture Series organised by the Manchester China Institute and Manchester Museum. Dr. Sunny Xin Liu and Professor of Public…

Professor Philip Edmondson's Inaugural Lecture

11:00 - 13:00 27 February 2023
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Philip Edmondson will take place on Monday 27th February 2023 between 11am and 12pm. This event will take place in Blended Lecture Theatre 2 (2B.020),…

Generative algorithms to search for optimal geometric configuration for seismic barriers/seismic metamaterials

15:00 - 16:00 28 February 2023
Please note that this is a hybrid event. You can join in-person or through zoom. Abstract of the lecture Utilization of seismic barriers and seismic metamaterials for protection against…

Celebrating International Women’s Day

12:30 - 17:00 8 March 2023
Join us as we celebrate International Women's Day with an afternoon of talks by inspirational women in Chemistry! You'll hear from our inspiring keynote speakers: Lara Lalemi - an…

Annual Gillian White Lecture 2023

17:00 - 19:00 13 March 2023
Crude Knowledge: Decolonisation and Hydrocarbon Epistemes Decolonisation in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s included demands for sovereign control over and new ways of accounting for, pricing,…

The Imperial Origins of Policing (Julian Go, Uni of Chicago)

18:00 - 19:30 13 March 2023
P?rofessor Julian Go (University of Chicago) will deliver a public lecture entitled 'The Imperial Origins of Policing: Race, Militarization, and the Boomerang Effect in Britain and…

The Annual Arthur Lewis Lecture with Professor David Scott : "A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall's Art of Living."

18:00 - 20:00 14 March 2023
Stuart Hall was a leading intellectual of the Black experience in Britain, but also of the Caribbean. This talk will reflect on the particular distinctiveness that Hall’s biography…

Reflecting on Environmental NGOs in Regulation = POSTPONED

17:30 - 19:30 15 March 2023
Environmental NGOs contribute to the regulatory space in a variety of ways. They can be involved in shaping the rules of regulation by participating in both the drafting of law and…

Design and integrity assessment of offshore wind turbine structures

15:00 - 16:00 21 March 2023
Note: This is a hybrid event. Abstract of the lecture: An efficient source of renewable energy, which is increasingly the preferred solution for realising Britain’s short- and long-term…

BASS Annual Lecture 2023

11:00 - 12:00 23 March 2023
Nazir Afzal was appointed Chancellor of the University of Manchester in 2022. He has a long and prestigious record of engaging with, and fighting for human rights, social justice,…

Fred Jevons Lecture - Equity for Women in Science

17:00 - 18:30 23 March 2023
This year’s Fred Jevons lecture will be given by Dr. Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Professor and Tom and Marie Patton School Chair in the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology.…

MAHSC Inaugural Lectures: Celebrating MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs

13:00 - 14:00 29 March 2023
The MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chairs are awarded on an annual basis by The University of Manchester’s Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health Promotions Committee. They are awarded…

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