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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…

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

CTIS research seminar: Meandering Histories in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Research

14:00 - 15:30 1 December 2022
Research seminar as part of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Seminar Series. This presentation will be delivered online by Dr Christopher Mellinger, University of North…

Data in the spotlight: Longitudinal data

10:00 - 11:30 1 December 2022
Did you know that longitudinal data from major social studies such as the British Birth Cohort Studies, Understanding Society and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing can be accessed…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Christopher Greenough (Edge Hill University) ‘The Bible and Sexual Violence against Men’

14:00 - 15:30 1 December 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,…

Jasdeep Singh Degun (sitar) and Harkiret Bahra (Tabla)

13:10 - 14:00 1 December 2022
'Breaking down cultural boundaries with his extraordinary artistry and new approach to composition, virtuoso sitarist, Jasdeep Singh Degun, brings a new energy and vision to both Indian…

Margarita Ariza: "Dossier: Summoned to Appear. On the “Salve, Salva, Salvia” Project"

17:00 1 December 2022
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will take place in the John Casken Lecture Theatre, at the Martin Harris Centre. Margarita…

[Internal UoM Event] Imaging Innovation Club Monthly Meeting

14:00 - 15:00 1 December 2022
This is a monthly meeting of the Imaging Innovation Club. This is a drop in chat session. The purpose of Imaging club activity is to allow UoM researchers to: - Present their research…

Art Baby

10:30 - 14:30 2 December 2022
‘I truly believe these sessions are good for my health. I feel healed when I come here. An hour in this room makes me feel like a new person’ – Art Baby participant These sensory…

Transitions in Print: Exhibition Tour

11:00 - 11:45 2 December 2022
Free tour of our new exhibition 'Transitions in Print' with curators and specialists from the Library and beyond. The John Rylands Research Institute and Library has one of the world’s…

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 –…

The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra: World Premiere of ‘Light Into My Dark’ by John Casken

19:30 - 21:30 3 December 2022
Hear the WORLD PREMIERE of John Casken’s Light Into My Dark, commissioned by Chorus and featuring mezzo-soprano Katie Bray. Orchestra and Chorus will also play a number of works that connect with Casken’s music.

Divine Bodies: Spiritual Regeneration, Corporeality and Transfigurative Knowledge in an Eighteenth-Century Handbook on Natural Magic

16:00 - 18:00 5 December 2022
Michael Pickering (Trinity College, University of Melbourne) Chair: Constance Smith

Let's Talk about Health Inequalities in the Signing Deaf Community

12:00 - 12:45 5 December 2022
Join the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Manchester Centre and CRUK City of London Centre for their new inclusive cancer research seminar series. Let's Talk About... Health Inequalities…

Training Course on In situ experiments and Digital Volume Correlation

09:00 5 - 17:00 6 December 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…

Bingchun Meng - Gender discourse on Chinese social media: From Douban feminism to PUA tutorial

12:30 - 13:30 6 December 2022
WEBINAR: This online talk will explore the ever-changing landscape of gender discourse on Chinese social media. The past decade has witnessed an ascendance of feminist discourse on…

Confucius Institute Talk: Train to teach Mandarin - my personal story

18:00 - 19:00 6 December 2022
Many international students come to study in the UK with the aim to gain some work experience upon graduation. In order to help students find out more about becoming a teacher in the…

Data in the spotlight: International time series databanks

10:00 - 11:30 6 December 2022
This free 90-minute online workshop will introduce you to the international time series data held by the UK Data Service, we’ll look at the range of socio-economic topics covered, explore…

Macro Seminar - Pedro Teles (Catolica Lisbon)

16:00 - 17:00 6 December 2022
Title: TBA

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Emine Yilidirim

13:00 - 14:00 6 December 2022
Speaker: Emine Yilidirim Title: Categories from poset quivers Abstract: Let Q be a quiver which is simply a directed graph. We will talk about a construction of a new quiver Q'=(Q,P)…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Kostas Karagiannis

15:00 - 16:00 6 December 2022
Speaker: Kostas Karagiannis (University of Manchester) Title: The Galois module structure problem for Fermat curves Abstract: The function field analogy is a general principle that…

Rountable - Attacked: Healthcare systems in Ukraine and Syria

17:00 - 18:30 6 December 2022
This event will see updates from and comparisons between the humanitarian situations in Syria and Ukraine, with a focus on attacks on and the responses of healthcare systems and workers.…

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…

The Next Pandemic: Roundtable event

17:15 - 18:30 6 December 2022
The roundtable will address the question of the next pandemic: • What lessons have we learned from the Covid pandemic that might help us cope with the next pandemic? • Should we be…

Atomistic and multi-scale simulations of (In,Ga)N heterostructures: Insights into carrier transport, radiative, non-radiative recombination properties

12:00 - 13:00 7 December 2022
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Stefan Schulz. Semiconductor nanostructures utilizing indium gallium nitride ((In,Ga)N) alloys have attracted considerable research…

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