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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…

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 –…

Applied Seminar - Nicolas Astier (PSE)

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2022
Title: TBC

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 Series: The Radical Potential of Translational Poetics in the Experimental Multilingual Writing of Erín Moure, Josely Vianna Baptista and Kathy Acker

14:00 - 15:30 8 December 2022
Research seminar as part of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies seminar series. The seminar will be delivered in person by Dr Melissa Tanti, University of Manchester.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Megan Warner (Luther King Centre for Theology and Ministry) ‘Violence in Genesis 12 – 50’

14:00 - 15:30 8 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,…

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…

Omer Bayraktar -- Mapping human tissue architecture and pathology using spatial genomics [ONLINE]

12:00 - 13:00 8 December 2022
Join us for this seminar by Omer Bayraktar (Sanger) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here…

Policy Workshop: Select Committees & Materials Science with Dr Laura Cohen

10:00 - 11:00 8 December 2022
This policy workshop will introduce academics and postgraduate researchers working across materials science disciplines to select committee engagement and the parliamentary process.…

Quatuor Danel at the Manchester Jewish Museum

19:30 - 21:30 8 December 2022
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet No.6 in F Minor, Op.80 Mieczys?aw Weinberg, String Quartet No.16 in A-flat Minor, Op.130 The University of Manchester’s internationally-acclaimed…

R&T Seminar: Marius Dorobantu (VU Amsterdam) 'Could robots become religious? Spiritual intelligence in humans and machines' (Zoom only)

16:00 - 17:30 8 December 2022
The Religion and Theology department's fortnightly seminar series. Unless otherwise stated sessions will take place in a hybrid format - attendance is possible in person or online via…

The Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series: Scribbling In Old Books: Annotations and The Stories They Can Tell Us

13:00 - 13:45 8 December 2022
This online talk will explore what jottings and notes in books can tell us about life in 18th and 19th century northern English towns. Hannah Barker and Jane Gallagher (Head of Digital…

Transitions in Print: Exhibition Tour

11:00 - 11:45 8 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…

WCLC- Danels

13:10 - 14:00 8 December 2022
Franz Schubert,?String?Quartet Movement in C Minor,?D. 103?(completed by Brian Newbould) Josef Mayseder, String Quartet?No.5?in D major,?Op.9 Take a trip to early 19th-Century Vienna!…

China Water Network Pre-Xmas Networking

09:00 - 10:00 9 December 2022
Keyword presentations + drop-in online coffee/drinks: We welcome the participation of scholars and practitioners working on topics related to water research in China and Asia. This…

Danels Evening concert

19:30 - 21:30 9 December 2022
Tributes to sisters. Schubert’s stormy quartet movement in C minor prefaces two quartets written in memory of lost sisters. Felix Mendelssohn’s Op.80 was his last major composition,…

The University of Manchester’s Baroque Orchestra: Henry Purcell - Showtunes

13:10 - 14:00 9 December 2022
In the last five years of his short life, Henry Purcell’s career took a (literally) dramatic new turn, as he became the London theatre’s most prolific and celebrated composer, writing…

Chinese Cooking Class

11:00 - 13:30 10 December 2022
Join us Saturday 10 December at 11am with Sam Sin from Koi Kitchen for another fun and hands-on cookery class. Create an authentic dish as a group and share a meal together afterwards.…

Carina Dunlop -- What do cells and tissues feel? The integration of cellular contractility, extracellular adhesion and tissue stiffness in mechanosensing.[IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 12 December 2022
Join us for this seminar by Carina Dunlop (Surrey) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can be found here https://www.cms.livjm.ac.uk/APMSeminar/…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Introducing the OECD S&T Policy 2025 project: promoting STI policy transitions to meet the sustainability challenge

15:30 - 16:30 12 December 2022
Join us for the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research Seminar Series 22/23, with Michael Keenan, Senior Analyst in the OECD’s Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation.…

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