All events

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 –…

George Magnus - Forecasting China’s post Zero-Covid Economy

12:30 - 13:30 20 February 2023
[WEBINAR] How will China's staunch policy of zero-covid and its abrupt ending dictate the future of its economy? For more than three decades, the global economy was defined by unbridled…

Gilded Space-Time: Economic subjectivities in a boom-and-bust economy

16:00 - 18:00 20 February 2023
Dr Amy Penfield Gilded Space-Time: Economic subjectivities in a boom-and-bust economy This paper explores moral reflections in encounters with gold and the activity of prospector…

International Energy Poverty Action Week (IEPAW) - Online

20 - 24 February 2023
Join us for a week of online events centred on global energy poverty action and solutions, calling on decision makers to #ActOnEnergyPoverty We believe that everyone has the right…

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…

Afrocats x Whitworth

12:00 21 - 15:00 23 February 2023
Afrocats x Whitworth is a dynamic partnership that first began in Spring 2022 when the Whitworth and Afrocats joined forces for a creative arts, dance, and music 'Takeover' aimed at…

COEH Seminar: 'Can a chatbot enhance hazard awareness in the construction industry?' - by Dr Rita Yi Man Li

14:00 - 15:00 21 February 2023
On Tuesday, 21 February at 2pm, we will welcome Dr Rita Yi Man Li who will present on 'Can a chatbot enhance hazard awareness in the construction industry?' Dr Rita Yi Man Li serves…

Comics Up Close conference: New Perspectives in Comics 2023 (part of International Mother Language Day 2023)

10:00 - 17:00 21 February 2023
Why Comics? What Can They Do? The Lakes International Comic Art Festival in partnership with Creative Manchester and Sheffield Hallam University invite you to join a day packed with…

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…

Macro Seminar - Xavier Mateos-Planas (Queen Mary)

16:00 - 17:00 21 February 2023
Title: Trade Credit Default

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Rescheduled due to strike

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2023
There will be no seminar this week due to industrial action.

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Paul Voutier

15:00 - 16:00 21 February 2023
Speaker: Paul Voutier Title: A kit for linear forms in three logarithms (joint work with Maurice Mignotte) Abstract: Lower bounds for linear forms in logarithms are a powerful tool…

Training Course on Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets

09:00 21 - 17:00 22 February 2023
A 2 day training course covering theory and computer-based practical works using the Thermo Scientific™ Amira-Avizo Software. Lab/synchrotron X-ray tomography has emerged as one of…

MET Seminar - Volker Nocke (Mannheim)

17:00 - 18:00 22 February 2023
Title: Consumer Search and Choice Overload Abstract: In this paper, we develop a model of within-firm sequential, directed search and study a firm’s ability and incentive to steer…

PEM/MUI Research Seminar - Modelling and simulating urban expansion in Africa

12:00 - 13:30 22 February 2023
You are kindly invited to our next PEM/MUI Research Seminar This is a hybrid event taking place on Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm at ALB, G.035/36 and on Teams (for…

Roxana Dumitrescu - title tbc

15:00 - 16:00 22 February 2023
Roxana Dumitrescu (King's College London) will speak in the Probability seminar. (online) abstract tbc

SQUIDS Seminar: Marie-Therese Wolfram - TBC

15:00 - 16:00 22 February 2023
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: TBC

Applied Seminar - Michele Fioretti (Science Po)

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2023
Title: Saving for a Dry Day: Coal, Dams and the Energy Transition Abstract: Renewable generation creates a tradeoff between current and future energy production as generators produce…

Benjamin Freud Reading Group: Meeting 2 - Melancholy

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2023
Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud are seminal figures in the humanities, exploring the shifting configurations of subjectivity and experience in the twentieth century. This reading…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Kelsie Rodenbiker, University of Glasgow 'Looking for Gold in Mud’: Ancient Ecclesiastical Perceptions of Pseudepigraphy

14:10 - 15:30 23 February 2023
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,…

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum