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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…

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 - 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,…

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…

Lewis Lab Seminar - Sean Bottomley (Northumbria)

16:00 - 17:00 23 February 2023
Title: TBC

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…

WCLC - with Richard Whalley (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 23 February 2023
Rebecca Clarke, Lullaby and Grotesque, for Viola and Cello Rebecca Clarke, Morpheus, for Viola and Piano Fanny Mendelssohn, String Quartet in E-Flat Major Two duos by British-American…

Woodland Walk & Nature Drawing with City of Trees

12:30 - 14:00 23 February 2023
Come join us in Whitworth park for a woodland walk and drawing session! With Valentine’s Day just gone, we will be getting inspired by all things related to love in nature, be it courting…

Film screening: Dante’s Inferno- reimagined in sound

18:00 - 20:00 24 February 2023
As part of the global Inferno project to bring to life Dante's vision of Hell using sound, Cities and Memory developed a unique collaborative soundtrack to the 1911 silent film L'Inferno.…

Socio-Economic Inequalities and Environmental Justice (UoM Academics Only)

10:00 - 14:00 24 February 2023
This Sustainable Futures Workshop aims to bring together UoM scholars working on issues related to the theme of socio-economic inequalities. Widening intersecting socio-economic inequalities…

Transitions in Print; Exhibition Tour

14:00 - 15:00 24 February 2023
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…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra

15:30 - 16:30 25 February 2023
Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) invites you to their first concert of 2023, featuring two distinctive concerti, both old and new. The concert opens with an exhilarating world…

Muslim Arts Academy Closing Award Ceremony of Visual Arts with Peter Sanders.

15:00 - 16:30 25 February 2023
Join internationally acclaimed British photographer Peter Sanders for the closing ceremony of the Visual Art strand for Muslim Artists Academy, and a conversation about the participant's…

Quiet Sundays

10:30 - 12:30 26 February 2023
Multi-sensory, open-ended play for families with additional needs. These multi-sensory play sessions are specially designed for families with additional needs who may prefer a quieter,…

Anthropology against the big idea

16:00 - 18:00 27 February 2023
Dr David Zeitlyn (Oxford University) Anthropology against the big idea Enough of turns. They make me dizzy and give me vertigo so on health and safety grounds I am trying to avoid them.…

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),…

Theo Kypraios -- Bayesian nonparametric inference for stochastic infectious disease models [IN PERSON]

14:00 - 15:00 27 February 2023
Join us for this seminar by Theo Kypraios (University of Nottingham) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Sciences. Details of the full series can…

Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets

09:00 27 - 17:00 28 February 2023
Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming…

Bury Primary Science Subject Leader Network: Spring Term Meeting

13:00 - 16:00 28 February 2023
We're delighted that SEERIH's termly Primary Science Subject Leader Regional Networks will take place in person throughout 2022-2023. In order to facilitate forward planning in schools,…

Developing area profiles using Census 2021 data

10:00 - 12:00 28 February 2023
Census 2021 will provide demographic, employment, housing and other characteristics about local populations at neighbourhood level. This free online workshop is designed to help you…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Beth Romano

13:00 - 14:00 28 February 2023
Joint talk with Algebra seminar - note the unusual time of 1 pm Speaker: Beth Romano (KCL) Title: Graded Lie algebras and families of algebraic curves Abstract: Graded Lie algebras…

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