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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…

MICRA Research Showcase

12:00 - 17:00 3 April 2023
We are delighted to host an in-person Research Showcase on Monday 3rd April to present the latest in ageing research. The event will begin with a complimentary lunch on the mezzanine…

From scientist to entrepreneur in the Biotechnology and HealthTech sector

13:00 - 14:00 18 April 2023
This guest lecture showcases the entrepreneurial journey from converting possibilities into opportunities, evaluating risk, forming partnerships and exiting via buy-outs and acquisitions,…

The Politics of ‘Voice’ in Education: Dr Eve Mayes (Deakin University, Australia)

14:00 - 15:00 18 April 2023
In this dialogic talk, Dr. Eve Mayes will share some of the textures, tremors and murmurs of voice felt over ten years of ethnographic and participatory research in Australian schools…

Vortex connection and turbulence cascade

15:00 - 16:00 18 April 2023
Abstract of the lecture: This is an online only lecture. Turbulence, one of the most challenging problems left over from classical physics, has a wide range of applications in the…

International symposium “Thinkers for Architecture – Dialogue 1: Foucault / Merleau–Ponty / Latour”

24 - 27 April 2023
24-27th of April – International symposium “Thinkers for Architecture – Dialogue 1: Foucault / Merleau–Ponty / Latour” in collaboration with the “Thinkers for Architects” series at…

Design for additive manufacturing, a methodology to enhance fatigue performance

15:00 - 16:00 25 April 2023
Abstract of the lecture In the design of mechanical components and structures, the presence of geometrical discontinuities is unavoidable. These geometrical discontinuities are usually…

The Birth of International Law Out of the Spirit of Political Theology

17:00 - 19:15 27 April 2023
The Birth of International Law Out of the Spirit of Political Theology In times of experiencing an unpredicted war in Europe it is necessary to rethink political and legal theories…

British Academy lecture: “The Elephant in the Room” Understanding Corruption in Roman Egypt

17:00 - 19:00 2 May 2023
The University of Manchester and The British Academy are delighted to welcome Professor Colin Adams of the University of Liverpool. The papyri of Roman Egypt provide a uniquely rich…

Javier Garcia Oliva's Inaugural Lecture 'Whose Law is it Anyway?'

16:00 - 18:00 3 May 2023
Whose law is it Anyway? The Supreme Court recently ruled on a claim made by the occupants of luxury apartments on the South Bank, who objected to the Tate Modern offering visitors…

Peace: symbolic, material, political

14:00 - 15:30 4 May 2023
What is peace in a contemporary context where wars of conquest, in Ukraine and before that in Iraq, seem to unravel, or even rupture, the postcolonial international order? What is peace…

CSSC Talk: Dr Monica Pearl, ' "Where is your rage?": AIDS Generations'

17:00 - 19:00 9 May 2023
This event is organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the University of Manchester. Veteran ACT UP activist and scholar, Dr Monica Pearl, has written…

Seeing Others: Redefining Worth in a Divided World - Professor Michele Lamont's Public Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 9 May 2023
Join us for a fascinating evening with visiting Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies Michèle Lamont from the University of Harvard who will be reflecting…

Lecture with Professor David Olusoga for A level (Y12) students: ‘Why study History? Empire, Slavery, and Identity in Britain today’

14:30 - 16:30 10 May 2023
Join us at Manchester Cathedral for this lecture for students in Year 12. It is a great opportunity to hear from David Olusoga, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester,…

TAI Annual Lecture 2023: Work, Health, and Wellbeing post pandemic, with Guest Speaker Professor Dame Carol Black

16:00 - 17:40 10 May 2023
In 2010 Richard Donkin, author and columnist, wrote: "The history of the way we live and work is more evolutionary than revolutionary in nature." This was true pre March 2020, but then…

Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies Lecture- Professor Max Saunders

17:30 - 19:15 11 May 2023
The Case for a Writer’s Collected Letters: Ford Madox Ford and the Editing of Modern Correspondence At a time when the digitization of so many library archives has made it easier…

Maps, magic and the Manchester Geographical Society: working with colonial collections at the University of Manchester Library

17:30 - 19:30 18 May 2023
Join us at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library for a number of presentations which explore the nature of colonial collections and the stories they reveal about empire and…

Prof Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (USC): 'Organs of War: Ecologies of Measurement and Dematerialization in Wangechi Mutu’s Histology of the Different Classes of Uterine Tumors’ (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

15:15 - 17:00 22 May 2023
This public lecture, co-sponsored by English, American Studies and Creative Writing and the NWCDTP, will be the opening public lecture of the 2023 Sexuality Summer School: '(Up) Against…

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