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2nd Global Conference on Parenting Interventions

12:00 3 - 12:00 4 May 2023
This conference will highlight/bring together both the global research on parenting interventions and share learning experiences, success, barriers, and solutions to the implementation…

Applied Seminar - Saurabh Singhal (Lancaster)

13:00 - 14:00 4 May 2023
Title: Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation Abstract: Improving agricultural productivity is vital to anti-poverty and food security goals but can have ecological ramifications.…

Chinese Views of Russia and Ukraine, a Roundtable Discussion

17:00 - 18:30 4 May 2023
[In-person, The Portico Library] With China’s tacit support for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there has been much talk in global media about a new China-Russia alliance against…

Data management basics: Ethical and legal issues in data sharing

10:00 - 11:30 4 May 2023
Data management is essential to make sure that well-organised, well-documented, high quality and shareable research data can be produced from our research projects. The introductory…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Alison Salvesen, University of Oxford, Symmachus, ‘the translator of the Jews’: what a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible can tell us about religious life in early 3rd C Palestine

14:10 - 15:30 4 May 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,…

Mykaell Riley and Linda Brogan In Conversation with David Olusoga

18:00 - 19:00 4 May 2023
Join us at The Whitworth for this public talk, chaired by David Olusoga, Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. The talk provides a space to reflect on the historical…

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…

The Problem of Poverty (MANCEPT)

16:00 - 17:30 4 May 2023
Dennis Pirdzuns (University of Manchester Abstract: Poverty is an obvious moral and political problem. An exceptional unanimity prevails in the theoretical literature that poverty…

The Science Behind the Star Wars Movies

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2023
Alain Hostettler and Sam Cordingley from ILM will be visiting the Department on May 4th, 2023, 2 - 3pm, to present a talk about the science behind the movies. If you are interested…

Workers' Playtime: Curator Tour

14:00 - 14:30 4 May 2023
Did industrial workers in Victorian Lancashire have time to participate in literary culture and leisure pursuits? From the Factory Acts to the First World War, this tour will explore…

Art Baby

10:30 - 14:30 5 May 2023
Sensory play sessions in the beautiful surrounds of the gallery, especially for non-walking babies and their grown-ups. ‘I truly believe these sessions are good for my health. I feel…

Chris Marquis - Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise (Book Talk)

16:30 - 17:30 5 May 2023
[In-person, Oddfellows Hall] As China opened up its economy over the past four decades, conventional wisdom held that the country’s growing embrace of free markets would lead to a…

Online Deaf Awareness (for University of Manchester Humanities staff only)

10:00 5 May 2023
2-hour online session delivered by Manchester Deaf Centre by one of their experienced, profoundly Deaf tutors - brought to you by the Faculty of Humanities Social & Wellbeing Advisory…

Public Lunchtime Concert: University of Manchester Gamelan Ensemble

13:10 - 13:55 5 May 2023
The Music Department presents Gamelan Music from West Java, Indonesia. Students on the Ensemble Performance in Gamelan course perform an exciting programme of music, including classical…

2023 Politics Undergraduate Conference

10:00 - 15:00 9 May 2023
Annual Politics and International Relations Undergraduate Research Conference with support from the student team at Juncture, The University of Manchester Undergraduate Politics Journal…

Austerity and Solidarity

12:00 - 13:30 9 May 2023
Our next AALC seminar is focused on the topic: Austerity and Solidarity. With this online event we focus on resistance to, and in spite of austerity, and also consider how this topic…

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…

Gordon Barrett & Jen Altehenger - China's Cold War Science Diplomacy [Book Launch]

12:30 - 13:30 9 May 2023
[HYBRID] This event will be in a hybrid format with limited tickets in-person and also live on Zoom. China’s rise as a global superpower in science, technology, and medicine has played…

High Reynolds number turbulent drag reduction by spanwise wall forcing

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2023
Abstract of the talk Turbulent friction drag is an inevitable source of power consumption for aircrafts, trains, pipelines, and many other industrial applications. Significant efforts…

Macro Seminar - Anastasios Karantounias (Surrey)

16:00 - 17:00 9 May 2023
Title: A general theory of tax-smoothing

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Ruben La

13:00 - 14:00 9 May 2023
Speaker: Ruben La - Oxford Title: Maximality properties of generalised Springer representations of SO(N,C) Abstract: Let C be a unipotent class of G and E an irreducible G-equivariant…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Philippe Michaud-Jacobs

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2023
Speaker: Philippe Michaud-Jacobs (Warwick) Title: Isogenies of elliptic curves and Diophantine equations Abstract: Isogenies are the basic building blocks of maps between elliptic…

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…

Statistical disclosure control methods for Census 2021

10:00 - 11:30 10 May 2023
The UK Data Service and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are running this free webinar to help users get to grips with statistical disclosure control in the Census 2021 for…

Trees and Forests in the Roman World (CIDRAL)

10:30 - 16:00 10 May 2023
The peoples of the ancient Mediterranean world relied heavily on wood for many purposes, from engineering works to cooking to artistry. Trees had huge commercial value, as well as strong…

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