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Am I really planning on decolonising with the master's tools? (online)

12:00 - 13:30 23 May 2023
In this lecture, Dr Sahra Taylor will reconsider and re-engage with the legacies and continual realities of the European colonial project. By considering the recent movement by some…

Brownbag - Tatiana Komarova

13:00 - 13:50 23 May 2023
Title: Multivariate ordered discrete response models

Doctoral Workshop “Building West Africa: A View from the Unilever Archive”

22 - 25 May 2023
22-25th of May – Doctoral Workshop “Building West Africa: A View from the Unilever Archive” a collaboration with Michigan University, USA, convened by Ewan Harrison and Lukasz Stanek.…

Gardens in the Mughal and Ottoman Empire

16:00 - 17:30 23 May 2023
An evening with guest speakers Asli Niyazioglu (Oxford) and Neha Vermani (Sheffield) will be speaking on the following topics: Asli Niyazioglu (Oxford): Why did 16th-Century Ottoman…

Live Performance Event in Partnership with Contact: TransMission: SissyTV (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

19:30 - 20:30 23 May 2023
So many things. What to do with them all? How to get inside? Where to find my forbidden desire? Nando Messias invites you into their Narnian closet, a trans archive of exquisite ephemera,…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Luke Elliot

13:00 - 14:00 23 May 2023
Speaker: Luke Elliot Title: Finite presentability of Thompson monoids. Abstract: I will exaplain a few of the standard ways of thinking about Thompson's group V and the Thompson…

Under the Weather: Reimagining mobility in the climate crisis (book launch)

12:30 - 14:00 23 May 2023
HCRI's Dr Stephanie Sodero will discuss her new book 'Under the Weather: Reimagining mobility in the climate crisis' This is a hybrid event (in-person and online). The exact location…

Democracy and Election Seminar

09:00 - 17:00 24 May 2023
Joint workshop held with Cathie Marsh Institute

Generative AI and University Futures: Seminar 3/3

15:00 - 17:00 24 May 2023
*PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS NOW REACHED ATTENDEE CAPACITY* We're hosting 3 in person seminars about generative AI and university futures at the University of Manchester on Critical…

MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - Ewan Harrison, “Contested Imaginaries: The West African Luxury Hotel at the Ends of Empire”

14:00 - 16:00 24 May 2023
MARG 2023 Spring seminar series - 24 May 2-4 pm – Ewan Harrison, “Contested Imaginaries: The West African Luxury Hotel at the Ends of Empire” - Room Booked 1.27 HBS

Measuring Inclusion and Diversity in Nuclear | Dalton Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 24 May 2023
Watch the recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2M7napJ8A8 Measuring Inclusion and Diversity in Nuclear is a hugely challenging and important area that is required to ensure…

MET Seminar - Gregorio Curello (Bonn)

17:00 - 18:00 24 May 2023
Title: Incentives for Collective Innovation Abstract: Agents exert hidden effort to produce randomly-sized innovations in a technology they share. Returns from using the technology…

Public Lecture: Prof. Hal Gladfelder, 'The Castrato as Culture Ghost' (Part of the 2023 Sexuality Summer School)

17:00 - 19:00 24 May 2023
This public lecture, co-sponsored by English, American Studies and Creative Writing and the NWCDTP, will be part of the 2023 Sexuality Summer School: '(Up) Against Nature' Professor…

Research Café: AI, Robotics and Creativity

12:00 - 13:30 24 May 2023
Join us for an informal lunch event exploring how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics are transforming many sectors, including the creative industries. Revolutionary technologies…

SQUIDS Seminar: Marie-Therese Wolfram - Ensemble Inference Methods for Models with Noisy and Expensive Likelihood

12:00 - 13:00 24 May 2023
Join us for this research seminar, part of the SQUIDS (Statistics, quantification of uncertainty, inverse problems and data science) seminar series. Abstract: In this talk we focus…

The Vienna Circle and Beyond: A Workshop Inspired by the Work of Thomas Uebel

24 May 2023
A workshop in honour of and inspired by the work of Professor Thomas Uebel. 09.00 - 09.30: COFFEE/ARRIVAL 09.30 - 09.45: Graham Stevens - Introduction 09.50 - 11.05: Andre Carus…

Dai-Oji : The Oji Paper Company and Japan's Pulp Pipelines in Asia (CIDRAL Visiting Fellow Keynote Talk)

16:00 - 18:00 25 May 2023
This talk explores the tangled histories of green imperialism and green capitalism in Asia through the lens of a Japanese corporation: the Oji Paper Company, historically one of the…

Introduction to copyright: Copyright issues in secondary data use

10:00 - 11:30 25 May 2023
This second session on copyright focuses on copyright considerations in the context of secondary data use. The first session, Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing, provides…

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - Lunch and Learn Workshop

11:45 - 14:00 25 May 2023
A Life Cycle Assessment is the act of measuring the environmental impact of a product or service throughout its life cycle, from the resources used to create the product or service,…

Live Performance Event in Partnership with Contact: ‘(Up) Against Nature’ (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

19:30 - 20:30 25 May 2023
Experience a screening of two filmed performances, one by Whiskey Chow, a performance artist and Chinese drag king, and the other by Ro Robertson, who explores the terrain of the Queer…

Making cycling e-asier with free trials and test rides

11:00 25 May 2023
E-cycle skills and confidence drop-in sessions at University Place. No need to book, drop-in anytime between 11am and 3pm. E-cycles provided, helmets aren’t necessary but available…

PERILOUS TIMES Book launch: Thomas D. Lee in conversation w/ Beth Underdown

18:30 - 20:00 25 May 2023
We're thrilled to be working with the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing to host the launch of Thomas D. Lee's wonderfully entertaining new novel PERILOUS TIMES. Mixing…

Polish Studies Group Northern Workshop

10:45 25 - 15:30 26 May 2023
This two-day workshop provides graduate training to PhD researchers working on projects related to Polish history, literature and area studies and facilitates international collaboration…

Sustainable Futures Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:00 25 May 2023
This event will showcase talks from The University of Manchester's Dr Stephanie Sodero and Aristeidis Voliotis. Agenda 14:00: Welcome and introduction with the event chair 14:05:…

The Muslim, State and Mind: Islamophobia in Mental Health and Psychology (Tarek Younis)

13:00 - 14:15 25 May 2023
Please join the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) for a hybrid seminar with Dr Tarek Younis (Middlesex University). Mental health is placed as the cure for all of society’s…

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