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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…

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.…

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…

A conversation with Sara Ahmed (The Feminist Killjoy Handbook)

18:30 26 May 2023
Join us for an evening with renowned feminist author, Sara Ahmed, as she discusses her latest book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook. In this collection of essays, Ahmed explores the ways…

Closing Event: Film Screening and Discussion: Private View (2023 Sexuality Summer School)

17:30 - 19:00 26 May 2023
A queer painter, a non binary writer and portraiture like you’ve never seen it before…. Two British Artists: lesbian portrait painter Sadie Lee and Non-Binary writer Libro Levi Bridgeman…

Quiet Morning

10:30 - 14:30 28 May 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,…

Manchester Algebra Seminar - Kamilla Rekvenyi

13:00 - 14:00 30 May 2023
Speaker: Kamilla Rekvenyi - Imperial Title: TBC Tea and biscuits 12:45 in the foyer

Smelling the Past: An Archaeology of the “Vast Structure of Recollection”

16:00 - 17:30 30 May 2023
A talk on Smelling the Past: An Archaeology of the “Vast Structure of Recollection” delivered by William Tullett (Anglia Ruskin). This event is part of Affective Artefacts, a series…

Structures defined on the polyhedral cell complexes in their relation to material processing and design

15:00 - 16:00 30 May 2023
Abstract of the talk Polyhedral cell complex (PCC) is a discrete representation of a 3D space tessellation providing an excellent model of real polycrystalline materials [1] such as…

Sustainable Consumption Institute Seminar with Ruth Lane - Households and churn in the circular economy

10:30 - 12:30 30 May 2023
Sustainable Consumption Institute Seminar With Ruth Lane (Monash University) May 30th, 2023, 10:30-12:30, UK time AMBS Penthouse (10.001) All welcome to attend. Book your place via…

The Intersection of Psychology and Cybersecurity: Implications for Research and Practice

12:30 - 14:00 30 May 2023
Digital Trust & Security Seminar Series: Robert di Schiavi (Head of Technical Advisory for Bsides Lancashire) Seminar with Q&A and lunch provided Date & Time: Tuesday 30th May 2023…

Global China's Knowledge Infrastructure: The Rise of Chinese International Development Thinking

12:00 - 13:00 31 May 2023
This talk discusses the rise of Chinese international development thinking. In the past 5-10 years, a growing number of Chinese scholars and experts have sought to theorise the ‘development’…

Logic seminar: Soinbhe Nic Dhonncha (University of Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 31 May 2023
Title: Chains of R-modules Abstract: The model theory of modules extends naturally to certain functor categories. One such category is that in which the objects can be thought of as…

MET Seminar - Gabriel Carroll (Toronto)

17:00 - 18:00 31 May 2023
Title: Dynamic Incentives in Incompletely Specified Environments Abstract: Consider a repeated interaction where it is unknown which of various stage games will be played each period.…

Spin-optical materials from luminescent organic radicals

12:00 - 13:00 31 May 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Emrys Evans. New materials based on pi-conjugated organic radicals offer exciting opportunities to advance optoelectronics and molecular…

Data documentation

11:00 - 12:30 1 June 2023
Data documentation is essential to make sure that well-organised and well-documented research data can be produced from our research projects. This free introductory workshop on data…

Applied Creative Practice 3: Collaborations with cultural partners.

11:00 - 13:00 5 June 2023
This seminar is the third of a series of three linked workshops which will bring together researchers from a range of disciplinary fields in SALC to examine how different disciplines…

Child as Method Symposium

09:30 5 - 16:00 7 June 2023
This three-day Symposium intends to bring together academics working on Child as Method or more broadly interested in childhood studies, decolonial studies, postcolonial studies, psychology,…

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