All events

Brownbag - Xiaobing Wang

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2023
Title: A Class of Prosperity Measures

15:30 - 16:30 18 October 2023
Dr Peg Murray-Evans (University of York) & Dr Peter O'Reilly (Liverpool John Moores University). Performing local vaccine production in Africa: from vaccine apartheid to biontainers.

Compassion and Culture: A Conversation with Museum Directors Esme Ward & Xiaowen Zhu

17:00 - 18:30 18 October 2023
In this talk, Museum Directors Esme Ward & Xiaowen Zhu reflect on the links between compassion and culture, drawing on their work on China. This event is co-organised by the Manchester…

FBMH Fellowship Academy Autumn Event – Managing a Fellowship

12:00 - 17:00 18 October 2023
This event is aimed at UoM research fellows inc. NHS partner fellows. Lunch will be provided followed by four sessions aimed at helping you manage your fellowship. All sessions will…

For the Record: Songs as archive, and other entanglements

17:00 - 18:30 18 October 2023
This unique presentation is the latest in a series of Entanglements devised by theatre-makers Karen Christopher and David Overend. These informal, hybrid events weave text, film, music…

Linglong Yuan - Kingman's House of Cards model with random mutation probabilities

15:00 - 16:00 18 October 2023
Linglong Yuan (University of Liverpool) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) Kingman introduced, in 1978, a simple population model with discrete generations and infinite…

Logic seminar: Vahagn Aslanyan (Manchester)

15:15 - 16:15 18 October 2023
Title: Equations involving the j-invariant and its derivatives. Abstract: I'll discuss the problem of solvability of equations in a single complex variable involving the j-function…

MANCEPT Seminar

16:00 - 17:30 18 October 2023
Rufaida Al Hashmi (Nuffield College Oxford)

Mandarin Corner (every Wednesday)

16:45 4 October - 17:45 13 December 2023
Practice your Chinese and develop an appreciation of Chinese culture at our weekly Mandarin Corner. These are informal conversation sessions at Beginner (HSK 1-3) and Advanced (HSK…

MET Seminar - Jorgen Kratz (York)

17:00 - 18:00 18 October 2023
Title: Weak Misrepresentations in College Admissions (joint with Makoto Shimojo) Abstract: Much of the literature on admission mechanisms for schools and universities is focused on…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 18 October 2023
Giulia Berlusconi, University of Surrey

Nuno Pinto (Manchester): Better decision support for better urban governance: How decision-support knowledge and methods help different stakeholders, examples from Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador

17:00 - 18:30 18 October 2023
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies research seminar series. This event will be face to face, in Samuel Alexander A116. But it can also be followed online:…

SQUIDS Seminar - Trace-class Gaussian priors for Bayesian reinforcement learning

14:30 - 16:00 18 October 2023
Schedule: - 2:30pm: pretalk - 3:05pm: research talk 'Trace-class Gaussian priors for Bayesian reinforcement learning' I will motivate the talk by looking at some challenges in reinforcement…

World Menopause Day

18 October 2023
Join us at the Whitworth Art Gallery and get creative about your menopause journey with a range of drop-in activities including; Collage, mindful art, drawing and Zumba. The workshops…

Creative Writing workshop with Lemn Sissay OBE

15:00 - 16:30 19 October 2023
A CPD event for school teachers. Discover ways of using creative writing to spark creativity and wellbeing in the classroom. A teacher professional development workshop Join us…

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Lecture by Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

17:00 - 20:30 19 October 2023
Professor Colva Roney-Dougal is a mathematician specializing in group theory and computational algebra. She is a Professor of Pure Mathematics and the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary…

Ethics and Sustainability for Today's Translation Professional

13:00 - 14:30 19 October 2023
Abstract: While ethical issues have now long been an important concern for translation scholars, professionals, and students alike, the challenging contemporary environment that we…

HCRI Society event - Shadow Game (doc screening) and Q&A

17:00 - 19:00 19 October 2023
Join the HCRI Society for a screening of the 2021 film 'Shadow Game', followed by a panel discussion of European asylum policy. ABOUT THE EVENT Details and registration is via HCRI…

How to anonymise qualitative and quantitative data

11:00 - 12:30 19 October 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. These introductory…

Lane Lecture 2023: Convergent Junctions, with guest speaker Professor Ira Madan

16:30 - 19:30 19 October 2023
In this year's annual Lane Lecture, Professor Madan will reflect on how the clinical, political, and cultural landscape has changed Occupational Health practice in recent decades and…

Memory of stochastic single-cell apoptotic signalling promotes chemoresistance in neuroblastoma

13:00 - 14:00 19 October 2023
Advances in Regenerative Medicine & Cell Matrix Biology Seminar Series: Dave Croucher Abstract: Many theories have been proposed describing the single-cell dynamics of chemotherapy…

Political Economy Centre Research Seminar

02:00 - 15:30 19 October 2023
Political Economy Centre Research Seminar with Professor Stephanie Barrientos, Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester. Professor Barrientos will be speaking about her important…

The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth

13:00 - 14:30 19 October 2023
In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors…

WCLC: Hallé Brass

13:10 - 13:55 19 October 2023
Some 4 years since their last visit, Hallé Brass - formed primarily from principal members of the internationally renowned Hallé Orchestra – present a typically eclectic programme of…

Writing And Submitting A Journal Article In 12 Weeks - Part 2

14:00 - 16:00 19 October 2023
This is the second of a two-part lecture with Q&A, offered by artsmethods@manchester for PGRs. This online training event is designed to help you revise completed research, such as…

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