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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…

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…

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…

PNR at 50 (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)

19:00 19 October 2023
7pm (Drinks Reception from 6pm) Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading and raise a toast to PN Review, celebrating 50 years of publishing…

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…

MUMS Symphony Orchestra Concert

19:00 - 21:00 21 October 2023
The UoM Symphony Orchestra will play Berlioz ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ and Lili Boulanger’s ‘D'un Matin de Printemps’. With a premier of a PhD composition by Israel Miu-Yeung Lai and…

Outdoor Art Club

10:30 - 14:30 21 October 2023
Creative activities designed to encourage children to play freely whilst exploring nature outdoors. ‘The outdoor sessions are so much fun! I bring both my three and one year-olds and…

Jeanette Winterson (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)

19:30 22 October 2023
Who’s afraid of ghosts, ghouls and the occult? While our lives have become digital, exposed and always on, ghosts have been finding new ways to connect to us, to reach us, to haunt…

ENSFR Annual Conference. Short Fiction: Landscape and Temporality.

23 - 25 October 2023
This conference will aim to consider the relationship that the short story form has in its representations of temporality. It will also ask “does the short story form do things uniquely,…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Pavel Tumarkin

13:30 - 14:30 23 October 2023
Speaker: Professor Pavel Tumarkin (Durham) Title: The Farey graph and ideal tetrahedra Abstract: We explore a 3-dimensional counterpart of the Farey tessellation and show that it…

What does care take? Saving and sequestering in orangutan conservation

16:00 - 18:00 23 October 2023
Liana Chua (with the GLO [globallivesoftheorangutan.org] and POKOK [pokokborneo.wordpress.com] project teams): What does care take? Saving and sequestering in orangutan conservation.…

Afrocats x Whitworth

12:00 24 - 15:00 25 October 2023
Join Afrocats and the Whitworth as they join forces again for a vibrant and creative cultural experience for all ages. This event will feature a variety of activities, including arts…

Algebra seminar - Simple modules for algebraic groups

14:00 - 15:00 24 October 2023
Abstract: I will speak about joint work with David Stewart, giving a classification by highest weight of simple modules for smooth connected algebraic groups over a field, and also…

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Ethan Lee

15:00 - 16:00 24 October 2023
Speaker: Ethan Lee (Bristol) Title: Explicit bounds on the residue of the Dedekind zeta-function Abstract: In analytic number theory, we can study the distribution of prime ideals…

Training Course on Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets

09:00 24 - 17:00 25 October 2023
A 2 day training course covering theory and computer-based practical works using the Thermo Scientific™ Amira-Avizo Software. Lab/synchrotron X-ray tomography has emerged as one of…

Unleashing the Potential of Metamaterial-Driven Light to Matter Interaction

12:00 - 13:00 25 October 2023
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr. Joel Loh. Metamaterials are unique structures with light-matter interaction properties that are not seen in nature. The growing climate…

Unleashing the potential of metamaterial-driven light to matter interaction

12:00 25 October 2023
Join this EEE research seminar - Photonic, Quantum Materials and Devices series seminar event. Metamaterials are unique structures with light-matter interaction properties that are…

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