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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…

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…

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…

Austerity's Histories - Austerity and Altered Life Courses

14:00 - 15:30 25 October 2023
Our fifth seminar in our Austerity and Altered Life-Courses series focuses on austerity’s histories. Research on austerity across the social sciences and humanities reminds us that…

Brownbag - Nuno Palma

13:00 - 14:00 25 October 2023
Title: African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil

Cancelled: Critical Global Politics & Global Political Economy Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 25 October 2023
Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been cancelled. Nisha Shah (University of Ottawa)

Democracy & Elections Seminar

15:30 - 17:00 25 October 2023
Sofia Collignon (Queen Mary University of London)

Engaging Stakeholders in Building Climate Resilience

15:30 - 17:00 25 October 2023
The Sustainable Futures Challenge Area, Resilient Futures, and Creative Manchester present this special event exploring how the arts and sciences can collaborate in addressing the challenge…

Jose Pedraza Ramirez - Optimal Stopping for Exponential Lévy Models with Weighted Discounting

15:00 - 16:00 25 October 2023
Jose Pedraza Ramirez (University of Manchester) will speak at the Probability seminar. (in-person) In this talk, we consider an optimal stopping problem with weighted discounting,…

Logic seminar: Anna Dmitrieva (University of East Anglia)

15:15 - 16:15 25 October 2023
Title: Quasiminimality of a correspondence between two elliptic curves Abstract: One of the well-known accomplishments of model theory is the study of the field of complex numbers.…

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

15:00 - 16:00 25 October 2023
Professor Dominique Kirchner Reill. University of Miami. Immigrant Empires: Habsburg Europe’s Legacy in the United States. Char: Dr Christian Goeschel (UoM SALC). Co-organised with Dr Claire Morelon (UoM History)

MET Seminar - Estelle Cantillon (Libre, Brussels)

17:00 - 18:00 25 October 2023
Title: Respecting priorities versus respecting preferences in school choice: When is there a trade-off? (with Li Chen and Juan Pereyra) Abstract: A classic trade-off that school districts…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 25 October 2023
Srebrenka Letina, University of Glasgow

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…

Vale? Is it worth it? UK premiere and panel discussion

12:00 - 14:30 25 October 2023
Please join us for the UK premiere of the documentary Vale? Is It Worth It? Five artists in the front line against Brazil’s worst environmental crime. The screening will be preceded…

Depositing your data with ReShare

11:00 - 12:30 26 October 2023
This is a workshop designed to give participants a virtual tour of ReShare, where you will learn everything you need to know in order to archive data using our self-deposit repository.…

NCHS: Apple Pressing & Spooky Scavenger Hunt with City of Trees

12:00 - 14:00 26 October 2023
Whitworth Park Community Garden, FREE Join us and City of Trees in Whitworth Park and have a go at making your own apple juice! We will be using an apple press to make a tasty and…

WCLC: Waldstein Trio (cello, piano & violin)

13:10 - 13:55 26 October 2023
Valentina Ciardelli Common Phrases when you’re late (premiere) (2023) I. I’ll be there in 5 minutes …

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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