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"Beyond Westminster: A second chamber for the whole country" - a talk by the Lord Speaker of the House of Lord - Lord McFall of Alcluith

17:30 - 18:30 29 February 2024
Join us for an exciting event where Lord McFall will discuss options for reform of Parliament’s Upper House, to enhance the effectiveness of its work of scrutiny and revision of legislation…

Faithful to the Salt: Mayalee Dancing Girl vs. the East India Company

16:30 - 18:00 29 February 2024
In 1818, the East India Company signed a treaty with the princely states of Jaipur and Jodhpur, offering British political and military protection in exchange for heavy cash tribute.…

Let's Talk About…being a researcher with a long-term condition

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2024
Research should be more inclusive, such as for researchers with a long-term condition like a disability, chronic illness, mental health condition, or who are neurodivergent. Join Cancer…

Low carbon Chinatown

18:00 - 19:00 4 March 2024
Come to Manchester CI's March public talk to hear from Singaporean artist and designer Ling Tan, who will talk about her projects on low carbon Chinese food and community participation.…

Epistolary Archives and Sensibilities: Between the Personal and the Scientific in Women Mathematicians’ Correspondence

17:00 - 18:30 5 March 2024
Join us at the Rylands as Maria Tamboukou offers the notion of sensibility as a methodological move that she has deployed in conducting archival research, but also as an epistemological…

EACW Research Seminar Series

13:00 - 14:30 6 March 2024
Henry Knight-Lozano (Exeter) will deliver a paper entitled ‘William Bartram's Travels and Florida as Reptile Dominion’ . Discussion will follow

Humanitarian Extractivism: The digital transformation of aid

16:00 - 17:30 7 March 2024
DETAILS Date/Time: Thurs 7th March 2023, 4pm – 5.30pm (UK) Location: Hybrid - Samuel Alexander Building, Room SG.16 + Zoom Open to all // Registration essential // Organised by HCRI…

International Women's Day 2024 at the OCRB

09:45 - 14:30 8 March 2024
This event is dedicated to celebrating the achievements and contributions of women in STEM/Cancer Research in a series of talks, panel discussions, and interactive sessions. This…

EACW Research Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 12 March 2024
Coll Thrush (University of British Columbia), ‘Notes on an Entangled City: Lessons from Indigenous London’. This event is co-sponsored with the History Department

International Women's Day - Data and Importance of Representation in Gender Equality

12:30 - 13:30 13 March 2024
Join us on Wednesday March 13 at 12.30 to learn about Data and Importance of Representation for Gender Equality with Sami Karamalla-Gaibella and Lauren Stella from the EDI Directorate.…

The Annual Harry Street Lecture 2024

17:30 - 19:30 13 March 2024
Human Rights, the Cost of Living and Polycrisis in Europe This Lecture, which will be given by Professor Aoife Nolan, President of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social…

Attempting to Kill the Law of Peace

16:00 - 17:30 11 April 2024
A public talk with Prof Mary Ellen O’Connell, Professor of Law and International Peace Studies at University of Notre Dame; co-hosted by HCRI and the Law School at University of Manchester.…

EACW Research Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 17 April 2024
Chris Vardy (UoM), ‘Contemporary Prehistories’

[CANCELLED] Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971

16:00 - 17:30 18 April 2024
[CANCELLED] DETAILS Full title: Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971 Chair/Discussant: Panagiotis Karagkounis, HCRI…

Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?

17:00 23 April 2024
Meet U.S. author Keith Boykin for a discussion and book signing for his new book, Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? The most toxic racial arguments share one of five traits.…

EACW Research Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:30 24 April 2024
Harry Pitt-Scott, Warwick/UoM, 'Oil and Horror: Volatile Futures at the Permafrost'

Stories of Migration, with Gulwali Passarla

17:00 - 18:30 25 April 2024
HCRI Student Society is hosting a storytelling event with Gulwali Passarla from Asylum Speakers - an organisation that breaks down the myths about migration to the UK. The VENUE is…

Digital Futures PhD Network

14:00 - 15:30 30 April 2024
The Digital Futures network serves as a dynamic and collaborative hub exclusively designed for the community of PhD students within The University of Manchester, who are conducting…

CSSC Talk: Ben Nichols (Manchester), 'Intersectionality Fatigue: Rethinking "Single-Axis Analysis"'

14:15 - 15:15 1 May 2024
The Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture at UoM presents: CSSC Talk: Ben Nichols (Manchester), 'Intersectionality Fatigue: Rethinking "Single-Axis Analysis"'

Getting Your First Customers

16:00 - 17:30 3 May 2024
Event Info: Despite the headlines, fundraising is not success for a startup. Success comes from paying customers. In this talk, we will cover how to find a problem, how to build something…

EACW Research Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 8 May 2024
Xine Yao (UCL) ‘On the Racial and Sexual Politics of Unfeeling’

Tan Dun's Ghost Opera and the Chinese New Wave

18:00 - 19:00 13 May 2024
Join us for our May public talk given by the curator of our 2024 Chinese New Year concert, Po Hang Yuen (Arthur). The work of a group of modern Chinese composers known as the ‘New…

EACW Research Seminar Series

14:00 - 15:30 15 May 2024
Marilynn Richtarik (Georgia State University), ‘Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland’

Decoding Codices: Mesoamerican Manuscripts and Indigenous Knowledge SOLD OUT

14:00 - 16:00 22 May 2024
Did you know that the Northwest of England holds some of the rarest Indigenous manuscripts that have survived the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, as well as other important Mesoamerican…

Let's Talk About Race with Gary Younge

12:00 23 May 2024
The Equality Diversity and Inclusion Directorate at The University of Manchester will be hosting a new instalment of the ‘Let’s Talk’ series entitled ‘Let’s Talk About Race’. Our…

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