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Are Race and Religion on the 2024 US Election Ballot?

13:00 - 14:30 3 October 2024
Join us for a lunchtime discussion of race and religion in the 2024 US election campaign. Keith Magee, renowned intellectual, theologian and scholar will be in discussion with writer…

Behaviour Change Seminar Series: Dr Siobhan Caughey and Prof Mark Healey

15:00 - 16:00 3 October 2024
The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour…

Econometrics Seminar - Pietro Emilio Spini (Bristol)

12:00 - 13:00 3 October 2024
Title TBA

Exhibition – Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
<Strong>Alison Wilding: Sculptor's Drawings A display of newly acquired works on paper by the British sculptor Alison Wilding. Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays </Strong>…

Exhibition – The ‘Death’ of the Life Room

6 June 2024 - 12 January 2025
The ‘Death’ of the Life Room 6 Jun 2024 – 12 January 2025 *Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays* Set against the backdrop of the 1950s this collection display highlights…

Hear me! Exhibition

1 - 31 October 2024
The Hear Me! science/art exhibition about impact of hearing loss, tinnitus and dizziness, which has just been installed at Students Hub in Jean McFarlane building. The exhibition…

Mandarin Corner (EVERY WEDNESDAY)

16:30 2 October - 17:30 4 December 2024
THIS IS A RECURRING EVENT - EVERY WEDNESDAY at 4:30PM – 5:30PM Mandarin Corner is back for another term and we're delighted to bring you more language practice and some cultural activities.…

Startup Spotlight with Sid Sethi

17:00 - 18:30 3 October 2024
Date: Thursday 3rd October 2024 Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Location: Enterprise Zone 2.039, 2nd Floor, Alliance Manchester Business School Event Overview: Join us for an exciting edition…

The Man who Photobombed De Gaulle

16:00 - 18:00 3 October 2024
The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris offers an opportunity to explore the discrepancy between race-based mythologies around the Second World War and Black involvement in…

WCLC: The Lucky Dog Picturehouse – silent movie screening with live musical accompaniment

13:10 - 13:55 3 October 2024
Experience silent comedies from over 100 years ago with era-authentic scores, performed live by the musicians of The Lucky Dog Picturehouse. Presented by Music, Drama & Film departments.…

Exhibition – Barbara Walker

4 October 2024 - 26 January 2025
<strong>Barbara Walker 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025 Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays</strong> Our autumn 2024 programme leads with the first-ever survey exhibition…

Lunchtime concert: Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase

13:10 - 13:55 4 October 2024
Manchester University Music Society’s Piano Showcase is the first weekly lunchtime concert of the academic year! Come along to see your friends and peers play piano music by Bach, Liszt, Faure, and more!

Manchester Literature Festival 2024: Caroline Lucas

14:30 - 15:45 5 October 2024
‘Engaging, illuminating and ultimately uplifting, Another England opens the path to a renewed country with real reasons to be proud of itself.’ Fintan O’Toole Caroline Lucas, former…

MLF 2024: Jackie Kay: A Life in Poetry and Protest

19:00 - 20:15 5 October 2024
Festival favourite Jackie Kay (Red Dust Road) returns to celebrate her new poetry collection May Day. From Reclaim the Streets to Pride to Greenham Common to Black Lives Matter, Jackie…

Manchester Literature Festival: David Peace at HOME

19:00 - 20:15 6 October 2024
Limbs and hearts may be broken, but the spirit remains. Their message is that the club is not dead. Manchester United lives on. In February 1958, BEA Flight 609 crashed on take-off…

Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum

16:30 - 17:45 6 October 2024
‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.’ In the four decades she’s spent…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Yotam Smilansky

14:00 - 15:00 7 October 2024
Speaker: Yotam Smilansky (University of Manchester) Title: Equivalence relations on aperiodic point sets Abstract: A Delone set in Euclidean space is an infinite well-spaced (uniformly…

MIOIR Seminar Series - Kickstarting Industrial Diversification?

15:30 - 16:30 7 October 2024
Kickstarting Industrial Diversification? Dr. Nicola Cortinovis, Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at Utrecht University, will be discussing the potential of crowdfunding (CF)…

Reimagining meanings: co-curatorship and decolonizing methods

10:00 - 12:00 7 October 2024
Members of African diaspora communities are invited to attend this (by invitation only) session which aims to develop new understandings of the Museum’s African collections and develop…

Sandhya Fuchs (Bristol): Hate Crime Law as Meliorist Hope: Seeking justice for caste atrocities in Rajasthan

15:00 - 17:00 7 October 2024
Hate crime laws, which criminalise violent expressions of prejudice, have faced growing criticism. Scholars have argued that hate crime legislation relies on the collaboration of legal…

Algebra seminar - TBD

14:00 - 15:00 8 October 2024
Title: TBD Abstract: TBD

Computational social science drop-in

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2024
Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in to get or give some help on computational social science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert from the…

Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data

10:00 - 11:30 8 October 2024
Secondary analysis offers a great option for dissertation students who are looking to gain experience working with data but who have limited abilities to go out into the field or would…

Macro Seminar - Anand Chopra (Liverpool)

16:00 - 17:00 8 October 2024
Title: The Equilibrium Impact of Agricultural Support Prices and Input Subsidies

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Victor Shirandami

15:00 - 16:00 8 October 2024
Speaker: Victor Shirandami (University of Manchester) Title: Distribution of Algebraic projective points: Towards Probablistic Effectivity in The Subspace Theorem Abstract: In recent…

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