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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 – 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…

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…

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…

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.…

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

Book launch: 'Global Marxism' by Simin Fadaee

18:00 - 20:00 8 October 2024
In Global Marxism, Simin Fadaee argues that Marxism remains a living tradition and the cornerstone of revolutionary theory and practice in the Global South. She explores the lives,…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Waking Up on a Different Planet - Contemporary Histories of Climate Psychology and Ecological Emotion

16:00 - 17:30 8 October 2024
Abstract: The historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has done much to establish the planet as a humanist category, challenging other historians and humanists to revisit the conceptual foundations…

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…

MET Seminar - Kim-Sau Chung

17:00 - 18:00 8 October 2024
Title: Designing Open Source Licenses (joint with Melody Lo) Abstract: Open source licenses are noted for being self-referential. The two most popular licenses are GPL and BSD. GPL…

MLF 2024: Humanise with Thomas Heatherwick

19:00 - 20:15 8 October 2024
‘Humanise is a masterwork.’ Alain de Botton One of the world’s most prolific designers, Thomas Heatherwick is fighting ‘an epidemic of boringness’ and demands that we put human emotion…

SPACES for young people's wellbeing

17:00 - 18:30 8 October 2024
Join us for an absorbing webinar on creating SPACES (Supporting Participation in Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Sports) to improve young people’s wellbeing. Hear from researchers,…

Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: UN Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971

13:00 - 14:30 9 October 2024
DETAILS Register: https://blue-helmet-hcri.eventbrite.co.uk Full title: Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945–1971 Chair/Discussant:…

Brownbag - Yu Wang (Cornell)

13:00 9 October 2024
Title: tbd

Digital Health Equity seminar: Key strategies for promoting digital inclusion and their adoption in practice

13:00 - 14:00 9 October 2024
Sarah Wilson from the Newcastle University will talk about “Key strategies for promoting digital inclusion and their adoption in practice”. The WHO Bellagio eHealth Evaluation Group…

Elin Falla -- A mathematical model centred on aphid vector feeding behaviour has implications for plant host manipulation by plant viruses [ONLINE]

13:00 - 14:00 9 October 2024
Join us for this seminar by Elin Falla (Cambridge) as part of the North West Seminar Series in Mathematical Biology and Data Science. More details about the joint series can be found…

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