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A Political Epistemology of International Development

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2024
Speaker: David Ludwig (Wageningen) The colonial myth of a “civilizing mission” is built on imagining the colonized as ignorant and in need of education by colonial knowledge holders.…

AMES Public Seminar: Dr cHana Morgenstern – Rupture and Reconstruction: The Palestinian Cultural Magazine after 1948

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2024
The Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), University of Manchester warmly invites you to this event: Part of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2024 – Living, Reconstructing…

Brownbag - Usama Jamal

13:00 20 November 2024
Title: tbd

Careers Panel: Global and Humanitarian Health (WEBINAR FORMAT ONLY)

13:00 20 November 2024
Co-hosted by Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and UoM Public Health, we'll hear from NGO / UN staff about life and work in the fields of Global Health and humanitarian…

Exhibition - Teenage Kicks: Girls growing up in Britain 1956-1974 – Andrea’s Story

13 November - 20 December 2024
This exhibition shares the stories of eight girls, who were teenagers and young women between 1956 and 1974, a time of huge social, economic and cultural change in Britain, based on…

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…

Finding and accessing data from the UK Data Service

10:00 - 11:30 20 November 2024
This introductory workshop is intended for anyone who wants to hear about finding data from the UK Data Service and contains interactive elements throughout. Participants will be given…

Instruments in Chinese music: The violin

18:00 - 19:00 20 November 2024
We're delighted to invite you to the second talk in our "Instruments in Chinese music" series. The series features three talks hosted by Po Hang Yuen, each focusing on a different instrument.…

Leticia Marques (Rio de Janeiro State University): "Miscegenation as an insoluble debt: among stories, facts, and artefacts of the Baron of Juparanã's family"

17:00 - 18:30 20 November 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 20 Nov 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel…

Logic seminar: Sebastian Eterovic

15:15 - 16:30 20 November 2024
Title: Algebraic varieties and automorphic functions Abstract: The existential closedness problem studies the intersections of algebraic varieties with the graph of a specified function.…

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.…

Material Happiness in Early Modern English Households (Affective Artefacts speaker series)

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2024
Join us for the latest in the Affective Artefacts seminar series, courtesy of the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. All welcome and no booking required.

MET Seminar - Dimitri Migrow

17:00 - 18:00 20 November 2024
Title: Disclosure in insurance markets with limited screening (joint with Andriy Zapechelnyuk) Abstract: We investigate the impact of information disclosure, via a statistical instrument,…

Mitchell Centre Seminar series

16:00 - 17:30 20 November 2024
Diana Bociga University of Manchester Exploring the UK's anti-money laundering network: multiple relationships, structural patterns, and brokerage Roles The UK’s Anti-Money Laundering…

NWBI Present and Future of Synthetic Biology with AI

18:00 - 19:00 20 November 2024
Dear All, The NorthWest Biotech Initiative would like to invite you to Future of Synthetic Biology with AI Webinar. The world of synthetic biology is evolving—curious about how AI…

Printing Press Demonstration

11:00 - 11:30 20 November 2024
The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, with its extensive and world-famous collections of early printed books, has deep ties to the rich history of heritage printing. During…

PSI Seminar: Effect of Resonant Overlaps Between the Optical Bandgaps and Large Twist Angle in the Interlayer Energy Transfer Process

12:00 - 13:00 20 November 2024
Join us for this PSI seminar with guest speaker Dr Arka Karmakar. In the post silicon era, type-II transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) heterostructures (HSs) are predicted to be…

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