Exhibitions, Seminar

CTIS Research Seminar: "A Cross-Cultural Exploration of the Person-Centred Approach in End-of-Life Care Policies in England and Japan" (Dr Chao Fang)

14:00 - 15:30 28 November 2024
Increasing evidence suggests that a person-centred approach (PCA) improves care outcomes and alleviates pressure on public health systems. However, policy gaps prevent its effective…

DR TIMOTHY HILDEBRANDT: How China Balances the Risks and Benefits of NGOs [Research Talk]

17:00 - 18:30 28 November 2024
In this in-person talk, Dr Timothy Hildebrandt from LSE will discuss how China balances the risks and benefits of NGOs. ABOUT THE TALK: In this event, Dr Timothy Hildebrandt reflects…

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
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 …

Exhibition – Barbara Walker

4 October 2024 - 26 January 2025
Barbara Walker 4 October 2024 – 26 January 2025 Please note the Whitworth is closed on Mondays 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…

Religions & Theology Research Seminar: Dr Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester) and Dr Siobhan Jolley (University of Manchester) - In Conversation: On Childlessness

16:00 28 November 2024
The Religions & Theology research seminar takes place on alternate Thursdays. This is a hybrid session and can be attended in person or online. To join us online or receive details…

Sikh Heritage in Colonial Collections: Conservation, Digitisation and Community Engagement with Contested Collections

13:00 - 13:45 28 November 2024
This online event introduces a recent collaborative project between Manchester’s Sikh community and the University of Manchester Library (UML). The talk will reflect on what it means…

Bridget Bradley (St Andrews): Affect and Activism in the context of Ecological Anxiety: Towards a militant sentient anthropology

15:00 - 17:00 2 December 2024
Academic, public and political interest in eco-anxiety is steadily growing across the globe, and yet anthropology’s contribution to debates on the topic has been surprisingly slow.…

Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Mike Whittaker

14:00 2 December 2024
Speaker: Mike Whittaker (University of Glasgow) Title: Self-similar groups and their limit spaces Abstract: A self-similar group (G,X) consists of a group G acting faithfully on a…

Manchester Geometry Seminar - Alexander Shapiro

15:00 - 16:00 2 December 2024
Speaker: Dr Alexander Shapiro (Edinburgh) Title: Towards modular functor in higher Teichmüller theory Abstract: A modular functor is a collection of representations of mapping class…

CHSTM Research Seminar: Forest Time – Landscapes of RETVRN and the memory-politics of ecotherapy

16:00 - 17:30 3 December 2024
Abstract: In this talk, I’ll try to connect literatures on psychological culture and environmental racism, through a study of the cultural politics of forest bathing. One of a range…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health December Research Seminar

12:00 - 13:00 3 December 2024
Please join us in December for the Division of Psychology and Mental Health Research Seminar. Tuesday 3rd December, 12:00 - 13:00 *Hybrid Event* For the divisional seminar in December,…

Macro Seminar - Annika Bacher (BI Norwegian)

16:00 - 17:00 3 December 2024
Title: Housing and Savings Behavior across Family Types

Manchester Number Theory Seminar - Andrei Yafaev

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2024
Speaker: Andrei Yafaev (UCL) Title: Bi-\Qbar structures and relations between CM periods Abstract: This is a joint work with Z.Gao and E.Ullmo. We introduce the abstract notion of…

Brownbag - Imran Tahir (IFS)

13:00 4 December 2024
Title: tbd

Logic seminar: Michael Benedikt

15:15 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Title: Finite Structures Embedded in Infinite Ones, Then and Now This talk is about a hybrid of finite and infinite model theory, where formulas can reference two kinds of non-logical…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2024
Roberta Bernardi, University of Bristol Who Says What: Identities and Natural Language Inference to Study the Spread of Health Misinformation on Social Media Health misinformation on…

Pedro Mendes Loureiro (CLAS, Cambridge): The prison consensus: incarceration, investment, and inequality in Brazil

17:00 - 18:30 4 December 2024
Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series: Wed 4 December 2024, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in…

Probability Seminar: Goran Peskir (University Of Manchester) - The Gapeev-Shiryaev Conjecture.

15:00 - 16:30 4 December 2024
Goran Peskir will speak at the Probability seminar. Title: The Gapeev-Shiryaev Conjecture Speaker: Goran Peskir Abstract: The Gapeev-Shiryaev conjecture can be broadly stated as…

Roundtable: New Approaches on the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire

16:00 - 17:30 4 December 2024
We welcome three guest speakers to our roundtable discussion of Claire Morelon’s new book 'Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague 1914-1920' (Cambridge University Press, 2024).…

Statistics Seminar - Compositional quasi-likelihood and logit models

14:00 - 15:00 4 December 2024
Abstract: A composition vector describes the relative sizes of parts of a thing. Some important modern application areas are microbiome analysis, time-use analysis and archaeometry…

Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Olivia Malkowski

15:00 - 16:00 5 December 2024
Our next Behaviour Change Meeting will be held on Thursday 5th December at 3pm, where we have Olivia Malkowski presenting on ‘Towards a precision digital intervention to promote…

Ehrhardt Seminar Programme 2024-25: What Is an Ancient Liturgy?

16:00 - 17:30 5 December 2024
To join us online or receive details of future seminars, please email lynne.potts@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Equity in Community-Centered Models for Ageing: A Virtual Summit

16:30 - 18:00 5 December 2024
This 90-minute virtual summit — hosted by the Hub for Aging Collaboration and developed in partnership with interdisciplinary scholars from the University of Manchester, UCSF, and Wayne…

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