Past events
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The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth
12:00 - 13:30 19 October 2023
In The Culture Trap, Derron Wallace argues that the overreliance on culture to explain Black students' achievement and behavior in schools is a trap that undermines the historical factors and institutional processes that shape how Black students experience schooling. This trap is consequential for a...
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Lane Lecture 2023: Convergent Junctions, with guest speaker Professor Ira Madan
15:30 - 18:30 19 October 2023
In this year's annual Lane Lecture, Professor Madan will reflect on how the clinical, political, and cultural landscape has changed Occupational Health practice in recent decades and why Occupational Health research is more important than ever. There will be the opportunity to ask questions at the...
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HCRI Society event - Shadow Game (doc screening) and Q&A
16:00 - 18:00 19 October 2023
Join the HCRI Society for a screening of the 2021 film 'Shadow Game', followed by a panel discussion of European asylum policy. ABOUT THE EVENT Details and registration is via HCRI Society's webpage at: https://manchesterstudentsunion.com/activities/view/hcrisoc Location is SU Theatre & Theatre Lounge...
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PNR at 50 (Manchester Literature Festival 2023)
19 October 2023 - 20 May 2024
7pm (Drinks Reception from 6pm) Join us for the annual Rylands Poetry Reading and raise a toast to PN Review, celebrating 50 years of publishing some of the most vital, diverse and provocative poetry, essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. Contributing...
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Compassion and Culture: A Conversation with Museum Directors Esme Ward & Xiaowen Zhu
16:00 - 17:30 18 October 2023
In this talk, Museum Directors Esme Ward & Xiaowen Zhu reflect on the links between compassion and culture, drawing on their work on China. This event is co-organised by the Manchester China Institute and Manchester Museum, with support from esea contemporary, as part of a wider event series about "how...
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