Emma Butt has over 10 years’ experience in post-production sound on a variety of projects from mixing documentaries and entertainment shows, short form commercials, short films and animations to ADR recording for dramas and feature films

This seminar will explore the political, social and epidemiological reasons why polio eradication has taken so long to achieve

This talk asks why Legros has remained in obscurity despite his centrality to the art-worlds of both London and Paris in the later nineteenth century

This talk outlines the experimental and artistic work undertaken by Angela McArthur

This lecture will discuss Ellen Tanner’s collection of mainly Iranian textiles, metalwork, lacquer and woodwork

Dr Adar Pelah talks about the astonishing medical advances of recent decades, particularly around the use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Hear from award-winning scientists and authors and join the debate

The second in this term's Global Health Histories seminars, focusing on the Brazilian experience of the Zika epidemic

A visiting human rights defender will speak about the climate of fear, and the socio-political environment in Turkey

Dr Sani Nassif talks about developments in Cancer Radiation Therapy

The first in a series of three seminars this academic year by Visiting Professor Adam Phillips, writer and Psychoanalyst

This talk will outline the latest efforts in the design of new materials to directly interface with cells and heal the body

Professor Felice Jacka discusses the link between diet and mental illnesses

Adrian Kendry, former NATO Senior Defence Economist, talks on the current dangers in global politics and possible avenues to rebuild needed hope and cooperation.

Wanjeri Nderu, a human rights and anti-corruption blogger, will talk about her work to expose criminal activity and human rights violations in Kenya

Professor Imogen Tyler discusses ‘Badging the Poor’, and examines the mechanics of intensified welfare stigma in the UK in the wake of the implementation of austerity-driven reforms to social provision since 2010

See how evolutionary algorithms, a form of machine learning, can help diagnose and monitor Parkinson’s

Han Hui Hui will talk about the human rights situation in Singapore

This lecture will investigate Toni Morrison’s notion of literary ethics and explore Henry James’s own belief that the art of the novel relies on the ethical representation of characters’ lives

What did Queen Victoria mean to the people of India?

This talk will explore the material culture of the 11th and 12th centuries in northern England

Dr Roisin Higgins reads from letters from the bereaved during the First World War

This lecture will address the link between society and psychological distress

Prosper will talk about his work with Masvingo Residents Trust and his thoughts on a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe

Scrutinise the possibilities and limitations of microfinance as a tool for development

This talk will use previously unpublished records, memoirs, diaries and government publications to uncover the human story of the Spanish Flu in 1918

Get into the spirit of the festive season by joining us for an evening of short readings from some of the most-loved Christmas stories

A lecture-recital looking at the songs and music from the First World War era

This talk offers an insight into the Islamic textiles in the Whitworth’s collection as well as the contributions made by Manchester’s Islamic communities

A discussion on the difficulties for evaluation with the start and end of life