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CMFT Christmas Lecture | The Stem Cell Revolution – teaching the embryo new tricks
16:30 - 17:30 9 December 2013
''''Host:''' Institute of Human Development '''About the event:''' This entertaining event will showcase some of the incredible research done here in Manchester. The lecture will…
Coral: Something Rich and Strange
29 November 2013 - 16 March 2014
Explore the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries. Coral: Something Rich and Strange is a…
Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana
25 October 2013 - 5 May 2014
This exhibition is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa. The figurines, often…
Locating Boccaccio in 2013
11 July - 20 December 2013
On the 700th anniversary of his birth, this exhibition celebrates the enduring popularity of the works of the Italian medieval author Giovanni Boccaccio. Taking a wide-ranging overview…
Morbid Micellany
14 October 2013 - 31 January 2014
Behold bizarre bindings! Delight in death! Gaze in awe at aged autographs! Our Morbid Miscellany embraces the darker side of our collections. This selection of individual items, many…
Picturing Stories: British and French Romantic Illustrations
9 August 2013 - 9 January 2014
This exhibition explores the development of French and British Romantic illustration during the period 1770-1860. In contrast to earlier allegorical images, Romantic pictures are full…
Polari Mission: Bona Eek
16 August 2013 - 2 February 2014
Polari's history is as diverse as the people who have used it. For the Polari Mission project artists Jez Dolan and Joseph Richardson have created a series of innovative visual artworks…
Portrait of a Living Archive
3 October 2013 - 13 January 2014
When people think about libraries they tend to think of them as the ancestral home of written rather than visual culture. The John Rylands Library houses a significant collection of…
Whitworth Art Gallery closure for major development work
2 September 2013 - 12 September 2014
The Whitworth will close on Monday 2 September 2013, in order to carry out major development work, transforming the Gallery into a new 21st century Gallery in the Park, extending and…
Baby Explorers
10:30 - 13:45 10 December 2013
Baby Explorers Tuesdays 10 December (every other Tuesday, except school hols), 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm Book on 0161 275 2648 (a week before), free, babies and their…
Patents and regulation in life sciences in Europe
12:00 - 13:00 10 December 2013
Leading IP lawyer Trevor Cook discusses the interface between patents and regulation in Europe in the life sciences sector
Representations and Politics of Borders and Borderlands in Eurasia: Past and Present
10 December 2013
The goal of this workshop is to analyse processes of bordering in Eurasia and the mechanisms of representing borders in this area from the 19th to the 21st century; to compare various…
The Jodrell Bank Christmas Lectures – part of the Lovell Lecture series
19:30 - 21:00 10 December 2013
This Christmas we will be hosting three consecutive evening lectures which form part of our very popular Lovell Lecture series. We are delighted to have Professor Tim O'Brien who will…
Accommodation Tour
10:30 - 12:00 11 December 2013
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…
Digital Image Correlation - Discover New Horizons in Materials Testing
14:00 - 15:00 11 December 2013
Further details and a link to register can be found in the Further Reading section below under "More Information and to Register".
Dr Catherine Spooner from Lancaster University
17:00 11 December 2013
This event, part of the English department's weekly seminar series, will feature Dr. Catherine Spooner from Lancaster University, and is open to the public. All welcome!
Exhibition tour of Coral: Something Rich and Strange
13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2013
Exhibition tour of Coral: Something Rich and Strange Dr Marion Endt-Jones leads an intimate tour of our new exhibition. Drawing on her own research and showcasing some of our fascination…
Faculty of Life Sciences UCAS Interview Day
12:45 - 16:30 11 December 2013
Applicants to Faculty of Life Sciences courses are invited to meet our staff and students, take a tour of our facilities and undertake a short interview as part of our application process.…
Guided visit
13:30 - 15:30 11 December 2013
If you are unable to come to one of our University open days, you can join us for a guided visit of the campus on a Wednesday afternoon. Guided visits include a presentation on the…
Improving crime analysis using hypothesis testing
16:00 - 17:00 11 December 2013
Dr Spencer Chainey (University College London, Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science) will talk about improving crime analysis for police and other agencies through hypothesis…
Lunchtime Seminar - 'Living Standards in Colonial and Early Soviet Central Asia: First Results' - Beatrice Penati
13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2013
Lunchtime Seminar Series "Living Standards in Colonial and Early Soviet Central Asia: First Results" Beatrice Penati Manchester historians present their work in an informal setting.…
Picturing Stories - curator tour
13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2013
Join the curators of Picturing Stories for a tour of the exhibition.
The Jodrell Bank Christmas Lectures – part of the Lovell Lecture series
19:30 - 21:00 11 December 2013
This Christmas we will be hosting three consecutive evening lectures which form part of our very popular Lovell Lecture series. We are delighted to have Dr Lucie Green who will be…
Wounds and Utopia: Muscling In: Hendrick Goltzius' Great Hercules
16:30 11 December 2013
Wounds and Utopia: Muscling In: Hendrick Goltzius' Great Hercules
Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Psappha
13:10 - 14:00 12 December 2013
The University of Manchester’s Contemporary Ensemble in Residence Psappha is Manchester’s pre-eminent new music ensemble specialising in the performance of music by living composers.…