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Feb half term - Unearthed: Ancient Egypt

11:00 13 - 16:00 17 February 2012
11am-4pm. Dress like an ancient Egyptian and make bracelets, headdresses or amulets.

Grave Secrets: Tales of the Ancient Nubians

19 November 2011 - 4 March 2012
An exhibition of bone specimens and artefacts excavated during the Archaeological Survey of Nubia (1907-1911), revealing the lives of the inhabitants of ancient Nubia, Egypt’s southern…

Living Worlds

14 April 2011 - 14 April 2012
Now open (permanent gallery) If you think nature is something far away, think again - we are nature. Living Worlds explores the connections between all living things, including us,…

Partnership research

12:30 - 14:00 16 February 2012
Humanities & Education present: Partnership research Speaker: Rohhss Chapman/Craig Blyth For further details: Diane Brooks: diane.brooks@manchester.ac.uk

Quatour Danel Seminar: ‘Masters of Composition’

14:30 16 February 2012
Seminar: ‘Masters of Composition’ - A workshop of new string quartets by Masters students in composition at the University. FREE

Researching counselling in schools: investigating prevalence and examining outcome

12:30 - 14:00 16 February 2012
Humanities & Education present: Researching counselling in schools: investigating prevalence and examining outcome Speaker: Terry Hanley/Clare Lennie For further details: Diane…

The bone detectives - the role of Forensic Radiography

17:30 - 19:00 16 February 2012
Speaker: Mr M D Viner (Chief Executive of the Inforce Foundation; Senior Clinical Planner and Forensic Radiographer, Barts and the London NHS Trust) Coffee & registration from 5.30…

Unearthed: Ancient Egypt

30 September 2011 - 6 September 2012
30 Sep 2011-6 Sep 2012. Calling all budding Egyptologists and archaeologists. We need your help! Our Egyptologist Dr Digby (played on film by Terry Deary, author of Horrible Histories…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Series - Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:00 16 February 2012
Stravinsky Three Pieces for String Quartet Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op. 50, No. 3 One of the wackiest and wickedest compositions for string quartet, matched against the genial…

Contemporary Works

13:00 - 14:00 17 February 2012
Join us for the first of our free Lunchtime Concert series, with a selection of contemporary pieces and student commissions for small chamber ensembles.

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 17 February 2012
Weinberg Quartet No. 6, Op. 35 Shostakovich Elegy Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 3 in E flat minor, Op. 30 Weinberg’s colossal six-movement Sixth Quartet was the audience choice…

University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 18 February 2012
Stravinsky Scherzo a la Russe Butterworth Two English Idylls – No.1 Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Ravel Shéhérazade Jae Hong Lee Concerto for Orchestra – World Première – Student…

De-mobbing British Oceanography: The Founding of the National Institute of Oceanography

13:00 - 14:00 21 February 2012
Speaker: Sam Robinson, University of Manchester

Theory and practice of community engagement in a complex intervention - implications from the AMP programme

14:00 - 15:00 21 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Jon Lamb, Primary Care Group, University of Manchester Further details: In common with other chronic conditions, depression and anxiety often involve complex biopsychosocial…

Accommodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 22 February 2012
A chance to take a walking tour of our largest accommodation campus in Fallowfield, with the opportunity to see inside at least one student bedroom.

Alcohol and the Nation's Health: the time bomb is exploding

13:30 - 17:00 22 February 2012
Further details: For further details please email admin@mms.org.uk, telephone 0161 273 6048 or visit www.mms.org.uk. There is a £30 registration charge for non members of the Manchester…

For Beauty is a Series of Hypotheses? Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as Fibre Artist

16:30 - 17:30 22 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Jason Edwards (The University of York)

For Beauty is a Series of Hypotheses? Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as Fibre Artist

16:30 - 17:30 22 February 2012
Speaker: Dr Jason Edwards (The University of York)

Guided Visits

13:30 - 15:30 22 February 2012
A presentation on The University of Manchester by a member of the Undergraduate Recruitment and Widening Participation Team, followed by a question and answer session and a tour of the campus with a current student

On the Complexity of Computing Probabilistic Bisimilarity

14:00 - 15:30 22 February 2012
Speaker: Professor Franck van Breugel. York University Toronto Host: Richard Banach Probabilistic bisimilarity is a fundamental notion of equivalence on labelled Markov chains.…

University of Manchester Drama Society’s Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards (MIFTA’s)

19:00 - 21:00 22 February 2012
What’s Wrong With Angry? by Patrick Wilde Directed by Joshua Val Martin Produced by George Duff "I'm not bitter. I'm f**king angry" Basingstoke, 1992. The age-of-consent was…

Climate change question time

18:00 - 20:00 23 February 2012
6-8pm. Your chance to pose questions to experts about climate change & sustainability in a Manchester & global context. With experts from the University of Manchester and other leading…

University of Manchester Drama Society’s Manchester In-Fringe Theatre Awards (MIFTA’s)

19:00 - 21:00 23 February 2012
What’s Wrong With Angry? by Patrick Wilde Directed by Joshua Val Martin Produced by George Duff "I'm not bitter. I'm f**king angry" Basingstoke, 1992. The age-of-consent was…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Jeremy Huw Williams (Baritone) with Richard Whalley (Piano)

13:00 - 14:00 23 February 2012
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98 Richard Whalley Six Songs of Old Japanese Wisdom Paul Mealor Twilight (English première) Jeremy Huw Williams is a baritone from Wales with…

Magic Carpet: Manchester

11:00 - 12:00 24 February 2012
11am-12pm. Storytelling and activity session for under 5s and their families/carers. Hear the story of Maharajah, the Elephant, who walked from Edinburgh to Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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