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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)

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…

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

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,…

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.…

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…

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.

Psappha

19:30 - 21:30 24 February 2012
The University of Manchester’s Contemporary Ensemble in Residence Anthony Payne A Day in the Life of a Mayfly Yvonne Eccles New work (world première) Sally Beamish The Sins*…

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

19:00 - 21:00 24 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…

Big Saturday: Manchester

11:00 - 16:00 25 February 2012
11am-4pm. The stories behind objects in The Manchester Museum can tell us many things about Manchester’s history, such as Maharaja the elephant’s walk from Edinburgh to Manchester’s…

Eight lions and an umbrella

25 February 2012
12 & 3pm. Using the history of the umbrella as a starting point, this Museum urban safari is an exploration of Manchester's heritage as a Northern Leontopolis (City of Lions) and an introduction to Survival French.

Gripping yarns: keeping your toes warm in ancient Egypt

14:00 - 16:00 25 February 2012
Is this the oldest sock you’ll ever see? Be inspired by the Museum’s 1,700 year old Romano-Egyptian sock and other knitted items. Part of the Close Knit series of knitting workshops,…

Museum Meets: Urban Naturalist

14:00 - 16:00 25 February 2012
2-4pm. Kitchen, garden waste and a suitable container are all the ingredients you need for good homemade compost. Join Geraldine Wall, our compost expert, for tips on successful composting.…

Weather wise: using past weather impacts to plan for the future

14:30 - 15:30 25 February 2012
2.30-3.30pm. The EcoCities project is studying ways of reacting to changing weather patterns in Greater Manchester. Come and meet the EcoCities researchers who will speak a bit more…

Implementing and embedding healthcare innovations: what do we need to research?

14:00 - 15:00 27 February 2012
Primary Care Research Group present 'Implementing and embedding healthcare innovations: what do we need to research?' Speaker: Professor Carl May Further details: All welcome. No booking necessary.

LITERATURE LIVE: Gregory O’Brien, Rebecca Perry and Rachel Connor

18:30 - 20:30 27 February 2012
Gregory O’Brien is a New Zealand poet, art-writer, essayist and painter, whose books have been published widely in Australia and the United Kingdom, as well as in his homeland. Carcanet…

Marie Stopes and The Manchester Museum

13:00 - 14:00 27 February 2012
1-2pm. David Gelsthorpe, Curator of Earth Sciences, will give a talk on Marie Stopes at The Manchester Museum, Scott of the Antarctic and her adventures in Japan. Part of Manchester Histories Festival.

The Missing Incisor

13:30 - 17:00 27 February 2012
Coffee & Registration from 1.30 pm 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…

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