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Gateways - Year 10 Exploration Visit

09:30 - 14:30 1 March 2012
The University of Manchester Gateway Programme provides a new opportunity for Year 7-11 learners within Greater Manchester to participate in a coherent series of academic enrichment…

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…

Hardware/Software Techniques to Address the Memory Wall on Multi-Core Systems

14:00 - 15:00 1 March 2012
Speaker: Dr Aamer Jaleel. Intel Research, Boston Host: Mikel Lujan Abstract: Multi-core processors are commonly used to address the growing memory latency. Shared resource contention,…

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,…

Scott of the Antarctic and Manchester: the untold story

18:00 - 20:00 1 March 2012
6-8pm. Dr Max Jones, The University of Manchester, author of The Last Great Quest and editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Scott’s last Journals, will reveal for the first…

The Invisible Dot Tour 2012: Comedy's New Wave with Jonny Sweet

20:00 - 22:00 1 March 2012
The Invisible Dot Tour 2012: Comedy's New Wave The Invisible Dot Ltd is one of the most exciting and innovative production companies in the country. Having worked extensively with…

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 Concert Series - Clare Hammond (piano)

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2012
Philip Grange Piano Polyptych Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Acclaimed by the Daily Telegraph as a pianist of “amazing power and panache”. Philip Grange’s scintillating and expansive…

Salford Sioux

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2012
1-2pm. Join Stephen Welsh, Curator of Living Cultures at The Manchester Museum to find out why hundreds of Sioux Indians set up camp on the banks of the Irwell in Salford. Part of Manchester Histories Festival.

MANTIS SPRING FESTIVAL 2012

18:00 - 19:00 3 March 2012
MANTIS presents concerts curated by guest composers Jonty Harrison and Diana Salazar, as well as new electroacoustic works by composers based at the University of Manchester, featuring…

MANTIS SPRING FESTIVAL 2012

19:30 - 20:30 3 March 2012
MANTIS presents concerts curated by guest composers Jonty Harrison and Diana Salazar, as well as new electroacoustic works by composers based at the University of Manchester, featuring…

MANTIS SPRING FESTIVAL 2012

14:00 - 15:00 4 March 2012
MANTIS presents concerts curated by guest composers Jonty Harrison and Diana Salazar, as well as new electroacoustic works by composers based at the University of Manchester, featuring…

LITERATURE LIVE: Rupert Thomson, Patrick McGuinness

18:30 - 20:30 5 March 2012
Rupert Thomson is the author of eight highly acclaimed novels, Dreams of Leaving, The Five Gates of Hell, Air and Fire, The Insult, Soft, The Book of Revelation, Divided Kingdom and…

Manchester UCAS Higher Education Convention

5 - 6 March 2012
The University of Manchester will be attending the Manchester UCAS Higher Education Convention on 5th and 6th March 2012. The University of Manchester receives applications from talented…

Autism considered as a long-term developmental disorder – what might be the implications for intervention research?

14:00 - 15:00 6 March 2012
Faculty/School: Health Sciences Research Group-Primary care Speaker: Professor Jonathan Green, University of Manchester

Campus Visits for School and College Groups

13:30 - 15:30 6 March 2012
A presentation on The University of Manchester and Higher Education - helping students to be aware of the choices available to them. This is followed by a chance to meet some current…

Vaganza Young Composers Workshop

14:30 - 15:30 6 March 2012
A celebration of the creativity of the youngest generation, this workshop is the outcome of Vaganza’s education projects in local Manchester schools.

Y9 Manchester History Day (Gifted & Talented Programme)

09:45 - 14:30 6 March 2012
This day, co-hosted by the Manchester Museum, the Whitworth Art Gallery and The University of Manchester, will use the collections and history of all three institutions to explore the…

'Nameless Before the Concentrationary Void: Charlotte Salomon’s Leben? Oder Theater? 1941-42 as a Work of Concentrationary Memory

17:00 - 18:00 7 March 2012
Speaker: Griselda Pollock, Visiting Pilkington Professor (University of Leeds)

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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