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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,…

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.

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…

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)

From GMC to TfGM

17:30 - 19:00 7 March 2012
Transport Seminar: From GMC to TfGM Speaker: Councillor Andrew Fender, Chair of Transport for Greater Manchester Committee

Lancashire UCAS Higher Education Convention

7 - 8 March 2012
The University of Manchester will be attending the Lancashire UCAS Higher Education Convention on 7th and 8th March 2012. The University of Manchester receives applications from talented…

Rules, Inconsistencies and Nonmonotonicity

14:00 - 15:30 7 March 2012
Speaker: Professor Andrzej Szalas. University of Warsaw Host: Renate Schmidt Abstract: In this talk I will present an ongoing work on 4QL, a recently developed rule-based query…

Showcase lecture - The Park in the City: Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History Project

15:00 - 16:30 7 March 2012
3-4.30pm. With Hannah Cobb, Melanie Giles and Sian Jones, The University of Manchester. Public parks are important components of urban landscapes throughout the UK, a response to the…

Vaganza and Psappha with RNCM New Ensemble

19:30 - 21:30 7 March 2012
Simon Joyner New work for Vaganza and Psappha (world première) Alan Williams Bog Bodies Colin Matthews Sun’s Dance Ian Gardiner L’escalier en Spirale Zakiya Leeming New work…

National Science & Engineering Week 2012

8 March 2012
National Science and Engineering Week is a 10 day programme of around 3,500 events running throughout the whole of the UK with the aim of celebrating science, engineering and technology…

Quatour Danel Seminar: ‘Doctors of Composition’

14:30 8 March 2012
Seminar: ‘Doctors of Composition’ - The Quatuor Danel workshops quartets by the University’s PhD students FREE

Social Capital and Determinants of Personal Consumption

16:00 - 17:30 8 March 2012
Speaker: Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta Further details: Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professorial Research Fellow of the Sustainable Consumption Institute and world-leading economist, will…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Series - Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert

13:00 8 March 2012
Programme to include: Richard Whalley Interlocking Melodies Philip Grange New Work (world première) Camden Reeves Dactylozooid Complex As part of the North-West Composers’…

Opera Scenes

13:00 - 14:00 9 March 2012
In the second of our free Lunchtime Concert series, Opera Scenes returns as famous scenes and arias are performed by talented students.

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 9 March 2012
Mendelssohn Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 Philip Grange New Work César Franck Quartet in D The last of Mendelssohn’s six quartets is his most dramatic and Beethovenian.…

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