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A sustainable future for Manchester

18:00 7 - 20:00 28 May 2013
Tuesdays 7, 14, 21, & 28 May, 6-8pm. The Faculty of Life Sciences at The University of Manchester and Manchester Museum are hosting a series of discussion events exploring the development…

All Other Things Being Equal

1 December 2012 - 2 June 2013
The Ecuadorian Amazon is one of the most biodiverse and endangered regions of our planet. Many people want to protect the biodiversity that remains, but the reality on the ground is…

An Inventory of al Mutanabbi Street

6 February - 29 July 2013
This exhibition is the result of a project concieved by poet Beau Beausoleil and artist Sarah Bodman to "re-assemble" the "inventory" of reading material that was lost in the car bombing…

Burning Bright

8 February - 23 July 2013
Focusing on his achievements in the art of books, 'Burning Bright' features designs and prints by the artist and poet William Blake. On display for the first time are some exciting…

Looping and Linking installation

10 February - 26 May 2013
If you take a closer look at the tree outside the entrance to the Museum, you will discover a soundscape and installation of weaved local grasses telling a tale of illness and lost…

MAP Confidence Building and Revision Skills Workshop

22 May 2013
This workshop will help MAP students build confidence, as well as identify and develop the key skills needed to revise effectively for exams. The Manchester Access Programme (MAP)…

MCA and Mental Capacity – An overview, consent to care and treatment, and responses to request for opinion as to capacity.

15:30 - 16:30 22 May 2013
The theme for this year's Dementia Awareness campaign is talking, and there will be activities and events across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. To support this campaign Manchester…

Probability and Statistics Seminar

16:15 22 May 2013
Probability and Statistics Seminar

To EV or not to EV? Choices and trade-offs on the path to a decarbonised transport sector

16:00 - 18:00 22 May 2013
This talk will suggest that the recent focus on electric vehicle technology could result in more carbon emissions over the long run. It will review current proposal and projections…

Tony Dyson: a hidden history of gay rights campaigning

1 February - 30 June 2013
Tony Dyson began campaigning for gay rights in the late 1950s but by the 1970s his ongoing work had become overshadowed by more strident activism. This intimate display seeks to reveal…

Whimsical Wednesday Workshop: Shadow cutting

13:30 - 16:00 22 May 2013
Another popular Victorian pastime - cutting paper silhouettes! Use modern technology and historic craft to make a silhouette self-portrait, or put a modern twist on this traditional…

Whitworth | Spring Season

2 March - 16 June 2013
Spring Season Whitworth Art Gallery To 16 June 2012. Whitworth Art Gallery is delighted to announce its spring 2013 exhibition programme, including solo presentations of work by…

Actiation by Destruction: proteasome-mediated transciption initiation

12:00 - 13:00 23 May 2013
This seminar is part of the Cell Organisation and Dynamics Seminar Series

Chromatin remodelling complexes and their impact on genome stability

13:30 - 14:30 23 May 2013
This seminar is part of the Molecular Cancer Seminar Series

Comparing slaves and servants in Roman and Medieval Japanese comedy

16:55 - 18:30 23 May 2013
CLAH Research Seminar

Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism in European Media and Film: Rights, Responsibilities, Representations

23 - 25 May 2013
The recent explosion of migration flows across the world. The crisis in which established models of multiculturalism find themselves in Europe and elsewhere, and the current global…

MAP Confidence Building and Revision Skills Workshop

23 May 2013
This workshop will help MAP students build confidence, as well as identify and develop the key skills needed to revise effectively for exams. The Manchester Access Programme (MAP)…

The Curious Case of the Protestant Missionary: Cross-Cultural Mission in the Seventeenth-Century World

16:00 - 17:00 23 May 2013
Professor Alec Ryrie will present the final seminar of the video-conferenced series for the 'Radical Religion in the trans-Atlantic World, 1500–1800' series this Thursday. All are welcome.

Campus visits for schools and colleges

13:30 - 15:30 24 May 2013
We run regular campus visits throughout the year for groups of students in Year 10 and upwards. The programme of activities includes a welcome presentation, a question-and-answer session…

Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Seminar

15:00 24 May 2013
Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Seminar

Pure Postgraduate Seminar

16:00 24 May 2013
Pure Postgraduate Seminar

Will science save the world? Open science and ethics debate

17:00 - 19:00 24 May 2013
Two University of Manchester professors will host a public meeting where they will ponder the question: Will science save the world? Lucio Piccirillo, Professor of Radio Astronomy,…

Big Saturday: Warriors of the Plains

11:00 - 16:00 25 May 2013
Saturday 25 May, 11am-4pm. Explore the newly opened Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual exhibition, on tour from the British Museum, and find…

The body stripped bare

12:00 - 13:00 25 May 2013
This encounter features Andreas Vesalius' 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica - On the Structure of the Human Body'. One of the most influential books on human anatomy, the Library's copy…

Warriors of the Plains: 200 years of Native North American honour and ritual

25 May - 3 November 2013
Ceremonial shirts, moccasins and tomahawks, alongside photographs of these objects in use, bring to life the world of Native North American warfare and ritual from 1800 to the present…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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