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English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 8 October 2013
Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion. Drop-in, free

Grand Round Lecture | Professor Kay Marshall

13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2013
'''Host:''' Institute of Human Development '''Speaker:''' Professor Kay Marshall, Manchester Pharmacy School '''About the event:''' The talk will include some functional pharmacology…

Locating Boccaccio in 2013

11 July - 20 December 2013
On the 700th anniversary of his birth, this exhibition celebrates the enduring popularity of the works of the Italian medieval author Giovanni Boccaccio. Taking a wide-ranging overview…

Picturing Stories: British and French Romantic Illustrations

9 August 2013 - 9 January 2014
This exhibition explores the development of French and British Romantic illustration during the period 1770-1860. In contrast to earlier allegorical images, Romantic pictures are full…

Polari Mission: Bona Eek

16 August 2013 - 2 February 2014
Polari's history is as diverse as the people who have used it. For the Polari Mission project artists Jez Dolan and Joseph Richardson have created a series of innovative visual artworks…

Portrait of a Living Archive

3 October 2013 - 13 January 2014
When people think about libraries they tend to think of them as the ancestral home of written rather than visual culture. The John Rylands Library houses a significant collection of…

The Whitworth closure for major development work

2 September 2013 - 14 February 2015
The Whitworth reopens on Saturday 14 February 2015. The gallery is currently closed in order to carry out major development work, transforming the Gallery into a new 21st century Gallery…

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…

Germany and the Approach of War in 1914: (WW1 Centenary Lecture Series)

17:00 - 18:00 9 October 2013
Although a number of recent publications have attempted to lessen Germany’s responsibility for the First World War – the ‘erosion of the German paradigm’ as Samuel Williamson has put…

ICON Lecture | Insulin Resistance, Growth and the Modern Model Organism H.sapiens

12:30 - 14:00 9 October 2013
'''Host:''' Institute of Human Development '''Speaker:''' Dr Rob Semple, University of Cambridge '''About the event:''' Brought to you by the University of Manchester, supported…

Jean Grugel (Sheffield): ‘Latin America's Post Neoliberal Political Economy: Breaking with Dependency’

17:00 - 19:00 9 October 2013
Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), University of Manchester, in collaboration with University of Lancaster and University of Liverpool 2013-14 Regional Seminar…

Manchester Literature Festival - Murder as a fine art

19:00 - 20:30 9 October 2013
Inspirational live literature from across the globe – happening 7 – 20 October 2013 Internationally renowned action thriller author David Morrell, best known for his First Blood novel…

Picturing Stories - Curator Tour

13:00 - 14:00 9 October 2013
Join one of the curators of ‘Picturing Stories’ on a tour of the exhibition; find out what is in the cases, and what is not!

Poetry in Performance: Being Human

19:30 - 21:30 9 October 2013
Midland Creative Projects in association with the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry and Bloodaxe Books are delighted to present the acclaimed poetry in performance production Being Human.…

The Dynamics of Energy, Mobility and Demand

16:00 - 17:00 9 October 2013
This talk will introduce some of the core ideas that underpin the DEMAND Research Centre. It is organised around three simple propositions: that energy is used in the course of accomplishing…

90 Degree Citizen

10 October - 17 November 2013
How do museums create our understandings of cultural identities, and does migrant art generate alternative connections which cut across such boundaries? A rare exhibition of work by…

Black Star: Britain's Asian Youth Movements - Anandi Ramamurthy - Author talk and book launch

18:00 - 20:00 10 October 2013
Anandi Ramamurthy is Senior Lecturer in Film and Media at University of Central Lancashire. She has written extensively on race and representation, commodity culture, social movement…

Composers' Forum

16:15 - 17:45 10 October 2013
Composers' Panel Discussion: 'The Creative Process'

Ehrhardt Seminar: Purity in Paul - Sarah Whittle

14:00 - 16:00 10 October 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies Ehrhardt Seminar for staff and postgraduates. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Moses Gaster's 'Romanian Bird and Beast Stories' (1915) and its treatment of Romanian sources (Religions and Theology Seminar Series) - Maria Haralambakis

16:00 - 17:30 10 October 2013
Maria Haralambakis from the University of Manchester presents the second in the R&T seminar series.

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