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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…

90 Degree Citizen Opening Event: In conversation with artists and curators

18:30 - 20:30 10 October 2013
Hosted by writer and poet Sai Murai, artists will talk about their work alongside social, political and museological contexts that have been drawn out by the curators including the…

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.

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…

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.

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…

QUATUOR DANEL Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 10 October 2013
Haydn Quartet in C, Op. 1, No. 1 in B flat Britten Quartet No. 3 The University’s international star quartet-in-residence opens its ninth season with the modest birth of the string…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Flavour of the Months

14:30 - 15:30 10 October 2013
A taster session for repertoire in the Quatuor Danel’s 2013-14 concert season, concentrating on Haydn and late Beethoven

Seneca's Letters

16:55 - 18:30 10 October 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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…

What is Eurasia to Us? Ideology and Interests in post-Soviet Space

14:00 - 16:30 10 October 2013
This workshop seeks to challenge the distinction between domestic and foreign politics in post-communist Eurasia. In the context of discourses of “Eurasia,” it examines the strategies…

“Particle Physics – Answers and Questions” lecture by Prof Brian Cox

18:00 - 20:30 10 October 2013
ScienceGrrl inaugural “Because Science is for Everyone” public lecture Professor Brian Cox’s lecture will cover our current knowledge of Particle Physics and the questions that remain…

CIDRAL Masterclass with Professor Rey Chow (Duke)

09:30 - 11:00 11 October 2013
With Felicia Chan (Drama and Screen Studies): 'Postcolonial Visibilities: Thinking between Cultures and Media'? Readings for the masterclass are Chapters 1 and 7 from Rey Chow, Entanglements,…

CIDRAL open event: Professor Rey Chow (Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke) ‘Woman, Repression, and the Classic "Spring in a Small Town"’

16:30 - 18:00 11 October 2013
NB: event free but booking required via Cornerhouse website: http://www.cornerhouse.org/film/film-events/cffuk-keynote-woman-repression-and-the-classic-spring-in-a-small-town-2 With…

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Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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