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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…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 16 October 2013
We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on the Fallowfield Campus every Wednesday morning between October and March. During the summer months we run one tour in…

Adults Returning to Education Information Session

10:30 - 12:30 16 October 2013
Adult learners considering returning to education to pursue a degree, or who have already applied to the University, can sign up for an 'Adults Returning to Education Session'. This…

Ericka Beckman (Illinois) 'Rubber/Oil/Banana: Latin American Literature in the Global Commodity Order'

17:00 - 19:00 16 October 2013
This talk focuses on the ways in which Latin American literature has represented and understood the region's dependent role in the global commodity order. Focusing on examples from…

FairWRC Seminar Series: Intergenerational Balance, Mandatory Retirement and Age Discrimination in Europe

13:00 16 October 2013
Due to unforeseen circumstances this seminar has been rescheduled from 9th October. This paper addresses the rather vexed question of intergenerational balance, a balance which has…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 16 October 2013
If you are unable to come to one of our University open days, you can join us for a guided visit of the campus on a Wednesday afternoon. Guided visits include a presentation on the…

Interpretations of Nero

17:30 - 19:00 16 October 2013
Classical Association Meeting

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…

Manchester Centre for Health Psychology (MCHP) | Launch Event

13:00 - 15:00 16 October 2013
'''Host:''' Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' The new Manchester Centre for Health Psychology launch event which will…

MAP Interview Skills Workshop

16 October 2013
This workshop will give you an opportunity to develop your interview skills in preparation for a university admissions interview or a job interview. The Manchester Access Programme…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series : Multilevel networks and socio-ecological systems

16:00 - 18:00 16 October 2013
In studying network governance for environmental resources, network structure is often represented as a single-level unipartite system. Within this conceptualization, several structural…

Morbid Micellany

14 October 2013 - 31 January 2014
Behold bizarre bindings! Delight in death! Gaze in awe at aged autographs! Our Morbid Miscellany embraces the darker side of our collections. This selection of individual items, many…

Music during Wartime (WW1 Centenary Lecture Series)

17:00 - 18:00 16 October 2013
This lecture will explore the different ways in which music was used during WWI: as a way to express feelings about the enemy; as a means to rally the troops; and as a way to commemorate…

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…

Star Lecture- The quantum universe

12:15 - 14:30 16 October 2013
We are proud to announce the latest in our STAR Lecture series, a Physics lecture from Prof Jeff Forshaw for students in Year 12 and 13. Jeff Forshaw is a particle physicist who has…

Susan Lanser on "How to do the Sexuality of History"

17:00 16 October 2013
This event, featuring Professor Susan Lanser of Brandeis University, is cosponsored by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture and the Division of English, American Studies,…

The Human Brain Project and SpiNNaker

13:30 - 14:30 16 October 2013
This month saw the launch of the EU ICT Flagship Human Brain Project, an ambitious €1B programme to unlock the secrets of the human brain. At Manchester, we are bringing the SpiNNaker…

The Palace of Curiosities: Rosie Garland & Victorian sideshow act

19:30 - 21:30 16 October 2013
Join author Rosie Garland and Victorian sideshow performers for an evening of mystery and excitement in the atmospheric Fossils gallery at Manchester Museum. Rosie will read from her…

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…

MAP Interview Skills Workshop

17 October 2013
This workshop will give you an opportunity to develop your interview skills in preparation for a university admissions interview or a job interview. The Manchester Access Programme…

Partnerships to support teacher enquiry

17 - 18 October 2013
"If teachers really want to force all education ministers to follow the evidence, there is one thing they can do today: work towards making evidence-based practice the everyday, unarguable…

Tour and treasures

12:00 - 13:00 17 October 2013
Enjoy a closer look at material from the Library’s world famous collections and find out more about this magnificent building.

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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