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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…

A French Intifada? How France is importing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict(CJS Seminar Series) - Mark Hecker

16:00 - 17:30 17 October 2013
Mark Hecker (IFRI, Paris) discusses the role of France in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The second in the Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar Series.

Calendargrads Recruitment Event

17:30 - 20:00 17 October 2013
Calendargrads are holding a recruitment event at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday 17th October in Room C2 the Renold Building. Male and Female students from all science and engineering backgrounds…

Dramatic Means and Ideological Ends in Euripides' Ion

16:55 - 18:30 17 October 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Research Seminar - 'Exterminate All the Brutes': Settler Colonialism and the Future of Endangered Races

16:00 - 17:30 17 October 2013
Autumn Term Research Seminars 'Exterminate All the Brutes': Settler Colonialism and the Future of Endangered Races Sadiah Qureshi (Birmingham) All are welcome. Events end around…

The 'Spiritual' Gospel: Revisiting the Gospel of John in the Light of the Study of Spirituality [Manson Memorial Lecture 2013] - Andrew Lincoln

14:00 - 16:00 17 October 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents this year's Manson Memorial Lecture. 90 minutes followed by tea.

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…

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.

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Marcus Farnsworth (Baritone) with James Baillieu (Piano)

13:10 - 14:00 17 October 2013
Schubert Der Schiffer Schubert Auf der Donau Schubert Nachtstück Britten Songs and Proverbs of William Blake Folksongs arr. Britten Sally in our Alley Lord! I married me…

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…

Dig It Archaeology Identification Session

12:00 - 13:00 18 October 2013
Our Curator of Archaeology, Bryan Sitch, will be in the Collections Study Centre to answer your questions and identify your archaeological finds. During the session Bryan will be recording…

Locating Boccaccio in 2013 - curator tour

13:00 - 14:00 18 October 2013
Come and join one of the curators on a tour around the Boccaccio exhibition, hear about the genesis of the project and see some of the items which were not included in the final selection!

Made in Manchester: Storytelling and spoken word performance

17:30 - 18:30 18 October 2013
Professional performer and storyteller Akiel Chinelo has been facilitating a series of drama and storytelling workshops with a group of young women from Gorton in east Manchester. They…

Sing Out and Stand Tall

13:10 - 14:00 18 October 2013
Ethnomusicology lecturer Caroline Bithell and a team of students from Music have been working in partnership with natural voice and community arts practitioner Jules Gibb to deliver…

Unusual Views: Library tour for photographers

14:30 - 15:30 18 October 2013
Take the opportunity to photograph the Library building from spectacular viewpoints not normally open to the public!

Girls Night Out - under the stars

19:00 - 22:00 19 October 2013
Back by popular demand! We’re looking for all the budding Astronettes, Star-lettes and Cosmic Girls to come and join us for our ‘Girls Night Out (under the stars) event on Saturday…

MAP Interview Skills Workshop

19 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…

Timelines - Where History Comes to Life

13:00 - 14:30 19 October 2013
Timelines is a brand new anthology of historical short stories for young teenagers. Come along and let us transport you to worlds known only from history lessons: from dinosaurs to…

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