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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…

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…

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 University Music Society (MUMS) - Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:30 19 October 2013
Smetana Ma Vlast: Blaník Martin? Oboe Concerto Smetana Ma Vlast: From Bohemia’s Forests and Meadows Dvo?ák Symphony No. 8 MUMS Symphony Orchestra return with a Bohemia-inspired…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Snowballs in Space!

10:00 21 October - 17:00 1 November 2013
Find out all about comets, asteroids and meteors in this interactive science show. Discover what comets are and where they come from, and watch us make our very own comet for everyone…

Manchester Museum Book Club

17:30 - 18:30 22 October 2013
Buy a glass of wine or cup of coffee, meet people and discuss books inspired by the Museum’s new Nature’s Library gallery and brought to life by Museum objects. This month's book is…

Subtypes of topics in two Australian languages

16:00 - 18:00 22 October 2013
LEL Research Seminar talk.

[POSTPONED] CIDRAL open event: Professor Ella Shohat (NYU) ‘The Sephardic-Moorish Atlantic’

17:00 - 19:00 22 October 2013
Currently postponed owing to illness

A Defence of the Counterfactual Account of Harm

14:00 23 October 2013
A talk and discussion by Craig Purshouse, a PhD student at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, School of Law.

development@manchester: Will REDD work for people?

16:30 - 18:00 23 October 2013
development@manchester seminar series Topic: "Will REDD work for people? Learning from the distributional implications of Payments for Ecosystem Services" Speaker: Dr Esteve Corbera…

Everyday Peace : the extraordinary peacemaking skills of so-called 'ordinary' people

17:30 - 18:30 23 October 2013
Details to be confirmed

Everyday Peace: the extraordinary peacemaking skills of so-called "ordinary" people

17:30 - 20:00 23 October 2013
Professor Roger Mac Ginty joined the University of Manchester in 2012 as Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and the Department…

Geography Research Seminar Series

15:30 - 17:00 23 October 2013
A geography of islands and island geography

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 23 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…

ICON Lecture | Early Embryo Decisions around Conception Can Last a Lifetime

12:30 - 14:00 23 October 2013
'''Host:''' Institute of Human Development '''Speaker:''' Professor Tom Fleming, University of Southampton '''About the event:''' Brought to you by the University of Manchester,…

Lunchtime Seminar - 'Their Differrent Manner of Life? Centre, Periphery and the Highlands in Restoration Britain' - Allan Douglas Kennedy

13:00 - 14:00 23 October 2013
Lunchtime Seminar Series "Their Different Manner of Life? Centre, Periphery and the Highlands in Restoration Britain" Allan Douglas Kennedy Manchester historians present their…

From Daguerre to Digital

12:00 - 14:00 24 October 2013
Discover the wealth of Photography that can be found amongst the Library’s Collections, including works by Roger Fenton, Henry Peach Robinson and more!

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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