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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 30 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…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Lacan

15:00 - 17:00 30 October 2013
With Professor Ian Parker (Lacanian psychoanalyst, and Institute of Education, The University of Manchester) Readings for the seminar are: 1. 'Some reflections on the ego', <i>International…

Colombian Music Seminar by Sonidos Enraizados

16:00 - 18:00 30 October 2013
The Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) is pleased to welcome the Colombian group Sonidos Enraizados. They are dedicated to researching, protecting, promoting and…

Faculty of Life Sciences UCAS Interview Day

12:45 - 16:30 30 October 2013
Applicants to Faculty of Life Sciences courses are invited to meet our staff and students, take a tour of our facilities and undertake a short interview as part of our application process.…

Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

25 October 2013 - 4 May 2014
This exhibition at Manchester Museum is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa.…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 30 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…

House of Bedlam: Unplugged and cover versions

17:15 - 19:30 30 October 2013
The House of Bedlam's two concerts will explore distinctly different areas of their music making. The first will be mostly acoustic solo instrumental music with pieces by Fabrice Fitch,…

Is natural gas the answer to the UK's energy challenges?

17:00 - 18:00 30 October 2013
Gas supplies 30% of the energy we use in the UK: to heat our homes, to power industry and to generate electricity. But this fuel has a contested future. For enthusiasts, gas will…

Late Night Concert: House of Bedlam

22:00 - 23:30 30 October 2013
The second concert House of Bedlam concert of the evening will put existing pieces for the group (by composer Larry Goves and writer Matthew Welton) alongside new pieces by David Horne,…

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…

Lunchtime Concert: Trio Aporia

13:15 - 14:30 30 October 2013
Fabrice Fitch New work (world première) Gillian Menichino New work (world première) Alan Williams New work (world première) Kevin Malone New work (world…

Manchester Policy Week 2013

28 October - 1 November 2013
Join your University colleagues, policymakers and influencers for five days of insight and discussion. With 13 events packed into the 5 days with over 30 guest speakers - ranging almost…

Manchester Science Festival - The Bug Hunt

24 October - 3 November 2013
Can you find all the bugs in the library? Follow the trail to find the Library’s hidden bugs – find out what they are and why they are bad for books.

Monitoring Redox Speciation of Actinides using Optical Fingerprinting

14:00 - 17:00 30 October 2013
The Dalton Seminar Series is to promote exchange and offer informative events of The University of Manchester institutions and facilities associated with Dalton Nuclear Institute (DNI).…

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…

New Music North West Festival

26 October - 2 November 2013
New Music North West Festival Saturday 26 October – Saturday 2 November 2013 Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama The RNCM and The University of Manchester are delighted to…

Oct half-term

11:00 28 October - 16:00 1 November 2013
Discover more about the science behind the colour of animals and create colourful creatures inspired by our newly opened Nature’s Library & Vivarium (Live Animals) galleries. Part…

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…

Refugee Art - Representation, diversity and commonality

18:30 - 21:00 30 October 2013
A selection of local and national speakers and artists will explore some of the key issues within the area of art, displacement and refugees. An open public discussion with performance…

Research Forum with Trio Aporia - Sounding Aporia: navigating via historical impossibility to a new sonic world

14:30 - 15:30 30 October 2013
The session will open with an overview of Trio Aporia's philosophy and rationale as an historical instrument group dedicated to the performance of new music, followed by an exploration…

RNCM New Ensemble and Vaganza

19:30 - 21:30 30 October 2013
Edwin Roxburgh A Garland for Jane; Eleg Edward Gregson Aztec Dances Camden Reeves The Mangle-Beat Tangle-Bar Blues Emma Wilde New work (world première) Richard…

Should Labour defend its record on education?

17:30 - 19:00 30 October 2013
In response to the radical changes currently being enacted by the Coalition, the current Labour opposition has said very little about its plans for education. In this event, the first…

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…

The Science of Colour

14:00 - 15:00 30 October 2013
Find out what illuminated manuscripts were painted with in medieval times. How do conservators today look after these manuscripts and keep their colours safe?

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…

To Breed or Not to Breed: The mystery of the elusive baby pandas

13:00 - 14:00 30 October 2013
Famous for being distinctly lacklustre when it comes to procreation, the giant panda’s gestation period, while in captive breeding programmes, remains a mystery. There are about 300…

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 can art bring to our understanding of climate change?

18:30 - 20:30 30 October 2013
Artists present performances and videos from collaborations with scientists curated by Alice Sharp of Invisible Dust and an Honorary Museum Researcher. Part of the Manchester Science Festival. Drop in, free.

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