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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 13 November 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…

Art and democracy in pre-Pinochet Chile

17:00 - 19:00 13 November 2013
During the decades preceding the 1973 coup Chile experienced a period of extraordinary creativity. Ideas emanating from Europe, the US and elsewhere in Latin America about art's potential…

CIDRAL Masterclass with Professor Li Wei (Birkbeck)

13:30 - 15:00 13 November 2013
With Professor Yaron Matras (Linguistics) There are two readings: 1. 'Moment Analysis and translanguaging space: Discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth…

Community consent and xenotransplantation

14:00 13 November 2013
Cesar will consider the ethical implications of community consent and xenotransplantation.

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 13 November 2013
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

Faculty of Life Sciences UCAS Interview Day

12:45 - 16:30 13 November 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 13 November 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…

Impact Through Enterprise - Academic Entrepreneurs

12:30 - 14:00 13 November 2013
How do you turn your research project outputs in to 'real world impact? Come along to a lunchtime seminar, organised by the Business Engagement Support Team, UMIP and the Faculty,…

Joshua Davies from King's College London

17:00 13 November 2013
This event, part of the English department's weekly seminar series, will feature Joshua Davies from KCL, speaking on poetics. This event is free and open to the public: all welcome!

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 Seminar - 'Lyndon Johnson and Latin America', Dr Thomas Tunstall-Allcock

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2013
Lunchtime Seminar "Lyndon Johnson and Latin America" Thomas Tunstall-Allcock Manchester historians present their work in an informal setting. All welcome - and feel free to bring your lunch.

MAP Student Finance Workshop

13 November 2013
This interactive workshop will enable MAP students to keep up to date with student finance, find out more about the support they are entitled to and learn how to budget. The Manchester…

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! Children’s Birthday Parties

1 - 30 November 2013
For a truly unique birthday experience, celebrate your birthday with Stan, the T-Rex & friends at Manchester Museum. The museum offers birthday parties that are full of hands-on activities…

Picturing Stories - curator tour

13:00 - 14:00 13 November 2013
Join the curators of Picturing Stories for a tour of the exhibition.

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…

Talking about pictures: a curator’s view

18:00 - 19:00 13 November 2013
Dr Peter Cooke, lead curator on the Picturing Stories exhibition, will reveal his inspiration for the exhibition, and why pictures are so important in making stories talk.

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…

What would it mean for drugs policy to define it as a 'health issue'?

16:00 - 17:30 13 November 2013
The CCCJ Seminar Series welcomes Professor Susanne MacGregor, University of London

Whimsical Wednesday Workshop - shadow cutting

11:00 - 16:00 13 November 2013
An ancient tradition from all over the world, paper cutting is a fun and therapeutic activity, which will provide you with a beautiful memento of your Wednesday afternoon.

Wounds and Utopia: Artist Sarah Jones, Photographer, Royal College of Art, on recent work

16:30 13 November 2013
Wounds and Utopia: Artist Sarah Jones, Photographer, Royal College of Art, on recent work

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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