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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…

Artists' books & literature

17:30 - 19:00 14 November 2013
Artist John McDowell explores how artists’ books inspired by literature respond to the materiality of language and books. John will discuss the piece he made for Locating Boccaccio…

Athenaeus, the walking library? On the meaning of the Deipnosophistai

16:55 - 18:30 14 November 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Developing an Action Theory for Intercultural Communication: Evidence, Applications and Politics

14:00 - 15:20 14 November 2013
This seminar shall consider how reconstructed ethnographic narratives contribute to a social action theory for intercultural communication. The narratives demonstrate a level and type…

Ectoenzymes and the regulation of chronic inflammation and hepatic fibrosis

12:00 - 13:00 14 November 2013
This seminar event is part of the programme of seminars, Greater Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series

Ehrhardt Seminar: Martial Guidance in Joshua 1-14 - Mary Mills

14:00 - 16:00 14 November 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the latest Ehrhardt Seminar, with Mary Mills from Liverpool Hope. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 14 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…

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.…

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…

Locating Boccaccio in 2013 - curator tour

13:00 - 14:00 14 November 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!

Manchester and the Cairo Genizah (Religions and Theology Seminar Series) - Renate Smithuis

16:00 - 17:30 14 November 2013
Renate Smithuis continues the Religions and Theology seminars.

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…

Musicology Forum: 'Music as Call of the Other'

16:00 - 17:45 14 November 2013
David Schwarz (University of North Texas), 'Music as Call of the Other'

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: 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…

QUATUOR DANEL Lunchtime Concert

13:10 - 14:00 14 November 2013
Franck Quartet in D César Franck’s monumental Quartet from the penultimate year of his life has no finer exponents in the world than the Quatuor Danel. Followed by: Quatuor Danel…

Quatuor Danel Seminar: Listening in

14:30 - 15:30 14 November 2013
Issues of performance practice in Beethoven’s piano and string music, with Professor Barry Cooper and Finnish pianist Paavali Jumpannen.

Research Seminar - 'Runaway Woman, Pirate Queen: Life on the Margins of the Japanese Empire' - David Ambaras

17:00 - 19:15 14 November 2013
History Research Seminar 'Runaway Woman, Pirate Queen: Life on the Margins of the Japanese Empire' David Ambaras (North Carolina State University) Jointly hosted by Japanese…

Star Lecture- The US civil rights movement

10:00 - 12:30 14 November 2013
The Star Lecture Series has been developed by the University to allow teachers and students access to exciting curriculum resources delivered by some of our leading academic staff.…

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…

Wildlife recording

18:00 14 - 20:00 28 November 2013
Building up a picture of which species occur where in Greater Manchester is vital to ensure species protection and to enable changes in distribution to be monitored. This six week course…

Dig It Archaeology Identification Session

12:00 - 13:00 15 November 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…

Manchester University Music Society (MUMS) - Vocal Showcase

13:00 - 14:00 15 November 2013
Manchester University Barbershop Chorus Manchester University Ladies’ Barbershop ‘AcaBellas’ ‘Chorus Antiquus’ ‘Tagline’ The singers of Manchester University Music Society…

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