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"Evaluating Obama's Foreign Policy"

17:00 20 November 2013
In this event, part of the American Studies "Critical Mass" series, John Dumbrell of the University of Durham discusses Obama's foreign policy.

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 20 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…

Adults Returning to Education Information Session

10:30 - 12:30 20 November 2013
Adult learners considering returning to education to pursue a degree, or who have already applied to the University, can sign up for an 'Adults Returning to Education Session'. This…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Donna Haraway

15:00 - 17:00 20 November 2013
With Dr Mareile Pfannebecker (EAC) Required reading is: Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," (1991) Reading…

Development@Manchester Seminar: 'Platinum dreams: Corporate Social Responsibility and the ultimate entrepreneur' Dr Dinah Rajak, University of Sussex

16:30 - 18:00 20 November 2013
The celebration of private sector development has been reconfigured in recent years, shifting its focus from the concentrated might of transnational corporations to the mass appeal…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 20 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 20 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.…

Freedom of Conscience and the Abortion Act of 1967

14:00 20 November 2013
Mark Campbell will discuss issues around conscience and the 1967 Abortion Act

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 20 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…

ICON Lecture | Rheumatoid Arthritis | Molecular ‘Problem Solve’ or ‘Work in Progress’?

12:30 - 14:00 20 November 2013
'''Host:''' Institute of Human Development '''Speaker:''' Professor Iain McInnes, University of Glasgow '''About the event:''' Brought to you by the University of Manchester, supported…

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 Student Finance Workshop

20 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: 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…

Postgraduate Study Fair

10:30 - 16:00 20 November 2013
If you're considering doing a master's or PhD, come along and: - find out about funding; - check out the universities and subjects you'd like to study; - get help from the team of…

Prof. Laura Doan on 'Muscular Femininity': The Amazon and the Public during the First World War (WW1 Centenary Lecture Series)

17:00 - 18:00 20 November 2013
In this lecture, part of a series in commemmoration of the WWI centenary, Professor Laura Doan addresses the figure of the "amazon" during the First World War. This event is free, but…

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