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Coral: Something Rich and Strange

29 November 2013 - 16 March 2014
Temporary exhibition at Manchester Museum. Explore the enduring fascination with coral as a material, symbol and inspiration for artists, cultures and societies across the centuries.…

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…

Manchester University Baroque Orchestra

13:10 - 14:00 6 December 2013
Students from the Manchester University Baroque Orchestra give a historically informed performance on the university’s reproduction instruments. This concert offers a unique and exciting…

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…

Musical and Other Cultural Responses to Political Violence in Latin America

6 December 2013
Deadline for booking: Tuesday 3 December, 5pm. Space permitting, it will be possible to register on the day of the event. Please note that this will incur a cash charge of £5 and will…

Pagan Winterfest

16:00 - 21:30 6 December 2013
Join us for an alternative seasonal celebration! Explore our building and collections, take part in creative workshops, come along and revel in our alternative Christmas. Our Café…

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 Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 6 December 2013
Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op. 50 No. 1; Reeves Dactylozooid Complex (String Quartet No. 2); Whiteman Cloud Fragments (String Quartet No. 2); Guy Danel’s farewell choice Guy Danel…

The complexity of the perlecan protein core structure promotes inflammatory cell mediated tissue repair and regeneration

10:00 - 11:00 6 December 2013
This seminar is part of the Molecular Cancer Seminar Series. Blah blah blah. Biography: Gummi bears gingerbread halvah icing muffin chupa chups gummi bears jelly beans. Cake fruitcake…

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…

Here be Dragons!

12:00 - 13:00 7 December 2013
The walls and ceilings of the Library are full of strange and mysterious creatures – join our tour to seek them out! This tour is most suitable for families with children aged 5-10.

Machiavelli the bandit and the writing of The Prince

13:00 - 14:00 7 December 2013
On the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli’s writing of The Prince we will examine the production and reception of this infamous text, drawing on the rich Italian collections in the Library.

Morbid Miscellany curator tour

14:00 - 15:00 7 December 2013
Meet the curator of Morbid Miscellany, and get the chance to see some freaky things which didn’t make it into the cases… (Most suitable for adults and older children, 12+)

Unusual Views: Library tours for photographers

14:30 - 15:30 7 December 2013
Take the opportunity to photograph the Library building from spectacular viewpoints not normally open to the public!

Camp as Christmas

12:00 - 14:00 8 December 2013
Join the Polari Mission artists for an afternoon of bona baubles and fantabulosa yule cards with dowry glitter!

CMFT Christmas Lecture | The Stem Cell Revolution – teaching the embryo new tricks

16:30 - 17:30 9 December 2013
''''Host:''' Institute of Human Development '''About the event:''' This entertaining event will showcase some of the incredible research done here in Manchester. The lecture will…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 10 December 2013
Baby Explorers Tuesdays 10 December (every other Tuesday, except school hols), 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm Book on 0161 275 2648 (a week before), free, babies and their…

Patents and regulation in life sciences in Europe

12:00 - 13:00 10 December 2013
Leading IP lawyer Trevor Cook discusses the interface between patents and regulation in Europe in the life sciences sector

Representations and Politics of Borders and Borderlands in Eurasia: Past and Present

10 December 2013
The goal of this workshop is to analyse processes of bordering in Eurasia and the mechanisms of representing borders in this area from the 19th to the 21st century; to compare various…

The Jodrell Bank Christmas Lectures – part of the Lovell Lecture series

19:30 - 21:00 10 December 2013
This Christmas we will be hosting three consecutive evening lectures which form part of our very popular Lovell Lecture series. We are delighted to have Professor Tim O'Brien who will…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 11 December 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…

Faculty of Life Sciences UCAS Interview Day

12:45 - 16:30 11 December 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.…

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