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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…

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.…

Digital Image Correlation - Discover New Horizons in Materials Testing

14:00 - 15:00 11 December 2013
Further details and a link to register can be found in the Further Reading section below under "More Information and to Register".

Dr Catherine Spooner from Lancaster University

17:00 11 December 2013
This event, part of the English department's weekly seminar series, will feature Dr. Catherine Spooner from Lancaster University, and is open to the public. All welcome!

Exhibition tour of Coral: Something Rich and Strange

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2013
Exhibition tour of Coral: Something Rich and Strange Dr Marion Endt-Jones leads an intimate tour of our new exhibition. Drawing on her own research and showcasing some of our fascination…

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.…

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 11 December 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…

Improving crime analysis using hypothesis testing

16:00 - 17:00 11 December 2013
Dr Spencer Chainey (University College London, Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science) will talk about improving crime analysis for police and other agencies through hypothesis…

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 - 'Living Standards in Colonial and Early Soviet Central Asia: First Results' - Beatrice Penati

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2013
Lunchtime Seminar Series "Living Standards in Colonial and Early Soviet Central Asia: First Results" Beatrice Penati Manchester historians present their work in an informal setting.…

Manipulating immune cell motility to regulate function: lessons from parasites

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 2013
Janine Coombes, Institute of Infection and Global Health, Liverpool

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…

Picturing Stories - curator tour

13:00 - 14:00 11 December 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…

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

19:30 - 21:00 11 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 Dr Lucie Green who will be…

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…

Wounds and Utopia: Muscling In: Hendrick Goltzius' Great Hercules

16:30 11 December 2013
Wounds and Utopia: Muscling In: Hendrick Goltzius' Great Hercules

Ehrhardt Seminar: The Good Book: The Bible and Secular Society - Philip Davies

14:00 - 16:00 12 December 2013
The Centre for Biblical Studies presents the final Ehrhardt Seminar of the year, with Philip Davies from the University of Sheffield. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Musicology Forum: 'Wagner contra Wagner: Listening in, and to, Tannhäuser'

16:15 - 17:45 12 December 2013
Ryan Minor (State University of New York, Stony Brook), 'Wagner contra Wagner: Listening in, and to, Tannhäuser'

Rock Drop: Geology identification sessions

14:00 - 15:00 12 December 2013
Our Curator of Earth Sciences, David Gelsthorpe, will be in the Collections Study Centre once a month to answer your questions and identify your rocks and fossils. Thursday 12 December,…

Torture and Laughter: Naxal Women Prisoners, Custodial Violence and the Art of Performing Happiness in a post-colonial Indian Jail (Religions and Theology Seminar Series) - Atreyee Sen

16:00 - 17:30 12 December 2013
Atreyee Sen continues the R&T seminar series.

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series - Psappha

13:10 - 14:00 12 December 2013
The University of Manchester’s Contemporary Ensemble in Residence Psappha is Manchester’s pre-eminent new music ensemble specialising in the performance of music by living composers.…

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