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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.…

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.

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 Music Society (MUMS) - Festive Concert

19:30 - 21:30 12 December 2013
Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks Cosmo Singers Hindemith Tuttifäntchen Suite Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols Anderson Sleigh Ride MUMS Symphony Orchestra…

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: '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'

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…

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,…

Slinging Mud at Lucilius. Roman Satirist as Asianist Antagonist

16:55 - 18:30 12 December 2013
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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

19:30 - 21:00 12 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 Sarah Crowther who will…

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…

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.

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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