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Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 5 February 2014
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 5 February 2014
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…

Burning Cane: Sugar, Land, Work and Health in Southern Mozambique

16:30 - 18:00 5 February 2014
The concept ‘land-grabbing’ focuses political attention on the appropriation of land, but attention needs to be given as well to the conditions under which people work in capitalist…

Chromatin Dynamics in Seasonal Timing

12:00 - 13:00 5 February 2014
The study of how plants monitor seasons in order to regulate the transition to reproduction has led us into the dissection of two conserved mechanisms that link antisense transcription…

Collection Bites: The Poetry of Objects

13:05 - 14:00 5 February 2014
Join Dr Melanie Giles, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology from the University of Manchester, as she muses on the inspiration to be gleaned from archaeological artefacts. Reflecting on a…

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.…

Epigenetics: Why You Don’t Have Teeth in Your Eyeballs

19:00 - 20:30 5 February 2014
Dr Nessa Carey, visiting Professor at Imperial College London will give the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Lecture. How can it be that almost all the cells in your…

Exporting Medical Education: Irish Qualifications and the Arab Spring in Bahrain

14:00 5 February 2014
Seminar presented by a visiting speaker from the University of Lancaster.

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 5 February 2014
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…

Little Blue Man – Scratch Performance (A Work in Progress)

18:00 - 20:00 5 February 2014
Performer Carran Waterfield shares a work in progress: Little Blue Man. Drawing from a personal archive, the work explores the complexity of a father daughter relationship. A rare opportunity…

Material-driven fibronectin fibrillogenesis to engineer the cellular microenvironment

13:00 - 14:00 5 February 2014
Most cells assemble rich FN matrices via an integrin-dependent process that incorporates FN molecules into matrix fibrils. We have shown this process can occur by simple adsorption…

Molecular Networks and the Mechanism of Action of Anticancer Agents

13:00 - 14:00 5 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar Series Biologically active chemical compounds produce complex molecular responses already at the cellular levels. The majority of compounds…

Quality Appraisal Workshop

12:00 - 15:30 5 February 2014
This workshop will highlight key themes relating to the quality appraisal process in evidence synthesis. It will consider what quality appraisal is, why it is important when undertaking…

Research Matters: The importance of studying implementation

11:00 - 12:00 5 February 2014
As funders place more and more emphasis on the importance of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for the evaluation of school-based interventions, the significance of contextual processes…

Research seminar: Peatlands during the last millennium - a global synthesis using observations and models

16:00 - 17:30 5 February 2014
The research seminar series offers staff and students the opportunity to engage with new and emerging geographical research. Over the past three years, over 50 speakers have been hosted…

The secret anarchy of science

16:00 5 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar series. Hosted by David Brough

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…

A Day in the Life: Exploring effects of stress on health using daily process approaches

16:00 - 17:00 6 February 2014
'''Host:''' Prof Chris Armitage, School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' The School of Psychological Seminar series runs weekly from 3rd October 2013 to 5th June 2014.…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Melissa Markauskas, "Criminalising Heresy: Fourth-Century Bishops and Roman Law"

14:00 - 16:00 6 February 2014
The Ehrhardt Seminar series from the Centre for Biblical Studies continues. 90 minutes followed by tea.

Islamic Pious Endowment (Waqf) in Historical Perspective: Legal Aspects, Functions and Modern Controversy

16:00 - 17:30 6 February 2014
History Research Seminar 'Islamic Pious Endowment (Waqf) in Historical Perspective: Legal Aspects, Functions and Modern Controversy' - with Yaacov Lev (Bar-Ilan, Israel) Events end…

John Coffey (Leicester), "Protestant Millennialism and British Antislavery, 1770-1840"

16:00 - 17:30 6 February 2014
The fortnightly Religions and Theology seminar.

Pilkington Visiting Lecture: Professor Horst Bredekamp

17:00 6 February 2014
Pilkington Visiting Lecture: Charlemagne and the Image Politics of the Body

Regulation of integrin function in kidney and skin

11:00 - 12:00 6 February 2014
Coert Margadant is a Postdoctoral Fellow within Arnoud Sonnenberg's lab at the Netherlands Cancer Institute

The Gortyn Code and the History of Greek Law

16:55 - 18:30 6 February 2014
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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