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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.…

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: 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.

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.…

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

Scientific Journeys to the Amazon

18:00 - 20:00 6 February 2014
In this evening talk, Professor Richard Preziosi will describe the joys and setbacks of establishing a biology research station in Amazonian Ecuador. Book on 0161 275 2648 or museum@manchester.ac.uk, free.

The Gortyn Code and the History of Greek Law

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

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…

Aftermath: 100 years of creativity from conflict

7 February - 29 June 2014
How remarkable is it that, throughout our shared history, some people have been inspired to answer the worst examples of man’s inhumanity with acts of compassion and creativity? Aftermath…

Mein Kampf, warrant for genocide or corpus delicti? In the public domain in 2016

11:00 - 17:15 7 February 2014
Organised by : The research project “Corpses of mass violence and genocide”(www.corpsesofmassviolence.eu) The Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester (http://www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/)…

QUATUOR DANEL Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 7 February 2014
Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op. 50 No. 3; Milhaud Quartet No. 2; Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 3; Haydn at the summit of his powers, followed by a rare chance to sample the prolific…

Quatuor Danel Open House

7 - 9 February 2014
The Quatuor Danel offers an intensive three days of coaching from 7th - 9th February 2014 for amateurs (Friday and Saturday) and students (Saturday and Sunday), including master…

Thursday late - Harpist

17:00 - 19:00 7 February 2014
A brand new opportunity to pop in after work, or a day’s shopping, and see the Library in a new light. Join us at 6pm for beautiful music in the Historic Reading Room.

Here be Dragons!

12:00 - 13:00 8 February 2014
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.

Sons of Osiris: Men in Ancient Egypt

09:15 - 16:30 8 February 2014
A series of presentations examining the lives, roles, health and deaths of ancient Egyptian men. Presented by Egyptology Online in association with Manchester Museum and the KNH Centre.…

Jeanette Winterson “in Conversation” with Russell T. Davies * THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT *

16:00 - 18:00 9 February 2014
*** THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT *** Jeanette Winterson is Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing. Jeanette succeeds Martin Amis and…

1991: Did Russia Destroy the Union?

16:30 - 18:30 10 February 2014
What factors brought about quick and peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union? In my presentation I reappraise the role of such often-mentioned factors as the nationalist mobilization,…

Accountable to whom, for what? An exploration of the early development of Clinical Commissioning Groups in the English NHS

12:15 - 13:15 10 February 2014
Our research found that CCGs are subject to a complex web of accountability relationships, including managerial, sanction-backed accountability to NHS England, alongside a number of…

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Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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