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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…

Big Saturday: Birds and Flight

11:00 - 16:00 15 February 2014
Be amazed by the variety of birds and flying animals on display in the Museum. Find out more about birds from around the world, where they live and what they eat. Discover other gliding…

Chamber Ensembles

13:10 - 14:00 15 February 2014
Manchester University Music Society’s Chamber Festival Weekend continues with five premieres of works by undergraduate composers based here at the University of Manchester. These works…

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.…

MAP Selection and Introduction Day

15 February 2014
The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured scheme for local post-16 students who meet specific academic and background criteria. The aim of the programme is to support entry…

MUMS Chamber Orchestra and Ensembles

19:30 - 21:30 15 February 2014
Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques (Soloist: Daniel Chappell) Leo Geyer Sideshows (Soloist: Rachel Maby) Beethoven Symphony No.1 Manchester University Music Society close their Chamber…

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…

Crochet Coral Workshop

13:00 - 16:00 16 February 2014
Fancy learning how to crochet? Now's your chance! Help us to make Manchester's first Crochet Coral Reef, a part of our Coral: Something Rich and Strange exhibition. With artist Lucy…

February Half Term

11:00 17 - 16:00 21 February 2014
Create under the sea creatures and mythical monsters inspired by the Coral exhibition. Mon 17 Feb – Fri 21 Feb 2014, 11am–4pm

Kids vs Grown-ups – Science Quiz Show 17-21 feb

10:00 17 - 17:00 21 February 2014
Our family show will take on an interesting twist this half term! How well do you know your planets from your comets? Kids will battle it out against the grown-ups to become the winners…

Baby Explorers

11:00 - 14:30 18 February 2014
Drop in sensory play session for babies who aren’t walking yet.

Barça and Catalan Culture in Manchester

10:00 - 15:00 18 February 2014
A day of lectures on sport and culture, plus music, food and a language taster session. 10am - inaugural remarks and welcome: Professor Keith Brown, Vice-President and Dean of the…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Brian Dillon (Royal College of Arts) "Ruin Lust"

17:00 - 19:00 18 February 2014
Ruins are paradoxical things. Fragments of classical architecture predict the end of our own civilization as clearly as they speak of past glories. Modern urban or industrial decay…

Climax City: adaptation and resilience

16:30 - 18:00 18 February 2014
CURE seminar with guest speakers David Rudlin and Sam Brandt (URBED), introduced and chaired by Dr Joe Ravetz (Co-director CURE). Climax City and the lost art of city building: how…

From Exoticism to Empowerment: The Belly Dancing Body in Raja Amari's Satin Rouge (2002)

17:00 - 18:00 18 February 2014
Second seminar in MES Research Seminar Series, 2013-2014. During the French colonial era, belly dancers were defined in terms of their somatic alterity and their bodies were constructed…

History of a Technology? Are psychological selection tests technologies, or techniques (or something else)?

13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Remembering the Bacteriological Revolution: Koch's Postulates and 20th Century Medicine

16:00 - 17:00 18 February 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series February-May 2014. They will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm. All are welcome and please feel free pass this information on…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 19 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 19 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…

MAP Selection and Introduction Day

19 February 2014
The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured scheme for local post-16 students who meet specific academic and background criteria. The aim of the programme is to support entry…

MARC Talks - Retrofitted Cities: Transforming Buildings From Within

12:30 - 14:00 19 February 2014
Retrofitted Cities: Transforming Buildings From Within This presentation represents a synopsis of the key arguments made in my forthcoming monograph with the same title (IB Tauris,…

Research Matters: An Introduction to Rasch Modelling

12:00 - 13:00 19 February 2014
In this presentation I will draw on current and previous research projects on trajectories and transitions in mathematics education. I will focus on the surveys and questionnaires we…

Transcriptional Regulation in Bacteria: Why it Matters!

12:00 - 13:00 19 February 2014
This seminar is part of the Leaders in Science Seminar Series.

View from the underbelly

13:00 - 15:00 19 February 2014
Furture city and community resillience network meeting

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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