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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…

Bus Stop Stories

20 February - 22 June 2014
At the start of 2013, John Shinnick, a Manchester photographer, set out to document the people using a local, city centre bus stop; a quiet stop were people rarely alight. The people…

Chile's Student Uprising: Documentary Screening with Director

17:00 - 19:00 4 March 2014
‘Chile’s Student Uprising’ tells the story of the student protests taking place in Chile today demanding a free and state-funded education system and radical change in society. The…

CIDRAL Open Event: Professor Tom Safley (History, University of Pennsylvania) ‘What Ruin? Of Insolvency and Scandal, Fortunes and Families in Early Modern Economic Life’

17:00 - 19:00 4 March 2014
Can we speak of "ruin" in economic life and activity? Surely, businesses fail, wealth disperses and individuals suffer. In premodern society, the consequences could be dire: debtor's…

Constructing Political Landscapes in late Bronze Age Anatolia

17:00 4 March 2014
Archaeology Research Seminar

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.…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 4 March 2014
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

Fashions in science policy, past and present

17:30 - 18:30 4 March 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series February-May 2014; Science policy lecture together with Manchester Institute of Innovation Research …

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 Visits for Schools and Colleges

13:30 - 15:30 4 March 2014
We run regular campus visits throughout the year for groups of students in Year 10 and upwards. Activities include a welcome presentation, a question-and-answer session with a panel…

Performing Decline: tackling hindsight's blurred visions of Britain, 1964-70

13:00 - 14:00 4 March 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Rat Tendon or Spaceship Hull?

12:30 - 14:00 4 March 2014
The University of Manchester Image-based Modelling Club (#UoM-IMC) …

The 11th International Conference on Urban Health

4 - 7 March 2014
'''Host:''' Manchester Academic Health Science Centre '''About the event:''' The University of Manchester will host the 11th International Conference on Urban Health (ICUH) at the…

The Monsoon Revolution

17:00 - 18:00 4 March 2014
Third Seminar in MES Research Seminar Series The Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was the longest running major armed struggle in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain's…

The Space Between: exhibition of artworks by Anthony McCarthy

27 February - 3 August 2014
The concept for the exhibition began as artist, Anthony McCarthy, walked along Chapel Street in Salford heading towards Manchester and The John Rylands Library. Armed with pencil,…

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…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 5 March 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 March 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…

CIDRAL Masterclass with Professor Tom Safley (History, University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 - 11:30 5 March 2014
The two recommended readings for this masterclass are: 1. Craig Muldrew, "Credit and the Courts: Debt Litigation in a Seventeenth-Century Urban Community" in <i>The Economic History…

Collection Bites: Bee keeping at Manchester Museum

13:00 - 14:00 5 March 2014
Manchester is buzzing: It seems bee hives are popping up in some unusual places in the city, as people all over the place are doing their best to keep the honey flowing and the bees…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 5 March 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…

International Women's Day Celebrations | FMHS Celebration of Women through Time as Peacemakers

13:00 - 15:00 5 March 2014
'''Host:''' Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences '''About the event:''' International Women’s Day Celebrations 2014 We will be celebrating past and present female students and…

Intervening in Ageing to Ameliorate Ageing-related Disease

12:00 - 13:00 5 March 2014
This seminar is part of the Leaders in Science Lecture Series.

Rape and Sexual Violence: What every good doctor needs to know

13:30 - 14:30 5 March 2014
'''Host:''' Manchester Medical School '''About the event:''' Following on from our successful ‘A conversation with series’, the Care and Compassion Leads, Professor Paul O’Neil and…

Research Matters: Multi-Level Modelling Made Easy

12:00 - 13:00 5 March 2014
The use of statistics continues to play an important role in education. However, certain complexities in “real-world” research when clustered data are involved are not always well understood.…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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