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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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

HCRI Speaker Series: Christine Ryan, The Children of War: Child Soldiers as Victims and Participants in the Sudan Civil War

14:00 - 16:00 5 March 2014
In this Speaker Series Dr Christine Ryan discusses her research in Sudan, critiques the position taken by the international community, NGOs and academia to the phenomenon of child soldiers,…

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.

Perspectives on Climate Change: Modernity and Ontology in Amazonia

17:00 - 19:00 5 March 2014
Abstract Drawing on research with both indigenous people and academic and policy workers this paper examines understandings of forest conservation and climate change mitigation strategies…

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.…

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 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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Timothy Lim (Edinburgh), "Scribal Features of the Rabbinic Concept of Canon"

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

EUPATI-UK Network Key Stakeholders International Conference

10:30 - 17:00 6 March 2014
'''Host:''' NOWGEN '''About the event:''' It is our pleasure to invite you to our first EUPATI UK national network event which will take place in Leeds on Thursday, 6 March 2014.…

Fieri Consort

13:10 - 14:00 6 March 2014
The Fieri Consort explore inspirational sacred music by Renaissance composers Josquin des Prez and Jacobus Clemens. Fieri is fast becoming known for its fresh and vibrantly communicative…

Habitus - a Term "qui dérange": The Translator's Habitus in the Late Habsburg Empire

14:00 - 17:00 6 March 2014
Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies Seminar Series

Ion mobility mass spectrometry - measuring more than mass

09:00 - 10:00 6 March 2014
A Gene Regulation and Biotechnology Seminar …

The early secretory pathway in extracellular matrix secretion

13:00 - 14:00 6 March 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

The Jetty Project

10:00 - 18:00 6 March 2014
Professor Simon Guy and Dr. Angela Connelly are undertaking The Jetty-Project, a research collaboration with Newcastle University with the aim of understanding: How can a practice-led…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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