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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…

An Introduction to Text Mining

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

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…

Democracy from the Bottom-up: the 3C-Model of Grassroots-led Development in Egypt

17:00 - 18:00 18 March 2014
Fourth Seminar in MES Research Seminar Series The recent political turmoil in Egypt has revealed the weak foundations of participatory democracy and grassroots activism in the country.…

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.…

Manchester Museum Book Club

17:30 - 18:30 18 March 2014
Buy a glass of wine or cup of coffee, meet people and discuss books inspired by our Vivarium. This month’s book is The Aye Aye and I, by Gerald Durrell

That wild and wicked and untameable race: Irish medical student culture, experience and professional identity, c.1850s-1950s

16:00 - 17:00 18 March 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series February-May 2014. …

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…

Whimsical Weekday Workshop

11:00 - 16:00 18 March 2014
Learn how to decorate through repetition, using patterns, symbols, letters, numbers... anything you wish. All the art works will be different and personal. Drop in event.

Women with Weapons: in search of the female Viking

17:00 - 18:00 18 March 2014
Archaeology Research Seminar - this is a joint seminar with UCLAN for Archaeology in the North West

Yang Fudong and Asian Art in a Global Context: The Politics of Precarity

14:00 - 15:30 18 March 2014
Theorists of globalization argue that precarity characterizes the condition of post-Fordist flexible labour. They argue about whether this is simply vulnerability to exploitation or…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 19 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…

Clock-talk: Signaling within the Mammalian Circadian Timing System

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

Conservation Studio Tour

11:30 - 12:30 19 March 2014
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. We hope to run additional events like this in the near future. Please email or ring us so we can get in touch when these events are arranged.…

Curator Talk: Bus Stop Stories

11:00 - 11:30 19 March 2014
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE. Join photographer John Shinnick as he talks about the connections he made with people he met and photographed at his local bus stop.

development@manchester seminar series: The state, patents and global production networks: India’s pharmaceuticals for the world

17:00 19 March 2014
The development@manchester seminar series constitutes a critical forum of dialogue and exchange in relation to research, policy and practice in international development. The series…

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