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'The Battles of Battleship Island: History, Memory, Heritage' - Dr Mark Pendleton

16:00 - 17:30 25 March 2014
'The Battles of Battleship Island: History, Memory, Heritage' Dr Mark Pendleton (University of Sheffield) In September 2013, the Japanese government announced plans to nominate the…

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…

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 25 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…

Imperial Science and the First World War: The Case of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series …

Michael Wood - Manchester: A Personal History

18:00 - 21:00 25 March 2014
Michael Wood - Manchester: A Personal History University of Manchester, Manchester Histories Festival and People's History Museum Michael Wood reflects on the history of Manchester…

Myth Telling in Contemporary China

25 March 2014
Lihui Yang is a Professor of Folklore and Mythology at Beijing Normal University and author of ‘The Handbook of Chinese Mythology’. Written from an exclusively Chinese perspective,…

Of trunks and tails: creating shape diversity among vertebrates

13:00 - 14:00 25 March 2014
This seminar is part of the Tissue Systems seminar series. …

Palaver Festival 2014

25 - 29 March 2014
PALAVER is a festival of language and performance, celebrating new languages of theatre and bringing language learning to life. Following its launch in 2005, and its growing success…

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 26 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…

Beauty in the heavens workshop

19:30 - 21:30 26 March 2014
A talk showcasing some of the most beautiful images that we have of our Universe, from our Solar System, through stellar nurseries, star clusters and the remnants of exploding stars…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: On Stiegler

15:00 - 17:00 26 March 2014
With Arthur Bradley (Lancaster). Readings for the seminar are from Bernard Stiegler, <i>Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus</i> (Stanford University Press: Stanford, Cali.,…

Dalton Seminar Series - NNUMAN seminar on: “Surface Integrity and Component Life: What Are The Links?”

12:00 - 13:00 26 March 2014
Philippe Giles, International Expert at AREVA, will be giving a presentation on: “Surface Integrity and Component Life: What Are The Links?” as part of the Dalton Nuclear Institute's…

Emma Cave 'Identifying and resolving problems with the concept of child competence'

14:00 26 March 2014
Emma Cave gives a seminar which will be of particular interests to those interested in healthcare ethics and law. All welcome.

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 26 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…

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 26 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…

Inscribed bronze rostra from the site of the final battle of the First Punic War (241BC)

17:30 - 19:00 26 March 2014
Classical Association Meeting

Phosphoinositide regulation of endocytic membrane traffic

13:00 - 14:00 26 March 2014
Physiology and Pharmacology Seminar Series 2014

Policy@Manchester Annual Meeting 2014

11:00 - 12:30 26 March 2014
Our first ever Policy@Manchester Annual Meeting inviting our members and colleagues to join us to discuss future plans for the network, and celebrate some of our successes so far. |…

Romans in Ancient Worlds Tour

14:00 - 15:00 26 March 2014
The Roman Manchester tour explores some of the fascinating discoveries from excavations in Roman Manchester including pottery, jewellery, inscriptions and the internationally famous…

Using Practice Theories for the Study of Social Change

16:00 - 17:30 26 March 2014
Abstract Practice Theories are becoming rather prominent in the field of sustainable consumption. They form a ‘family of theories’ that share some basic assumptions, among which the…

Featured Artist: Richard Casey (Piano) - ‘Beethoven and … Stockhausen’

13:10 - 14:00 27 March 2014
Beethoven Sonata op. 53 Beethoven Sonata op. 54 Stockhausen Klavierstück VIII Stockhausen Klavierstück IX Beethoven’s famous ‘Waldstein’ Sonata op. 53 is coupled with its…

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