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'A Profusion of Moorish Remains' : Victorian Encounters with the Islamic West

17:00 - 18:30 2 April 2014
Dr Eggleton is a teaching and research fellow at the University of Manchester and Leeds University. Her postdoctoral research project concerns Victorian travel encounters with Islamic architecture and decoration.

A Stroke of Bad Luck

13:00 - 14:00 2 April 2014
University of Manchester Neuroscience Society talk to be given by Professor Nancy Rothwell, President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester.

Adults Returning to Education Information Session

10:30 - 12:30 2 April 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…

Alison Wilde 'Exhibit A - the need for interdisciplinary synthesis in the study of cultural representations of disability'

14:00 2 April 2014
Alison Wilde presents a seminar which will be of particular interests to those interested in healthcare ethics and law. All welcome.

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…

Chinese Studies and Manchester Trade

13:00 - 14:00 2 April 2014
The Work of Edgar Mead as Reader of Chinese Language and Social Economy, 1933 – 1941 With monies reallocated from the Boxer Indemnity Fund in the early 1930s, the University of Manchester…

CIDRAL Masterclass with Paul Heggarty (Linguistics, Max Plank Institute, University of Leipzig)

11:00 - 12:30 2 April 2014
***PLEASE NOTE TIME AND ROOM CHANGE*** This seminar will now take place in Roscoe 2.10 at 11am-13pm. Readings for the seminar are as follows: 1. Heggarty, P., & Beresford-Jones,…

Collection Bites: Footprints in the Sand and Carbon Copy Ears

13:00 - 14:00 2 April 2014
Join Bryony Bond, Exhibitions Curator at the Whitworth Art Gallery and see up close some of the extraordinary objects make up Mark Dion’s Bureau for the Study of Surrealism and its…

Comparison of FMRI measurements in LGN and primary visual cortex with visual deficits in Glaucoma

13:30 - 14:30 2 April 2014
This talk will be of interest to people interested in ageing, disease or the primate visual system.

development@manchester seminar series: Social assistance in developing countries: What is new? Why now?

16:30 - 18:00 2 April 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…

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.…

HCRI Medical Lecture Series

17:30 - 20:00 2 April 2014
This lecture is the first of what we hope to be an engaging Medical Lecture Series, for which there will be one lecture per year. The event will include a panel of key speakers to…

How brain circuits control body weight

13:00 - 14:00 2 April 2014
Physiology and Pharmacology Seminar Series 2014

How brain circuits control body weight

13:00 - 14:00 2 April 2014
The UK is the most obese nation in Europe, with approximately 1 in 4 of us meeting the criteria for clinical obesity and more than half of us being overweight. The rapid escalation…

Humanities Sub-Saharan Africa Country and Region Group

12:30 - 14:00 2 April 2014
The Faculty of Humanities’ Internationalisation Working Group is running an Sub-Saharan Africa Country and Region Group, Chaired by Professor Tim Insoll and to which all staff within…

Law, Complexity and the Welfare System

16:30 - 17:30 2 April 2014
At any point in time the UK’s welfare system provides support to half of the UK population. But our welfare rights are governed by a highly complex legal framework, which few of us…

Lunchtime Seminar - Dr Peter Yeandle: 'Jumbo-mania; or, the English, their elephant and the imperial politics of the early 1880s'

13:00 - 14:00 2 April 2014
Dr Peter Yeandle: 'Jumbo-mania; or, the English, their elephant and the imperial politics of the early 1880s' History Lunchtime Seminar; Manchester Historians present thier work in…

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