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'Doing Good and Feeling Bad': Psychiatry, Motherhood, and the Women's Liberation Movement'

13:00 - 14:00 29 April 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Lunchtime Seminar Series, which is held weekly (during term time). All are welcome. For further information please contact stuart.butler@manchester.ac.uk…

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…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 29 April 2014
Baby Explorers Tues 29 April, 10.30-11.15am & 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm. Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except…

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…

Driven to Abstraction: some thoughts on Maltese Prehistory

17:00 - 18:00 29 April 2014
Archaeology Research Seminars

Fictions of Illusion: Optics in Spain (1615-1645)

29 April 2014
Enrique García Santo-Tomás (Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan) The dialogue between the history of science and the 'rise'…

Fictions of Illusion: Optics in Spain (1615-1645) Enrique García Santo-Tomás (Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan)

17:00 - 19:00 29 April 2014
The dialogue between the history of science and the 'rise' of new fictional forms is both seminal and novel in our understanding of the discipline we've come to term 'Golden Age.' 'Fictions…

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.…

From the War of Nature

11 April - 31 August 2014
Manchester Museum new exhibition. Boxing hares, burrowing parasites, baby birds and prowling wolves are just some of the characters appearing in this story of predation, competition,…

Guided Visits for Schools and Colleges

13:30 - 15:30 29 April 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…

Humanities Russia Country and Region Group

12:30 - 14:00 29 April 2014
The Faculty of Humanities’ Internationalisation Working Group is running a Russia Country and Region Group, Chaired by Dr Drew Whitworth and to which all staff within Humanities with…

Making the State Work: What We Know and What Can Be Done

17:00 - 18:30 29 April 2014
Panel discussion hosted by the Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice and Department of Political Studies. Townhouse Hotel Chaired by Professor Alan Hirsch PANEL Professor…

Manchester Asks Les Ebdon, Director of the Office for Fair Access (OFFA)

17:30 - 18:30 29 April 2014
The Manchester Institute of Education is pleased to welcome Professor Les Ebdon (Director of the Office For Fair Access) to a public event at which he will respond to pre-recorded questions…

MARC Research Conference 2014

09:30 - 17:00 29 April 2014
Manchester Architecture Research Centre (MARC) Research Conference 2014 9:00—9:30 tea, coffee and welcome 9:30–10.10 Leandro Minuchin: “Materialising the right to the city: 'the…

Science in Black: Scientists, Scientific Practice, and Scientific Intelligence in the Cold War

16:00 - 17:00 29 April 2014
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series …

The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms: Medical Theories on the Gendered Body, Fertility and Reproduction

17:00 - 18:00 29 April 2014
Sixth Seminar in MES Research Seminar Series, 2013-2014

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…

UMASS Exam Preparation Podcast Series

14 April - 9 May 2014
We will be running an Exam Preparation Podcast series which will take place over a month. Each week will explore a new topic around exam preparation, and every day there will be new…

After the Crisis, What? The Future of the Global Trading System

11:00 - 12:50 30 April 2014
A roundtable supported by the Politics Discipline Area Chaired by Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Manchester)

Getting the message: pre-mRNA processing and degradation

12:00 - 13:00 30 April 2014
Gene Regulation and Cellular Biotechnology - Spring Seminar Series 2014

Manchester Psoriasis Shout Out | Salford day presentations

09:30 - 16:30 30 April 2014
'''Host:''' Institute of Inflammation and Repair and Salford Royal Hospital '''About the event:''' The University is hosting the ‘Manchester Psoriasis Shout Out’ (28 April to 2 May)…

MAP Academic Writing and Revision Skills workshop

30 April 2014
The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured scheme for local post-16 students who meet specific academic and background criteria. The aim of the programme is to support entry…

Research Matters: Learning matters in research: a perspective from social learning theory

12:00 - 13:00 30 April 2014
Learning is often viewed as something individuals do as they acquire information and skills. It is usually associated with some form of instruction, often separated from practice. I…

Stroke Stories

30 April 2014
Stroke Stories is a human library and story-telling event at The John Rylands Library, Manchester. Visitors to the Library will be able to select a ‘book’, or stroke survivor, based…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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