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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)

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 Theory Intensive: On Deleuze

15:00 - 17:00 30 April 2014
With Andreja Zevnik (International Politics) Required readings for the seminar will be: 1. 'Year Zero: Faciality' (a chapter in <i>A Thousand Plateaus</i>). 2. 'Immanence: A Life'…

Comparative Public Policy Seminar: Prof Richard Whitman

14:00 30 April 2014
Going Global or Staying Local? The European Union as a Global Security Actor

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,…

Getting the message: pre-mRNA processing and degradation

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

Global Political Economy Seminar: Claes Belfrage

15:30 - 17:00 30 April 2014
Crashed Imagined Recoveries and the Fight back of Neoliberalism: The Icelandic Epic (or Tragedy)

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 30 April 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…

Manchester Economics Seminars (MES): Prof Andrew Oswald

14:30 - 16:00 30 April 2014
The aim of the MES is to provide a forum for distinguished scholars to talk about their research to a general economics, rather than a specialist, audience.

Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Seminar

14:00 - 15:00 30 April 2014
Professor Richard Whitman, (University of Kent) Going Global or Staying Local? The European Union as a Global Security Actor

Manchester Psoriasis Shout Out | Poetry evening

18:00 - 20:00 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)…

Manchester Psoriasis Shout Out | Salford day mindfulness session

12:30 - 13:00 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)…

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…

MARC Talks - Alice in the Megalopolis: women and urban spaces in recent Brazilian media

12:30 - 14:00 30 April 2014
Alice in the Megalopolis: women and urban spaces in recent Brazilian media This talk will focus on the depiction of women in urban spaces by Brazilian media, with particular attention…

Mitchell Centre Seminar: Christoph Stadtfeld

16:00 - 17:30 30 April 2014
Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Social Networks Many phenomena in social networks can be well explained by individual motivations and choices (micromotives in social networks).…

Nanjing, Cinema and Global Memory Wars

16:00 - 17:30 30 April 2014
In December 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army reached the Nanjing. What happened in the weeks that followed has become a globally recognizable event that has echoed down the decades.…

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…

Rylands Gallery: Bitesize talk

12:30 - 13:00 30 April 2014
Drop in for this 15 minute chance to find out more about one of the new displays in the Rylands Gallery.

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…

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 - Preparing for university learning styles workshop

16:00 - 18:00 30 April 2014
This workshop will focus on the different learning styles that you'll experience at university compared to school or college. Lead by current students of The University of Manchester,…

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…

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