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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…

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…

Chaucer's Postcolonial Renaissance

17:30 - 19:00 1 May 2014
The Brook Lecture in Middle English. Professor Andrew James Johnston (Freie Universitaet, Berlin), discusses "Chaucer's Postcolonial Renaissance" at John Rylands Library. All welcome.

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,…

How does the human leukaemia virus HTLV-1 persist in vivo?

17:00 1 May 2014
(FLS) Greater Manchester Immunology Group Seminar Series

Love Languages

17:00 - 19:00 1 May 2014
Love Languages Thursday 1st May 2014 5:00 – 7:00 pm Venue: University Place 6.207 Students are invited to this career networking panel in which they can hear from and talk with Manchester…

Research Seminar - Pamela Cox - 'Television and the People: TV History, Social History and Power'

16:00 1 May 2014
Research Seminar, Spring Term 2014 Pamela Cox (Essex) - 'Television and the People: TV History, Social History and Power' Events end at around 5:30pm, followed by drinks with the speaker.

School of Psychological Sciences seminar | Title TBA | Clinical and Health (C&H)

16:00 - 17:15 1 May 2014
'''Host:''' Prof. Alison Wearden, School of Psychological Sciences '''Speaker:''' Professor Trudie Chalder, King’s College London '''About the event:''' The School of Psychological…

Social Change in Venezuela: a view from the grassroots

17:00 - 19:30 1 May 2014
Rafael Ramos is a graduate of the National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE) in Caracas, member of the youth wing of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (JPSUV), and…

The Latin acclamations of the Magerius mosaic

16:55 - 18:00 1 May 2014
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

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…

Trio Atem

13:10 - 14:00 1 May 2014
Helmut Lachenmann temA Fabrice Fitch Per Serafino Calbarsi III: Antistrophes (world première) Camden Reeves The Sleeper (world première) Gavin Osborn (flutes), Nina Whiteman (mezzo…

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…

Visual Dialogues

19:00 - 21:00 1 May 2014
Dr Mantas Kvedaravicius will present his documentary film Barzakh (Lithuania/ Finland, 2011) on life in a Chechen city recovering after the war. Those in search of the disappeared are…

Manchester Psoriasis Shout Out | Fashion show

13:30 - 13:40 2 May 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 | Fashion show

17:30 - 17:40 2 May 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 University Commissioning Ensemble (MUCE)

13:10 - 14:00 2 May 2014
MUCE is a new, student-run initiative dedicated to showcasing the compositional talent that students, staff and University alumni have to offer. Composers are offered a unique opportunity…

Poststructuralist and Critical Thought: Presentations

14:00 - 16:00 2 May 2014
Gosia Jakimów, Susannah O’Sullivan

Science Stroke Art - film screening, talk and Q&A

11:30 - 13:00 2 May 2014
'''Host:''' Faculty of Life Sciences Mark Ware MFA is a multi-media artist, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and a stroke survivor. During 1996…

The Neuroscience of Consciousness

17:00 - 18:00 2 May 2014
Talk by British scientist, writer and broadcaster Susan Greenfield.

Explorer tour

15:00 - 16:00 3 May 2014
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. Ever wondered where some of the Library doors and staircases lead to? Then this is the tour for you!

Explorer tour

15:00 - 16:00 4 May 2014
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED Ever wondered where some of the Library doors and staircases lead to? Then this is the tour for you!

International Development: Theoretical Approaches to Contemporary Problems

11:00 - 13:00 6 May 2014
We are delighted to announce the first of a number of ateliers to be held at the University of Manchester from May to December 2014. The Postcolonial Atelier intends to bring together…

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