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#austerityGtrMcr - photography competition

20 May - 20 June 2014
Are you affected by recent cuts in public services? Are they worsening your standard of living or the quality of your life? Or have you found new ways of taking control of things in…

#cityfuturesmcr exhibition

20 - 27 May 2014
An exhibition showcasing the twenty winning images from cities@manchester's recent #cityfuturesmcr Instagram competition, curated by Laura Partridge. This event will be held at Twenty…

'Interpretative Delirium': Coincidences, Premonitions and Paranoïa in Surrealism and Contemporary Art

17:00 - 18:30 21 May 2014
Dr Dezeuze is Lecturer in Art History at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design Marseille-Méditerranée, France. She publishes extensively about contemporary art and is a regular contributor to Art Monthly.

'The Literary Mission of Luis Muñoz (ca.1594-1646)'

17:00 - 19:00 21 May 2014
Over the course of a thirty-year literary career, the licentiate Luis Muñoz (b. ca.1594; d. 1646), a bureaucrat at the courts of Habsburg kings Philip III and Philip IV, published the…

Adults Returning to Education Information Session

10:30 - 12:30 21 May 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…

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…

Energy, austerity, informality: Exploring the everyday politics of urban infrastructure

10:30 - 16:00 21 May 2014
The Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy at the University of Manchester is organising a one-day workshop on ‘Energy, austerity, informality: Exploring the everyday politics of urban…

Engaging with Young People - beyond the usual approaches

13:00 - 14:00 21 May 2014
Engagement@manchester - 21 May - Engaging with Young People - beyond the usual approaches Our next engagement@manchester event explores “Engaging with Young People”. All staff and…

Find Me | A workshop on communicating with people affected by dementia

14:00 - 16:00 21 May 2014
'''Host:''' Manchester Medical School '''About the event:''' A unique training session that uses drama to bring to life the stories of people affected by dementia and to explore…

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,…

Imprinting the Imagination: Northern Renaissance Prints from the Holtorp Collection

8 May - 26 October 2014
Imprinting the Imagination delves into the world of the sixteenth-century printed image. This small but captivating show, including works by artists such as Hans Burgkmair, Albrecht…

Mitchell Centre Seminar: Paola Zappa

16:00 - 17:00 21 May 2014
Title: Bringing the organization back in: coupling and decoupling formal and informal processes in organizations

Neurodegeneration: from mechanisms to medicines

12:00 - 13:00 21 May 2014
Gene Regulation and Cellular Biotechnology - Spring Seminar Series 2014

Public Lecture. Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture hosted by Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago, and Editor of Critical Inquiry

16:00 - 18:00 21 May 2014
Public Lecture. Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture hosted by Prof. W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago, and Editor of…

Sodium channels, brain development and breast cancer

13:00 - 14:00 21 May 2014
Physiology and Pharmacology Seminar Series 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…

We would love to invite you all to our book launch for Why Are Animals Funny?

18:30 - 20:00 21 May 2014
We would love to invite you to celebrate the launch of our book 'Why Are Animals Funny?' out now with Zer0 Books! The book comprises 46 articles in which nigh on everything 'everyday'…

2014 Manchester Economic Theory Workshop

22 May 2014
The Economics Discipline Area of the University of Manchester invites you to this Workshop on Topics in Decision Theory to be held on May 22, 2014. The tentative program is as follows:…

Collective Obligation Workshop

22 - 23 May 2014
Sponsored by The Royal Institute of Philosophy We often make claims about the obligations of groups. We talk about the obligations of states, of people in a subway car, of the international…

Guided Visits for Schools and Colleges

13:30 - 15:30 22 May 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…

Higher-order chromatin architecture in differentiating ES cells / Mitochondrial - nuclear communications: a role for the mitochondrial hydroxylase Clk-1.

13:30 22 May 2014
Fanni Kohlmeier, (Jackson Lab) Tereza Andreou, (Whitmarsh Lab)

Sustainable Consumption Institute Seminar: Prof Frans Berkhout - Co-design and co-production of knowledge: the new engagement agenda in science

16:00 - 17:30 22 May 2014
The social contract with science has changed over the last 30 years. Agenda-setting, practices in science and the making of knowledge claims have all been reshaped by a changing relationship…

Women in Science Panel Discussion

16:30 - 17:30 22 May 2014
'''Host:''' University of Manchester: Equality and Diversity Team ''About the event:''' Panel event about the participation of women in science The panellists will each take turn…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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