Exhibitions, Lecture

'The Sensory War 1914 - 2014' An exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery

11 October 2014 - 22 February 2015
The Sensory War, 1914-2014 exhibition opened in October at the Manchester Art Gallery. It is the result of a four-year curatorial partnership between Dr Ana Carden-Coyne (Centre for…

B.15:45 Architecture modelmaking exhibition: Celebrating 45 years of the B.15 modelmaking workshop

1 September 2014 - 31 December 2015
2015 marks 45 years of the Kantorowich B.15 modelmaking workshop at The University of Manchester. The B.15:45 exhibition is a retrospective look at the last 45 years of modelmaking…

Communities in Communication

17 July - 21 December 2014
The Middle Ages are commonly seen as a time of widespread ignorance and prejudice, but diversity and multiculturalism are not modern inventions. Perhaps surprisingly, examples can be…

Echo and Narcissus

11 August 2014 - 9 January 2015
Each of the mirrors in this body of work is dedicated to a literary heroine, provoking reflections of the feminine on several, potentially fragmented, levels. The statements etched…

Giving it Wigan: Norman Nicholson at 100

25 July - 14 December 2014
In celebration of writer Norman Nicholson’s centenary, this display draws on the Library’s extensive archive to tell stories of his life and work. Born in Cumbria, Nicholson drew inspiration…

IT Services student roadshow

09:30 - 16:00 27 November 2014
Our IT Services roadshows are a great opportunity for students at The University to engage directly with IT staff. Our knowledgeable staff will be on hand all day to answer your questions…

Jim Rose Lecture with Greg Dyke (Chairman of the Football Association)

19:30 - 21:30 27 November 2014
The annual Jim Rose Lecture is an evening devoted to the work and memory of Jim Rose, co-founder of the Runnymede Trust in 1968. From then until his death in 1999, Jim Rose's contribution…

Men Who Like Women Who Smell Of Their Jobs

1 October 2014 - 31 January 2015
The dark humour and weird logic of David Gaffney’s critically acclaimed Sawn-off Tales series meets the warped gothic fables of internationally exhibited contemporary visual artist…

Siberia: At the Edge of the World

4 October 2014 - 1 March 2015
Until 1 March 2015. The first exhibition of its kind in the UK, Siberia: At the Edge of the World brings together natural history and cultural objects from British and Russian museums,…

Afghanistan: The transition - public exhibition

1 December 2014 - 14 February 2015
Afghanistan: The transition - public exhibition Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)'s photography exhibition, in collaboration with documentary photographers Andrea…

The effect of Glucocorticoids on Natural Killer Cell functionality - Dave Morgan / Lenalidomide alters the threshold for NK cell activation and augments NK cell effector functions - Kathryn Lagrue

15:30 - 16:30 1 December 2014
MCCIR AZ/GSK Update Seminar Series

CIDRAL Research Seminar: Rachel Fensham (Melbourne): Dancing Nature: Scientific Thought and the Ecological Choreography of Modern Dance

17:00 - 19:00 2 December 2014
Rachel Fensham is Head of School of Culture and Communication and a dance and theatre scholar. Her publications include the monograph "To Watch Theatre: Essays on Genre and Corporeality"…

WW1 Open Lecture Series: Russia's First World War - the view from above and from below

15:00 - 16:00 3 December 2014
A talk by Prof Peter Gatrell (Department of History) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of WW1". Russia's First World War…

Loving Illumination - Paintings of Light

4 December 2014 - 29 March 2015
In this exhibition artist Judith Hurst explores the interconnectivity of science, maths, religion and art. Working on vellum, and using inlays of exotic wood and precious metals, Judith…

Lovell Christmas Lecture - Masers and the Square Kilometre Array

19:30 - 21:00 9 December 2014
Dr Jimi Green Square Kilometre Array Organisation Astrophysical masers are the radio equivalent of lasers, highly beamed radiation naturally occurring in space, and found towards a…

WW1 Open Lecture Series: Homeric Mud in the Trenches

17:00 - 18:00 10 December 2014
A talk by Dr Emma Griffiths (Department of Classics and Ancient History) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "The Different Faces of WW1". The…

An assembly of Old Men and New Men: the Senate in late Pahlavi Iran

17:30 - 19:00 11 December 2014
Considering the Iranian revolution in 1979 a pivotal and unanticipated event, Western research often engaged in an almost teleological historiography of the second Pahlavi period as…

Lovell Christmas Lecture - Galaxy Clusters

19:30 - 21:00 11 December 2014
Dr Anna Scaife The University Of Southampton The largest gravitationally bound objects in the Universe, Clusters of Galaxies are the Behemoths of astrophysics. Individually, Galaxy…

FMHS Inaugural Professorial Lectures | Professor Craig Barclay and Professor Julian Satterthwaite

17:00 12 - 18:00 16 January 2015
'''Host:''' School of Dentistry '''Speaker:''' *Professor Craig Barclay - 'Patient Inspired Care' *[http://www.dentistry.manchester.ac.uk/staff/JulianSatterthwaite Professor Julian…

Florence Nightingale Foundation Nursing Lecture Series 2015

14:00 - 16:00 22 January 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' A showcase of leading clinical nursing research that shares the latest evidence to promote quality…

Later-Day Saints

23 January - 28 June 2015
Our ancestors often relied on their beliefs to make sense of their world - is there an equivalent in our modern world of celebrity and material culture? Later-Day Saints brings the…

Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies - Prof. Christopher Browning (North Carolina): "Agency in the Holocaust: Perpetrators, Survivors, Rescuers"

27 - 29 January 2015
The Bogdanow Lectures in Holocaust Studies. See www.manchesterjewishstudies.org/bogdanow-lectures-2015/ for further information. Open to all. Room TBC.

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Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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