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'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…

A Schumpeterian analysis of the world’s greatest entrepreneur

12:45 - 13:45 2 February 2015
Schumpeter remains a key figure in the literature on entrepreneurship. In this seminar Schumpeterian analysis is used to explore the remarkable career of Josiah Wedgwood (1730-1795),…

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…

Artist Sundays

10:00 - 17:00 2 February 2015
Artist Sundays Extraordinary artists invent offbeat and imaginative ways for you and your family to explore the Whitworth – every Sunday. Sundays, 10am-5pm (drop in). Free, no booking required, suitable for all ages.

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…

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…

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…

MCCIR AZ/GSK Update Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 2 February 2015
Classical activation of macrophages induces STAT-dependent downregulation of the transcription factor FoxO3 - Alek Grabiec: Forkhead box O (FoxO) transcription factors regulate expression…

Merchants of Print: from Venice to Manchester

29 January - 21 June 2015
This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Aldus Manutius (1449 – 1515), an Italian humanist scholar who founded the Aldine Press at Venice. His publishing legacy includes scholarly…

Promoting child health and wellbeing: The contribution of school based research

12:00 - 17:00 2 February 2015
There are increasing concerns about the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents because of the potential for poor lifestyle and life experiences to impact on their potential…

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,…

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…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Michael L Smith (Economics Institute)

16:00 - 17:15 3 February 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Michael L Smith from the Economics Institute will give a talk entitled 'Selection Bias in Heterogeneous Returns to College in Highly Stratified…

Ashley Montagu, Freud's "Fruitful Theories", and the Place of Psychoanalysis in the American Human Sciences, 1930-1960

16:00 - 17:00 3 February 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminar Series Feb-May 2015. …

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 3 February 2015
Tues 3 Feb, 1–2.30pm. Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion.

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 3 February 2015
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

Modelling continuous data

13:00 - 15:00 3 February 2015
Booking will open at 9am on 19 January This session investigates the use of OLS regression (a GLM with an identity link) to model continuous response variables. Simple and complex…

Nowhere to Call Home - Tibet Film Screening and Director Q&A

17:00 - 20:00 3 February 2015
The University of Manchester's Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) and the British Inter-university China Centre (BICC) present Nowhere to Call Home, a film by Jocelyn Ford (in Tibetan,…

Printing Press Demonstration

10:00 - 14:00 3 February 2015
Drop in and see our printing press in action. Try your hand at making your own print.

Spring Tuesday Talk - Mairéad McClean - at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU).

11:00 - 12:30 3 February 2015
Spring Tuesday Talks - at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Venue for Tuesday Talks on the 20,27 Jan and 10 Feb is: Holden Gallery, MMU’s All Saints Campus. 11am – 12.30pm,…

The goods depot, the library and the fair: negotiating crowds and institutions on the Camp Field, Manchester 1840-1880

13:00 - 14:00 3 February 2015
This seminar is part of the lunchtime seminar series for the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM). Lunchtime seminars are typically no more than 30 minutes…

The Ideologies underlying social protection (Devt@man seminar series)

16:30 - 18:00 3 February 2015
Devt@man seminar series: The Ideologies underlying social protection, Dr Anna McCord. Joint seminar with ESID, chaired by Sam Hickey. Development@Manchester is the flagship seminar…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 4 February 2015
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on Wednesday mornings between October and March. Please arrive at the…

Striking Gold

12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2015
This monthly series of lunchtime talks introduces the new John Rylands Research Institute and its vibrant research portfolio. Each informal, accessible seminar showcases cutting-edge…

Synapic transfer of visual informaion in the retina

12:00 4 February 2015
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