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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…

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…

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…

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…

Can Cameron capture women’s votes?

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2015
The third Pankhurst Politics Seminar will take place on Wednesday 4 February, 2-3pm, University Place 3.204. It will be delivered by Professor Francesca Gains on the topic of ‘Can…

Changing your IT support for the better

15:30 - 16:30 4 February 2015
Come along to one of our forthcoming roadshows and get a first look at the changes we’ll be making to our IT support model and find out about the many improvements this will bring for…

CIDRAL Roundtable: Adam Phillips: Psychoanalysis, Morality and the Senses

15:30 - 17:30 4 February 2015
Adam Phillips (Psychoanalyst and Writer) with Dr Monica Pearl (Lecturer in 20th Century American Literature, EAC, UoM) and Professor Ian Parker (psychoanalyst, Manchester Psychoanalytic…

Collection Bites: Rah-rah, Senenmut – Lover of the Egyptian Queen?

13:00 - 14:00 4 February 2015
Wed 4 Feb, 1-2pm. In 2013, an unassuming stone fragment in the Egyptology stores was identified as part of a statue of one of ancient Egypt’s most famous personalities: Senenmut, chief…

Dr Irena Hayter, Leeds University - 'The Cinema, the Department Store, the Mannequin Girl: Gender and Visuality in Interwar Japan'

16:00 - 18:00 4 February 2015
Japanese Studies first visiting lecturer of the semester: Dr Irena Hayter, Leeds University - 'The Cinema, the Department Store, the Mannequin Girl: Gender and Visuality in Interwar…

Genome Editing Comes of Age

14:00 - 15:00 4 February 2015
This seminar is part of the Special Seminar Series. …

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 4 February 2015
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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 4 February 2015
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. Just turn up! Please note that we cannot accept large groups on this tour. If your group would like a…

Kids on Film: Responses to Sarah Wright's The Child in Spanish Cinema (2013)

17:00 - 18:30 4 February 2015
Sarah Wright's The Child in Spanish Cinema (2013) explores the child on screen as a potent motif for the loss of historical memory in Spain’s religious films, musicals, 'art-house horror',…

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…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 February 2015
Cohen R. Simpson, LSE Bipartite Networks, Status and Competition for Financial Patronage: A Mutualistic Model of External Resource Derivation amongst Social Movement Organisations…

Research Matters Seminar Series - Critical discourse analysis

12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2015
Carl Emery delivers the second in the winter/spring Research Matters seminar series - 'Critical discourse analysis of the social and emotional wellbeing agenda in education'.

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,…

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
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Lectures'

Synaptic transfer of visual information in the retina

12:00 - 13:00 4 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lecture Series, hosted by the Faculty of Life Sciences.

Ten years after Murambatsvina: what are current prospects for the urban poor in Zimbabwe?

13:00 - 14:30 4 February 2015
In 2005, the government of Zimbabwe evicted hundreds of thousands of low-income citizens from their homes and workplaces. Ten years later, an economic crisis, government of national…

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…

Transport Politics, Policies and Persuasions

17:30 - 19:00 4 February 2015
Drive Safe - Cameras and Courses

What is..? GIS

13:00 - 14:00 4 February 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Over the last two decades or so, Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have become increasingly embedded within the social sciences as researchers…

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