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…

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…

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…

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…

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 in Transition: Humanitarian Action in a Fragile Context

17:30 - 19:30 5 February 2015
Afghanistan in Transition: Humanitarian Action in a Fragile Context (roundtable discussion) Afghanistan is currently going through political, economic, security and humanitarian transitions.…

Lovell Lecture – PLATO: Discovering Earth-like planets around other stars

19:30 - 21:00 5 February 2015
The European Space Agency will launch its ‘PLATO’ satellite mission in 2024. PLATO will survey vast areas of the sky for long periods of time, gathering a huge amount of information…

The cell biology of killer cells: from lysosomes to cilia

12:00 - 13:00 11 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

Romuald Hazoumè: Dance of the Butterflies

14 February - 29 July 2015
Dance of the Butterflies is a stunning new art work by one of Africa’s foremost contemporary artists Romuald Hazoumè. It features swarms of multicoloured ‘butterflies’ which will take…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Denise Riley (UEA): On the Lapidary Style

17:00 - 19:00 17 February 2015
All welcome, no booking required. 'The lapidary style' suggests a manner of writing which runs close to working a material – carving lettering into rock, cutting a gem into fine facets.…

Bacterial RNA and DNA interference

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

Photography in Educational Research:Representation and exploitation

12:00 - 13:00 18 February 2015
Manchester Institute of Education Research Matters session led by Andy Howes and Susie Miles Ellen Wilkinson Building Room C3.19/20 University of Manchester

AntiTNF therapy in rheumatoid arthritis: can we get closer to a cure?

12:00 - 13:00 25 February 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

Women on the Walls

17:30 - 18:45 25 February 2015
Manchester Classical Association Lecture

Inaugural Pankhurst Lecture delivered by Shami Chakrabarti

17:00 - 19:00 26 February 2015
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) and Honorary Professor in the School of Law at The University of Manchester, will deliver the inaugural…

Arabic Cross-dialectal Conversations with Implications for the Teaching of Arabic as a Second language

17:00 - 18:00 2 March 2015
Language variation is a universal linguistic phenomenon which has attracted research work in many languages. The level of variation in the Arabic language is quite high. This is due…

Dispersal Newspaper Project

3 - 31 March 2015
Pod Collective’s newspaper project is in response to the fifteenth anniversary of the dispersal programme in 2015. People who have sought asylum in the UK have been dispersed throughout…

Radical information literacy : reclaiming the political heart of the information literacy movement

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2015
Research Matters series of lectures Speaker Drew Whitworth

Synthetic Gene Networks for Biomedical Applications

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

The Indian Army in Mesopotamia - Forgotten prisoners, forgotten army, forgotten war

17:30 - 19:00 4 March 2015
The Manchester International Law Centre, School of Law, University of Manchester, is holding a series of lectures on international law and World War I over the coming year. The first…

Make it happen | Driving forward international research careers

09:00 5 - 16:30 9 March 2015
'''Host:''' Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences '''About the event:''' Posters will be displayed in the foyer of University Place from Thurs, 5th March - Monday, 9th March. Here…

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