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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…

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…

Carry on Collecting: Sex, Gender & Ethnography at Manchester Museum

13:00 - 14:00 2 March 2015
Mon 2 Mar, 1-2pm. Ethnographic collections formed in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were invariably informed by contemporaneous notions of gender and sex. The chiefly…

Innocent until proven guilty?

19:30 2 March 2015
Mon 2 Mar, 7.30pm. ‘Only 1,070 rapists are convicted every year despite up to 95,000 people – the vast majority of them women – suffering the trauma of rape – according to the new…

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 March 2015
Negative regulation of the skin immune system in health and disease - A. E. Saunders The balance between tolerance and immunity is important throughout the body. At barrier sites this…

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…

NIHR Themed Call Seminar | Multi-Morbidities in Older People

12:00 - 14:00 2 March 2015
'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health '''About the event:''' A free seminar from the NIHR Research Design Service North West (RDS NW). Lunch is included (booking essential).…

Recent Late Quaternary paleoanthropological discoveries in West Turkana, Kenya

12:00 - 13:00 2 March 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015

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…

Womb Transplants – The race is Over!

2 March 2015
Amel Alghrani (Senior lecturer, University of Liverpool, and a Manchester alumna and ex-member of staff here) will give this weeks Senior Seminar, in which she will reflect on the legal,…

A Life in Science

13:00 - 14:00 3 March 2015
Talk from the President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, followed by a Q&A session.

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Jon Williamson - The role of mechanistic evidence in establishing causal claims

16:00 - 17:15 3 March 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Jon Williamson from the University of Kent will deliver a talk entitled 'The role of mechanistic evidence in establishing causal claims'. Abstract:…

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…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 3 March 2015
Tues 3 Mar, 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 March 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…

Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis

12:30 - 14:30 3 March 2015
Catrin Tudur-Smith, Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool will be talking about why you would want to consider IPD, what are the…

Modelling ordered categories

13:00 - 15:00 3 March 2015
Booking will open at 9am on 19 February This session introduces the use of Proportional-odds regression (a GLM with a logit link) to model ordered categorical data. Simple and complex…

Performing Proficiency: Psychological Experiments on Man-Machine Systems in the United States, 1950-1965

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

Public Opinion and the 2015 Election

17:40 - 19:00 3 March 2015
As part of a series of events to coincide with the 2015 General Election, the People’s History Museum brings together leading pollsters and academics to discuss current thinking on…

“Sex education is always trouble” The representation of sex education and HIV-positivity on the BBC’s Grange Hill

13:00 - 14:00 3 March 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…

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 4 March 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…

Hebrew Collections

12:00 - 13:00 4 March 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…

Transforming Manchester - a cities@manchester workshop

09:30 - 16:30 4 March 2015
Contemporary Manchester continues to exhibit a perplexing mix of on-going decline and dynamic transformation. While the narrative of success tends to dominate urban discussions, only…

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