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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…

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…

CIDRAL Theory Intensive on McLuhan

14:00 - 16:00 4 March 2015
All welcome, no booking required. CIDRAL Theory Intensive on McLuhan: H Marshall McLuhan: the last futurist with Vincenzo Susca (Paris Descartes Sorbonne University) and Claudia Attimonelli…

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…

Elizabeth Ewart (Oxford): 'Categories and consequences: hunting for legalism in Amazonia'

17:00 - 18:30 4 March 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: 'Latin America: The Potential of the Global South?'. Venue: Arthur Lewis Boardroom.

English Literature Research Seminar: Clara Dawson (Manchester) '"Precious as a Pilgrim's Gift": Poetic Voice and Print Culture in L.E.L. and Tennyson’

17:00 - 18:30 4 March 2015
English Literature Research Seminar Clara Dawson (Manchester) '"Precious as a Pilgrim's Gift": Poetic Voice and Print Culture in L.E.L. and Tennyson’

Global Political Economy research cluster seminar, Dr Daniela Tepe-Belfrage (Sheffield)

15:30 - 17:00 4 March 2015
'Broken Britain: post-crisis Austerity and the trouble with the Troubled Families Program'

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 4 March 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…

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 4 March 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…

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 March 2015
Nial Friel, University College Dublin Improved Bayesian estimation for exponential random graphs Bayesian inferential methods have proved useful in the analysis of exponential random…

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

Risk preferences and subjective beliefs: implications for crop insurance subsidies

13:00 - 14:00 4 March 2015
Speaker: Carlo Fezzi (University of East Anglia) Abstract: This paper proposes a novel methodology to estimate risk preferences using market insurance data and incorporating individuals'…

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…

SCI Seminar Series - Professor Frank Boons - Retracing narratives: How a bio-based chemical industry is emerging in The Netherlands

16:00 4 March 2015
Abstract The ecological impact of chemical products throughout their life cycle has been a contentious topic for decades, leading to public protest as well as substantive legislative…

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