Exhibitions, Lecture

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…

Beyond Kobane and Mosul: Today's Kurdish Question in historical perspective

17:30 - 19:00 5 March 2015
Kurdish politics in a post Sykes-Picot world – new chances, old risks?“ Although later than the national questions of the Balkans of the 19th century and overshadowed by the Armenian…

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…

Extinction: Impact physics and life on earth

14:00 - 15:00 5 March 2015
Matter is ever-changing, its form developing in a series of nested processes which complete on the time scales on which mechanisms operate. This talk concerns behaviour in the regime…

Ferguson Lecture 2015: Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Grosshans (University of Muenster) - "On Christian Freedom"

16:00 - 17:30 5 March 2015
The 2015 Ferguson lecture will discuss various important aspects of the relation of Christian faith and freedom, starting with the understanding of freedom in the Old and the New Testament.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Unexpected Targets and Triggers of Autoimmunity and Tissue Inflammation

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

Families and dictatorships, Italy and elsewhere, 1917-1945

17:00 - 18:15 12 March 2015
All are warmly invited to the Herford Memorial Lecture in Italian Studies with the collaboration of History Professor Paul Ginsborg (University of Florence) will deliver a lecture…

What’s the Weather Like Today?

12 March - 28 June 2015
The weather is fascinating. We can hardly avoid talking about it and how it makes us feel. This exhibition uses items from the Library’s collections to explore descriptions, reflections,…

CIDRAL Roundtable: Susan Stewart (Princeton): Poetry, Thinking, and the Senses

17:00 - 19:00 17 March 2015
All welcome, no booking required. With John McAuliffe (CNW), Anke Bernau (EAC) and Stephen Parker (German) Readings: from Stewart, Susan, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (Chicago:…

"They should speak Latin and no other language": the pains (and pleasures) of learning Latin in the Renaissance

17:30 - 18:45 18 March 2015
Manchester Classical Association Lecture

Glossing the Word of God Exploring a Medieval Qur'an and its Interlinear Translations

14:00 - 15:30 18 March 2015
Despite the frequent claim that the Qur’an is untranslatable, many historical copies contain Persian or Turkic translations between the lines of Arabic scripture. Qur’ans with interlinear…

Spatial Vizualization:applications for educational research

12:00 - 13:00 18 March 2015
Research Matters series lecture

The JMCE 2015 Annual Lecture: Prospects for Peace in Cyprus

15:00 - 16:30 18 March 2015
This year’s JMCE Annual lecture is delivered by the Chief Turkish Cypriot Negotiator at the UN-sponsored peace talks in Cyprus, Mustafa Ergün Olgun. The event is open to the public…

The Origin of Complexity

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

"The State and Economic Development: The Need for a Critical Reappraisal of the Literature" - Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture 2015

11:30 - 13:00 20 March 2015
Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture 2015 Hosted by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre "The State and Economic Development: The need for a critical reappraisal…

Exploring chromosome instability

12:00 25 March 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lectures

Garner Lecture – Powsells and Thrums: The Loom of creation. A lecture by Alan Garner

19:30 - 20:30 25 March 2015
In this inaugural lecture Alan Garner discusses the nature and role of creativity, especially in the field of language. He goes on to consider the possible origins and evolutionary…

Making Monuments on Rapa Nui. The Statues from Easter Island

1 April - 6 September 2015
1 April-6 September 2015 Free entry The monumental stone statues of Rapa Nui (named Easter Island by European explorers) in the Pacific are some of the most widely recognised archaeological…

Special Educational and additional needs (SEAN) research showcase

12:00 - 13:00 1 April 2015
Research Matters Lecture

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Charles Zika (Melbourne, Australia,): The History of Emotions as a Window on the Past: Early Modern Witches and their Dances

17:00 - 19:00 14 April 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Charles Zika is a cultural historian of late medieval and early modern Europe. He is Professorial Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical…

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