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A Special JMCE Event: the leader of the European Socialists in the European Parliament @ Manchester

15:00 - 16:00 17 March 2015
President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Gianni Pittella, will be speaking on the The Benefits of the European Union alongside the North West MEP Afzal Kahn (MEP)

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Sin Yi Cheung - Gender Pay Gap in Wales: occupational segregation or part-time penalty?

16:00 - 17:15 17 March 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Sin Yi Cheung from Cardiff University will deliver a talk entitled 'Gender Pay Gap in Wales: Segregation and part-time penalty – do low-waged…

Age-friendly Cities: Question and answer evening with discussion

18:00 - 20:00 17 March 2015
From MICRA, Age-UK and Manchester City Council Question and Answer Evening with Discussion Chair: Councillor Sue Cooley, Lord Mayor of Manchester Panel: Chris Phillipson, Professor…

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…

Between Joyce and Remembrance - Film Screening and Director Q&A

15:00 - 17:00 17 March 2015
This film screening is hosted by the Humanitarian and Development Research Group. The screening will be followed by a Skype debate with the Director. Between Joyce and Remembrance…

Chinese Medicine, Early Japan, and the Appropriation of Knowledge

13:00 - 14:00 17 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…

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:…

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…

Engaging autism | developmental implications for intervention

16:00 - 18:00 17 March 2015
'''Host:''' Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences '''Organised by:''' Autism@Manchester '''About the event:''' Increasing autism intervention research studies document impressive…

Is there such a thing as a rational suicide?

19:30 17 March 2015
Tues 17 Mar, 7.30pm. Suicide is so often seen as an essentially irrational act, wrapped up with misunderstandings of mental illness and the causes of profound unhappiness. ‘If only…

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…

LRG1 as a context-dependent regulator of retinal vascular disease

12:00 - 13:00 17 March 2015
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Seminar Series - Donald Ward and Joy Wang

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…

Tutor Trust Talent Show - raising money for Royal Manchester Children's Hospital

18:30 - 22:00 17 March 2015
The Tutor Trust, a local charity who provide tutors into Primary and Secondary schools throughout Manchester has a society within the University and is putting on a Talent Show to raise…

Webinar: Getting started with secondary data

15:00 - 16:00 17 March 2015
This webinar is intended for researchers aiming to re-use secondary data in their own research. Participants will learn about key issues in secondary analysis, including understanding…

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,…

“Weaponising Cinema”: Hollywood, the OSS, and the Logistics of Perception

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

Accommodation Tour

10:30 - 12:00 18 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…

CMIST Short Course :: Foundation Skills for Data Analysts

18 March 2015
Prerequisites No previous experience of data analysis is assumed, however participants should be familiar with working in the Windows environment. The course is designed for those without…

Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies: A patent citation analysis

13:00 - 14:00 18 March 2015
Speaker: Ralf Martin (Imperial College London) Abstract: How much should governments subsidize the development of new clean technologies? We use patent citation data to investigate…

Spatial Vizualization:applications for educational research

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

The Origin of Complexity

12:00 - 13:00 18 March 2015
Part of the Leaders in Science Lecture Series, hosted by the Faculty of Life Sciences.

The Origin of Complexity

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

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