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Art in the Park – Easter Family Events – the Whitworth

11:00 3 - 16:00 18 April 2015
Family activities at the Whitworth this Easter. Art in the Park. Dates: Good Friday 3, Tuesday 7, Thursday 9, Friday 10, Saturday 11 April. Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15, Thursday 16,…

Art Picnic – Easter Family Events – the Whitworth

11:00 3 - 13:00 18 April 2015
Family activities at the Whitworth this Easter Art Picnic Dates: Good Friday 3, Saturday 4, Easter Monday 6, Tuesday 7, Wednesday 8, Thursday 9, Friday 10, Saturday 11 April. Monday…

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…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 14 April 2015
Tues 14 Apr, 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm: Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when…

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…

Cooperation & Equality Seminar: Elizabeth Kahn (Durham), title tba

13:00 - 14:30 14 April 2015
Seminar organised by the Cooperation & Equality Project. More information: http://thomassmit3.wix.com/cooperation-equality

Deprived neighbourhoods in transition: the experience of the Greater Manchester city region

16:00 - 17:30 14 April 2015
Part of the Planning & Environmental Management seminar series 2014-15

Detective fun at The John Rylands Library

13:00 - 16:00 14 April 2015
Did you know that books haven’t always been made from paper? Hundreds of years ago, people used to write all of their notes and books on animal skin; what we now call parchment. Become…

Easter Holiday Activities: Nature Discovery

11:00 6 - 16:00 19 April 2015
Mon 6-Sun 19 Apr, 11am-4pm. Explore, discover and make stories at Manchester Museum this Easter. Don’t miss a visit to our newly renovated Nature Discovery gallery for under 5s and…

Easter holidays: Moon activities

7 - 17 April 2015
Come along to our hands on activities and make a flick book to understand the phases of the moon, try some moon themed puzzles have a go at firing you own rocket to the Moon! Drop…

Home Grown Talent Seminars@CMIST - Bram Vanhoutte

12:00 - 13:00 14 April 2015
The Home Grown Talent Seminars@CMIST events showcase the work of Manchester-based early career researchers. In this instalment of this series, which is held at lunchtime, Bram Vanhoutte…

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…

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…

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…

Palaver Festival 2015 - Musical Chitchat

19:30 - 21:30 14 April 2015
Music and Drama at The University of Manchester present MUSICAL CHITCHAT An innovative and contemporary concert exploring the voice as an instrument. An eclectic mix from a-cappella…

Post-translational processing of the LDL receptor: novel approaches to plasma cholesterol regulation

12:00 - 13:00 14 April 2015
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Seminar Series - Donald Ward and Joy Wang

Protection and diffusion of (contested) user ideas in communities

14:00 - 15:00 14 April 2015
Usually, the user innovation literature deals with the way in which users are engaged in improving separate products or services, such as medical devices (Von Hippel, 1988; Lettl et…

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…

Science Show: The Moon and the Eclipse

3 - 17 April 2015
This event does not run on Saturdays or Sundays Join one of our fun and inspiring science shows to learn more about our moon. There will be rocket launches and demonstrations illustrating…

Trauma, telephones and treatment: changing attitudes to hearing loss after World War One

13:00 - 14:00 14 April 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…

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 masterclass: Charles Zika (Melbourne): The History of Emotions and Visual Culture

10:00 - 12:00 15 April 2015
All welcome, no booking required. With Sasha Handley (History) and Jenny Spinks (History) Readings for Masterclass: 1. Nicole Eustace, Eugenia Lean, Julie Livingston, Jan Plamper,…

Evaluating digital inclusion projects in practice

11:00 - 12:30 15 April 2015
This workshop will be led by Dr Alice Mathers and James Richardson, from Tinder Foundation’s Research & Innovation team. Our opening presentation will describe digital exclusion and…

Interpreting Papyrus

12:00 - 13:00 15 April 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…

Research in unpleasant places: From the political economy of production to the reality of waste in India - An ESID Masterclass

10:00 - 11:30 15 April 2015
In this seminar Professor Barbara Harris-White from the University of Oxford will talk about how to move from theory at a high level of abstraction to fieldwork in unpleasant places:…

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