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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…

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,…

CMISt Short Course :: Introductory:: Introduction to Linking Data

15 April 2015
Outline The one day course will introduce basic concepts of data linkage, provide background information on data linkage applications and different data sources as well as aspects…

David Martin-Jones (Glasgow): 'Remembering Cold War States of Exception in Recent Latin American and Asian Documentary Film'

17:00 - 18:30 15 April 2015
Part of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Seminar Series: 'Latin America: The Potential of the Global South?' Venue: Samuel Alexander A101. Speaker: David Martin-Jones…

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…

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…

External Seminar Series | Can’t cook, won’t cook: understanding factors behind functional disability in dementia

12:00 - 13:00 15 April 2015
'''Host:''' School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work '''About the event:''' The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social work run external research seminars every month. Presenters…

Geopolitical Attitudes in Contested Ukraine: Comparing SE Ukraine and Crimea. Dr Gerard Toal

15:00 - 17:00 15 April 2015
By Dr Gerard Toal, Director, Government & International Affairs, Virginia Tech, United States This talk reviews key image events in Ukraine in 2014 -- the Maidan protests and flight…

Global Political Economy research cluster seminar, Ingar Solty (York/Berlin)

15:30 - 17:00 15 April 2015
‘Crisis, New Economic Governance and Legitimacy: Questioning the Interrelations of Economic and Political Crises in the Eurozone’

Guided visit

13:30 - 15:30 15 April 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…

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 15 April 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…

Inventing ‘Cultural Heritage’ In 19th Century Turkestan: Governor-General Konstantin Von Kaufmann At The Interface Between Imperial Russia And The Persianate World

16:00 - 18:00 15 April 2015
Gen. Konstantin von Kaufmann (1818-1882) used to be referred to by his contemporaries as the ‘creator of Russian Turkestan’ who’s first Governor-general he was from 1867 until 1881.…

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…

Lunchtime Seminar: Christian Goeschel, 'Italian Fascism and Nazism before 1933'

13:00 - 14:00 15 April 2015
History Lunchtime Seminar All Welcome! Christian Goeschel, 'Italian Fascism and Nazism before 1933' Feel free to bring your lunch.

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…

Mitchell Centre seminar series: Gerald Mollenhorst

16:00 - 16:30 15 April 2015
Gerald Mollenhorst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Stockholm University, Sweden Changes in personal networks in the Netherlands and Sweden: Assessing the role of social contexts…

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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