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AHVS Seminar with Allison Connolly. French Literature and Film Scholar: " Emptiness as a Creative Force"

17:15 - 18:30 16 April 2015
Pondering the empty bed shared by Colette and her lover, Connolly takes us through a tour of emptiness (including Mallarmé’s obsession with the blank page, Ying Chen’s novel Ingratitude…

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…

Connected Health Innovation Centre Seminar | Apps for Mental Healthcare

15:00 - 17:00 16 April 2015
'''Host:''' Institute of Population Health '''About the event:''' The next Connected Health Innovation Centre Seminar on "Apps in Mental Health" will take place on 16th April 2015.…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar 50th Anniversary: Yvonne Sherwood (Kent) - "The ‘Hagaramic’ as a Provocation for European Provincialism: Surrogate, Rogue, Resident Alien, Foreign Body"

14:00 - 15:30 16 April 2015
Join us to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Ehrhardt Seminar!

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…

Music Research Seminar: ‘Extracting music from scientific data’

16:15 - 18:00 16 April 2015
Speaker: Trevor Wishart (University of Durham) ‘Extracting music from scientific data’

Palaver Festival 2015 - Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg Des Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht

19:30 16 - 21:30 18 April 2015
The University’s German Society presents DER AUFHALTSAME AUFSTIEG DES ARTURO UI by Bertolt Brecht 1930s Chicago: Bertolt Brecht’s allegorical satire in which Adolf Hitler’s rise to…

POSTPONED Not an eBay for Drugs: Darknet drugs markets as a transformative market innovation

15:30 - 16:30 16 April 2015
The online drug cryptomarket 'Silk Road' has been oft-characterised as an 'eBay for drugs', with customers thought to be drug consumers making personal use-sized purchases. Our research…

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…

The Brook Lecture in Middle English: Prof. Stephanie Trigg (University of Melbourne), 'Changing Faces: The Dynamics of Facial Expression and Emotion in Middle English Literature'

17:30 - 19:00 16 April 2015
The Brook Lecture, part of the English and American Studies seminar series, honours the memory of G.L. Brook, Professor of English Language and Medieval English Literature at Manchester…

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