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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…

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…

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 - 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…

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…

Tour en Français - French language only tour

11:00 - 12:00 18 April 2015
La Bibliothèque John Rylands Deansgate ouvre ses portes pour vous emmèner à l'intérieur, et vous faire découvrir le site, dédié aux livres et à son architecture Victorienne. Cette visite…

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,…

Unusual Views: Library tours for photographers

11:00 - 12:00 19 April 2015
Take the opportunity to photograph the Library building from spectacular viewpoints not normally open to the public!

Annual Harry Street Lecture: New Union: New Constitution?

17:30 - 19:30 20 April 2015
The United Kingdom’s territorial constitution has changed beyond recognition since 1997. Yet the pace of reform continues to accelerate, not least as the Union state struggles to respond…

Genomics and metagenomics in animal health and food security

12:00 - 13:00 20 April 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015

Pavilion Book Launch

18:30 - 20:00 20 April 2015
Liverpool University Press is launching a new series of poetry books that celebrate risk-taking, called Pavilion Poetry. Pavilion Poetry, which will be edited by poetry professor Deryn…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday, 20th April 2015 - Dr Jan Lorenz – University of Manchester

15:00 - 17:00 20 April 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 20TH April 2015 Dr Jan Lorenz – University of Manchester “Oneself as the other. First thoughts on affinity and becoming in Polish giyur - conversion…

The growth hustle:The conundrum of government supported innovation

13:00 - 14:00 20 April 2015
Everyone says growth is important and there seems to be a consensus that it will mainly come from innovation. It is therefore in the interest of governments to support innovation.…

The Hajj as a Mirror: Past, Present and Future

18:00 - 19:00 20 April 2015
The Hajj is rich with ritual: there are circumambulation, running, throwing of stones, sermonising, and standing, to name just a few. But behind all these stands memory: memory of past…

Work and Retirement in the European Union: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

11:00 - 15:00 20 April 2015
From Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, MICRA and Age-UK Guest speaker: Professor Hans-Martin Hasselhorn, Head of Department "work and health", Federal Institute for Occupational Safety…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Mark Shephard - Social media and the independence referendum

16:00 - 17:15 21 April 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Mark Shephard from the University of Strathclyde will deliver a talk entitled 'Social media and the independence referendum'. Abstract: Using…

Humphry Davy's instruments of war: Science and patriotism in the press, 1801-1812

13:00 - 14:00 21 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…

Missing data imputation

13:00 - 15:00 21 April 2015
Booking will open at 9am on 9 April This session introduces the analysis of data sets with missing cases. A practical discussion is provided along with detailed instruction in imputing…

Philosophy Research Seminar: 'Thinking, inner speech and self-awareness'

15:00 21 April 2015
Speaker: Johannes Roessler (Warwick) Title: Thinking, inner speech and self-awareness Abstract: This paper has two themes. One is the question of how to understand the relation between…

The Noise of Creation: Cosmology, Communication and Commerce in the long 1960s

16:00 - 17:30 21 April 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Feb-May 2015. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

Understanding the tissue specific functions of the circadian clocks

12:00 - 13:00 21 April 2015
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Seminar Series - Donald Ward and Joy Wang

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