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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…

Beyond Speech conference

8 May 2015
Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers to be delivered in English for the international and interdisciplinary conference Beyond Speech: Silence and the Unspeakable across Cultures,…

CMIST Short Course :: Introductory :: Introduction to Data Analysis 2

8 May 2015
Prerequisites Participants should have a basic familiarity with a statistical software package such as SPSS. Ideally participants should also have taken Introduction to Data Analysis…

Cycle Registration Event

09:30 - 10:30 8 May 2015
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. PLEASE NOTE - All registration sessions are…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 8 May 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…

Isolation and Older Men: Understanding the Challenge and Developing New Services

11:00 - 16:30 8 May 2015
From Independent Age, International Longevity Centre-UK, Manchester City Council, the Whitworth Art Gallery, and the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research, University of Manchester…

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…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:30 8 May 2015
Tchaikovsky Movement in B flat (1865) Schubert Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 ‘Rosamunde’ Tchaikovsky Sextet in D, Op. 70 ‘Souvenir de Florence’ The Movement…

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…

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,…

Autism Friendly Early Opening: See, make & do at the Museum

09:15 - 10:30 9 May 2015
Sat 9 May, 9.15-10.30am. Join us for our early openings at the Museum aimed at children who have autism and other needs, along with their families and carers, and siblings. Activities…

Community Open Day

10:00 - 14:00 9 May 2015
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Family Planetarium Day

9 May 2015
Join us to explore the wonders of the night sky in our pop-up planetarium! Suitable for 5+ years and the show lasts for 30 minutes. Please note that visitors are required to sit…

Merchants of Print: Curator tour

14:00 - 15:00 9 May 2015
Join the curators to discover more about Aldus Manutius, the journeys his books have taken over 500 years and how the books found their final home at The John Rylands Library. There…

Chimpanzee communication: links to human language

12:00 - 13:00 11 May 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015 One of the key elements of human language is reference, with referential words allowing us to communicate about a multitude…

CMIST Short Course :: Intermediate :: Demographic Concepts and Methods

10:00 11 - 16:00 12 May 2015
This course is delivered over two consecutive days and is aimed at those with no demographic training. The focus will be on the basic components of demographic change through measures…

How to cope with always being wrong in systems biology

14:00 - 15:00 11 May 2015
Mathematical models of signalling and gene regulatory systems are abstractions of much more complicated processes. Even as more and larger data sets are becoming available we are not…

MCCIR AZ GSK Update Seminar series

15:30 - 16:30 11 May 2015
Regulating pulmonary macrophage responsiveness in a Th2 setting Freya Svedberg Allergic airway inflammation is characterized by aberrant CD4+ T helper 2 (Th2) cell responses to inhaled…

Monday Lunchtime Talks on China: Ahead of the Curve - New China from China

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2015
Direct from China, this ground-breaking exhibition showcases contemporary ceramics and glass from emerging and established Chinese artists at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.…

The Scientific Revolution that Wasn’t: Uncovering the Radical Science Movement

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Feb-May 2015. Seminar with Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. …

The scientific revolution that wasn’t: uncovering the radical science movement

13:00 - 14:00 11 May 2015
Most scientific revolutions are more about politics than nature, but this is the story of an especially overtly political one. It's the story of the British Society for Social Responsibility…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 13:45 12 May 2015
Tues 12 May, 10.30-11.15am, 11.30am-12.15pm & 1-1.45pm. Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays…

Give Your Car a Rest - Information Event

11:00 - 15:00 12 May 2015
Come along to the Give Your Car a Rest event on the ground floor of University Place (drum area) on Tuesday 12th May 11am to 3pm. Here you will be able to find out more about the travel…

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