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American Studies Programme conference, 2015

15 May 2015
The Annual American Studies Postgraduate Conference at the University of Manchester is now a firm fixture in our academic calendar, this being the sixth year that it has been held.…

Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan’s Anti-British Alliance and Russian Expansion in the Caucasus (1797-1813)

17:15 - 19:00 15 May 2015
British consolidation in South Asia at the turn of the 19th century witnessed the resistance of Tipu Sultan, the renowned ruler of Mysore. His call for an anti-British alliance, among…

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…

CMIST Short Course :: Advanced:: Demographic Forecasting with POPGROUP

14 - 15 May 2015
The course introduces the standard methods of forecasting population, households and the labour force, each with age and sex detail, through use of the POPGROUP software. The course…

Cycle Registration Event

09:30 - 10:30 15 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 15 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…

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…

Lawrence of Arabia and Beyond - Other Lawrences and the other Lawrence

10:00 - 16:30 15 May 2015
2015 makes the 80th anniversary of the death of T. E. Lawrence, 'Lawrence of Arabia'. This one-day workshop brings together scholars to discuss aspects of Lawrence's career and reputation…

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…

Mythical Beasts Sleepover

17:30 15 - 08:30 16 May 2015
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED Come along to a beastly sleepover at The John Rylands Library as part of Museums at Night, the annual nationwide celebration of museums.…

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…

Stem cell models for cardiovascular disease

14:00 - 15:00 15 May 2015
This seminar is part of the Manchester Tissue Regeneration & Stem Cell Network seminar series. Sponsored by Millipore. Over the last 15 years, human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)…

Symposium: LifeWriting and the Historiography of the Persianate World 1794-1989

15:30 - 17:00 15 May 2015
3.30 – 4.30 Formal presentations (20 minutes each plus 10 minutes of dedicated discussion) 1) 3.30 – 4.00 The historical prosopography of Modern Iran (1848-1979) in the age of Digital…

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,…

Saturday Supplement: Photography workshop, Artist Workshop + Performance

11:00 - 17:00 16 May 2015
Saturday Supplement 16 May Events from 11am-5pm - details below Museum of the Year 2015: Photography workshop 11am-1pm & 3pm-5pm, free (drop in). A one-off workshop to help you hone…

Tour sur les expositions

11:00 - 12:00 16 May 2015
Join us for a bilingual guided tour (in English and in French) on our recent exhibitions at The John Rylands Library.

University of Manchester Heritage Tour

13:00 - 14:00 16 May 2015
Come and discover how Manchester helped make the modern world... Our heritage tours lead visitors around some of the University's oldest and finest building whilst telling the history…

Encrypting files stored on cloud-based storage services such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Onedrive

14:00 18 - 15:00 20 May 2015
The University currently has a site-wide licence to use the nCryptedcloud encryption service. This service works with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and some other cloud storage services,…

Modelling, clustering and aligning gene expression time series with probabilistic models

14:00 - 15:00 18 May 2015
As methods for measuring gene expression become cheaper, it is becoming possible to monitor genome-wide expression in longitudinal studies, across development, disease progression or…

Network biology approaches to understand how Salmonella is modulating autophagy in the gut

12:00 - 13:00 18 May 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2015

Philosophy and the Sciences

10:30 - 17:15 18 May 2015
Scientists sometimes express the view that science, in principle, has all the answers to the important questions about the Universe and our place in it, and that philosophy therefore…

Sexuality Summer School: Public Lecture with Gavin Butt (Goldsmiths): "Anti-Gravitas: Queer Importance in Art and Performance"

12:00 - 14:00 18 May 2015
These public events accompany the Sexuality Summer School, a five-day event for postgraduates, organised by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture (CSSC) at the University…

Tony Phillips: Artist printmaking workshop

13:00 - 16:30 18 May 2015
The artist will be conducting a printmaking workshop based on some of the processes used in his etching sequences. The session is an introduction to the dry-point technique , and will…

Turning the tide in Oceania: a call for a global network to transition the Pacific to low carbon sea transport

16:00 18 May 2015
The Atoll Nations of the Pacific face imminent destruction, possibly the first national level collateral damage of climate change. At the global scale we wait for Paris to see if our…

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