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A free lunchtime Seminar on ‘Brain Imaging in Mental Health’

13:00 - 14:00 2 June 2015
'''When?''' 2nd June 2015 '''Where?''' Room 2.19, Kilburn Building, University of Manchester. ''' *''' '''Time?''' 1pm- 2pm Manchester Informatics are pleased to announce that…

Afternoon Seminars@CMIST - Aaron Winter

16:00 - 17:15 2 June 2015
In this Afternoon Seminars@CMIST event, Aaron Winter from the University of East London will deliver a talk entitled 'Haunted by a ‘Ghost-Robed Ku Klux Klan’: Organised Racism in Post-Racial…

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 Public Lecture: Dick Hebdige (Art Institute, UC Santa Barbara): High and Dry: The Desert Studies Project

17:00 - 19:00 2 June 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Co-sponsored by: ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) A cultural critic and theorist, Hebdige has published widely on youth…

Cycle Registration Event CANCELLED

09:30 - 10:30 2 June 2015
This event is cancelled due to current weather conditions. Sorry for any inconvenience. Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register…

English Corner

13:00 - 14:30 2 June 2015
Tues 2 Jun, 1-2.30pm. Free English conversation classes using the Museum’s collection as inspiration for discussion.

ESTIVAL 2015

2 - 5 June 2015
Join Manchester University Music Society in their unique equivalent to the 'Proms'! MUMS celebrate the end of the academic year by packing nine concerts into four days in an unmissable…

Knowledge of Emotion: Two Day Conference

1 - 2 June 2015
The final conference of the AHRC Knowledge of Emotion project. Confirmed speakers: Dorit Bar-On; Jonathan Doak; Naomi Eilan; Roger Giner-Sorolla; Ursula Hess; Heidi Maibom; Joel Smith;…

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…

MUMS ESTIVAL - Chamber Orchestra and Ensembles

19:30 - 21:30 2 June 2015
Mendelssohn Ruy Blas Overture Elgar Cello Concerto Mendelssohn The Fair Melusina A lyrical programme of orchestral works, featuring soloist Isabel Williamson…

MUMS ESTIVAL - Contemporary Works

13:10 - 14:00 2 June 2015
MUMS perform a selection of new works by student composers. An exciting concert full of fresh ideas, not to be missed.

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…

Unusual Views: Library tour for photographers

14:00 - 15:00 2 June 2015
Take the opportunity to photograph the Library building from spectacular viewpoints not normally open to the public!

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,…

Whose ‘Turn to Europe’? The UK, Australia and space research at Woomera, 1964-1971

13:00 - 14:00 2 June 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…

CIDRAL Masterclass: Dick Hebdige (Art Institute, UC Santa Barbara): 40 Years in the Labyrinth: Reflections on Doing Cultural Studies

10:00 - 12:00 3 June 2015
All welcome, no booking required. Readings: Alfred Gell, ‘Vogel's Trap: Traps as Artworks and Artworks as Traps’ in The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams, edited by Eric Hirsch,…

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