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"Ballroom Blitz"

13:05 30 September - 13:55 29 October 2015
Due to popular demand we're bringing Ballroom back to the Martin Harris Centre. Whether you've danced with us before or are a complete novice, you'll love these new routines! An…

"Machines must be servants not masters": From the Post Office to British Telecom, 1959-84 - Jacob Ward (UCL)

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 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…

Are YOUR genes to blame when your jeans don't fit?

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2015
Giles Yeo from Cambridge University will be speaking at our second talk for the Neuroscience Seminar Autumn Series. Anne White will be Giles' host. If you have any queries then please…

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 Postgraduate Theory Intensive: Simone Weil

12:00 - 14:00 20 October 2015
This event is part of CIDRAL's regular Theory Intensives series. Dr Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick) will run a seminar on the work of Simone Weil entitled 'Intellectual Action…

Costumes from the Tabley House Collection

14:30 - 16:00 20 October 2015
Couturier and costume volunteer Wendy Porter joins Anna Bates, Collections Manager and Assistant Administrator to share some of the delights of the rarely seen Tabley House costume…

Darkness and Light: Exploring Gothic

16 July 2015 - 10 January 2016
EXTENDED UNTIL 10 JANUARY This intriguing exhibition reveals how Gothic architecture and anatomy inspired and influenced a literary genre, and how the lasting legacy of Gothic can be…

Development Economics Seminars: Dr Greg Fisher

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2015
Development Economics Seminars

Each Thursday: Thursday Lates

18:00 23 July - 18:00 17 December 2015
Thursday Lates Our late night openings are the perfect place to meet friends and enjoy a selection of talks, performances, film screenings, live music and artist interventions. Thursday,…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Michael Burton

13:00 - 14:00 20 October 2015
Title: Spatially explicit discrete choice experiments: an application to coastal management in the Kimberley, Western Australia Abstract The northern coast of the Kimberley region…

First Saturday each month: Outdoor Art Club – Family Events – the Whitworth

11:00 1 August - 13:00 5 December 2015
Family activities at the Whitworth Outdoor Art Club On the first Saturday of each month 11am - 1pm. Free A workshop that brings art, nature and creativity together that takes…

Genomic approaches to congenital heart disease

12:00 - 13:00 20 October 2015
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease Seminar Series (CMD)

Gifts for the Gods: Animal Mummies Revealed

8 October 2015 - 17 April 2016
A groundbreaking exhibition of over 60 animal mummies showing how modern science can help explain this ancient practice. Mummies of jackals, crocodiles, cats and birds are displayed…

Noisy Bodies

1 October - 20 December 2015
Manchester-based contemporary artist Daksha Patel fuses art with science in this exclusive exhibition. Her intriguing work explores how scientific systems visualise, map and measure…

PhD Lunch-time Seminars

12:00 - 13:00 20 October 2015
We would like to welcome you all to the CMIST PhD lunchtime seminar, on Tuesday October 20th from 12 pm lasting until approximately 13 pm in room 2.07 (Humanities Bridgeford street),…

Telling Tales - Manchester Science Festival 2015 exhibition

19 October - 19 November 2015
'''Host:''' School of Psychological Sciences '''About the event:''' ''Telling Tales'' is a collaboration between members of the Language Development and Disorders Research Group,…

The God Seth Animal: Real Egyptian Chimera or True African Creature?

17:00 - 18:00 20 October 2015
You are invited to the first archaeology research seminar of the academic year 2015-16 All Welcome

The Phantoms of Congo River: Photographs by Nyaba Ouedraogo : Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 10 April 2016
Nyaba L. Ouedraogo is a self-taught photographer born in Burkina Faso, and now working and living between Paris and West Africa. The Phantoms of the Congo River is a photography exhibition…

The Study at Manchester Museum

11 September 2015 - 31 December 2016
Big ideas. Singular collaborations. Strange and wonderful things. Exhibitions and events with some of the most interesting people we know. And somewhere that brings them all together.…

Thursdays: Great Escape: Yoga – the whitworth

08:30 23 July - 08:30 10 December 2015
Great Escape: Yoga Thursday from 8:30am-9:45am No emails, texts, updates or alerts – yoga that takes full advantage of the Whitworth's peaceful setting - and some of its wonderful…

Wednesdays: Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing

08:30 29 July - 08:30 16 December 2015
Great Escape: Tai-Chi for Wellbeing Wednesday, from 8.30am to 9.30am £5 Tai-Chi for Wellbeing A traditional Chinese internal art for mind and body. Located in the peaceful setting…

Big Data From The Bottom Up

21 October 2015
This workshop brings together anthropologists and sociologists to explore how ethnography is being used to engage with big data. We invite presentations from people who are doing ethnographic…

12:00 - 13:00 21 October 2015
The Dalton Seminar Series aims to promote exchange and offer informative events across institutions and facilities associated with The University of Manchester’s Dalton Nuclear Institute.

Making the modern world: England’s first civic university (Heritage Tour)

12:00 - 13:00 21 October 2015
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

School of Law postgraduate research open day

11:30 - 16:00 21 October 2015
Explore the postgraduate research options at the School of Law. Join staff and current research students to find out more about our PhD and MPhil programmes, and the research community…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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