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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…

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…

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…

Book launch - What a Waste: outsourcing and how it goes wrong

17:00 - 19:00 21 October 2015
What a Waste? is a new book from the CRESC research centre which analyses how government outsourcing goes wrong and makes proposals for doing things differently. This launch presents…

Dalton Seminar Series: I2®©: Investigative & Interpretative Radiochemistry - The Basis of Nuclear Forensic Science

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.

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…

Democracy and Elections Seminar: Andrew Rynham and Jiaqi Hou

15:30 - 17:00 21 October 2015
Two 30 minute presentations from our student members – one by Andrew Rynham – Politics MA student on his dissertation research on deliberative democracy in the UK and the other by Jiaqi…

Does EU Free Movement Work For Manchester?

18:00 - 20:00 21 October 2015
Intra-EU migration and its impact on host communities have been widely debated over the last few years. The perceived advantages and disadvantages of free movement will be central to…

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,…

English Literature and American Studies Research Seminar: Molly Geidel (UoM) ‘The Rise and Fall of the Development Melodrama’

17:00 - 19:00 21 October 2015
Molly Geidel (UoM) ‘The Rise and Fall of the Development Melodrama’

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…

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 21 October 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…

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…

Meet the Researchers Open Lecture Series (for schools and public): "Ghosts in the Machine: 9/11 and Music Technology"

17:30 - 18:30 21 October 2015
A talk by Dr Kevin Malone (Department of Music) - part of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures open lecture series "Meet the Researchers". Since 2001, Kevin Malone has composed…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 21 October 2015
Laura Perez, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona Social movements and digital media: a case study of digital activism in Tunisia The ongoing Arab Spring Revolutions since 2011 have generated…

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…

Samuel Llano (Manchester): ‘Sounding Marginality and Social Disorder: The battle for Madrid's soundscape, 1850-1930’

17:00 21 October 2015
Part of the Spanish and Portuguese Research Seminar Series. Venue: Sam Alex A4.

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…

SCI Seminar Series - Professor Anna Davies & Dr Frances Fahy - CONSENSUS: Domesticating sustainability transitions

16:00 - 17:30 21 October 2015
Professor Anna Davies, Chair of Environment & Society, Trinity College Dublin and Prinicpal Investigator, CENSENSUS & Dr Frances Fahy, Senior Lecturer & Head of Geography, National…

Seeing the invisible by measuring galaxy shapes from noisy, blurry images. Prof. Sarah Bridle (School of Physics and Astronomy, UoM)

14:00 - 15:00 21 October 2015
I will describe the great potential and possible limitations of using the bending of light by gravity (gravitational lensing) to constrain the mysterious dark matter and dark energy…

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 Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy - The Global Development Seminar Series

16:30 - 18:00 21 October 2015
The Global Development Seminar Series The Paradoxes of Celebrity Advocacy - Dan Brockington In the last 15 years there has been a sea change in the way in which NGOs, and particularly…

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.…

The UK Welfare State, EU Membership and Free Movement

14:00 - 15:00 21 October 2015
Prof Martin Seeleib-Kaiser from the University of Oxford is going to give a seminar titled ‘The UK Welfare State, EU Membership and Free Movement’.

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…

Use of the ‘Stop, Start, Continue’ method is associated with the production of constructive qualitative feedback by students in higher education.

16:00 - 17:00 21 October 2015
This seminar is part of the Teaching and Learning seminar series. …

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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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