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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…

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…

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,…

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…

HCRI Speaker Series - Dr Suda Perera, “Bermuda Triangulation: ‘Messy Truths’ and ‘Simple Lies’”

14:00 - 16:00 9 November 2015
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) Speaker Series is a regular student-focused forum that draws on the expertise of a range of practitioners, academics and researchers…

MCCIR AZ GSK Update Seminar Series

15:30 - 16:30 9 November 2015
The role of neurotrophic factors in airway immunity Emma Connelly Alveolar macrophages (M?s) are the first line of defence against inhaled pathogens and must be regulated to prevent…

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…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR - 09 NOVEMBER 2015 - STAVROULA PIPYROU (ST ANDREWS)

16:00 - 18:00 9 November 2015
Title : "Adrift in Time : Lived and Unspoken Pasts in Calabria, South Italy" This work in progress aims to make connections between silence, money and lived experience in Reggio…

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,…

Text mining of biomedical/clinical data, Title TBC

12:00 - 13:00 9 November 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series 2015

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 Triple Challenge for Europe: The Economy, Climate Change and Governance

15:00 - 16:00 9 November 2015
Europe is confronted by an intimidating triple challenge - economic stagnation, climate change, and a governance crisis. This paper demonstrates how the three challenges are closely…

The Triple Challenge for Europe: The Economy, Climate Change and Governance

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…

Accounting research and common sense - Jim Ohlson, New York University

14:00 - 16:00 10 November 2015
Accounting seminar by Jim Ohlson of New York University, discussing accounting research and commons sense.

Baby Explorers

10 November 2015
Sensory play and interactive story sessions for babies who aren't walking yet. Every other Tuesday (except half term school holidays when there are drop-in sensory play sessions 11am-2.30pm).…

Cell Competition: A mechanism to ensure metabolic fitness during differentiation

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2015
Part of the FLS Tissue Systems Seminar Series: Cell-cell interactions govern cell behaviour and survival from the onset of development. When cells with different fitness levels are…

Development Economics Seminars: Professor Omer Moav

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2015
Development Economics Seminars

Fly vision and its application to neurological disease

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 2015
The fourth in the series of the Neuroscience seminar. Alex Wade from University of York will be presenting his talk on Fly vision and its application to neurological disease. For…

The pathogenesis of nerve regeneration failure in experimental diabetic neuropathy

12:00 - 13:00 10 November 2015
CMD Autumn Seminar Series

The University Living Lab and collaborative research

14:00 - 16:30 10 November 2015
A project-making workshop that brings together citizens, practitioners and academics from Greater Manchester to learn about the Living Lab approach to sustainability, and to explore…

World War One and the Development of Electrical Supply in Britain

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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