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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.

Asylum and the city: Discussing displacement

18:30 - 21:00 10 November 2015
Part of the 2015 ESRC Festival of Social Science this event is a panel discussion and exhibition (photography, printmaking and podcasting), based around work undertaken with asylum…

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…

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…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Inequalities in Higher Education in India

16:00 - 17:30 10 November 2015
Abstract This paper uses data from the 71st NSS round (Education Survey: January-June 2014) to estimate the probabilities of person in India, between the ages of 18 and 22 years,…

Creativity Matters Networking Event

18:00 - 20:30 10 November 2015
In association with the ESRC’s Festival of Social Sciences, the Alliance Manchester Business School would like to invite you for a networking event and drink reception on Tuesday,…

Creativity Matters Networking Event (Cre8tv.eu)

18:00 - 20:30 10 November 2015
Creativity matters – it is an important source of enjoyment and fulfilment, for well-being and, increasingly, for wealth creation. In association with the ESRC’s Festival of Social…

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: Professor Omer Moav

13:00 - 14:00 10 November 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,…

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…

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…

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…

Guardian Live: Ian Rankin in Manchester

19:00 - 20:30 10 November 2015
Join the multi-award winning crime writer, Ian Rankin, as his much loved detective, John Rebus, comes out of retirement to help solve one last case in new book, Even Dogs in the Wild,…

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…

Notch signaling controlled by chromatin modifiers

15:00 - 16:00 10 November 2015
Notch signaling is an evolutionary conserved signal transduction pathway that plays pivotal roles in numerous aspects of cell differentiation, tissue homeostasis and tumorigenesis.…

Philosophy Research Seminar: David A Nicolas (Institut Jean Nicod)

15:00 - 17:00 10 November 2015
Title TBA

Rolling back the Years: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi at the Rylands

16:00 - 17:00 10 November 2015
Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae in genealogia Christi, a genealogy of the history of Christ composed in the late twelfth century, is an example of a diagrammatic chronicle depicting…

Spectacular structures from the summer: examining the findings of fieldwork in Ardnamurchan and Herefordshire

17:00 10 November 2015
You are cordially invited to the next archaeology research seminar of the academic year 2015-16 All Welcome

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 Aesthetics of Death and the Poetics of Rituals in Shia Lamentation Poetry

17:00 - 18:00 10 November 2015
Yafa Shanneik is Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of South Wales. Her research focuses on Sunni and Shia women in Europe and their transnational networks to the Middle East.…

The pathogenesis of nerve regeneration failure in experimental diabetic neuropathy

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

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 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…

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…

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

Manchester Museum

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