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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…

Careering through India: Irish surgeons and their careers in India, 1870-1900

13:00 - 14:00 17 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…

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,…

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Peter Howley

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2015
Title: It’s not all about the money! Exploring the multiple facets of farmer decision-making Abstract Given that utility is a difficult concept to measure, agricultural economists…

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…

Intimate Immensity: Public Space in the City

17:30 - 19:00 17 November 2015
Architecture Open Lectures Part of the Autumn 2015 Visiting Speaker Series Presented by Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) Booking is required for this event. For further details,…

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…

Philosophy Research Seminar: Jess Leech (Sheffield)

15:00 - 17:00 17 November 2015
"The Mereology of Representation" Kant famously distinguishes between two kinds of representation: intuitions and concepts. Intuitions, he tells us, are singular and immediate, whilst…

PLO Cultural Activism: Liberation as image and discourse

17:00 - 18:00 17 November 2015
Dina Matar is Associate Head, Centre for Media Studies. She works on cultural activism, political communication, social and political movements and cultural politics in the Arab World…

Redox biology, oxidative stress and hypertension

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2015
CMD Autumn Seminar Series

Seminar

12:00 - 13:00 17 November 2015
"How bacterial antigenic diversity emerges: the case of pneumococcal serotypes."

Stroke and Immunosuppression

13:00 - 14:00 17 November 2015
This talk is the fifth in a series of eight. Arthur Liesz from LMU Munich will be giving a talk for the Neuroscience Seminar Autumn series. Catherine Lawrence and Stuart Allan are…

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 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…

DigiLab: Technology meets crafts

10:00 - 16:00 18 November 2015
Bring your ideas to life using technology. In this showcase we’ll be exploring the place where electronics and craft-making meet; come along and get hands-on demonstrations from inventors…

Doubleday lecture with Sir Bruce Keogh - Opportunities and challenges in healthcare

14:00 18 November 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Medical School '''About the event:''' Manchester Medical School is delighted to invite you to its annual Doubleday lecture, which will this year be given by…

European Antibiotic Awareness Day

10:00 - 14:00 18 November 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Pharmacy School '''About the event:''' Help save our remaining antibiotics from extinction! * Since the 1940’s antibiotics have been used to fight infections…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 18 November 2015
The Extended Project is a single piece of work of a student's choosing that requires evidence of planning, preparation, research and independent learning. It is available as a stand-alone…

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

13:00 - 14:00 18 November 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…

Perchance to Dream: Sleep, Wakefulness, Public Health and Politics

14:00 18 November 2015
As part of the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy Seminar Series Dr Iain Brassington, Senior Lecturer in Bioethics will be presenting a paper entitled: Perchance to Dream: Sleep,…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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