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Adequacy and Equity under Neoliberal Climate Governance: Assessing the Paris Moment

16:30 - 18:00 23 November 2015
What are the prospects for the Paris climate change negotiations? Based on the new book Power in a Warming World (MIT Press, September), this talk reviews Paris and previous rounds…

An Overview of Maternal and Paediatric Cardiology

19:00 - 20:00 23 November 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Medical School '''About the event:''' The [https://www.facebook.com/ManchesterCardiovascularSociety/ Manchester Cardiovascular Society] is proud to present…

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…

Confucius Institute Monday Lunchtime talks: The Economic Thought in Ancient China

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2015
This talk will provide an overview of some of the “economic” ideas that emerged during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (c. 770-226 BC) from different “schools” of thought…

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…

Fostering diversity in research: policy and culture

13:00 - 14:00 23 November 2015
In this talk I will consider the role of diversity in research. I will argue that diversity, broadly defined, is important for delivering research that is high quality and that delivers…

Genomic medicine as a tool for discovery and research

12:00 - 13:00 23 November 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series 2015

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…

Latent Factor Analysis short course

23 November 2015
This short course covers latent variables and factor analysis at an introductory and intermediate level. A latent variable is something invisible (such as a concept, an attitude, or…

Manchester Pharmacy School Seminar Series 2015/16

12:30 - 14:00 23 November 2015
'''Host:''' Manchester Pharmacy School Presentation title: "Economics of medication adherence" Speaker(s): Professor Dyfig Hughes, Professor of Pharmacoeconomics and Co-director of…

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…

Planning & Environmental Management Seminar

16:30 - 18:00 23 November 2015
Part of the Planning & Environmental Management 2015-16 Seminar Series "Resilience of the built environment: the case for research" by Dr Stephen Garvin (Director, BRE Centre for Resilience)

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR - MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2015 - PATRICK LAVIOLETTE (UNIVERSITY OF TALLINN - ESTONIA)

16:00 - 18:00 23 November 2015
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 23rd November 2015 4:15-6:00pm (Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm) PATRICK LAVIOLETTE (UNIVERSITY OF TALLINN -…

The Echo Chamber: Results, Management, and the Humanitarian Effectiveness Agenda

17:30 - 19:30 23 November 2015
Juliano Fiori, Head of Humanitarian Affairs at Save the Children UK, will be talking about humanitarian effectiveness. He leads Save the Children’s Humanitarian Affairs Team (HAT) which…

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…

'To Strive, To Seek, To Find' - the ambitions at the Post Office Research Station, 1945-1951

13:00 - 14:00 24 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…

Baby Explorers

10:30 - 14:00 24 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).…

Chaperoning haemostasis and thrombosis: unexpected roles of ER proteins

12:00 - 13:00 24 November 2015
CMD Autumn Seminar Series

Development Economics Seminars: Dr. Marco Alfano, UCL

24 November 2015
Development Economics Seminar: Dr. Marco Alfano, UCL

Neural Oscillations

13:00 - 14:00 24 November 2015
This talk is the sixth in a series of eight. Miles Whittington from Hull York Medical School will be giving a talk for the Neuroscience Seminar Autumn series. Rasmus Petersen will…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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