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'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…

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

10:30 - 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).…

BP Annual Lecture delivered by Dr Angela Strank: Energy Science and Technology at the Frontiers

17:00 - 19:00 24 November 2015
In this lecture, BP’s head of downstream technology and chief scientist will look at how collaboration is advancing energy technology, with particular reference to the University of…

Chaperoning haemostasis and thrombosis: unexpected roles of ER proteins

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

Children of the revolution? Education professionals and the reform of public services

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2015
Sarah Fielden seminar series by Manchester Institute of Education celebrating excellence in educational research. Seminars are open to all staff, students and members of the public.…

Children of the Revolution? Education Professionals and the Reform of Public Services

17:00 - 18:30 24 November 2015
Sarah Fielden Seminar Series 2015 - seminars are open to all staff, students and members of the public. Email shelley.darlington@manchester.ac.uk to reserve a place.

CMIST afternoon seminar: When psychometrics meets epidemiology, and the studies which result!

16:00 - 17:30 24 November 2015
In this talk I will present a series of studies from across the last few years of my academic career which have (largely) focussed on the application of latent variable models to issues…

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: Dr. Marco Alfano, UCL

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

Dualist Techniques For Materialist Imaginaries: Matter and Mind in the 1951 Festival of Britain

16:00 - 17:00 24 November 2015
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminars Series Sept-Dec 2015. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

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…

Iran's nuclear program and international law

17:30 - 19:30 24 November 2015
Iran's Nuclear Program and International Law Prod Dan Joyner will go through the history of the diplomatic crisis between Iran and the West concerning Iran’s nuclear program, and…

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…

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…

Rethinking persecutions: P.Ryl. 3 469 and the Manichaeans in Egypt

16:00 - 17:00 24 November 2015
Bought in Egypt in 1920 by B.P. Grenfell , the so-called Christian letter against the Manichaeans published by C. Roberts in 1938 offers a direct glimpse into competing monotheisms…

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…

Transitional (Poetic) Justice in Tunisia

17:00 - 18:00 24 November 2015
Transitional (Poetic) Justice in Tunisia - A Lecture by Mohamed-Salah Omri, University of Oxford. Part of the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Research 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…

Discover Criminology

09:30 - 15:30 25 November 2015
Discover Days at Manchester offer potential applicants the chance to gain real insight into degree programmes they might study at this University. They provide a great opportunity for…

Extended Project Qualification Visit

09:45 - 15:00 25 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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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