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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…

Catch up and innovative firms in emerging economies

13:00 - 14:00 7 December 2015
This seminar will review the results of a multi-year research project led by Edmund Amann (Manchester) and John Cantwell (Rutgers) which examined the ways in which select firms operating…

Complex systems, networks and biological modelling, "Title TBC"

13:00 - 14:00 7 December 2015
Computational and Evolutionary Biology Autumn Seminar Series 2015 (NOTE: THIS SEMINAR IS AT 1:00PM RATHER THAN 12:00PM)

CRES Seminar: 'In the cross-fire of integration: Ukraine, the EU and Russia' - Kataryna Wolczuk

16:30 - 18:00 7 December 2015
All are welcome to attend the next talk in the Russian and East European Studies Research Seminar Series. Our speaker is Kataryna Wolczuk from University of Birmingham and her talk…

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,…

Finance seminar by Zhan Xintong, Chinese University of Hong Kong

14:00 - 15:30 7 December 2015
Peer effects of Corporate Social Responsibility

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…

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…

Policing immigrants

15:00 - 16:30 7 December 2015
Abstract: Immigration creates challenges and opportunities for law enforcement. Many new immigrant groups are unfamiliar with laws, norms and police practices, often bearing antagonism…

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR - MONDAY 07 DECEMBER 2015 - ANDREA MUEHLEBACH (TORONTO)

16:00 - 18:00 7 December 2015
Title : "(II) Legality, Emergency, and Search for Democracy : Water Politics in Campania" Abstract : This paper explores struggles around water as a private, public and common…

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…

Urban Ethnography Maphack

12:00 - 14:00 7 December 2015
The Universities of Salford and Manchester are collaborating to host a 'map hack' where people interested in urban ethnography put ethnographies about particular cities onto a Google…

Webinar: 2011 Census Flow Data

15:00 - 16:00 7 December 2015
This webinar provides an overview of the interaction data available as outputs from the 2011 Census. Interaction data are about flows between two places, such as counts of migrants…

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…

"Curing Queers" Mental Nurses and their Patients, 1935-1974

15:30 - 17:00 8 December 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,…

Baby Explorer

10:30 - 14:00 8 December 2015
Baby Explorers interactive story telling and sensory play sessions for babies who aren't yet walking... @ 10.30 and 11.30 am Musical Baby Explorers musical sensory play session for…

Giving Gifts in Ancient Egypt

14:00 - 15:00 8 December 2015
Tuesday 8 Dec 2-3pm Book on mcrmuseum.eventbrite.com or ring 0161 275 2648 Dr Campbell Price, explores how and why the ancient Egyptians contact their many animal-headed gods.

Planning & Environmental Management Seminar

16:30 - 18:00 8 December 2015
Part of the Planning & Environmental Management 2015-16 Seminar Series. "The building app: development and planning" by Dr Nick Humes (Director, InformArchitecture, Cardiff)

Preserving the Image of Science: Are Museums Dedicated to Promoting Science as “Good”?

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 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…

Somatosensory Processing

13:00 - 14:00 8 December 2015
This talk is the last in the series of eight and will be closed by Mathew Diamond from SISSA(International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste) who will be giving a talk for the Neuroscience…

The John Rylands Hebrew Manuscripts (and Other Texts) Collections

16:00 - 17:00 8 December 2015
The John Rylands Library holds one of the most important smaller collections of Hebrew manuscripts in Europe. These objects, that include codices, scrolls and other texts in Hebrew…

Working for the Emperor. Archaeological research at the Roman Imperial Estate at Vagnari (Italy)

17:00 8 December 2015
Archaeology Research Seminar

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum