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"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,…

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 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…

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,…

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…

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.

Inside International Human Rights Bodies. How they work and how they think.

17:00 - 19:00 8 December 2015
The seminar will provide a comparative analysis of the procedures of the European Court of Human Rights, the American Court of Human Rights and some of the United Nations treaty bodies…

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 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…

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…

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

17:00 8 December 2015
Archaeology Research Seminar

Finance seminar by Rohit Sonika, University of Exeter Business School

14:00 - 15:30 9 December 2015
Buyback Persistence, Dilutive Stock Options

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 9 December 2015
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. Just turn up! Please note that we cannot accept large groups on this tour.

Is Utilitarianism All That Bad A Doctrine for Egalitarians? - The Global Development Seminar Series

16:30 - 18:00 9 December 2015
The Global Development Seminar Series Is Utilitarianism All That Bad A Doctrine for Egalitarians? Co-sponsored by the Social Theory and Development Histories Research Group The literature…

POP-UP ARCHAEOLOGY DAY

9 December 2015
Have you ever wanted to find out what exactly an Archaeologist does? The types of materials they study? The issues they investigate? Or what it’s like to work on excavations of different…

The EU’s Response to the Financial Crises in Ireland and Cyprus

14:00 - 15:00 9 December 2015
The EU’s Response to the Financial Crises in Ireland and Cyprus by Dr. Adonis Pegasiou (University of Cyprus)

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 9 December 2015
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

Voters in Context: Lessons from the UK General Election of 2015 for understanding political change

14:00 - 17:00 9 December 2015
This seminar will present a series of working draft chapters for the prospective 2015 British Election Study book, from the BES team. We will provide original insights into how citizens…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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