Exhibitions, Seminar

Anna Strhan (Kent) - "The Agency of Children and the Study of Religion"

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2016
The second seminar in the Religions and Theology research seminar series.

Ben Rivers

25 February - 22 May 2016
Ben Rivers presents his most ambitious work to date. The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers is Ben Rivers’ most ambitious work to date. Migrating between documentary, fantasy and fable, and…

CTIS Research Seminar: Critical Approaches to Translation Technology

14:00 - 15:30 25 February 2016
Much contemporary thought on technology in general, and translation technology in particular, is characterized by defeatism, determinism and a tendency towards universalism. Such comment…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Peter Oakes - "Nine Types of Church in Nine Types of Space in the Insula of the Meander at Pompeii"

14:00 - 16:00 25 February 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

Fear, honour and profit? Revisiting the 'balance sheet' of Greek imperialism.

16:55 - 18:30 25 February 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

From memory to written record: royal documents from Arab-Norman Sicily

17:00 - 18:15 25 February 2016
The Norman conquests in the central Mediterranean ended Muslim political power in Sicily, formed a single kingdom in 1130, and divided Christian Europe from Muslim Africa. The kingship…

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…

Integrins in haematopoiesis: What is the impact of alpha4 integrin on stem cell and progenitor survival, migration and compartmentalisation?

12:00 - 13:00 25 February 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Magic, Witches and Devils in the Early Modern World

21 January - 21 August 2016
Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. Experience how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone from kings and…

MANCEPT research seminar - “Justice and Attributions of Responsibility” - Thursday 25 February - Jodie Lamb - University of Manchester

16:00 - 18:00 25 February 2016
MANCEPT research seminar - “Justice and Attributions of Responsibility” - Thursday 25 February - Jodie Lamb - University of Manchester ABSTRACT: The standard formulation of responsibility…

Nico Vascellari

25 February - 18 September 2016
Nico Vascellari’s major work, Bus de la Lum draws on the ancient powers of the forest. Light, video and sound explore the legend of a natural cavity located within the woodland of the…

Saving a Century

8 January - 24 March 2016
'Saving a Century', curated by leading architectural historian Gavin Stamp, uses archive photographs and material from over 50 years of the The Victorian Society's fight to save historic…

The carbon and development spaces

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2016
In the latest UN climate change conference held in Paris, governments all around the world agreed to strengthen efforts to limit the rise in the global average temperature to 1.5°C…

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…

They Said, We Said

11 January - 29 April 2016
?'They Said, We Said' is a collection of artwork produced by members of Pure Studio, an arts facility based in Stockport that helps its members, all of whom have a learning disability,…

Tibor Reich

29 January - 29 August 2016
A celebration of post-war design alongside an exhibition of Wallpaper from the Whitworth's collection

Tyndall Manchester Seminar Series - 'The carbon and development spaces'

16:00 - 17:30 25 February 2016
Abstract In the latest UN climate change conference held in Paris, governments all around the world agreed to strengthen efforts to limit the rise in the global average temperature…

Wallpaper

29 January - 4 September 2016
Continuing the celebration of post-war design this show features highlights from the Whitworth’s collection of 1950s and 60s wallpapers. At the heart of the exhibition are papers from…

Reversing the international flow of innovation: the Chinese market as a source of global innovation

15:30 - 16:30 29 February 2016
Stepping aside from the International Product Life Cycle Theory (Vernon, 1966) that considered advanced economies as the only loci of innovation, scholars are now looking at the growing…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr Victor Cova (University of St Andrews)

16:00 - 18:00 29 February 2016
Title: Back from the Future. In this paper I ask how it is that humans can experience the future in the present, even though the future, by definition, can never be made present. I…

[61] Harmonica Alley, Yokohama

29 February - 10 March 2016
This exhibition explores Miyakobashi Yokocho in drawings, photographs and text. It reveals previously concealed glimpses into Japan’s changing urban culture. Miyakobashi Yokocho (Yokohama,…

Development Economics Seminars

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2016
Development Economics Seminars- Dr. Simon Quinn, University of Oxford

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar by Katrin Millock CANCELLED

12:00 - 13:00 1 March 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Speaker: Katrin Millock (Paris School of Economics) CANCELLED

Obesity: from genes to behaviour

12:00 - 13:00 1 March 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward Host: Anne White

The development and response to injury of the cardiac lymphatics

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2016
The lymphatic vasculature is a blind-ended network crucial for tissue fluid homeostasis, immune surveillance and lipid absorption from the gut. Recent evidence has proposed an entirely…

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