Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

CMIST Afternoon Seminar: Assessing risk of non-response bias and dataset representativeness during survey data collection

16:00 - 17:30 1 March 2016
Abstract: Survey methodologists have shifted away from using response rates as an indicator of survey non-response bias. Instead, monitoring of response within and across sample subgroups…

Communism, Iranian Style: The Tudeh Party, 1946-53

17:00 - 18:30 1 March 2016
This talk is part of the Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies seminar series, convened by Dr Lauren Banko.

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

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…

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…

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…

Obesity: from genes to behaviour

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

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…

Selling Condoms to Clinics: The London Rubber Company and the Family Planning Association in pre-'Pill' Britain

13:00 - 14:00 1 March 2016
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…

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…

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

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…

[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,…

‘Lessons in Tension Control: Teaching Therapeutic Relaxation in Postwar Britain’

16:00 - 17:00 1 March 2016
This seminar is part of the CHSTM Seminar Series Feb-May 2016. CHSTM seminars will be held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 4pm in Room 2.57 Simon Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester,…

Accounting seminar by Penelope Tuck, Birmingham Business School

14:00 - 16:00 2 March 2016
The silent discourse of UK central government

Finance seminar by Marius Zoican, Universite Paris

14:00 - 16:00 2 March 2016
Need for Speed? Exchange Latency and Liquidity

Global Political Economy Research Seminar - Wednesday 2nd March

15:00 - 17:00 2 March 2016
You are all cordially invited to a Global Political Economy Research Seminar from 3-5pm on Wednesday 2nd March, in 4.209 University Place. The seminar will comprise of presentations…

How improved understanding of melanoma biology is leading to better patient care

16:00 - 17:00 2 March 2016
Part of the 'Leaders in Science Seminar Series 2016' Further details available soon

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 2 March 2016
David Jarman, Edinburgh Napier University The Strength of Festival Ties: a social network analysis of the 2014 Edinburgh International Science Festival, and proposed ego network research…

Science and Technological Innovation: Can Russia Compete? CRES Research Seminar with Prof. Peter Rutland

17:00 - 18:30 2 March 2016
All are welcome to attend the next Cross-Disciplinary Russian and Eurasian Studies Network (CRES) Research Seminar: Wednesday, 2 March 2016, 5.00 - 6.20pm, Mansfield Cooper 2.04 Prof.…

The Global Development Seminar Series 2016 - "Community-based health insurance in Ethiopia: Enrolment, retention and impact"

16:30 - 18:00 2 March 2016
The Global Development seminar series bringing together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing…

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