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Astrophotograhy Night at Jodrell Bank

19:30 18 January 2016 - 21:00 18 January 2017
Come along to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre for an informal and fun evening of Astrophotography. You'll enjoy an Introduction to Astrophotography workshop (co-presented by Dr. Ant Holloway…

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…

Evaluating Novelty: The role of panels in the selection of R&D projects

13:00 - 14:00 7 March 2016
Building on a unique, multi-source and multi-method study of R&D projects in a leading professional service firm, we develop the argument that organizations are more likely to fund…

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…

HCRI Speaker Series - The Syrian Uprising and Refugees from Syria

16:00 - 18:00 7 March 2016
This event has two parts: Hafsah Naib is an independent filmmaker. In this Speaker Series event Hafsah will introduce her short film “Departing: Arrivals”. Shot in Manchester, the…

IBBMH Research Seminar Series | Professor Rachel Calam

12:45 - 14:00 7 March 2016
Speaker: Rachel Calam. Professor of Child and Family Psychology at The University of Manchester, will talk about a number of studies which illustrate the potential value of using evidence-based…

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…

Manchester Pharmacy School Seminar Series 2015/16

12:30 - 14:00 7 March 2016
'''Host:''' Manchester Pharmacy School Presentation title: To be confirmed Speaker(s): Dr Annalisa Tirella The seminar series held in MPS is primarily designed to be of interest…

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…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Dr William Schroeder III (The University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 7 March 2016
Title : Playing with Happiness: Queer Chinese Views on Finding Emotional Satisfaction Although escaping from the mundane is a common strategy for achieving happiness, queer Chinese…

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.…

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

Toller Lecture: Prof. Clare Lees (King's College London), 'Women Write the Past: Old English, New Literature and the Romance of Scholarship'

18:00 - 19:30 7 March 2016
The Annual Toller Lecture in Anglo-Saxon. Prof. Clare Lees (King's College London), 'Women Write the Past: Old English, New Literature and the Romance of Scholarship'

The Whitworth

Jodrell Bank

Martin Harris Centre

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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