Exhibitions, Seminar

All that is Dirty melts into Air: Perceptions of Coal Power, 1947-1974 - Georgia Newmarch (Lancaster University)

13:00 - 14:00 8 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…

Aspirin: From vascular to cancer protection

12:00 - 13:00 8 March 2016
CMD Seminar Series, Joy Wang and Donald Ward Host: Jason Bruce

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: Corruption and preferences for decentralisation

16:00 - 17:30 8 March 2016
Abstract: Existing studies on individual preferences for decentralization focus on collective identity, economic considerations, and party politics as explanations of support for decentralization.…

Democracy and Elections seminar: corruption and preferences for decentralisation. Dr Sergi Pardos-Prado

15:30 - 17:00 8 March 2016
Dr. Sergi Pardos-Prad, Merton College, University of Oxford. Existing studies on individual preferences for decentralization focus on collective identity, economic considerations,…

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…

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 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

Tom Crowther (Warwick): Recent Work on Temporal Ontology: Processes as Continuants and Processes as Stuffs

15:00 - 17:00 8 March 2016
Abstract: A number of philosophers, including Rowland Stout (2015) and Helen Steward (2015), have attempted to argue that processes—for example, running, or walking—are ‘continuants’:…

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,…

BAT not BATS: innovation from China’s digital leaders - Centre for Chinese Studies Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 9 March 2016
Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) 2015-2016 Seminar Series presents: Tom Griffiths (Hot Pot Digital) "BAT not BATS: innovation from China’s digital leaders" 9 March, 5pm-6.30pm University Place room 4.209

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Laclau, Articulation and the Political

14:00 - 16:00 9 March 2016
This seminar is part of CIDRAL's Theory Intensives series. Dr Leandro Minuchin (Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester) will lead a seminar on the work of…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 9 March 2016
Goylette Chami, University of Cambridge

Politics Global Political Economy research cluster Seminar - The Managerial Lineages of Neoliberalism - Samuel Knafo (University of Sussex) - Wednesday 9th March

15:00 - 17:00 9 March 2016
Dear colleagues The Global Political Economy research cluster invite you to the following seminar, which takes place at 3pm on Wednesday 9th March in 4.211 University Place: The…

Statebuilding in Kosovo: Comparing the International and Local Perspectives

14:00 - 15:00 9 March 2016
Title: Statebuilding in Kosovo: Comparing the International and Local Perspectives

Supplementary schools

12:00 - 13:00 9 March 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminar series in Manchester Institute of Education

The Global Development Seminar Series 2016 - "Can corporate social responsibility deliver development? Examining voluntary standards in the mining sector"

16:30 - 18:00 9 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…

The Global Political Economy research cluster invite you to the following seminar - The Managerial Lineages of Neoliberalism - which takes place at 3pm on Wednesday 9th March in 4.211 University Place

15:00 - 18:00 9 March 2016
Dear colleagues The Global Political Economy research cluster invite you to the following seminar, which takes place at 3pm on Wednesday 9th March in 4.211 University Place: The…

The Indian Video Gaming Parlour: Embodiment, Field and Physical Space

14:00 - 15:00 9 March 2016
In my research I set out to analyse the subjective game play experience outside of a Western context focusing on how player experience is framed through different cultural and social…

Innate immunity beyond inflammation

12:00 - 13:00 10 March 2016
MIG Seminar Series

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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