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…

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…

MCCIR AZ/GSK Update

15:30 - 16:30 14 March 2016
The next MCCIR AZ/GSK Update Seminar is taking place on Monday the 14th of March 2016 3.30pm – 4.30pm Michael Smith Lecture Theatre. Tissue-specific control of immune responses in…

New Arrivals

12 March - 20 November 2016
This exhibition brings together a selection of works that have recently been brought into the Whitworth’s collection. Highlighting a contemporary and diverse approach to drawing, they…

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 - Theodoros Kyriakides (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 14 March 2016
Title : A question of form: Gene therapy and thalassaemia in Cyprus. Abstract: Thalassaemia is a recessive blood disorder prevalent in countries situated around the Mediterranean…

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 success enjoyed, mistakes made: 25 years of Finnish innovation policy

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2016
The main aim of this paper is to reveal how an entire national innovation system may become trapped by its own success. The paper argues that success may shadow systemic failures of…

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…

Desmoglein 2 and heart disease

12:00 - 13:00 15 March 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: David Garrod

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop by Elizabeth Baldwin

13:00 - 14:00 15 March 2016
Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop by Elizabeth Baldwin Title: Choosing in the Dark: Incomplete Preferences, and Climate Policy Abstract: How should we frame collective…

How the United States became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World”, by Peter Enns (Cornell University)

14:30 - 16:00 15 March 2016
Hear “How the United States became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World”, by Peter Enns (Cornell University) We are delighted that Peter Enns will be speaking to the Democracy…

Philosophy Research Seminar - Tuesday 15th of March 2016 - Title: Just-left-of-the-middle knowledge: Freedom, foreknowledge, and the problem of evil

15:00 - 17:00 15 March 2016
Dear all, Date and time: 3 - 4.45pm Tuesday 15 March Speaker: Chris Ovenden (Manchester) Venue: Zochonis A Title: Just-left-of-the-middle knowledge: Freedom, foreknowledge, and…

Reducing the impact of social disadvantage on schooling outcomes: an assessment of the impact of the Challenge the Gap programme

17:00 - 18:30 15 March 2016
The Sarah Fielden Seminar Series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Seminar: Jonathan Charteris-Black: Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe & Authority

16:00 - 18:00 15 March 2016
This seminar is organised by LEL. Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black (UWE) This paper proposes that the symbolic force of fire metaphors– words such as ‘spark’; ‘ignite’; ‘fuel’ and…

The Making of Gondwana: From Geology to History

16:00 - 17:00 15 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 Dr Stefano Cascino, Department of Accounting, London School of Economics

14:00 - 16:00 16 March 2016
The Decision Usefulness of Financial Accounting Information: An Experimental Interview Study of Institutional Investors

Jo Evans (UCL), ‘Childhood and Adolescence on Screen: Do We Need to Talk About Buñuel?’

17:00 - 18:30 16 March 2016
Part of our Spanish and Portuguese research seminar series for Semester 2.

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 16 March 2016
Chiara Broccatelli, University of Manchester When time matters. SNA for 2-mode Temporal Covert Networks Despite an increasing body of research on covert network dynamics, there is…

The Materiality of "Shu" (Documents) Traditions: The "Shu" as Seen Through Manuscripts from the Warring States Period - Centre for Chinese Studies Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 16 March 2016
Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) 2015-2016 Seminar Series presents: Dirk Meyer (University of Oxford) “The Materiality of “Shu” (Documents) Traditions: The “Shu” as Seen Through…

Will research into inflammation save us?

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

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