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…

Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar: Dominique Bourel (CNRS, Paris) - "From Kassa to Manchester and Forward: Alexander Altmann and the Mendelssohn Forschung"

16:00 - 17:30 14 April 2016
Centre for Jewish Studies Seminar

Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop: Prof Christian Belzil

16:15 - 17:45 14 April 2016
Econometrics and Applied Economics workshop

Ehrhardt Seminar: Philippa Townsend (Edinburgh) - "'From Every Nation': Judaism, Universalism and the Book of Revelation"

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

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…

Innate Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii: a tale of mice and ment

12:00 - 13:00 14 April 2016
MIG Seminar Series

Learning and Researching Medieval Language and Culture in an Immersive Environment - Digital Humanities @ Manchester visiting seminars

17:30 - 19:00 14 April 2016
"Study abroad is a time-tested and popular solution for learning language and culture. Unfortunately for those of us studying the past, immersion is no longer an option. My work looks…

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 - Thursday 14 April - Fiona Wollard - University of Southampton - Talk title: Harming your foetus: Pregnancy and difficult deontological distinctions

16:00 - 18:00 14 April 2016
Talk title: Harming your foetus: Pregnancy and difficult deontological distinctions. Abstract: Most contemporary discussion of maternal behaviour treats mothers who fail to act…

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…

Order and Disorder in the Letters of Alciphron

16:55 - 18:30 14 April 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

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

Undercover policing, democracy and human rights

17:00 14 April 2016
The Undercover Policing Inquiry was appointed following revelations that undercover police officers kept lawful political campaigns under surveillance, assumed the identities of deceased…

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…

A Stone's Throw

18 April - 17 July 2016
In this photographic exhibition, Manchester photographer John Shinnick has captured the words and voices of people who interact with the centre of Manchester, a metaphorical stone’s…

Manchester Pharmacy School Seminar Series 2015/16

12:30 - 14:00 18 April 2016
'''Host:''' Manchester Pharmacy School Presentation title: To be confirmed Speaker: Dr Jon Waterfield The seminar series held in MPS is primarily designed to be of interest to staff…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday the 18th of April 2016 - Dr Angela Torresan (University of Manchester)

16:00 - 18:00 18 April 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 18th of April 2016 Dr Angela Torresan – University of Manchester Title: The views of Vidigal: Commodification and gentrification in a Rio de…

Ehmt methylation of histone 3 lysine 9 represses the cardiac fetal gene programme to maintain the phenotype of adult cardiac myocytes

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2016
CMD Seminar Series - Joy Wang and Donald Ward. Host: Jason Bruce

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop: Dr Stefan Ambec

12:00 - 13:00 19 April 2016
Title: Decarbonizing electricity generation with intermittent sources of energy Abstract We examine the impact of public policies that aim to decarbonate electricity production by…

Marcello Oreste Fiocco (UC Irvine): Metaphysics and Radical Ontology

15:00 - 17:00 19 April 2016
Abstract: I characterize *metaphysics* as a unified discipline, one that provides the basis for all inquiry. This discipline has a distinctive problem, arising from the needs of a…

Nature and local power: mayors and natural history museums in provincial France, 1800-1860 - Déborah Dubald (European University Institute)

13:00 - 14:00 19 April 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…

Picturing Music in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp: Marten de Vos’s Motet Prints

06:00 - 07:00 19 April 2016
In 1584 the painter Marten de Vos, the engraver Johan Sadeler and the composer Cornelis Verdonck worked together to produce a motet print. This was the first ever engraved representation…

TLR-mediated checkpoint control of CD4 T cell responses

14:00 - 15:00 19 April 2016
MIG Seminar Series

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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