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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…

An Introduction to the Design, Execution and Analysis of Longitudinal Studies

18 - 19 April 2016
The course covers the basic concepts in longitudinal design and analysis. The first day focuses on the strengths and methodological difficulties of the longitudinal approach, and on…

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

18:00 - 20:00 19 April 2016
Sponsored by the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series Margit Thofner, University of East Anglia 'Picturing Music in sixteenth-century Antwerp: Marten de Vos's motet prints'

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…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Jing Wang: The Makers Are Coming! China’s Long Tail Revolution

17:00 - 19:00 19 April 2016
Professor Jing Wang will lecture as part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme for the 2015-16 academic year, themed around Cultures and Temporalities. This event is presented in collaboration…

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

Empowering innovation in the Northern Powerhouse: beyond graphene

18:00 - 21:00 19 April 2016
Empowering innovation in the Northern Powerhouse: beyond graphene will bring together mayor leaders of the STEM industry and senior representatives of the largest scientific/innovation…

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…

Friends of Tabley AGM and a Talk by Dr Charles Foster of Arley Hall

17:00 19 April 2016
Following the AGM there will be an illustrated talk by Charles Foster about the shopping habits of the Warburtons of Arley Hall in the eighteenth century. The archive at Arley Hall…

John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'American Studies as Accompaniment'

17:00 - 19:00 19 April 2016
John Edward Taylor Lecture: George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson (University of California, Santa Barbara), 'American Studies as Accompaniment'

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

TLR-mediated checkpoint control of CD4 T cell responses

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

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…

Webinar: What is Spark?

15:00 - 16:00 19 April 2016
Spark might be considered as a one-stop tool for big data processing, providing data manipulation facilities to slice and dice datasets as well as statistical functionality and visualisation…

Assessing and adjusting for missing data in longitudinal studies

10:00 - 16:00 20 April 2016
It is intended that students attending the course will be able to assess the implications of non-response for different kinds of datasets that they might use. Students new to longitudinal…

Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Surgery

10:00 - 16:00 20 April 2016
Finds surgery for recording and identification of objects found by members of the public from prehistory to 1700s, including metalwork, flint and pottery

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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