Exhibitions, Seminar

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…

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…

Ever closer Union? Changing relations between the Commission and the European Parliament

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2016
Ever closer Union? Changing relations between the Commission and the European Parliament

Finance seminar by Ambrus Kecskes, Schulich School of Business, York University

14:00 - 16:00 4 May 2016
Do Technology Spillovers Affect Corporate Financial Policies?

Introduction to randomised controlled trials in the social sciences: design and analysis

13:00 - 15:00 4 May 2016
This workshop will introduce social scientists to randomised controlled trials (RCTS), using recent examples of social science trials. Participants will learn the practical steps involved…

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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 - 17:30 4 May 2016
Filip Agneessens, University of Surrey Centrality measure(s): local and global versions of walks, trails and paths. Measures of individual centrality for an actor (i) in a network are…

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…

Robin Burgess. London School of Economics

14:00 - 15:00 4 May 2016
TBC

Tibor Reich

29 January - 29 August 2016
A celebration of post-war design alongside an exhibition of Wallpaper from the Whitworth's collection

Using agent-based models to answer questions about language change

09:00 - 11:00 4 May 2016
LEL Masterclass with Richard Blythe (Edinburgh). Abstract: "In this informal session, I will set out my views on the role that mathematical models may - and may not - play in answering…

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…

Constructing the dynein LIC interactome/The effect of mycolactone on protein translocation through the Sec61 translocon

13:30 - 14:30 5 May 2016
This is part of the CCB Spring Seminar Series 2016. Amy Davidson/Mike McKenna, University of Manchester Constructing the dynein LIC interactome/The effect of mycolactone on protein…

Ehrhadt Seminar: Dominika Kurek-Chomyez - "The King's Fragrance and the Spiritual Sense of Smell: Reading Cant 1:3-4 and 1:12 with Origen and Gregory of Nysaa"

14:00 - 16:00 5 May 2016
Ehrhardt Seminar in Biblical Studies, 90 minutes followed by tea.

HLA-guided studies of autoreactive T cells in type 1 diabetes

12:00 - 13:00 5 May 2016
MIG Seminar Series

How Immanuel Kant inspired the first "Critique" of Lu Xun - Centre for Chinese Studies Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 5 May 2016
Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) 2015-2016 Seminar Series presents: Susan Daruvala (University of Cambridge) "How Immanuel Kant inspired the first "Critique" of Lu Xun" 5 May, 5pm-6.30pm University Place room 4.212

Imagining the Self in the Illuminated Passover Haggadah Manuscripts of Fourteenth-century Aragon

17:15 - 18:30 5 May 2016
The Rylands Haggadah (Kingdom of Aragon, ca. 1340) is particularly well-known for the ‘picture bible’ that prefaces it. However, arguably equally salient are the depictions of the Passover…

MANCEPT research seminar - Thursday 05 May - Elizabeth Ashford - University of St Andrews

16:00 - 18:00 5 May 2016
To be confirmed

Rajbharat Patta (Manchester) - "Subaltern Public Theology"

16:00 - 17:30 5 May 2016
The fourth Religions and Theology research seminar of the semester.

The Thirty Tyrants in Lysias 12 Against Eratosthenes: counting, accounting, recounting

16:55 - 18:30 5 May 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Celebrating Research Success in FLS Seminar - Membrane Type I-Matrix Metalloproteinase 14 - a pericellular collagenase and tissue architect all rolled up in one

15:00 - 16:00 6 May 2016
The next seminar in the ‘Celebrating Research Success’ series will be given by Prof Karl Kadler who is a member of the Cell Matrix Biology Research Theme. The seminar is scheduled to…

Close together or farther apart? The geography of host country knowledge sourcing and subsidiary’s innovation performance

15:00 - 16:00 9 May 2016
We investigate the influence of the geography of host country knowledge sources developing different types of knowledge on the quality and generality of a foreign subsidiary innovation.…

MCCIR AZ/GSK Update Seminar

15:30 - 16:30 9 May 2016
A novel population of monocyte-independent gut macrophages are enriched in the lamina propria John Grainger Contrasting other barrier sites, where resident macrophages derive from…

“The honeymoon of science is over": George Porter and the Establishment response to the "crisis" in science, c.1968-c.1973 - Rupert Cole (UCL/RI)

13:00 - 14:00 10 May 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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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