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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…

Art History and Visual Studies Talks

16:00 - 19:00 5 May 2016
Co-sponsored by Art History & Visual Studies and the JRRI Medieval and Early Modern Research Seminar Series 4.00pm Rose Marie San Juan, University College London 'Cannibal Matter' 5.15pm…

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…

Black lawyers matter

19:00 - 20:00 5 May 2016
Examining the under-representation of young black men studying law. Considering the disproportionate impact of the criminal justice system upon African Caribbean men, why are so few…

CIDRAL Film Screening and Discussion: What Is Psychoanalysis?

17:00 - 19:00 5 May 2016
What is psychoanalysis? Is it weird? Why? The College of Psychoanalysts recently funded a project by the Freud Museum in London to make four short films, less than ten minutes each.…

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…

Critical MASS: History of the Book Workshop

02:00 - 03:30 5 May 2016
Professor Barbara McCaskill (University of Georgia) will discuss her new book Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory. She will explain what…

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…

Is China colonizing Africa?

17:30 5 May 2016
Africa International with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre present two public lectures on the growing economic relationship between African and Caribbean countries…

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 05 May - Elizabeth Ashford - University of St Andrews

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

Meet the President and Vice-Chancellor: University of Manchester Busy Bees Women’s Institute

12:45 - 13:45 5 May 2016
Next Thursday 5 May, the President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell will be visiting the UoM Busy Bees WI to talk to us about her role at Manchester and answer other…

Melland Schill Lecture

17:00 5 May 2016
The Manchester International Law Center is honoured to welcome Judge Xue of the International Court of Justice to deliver this year's Melland Schill Lecture

Michelle Assay and David Fanning (pianos)

13:10 - 14:00 5 May 2016
A programme of two-piano favourites from husband-and-wife duo David Fanning and Michelle Assay, featuring the Mozart Fugue played by the Quatuor Danel at the beginning of this season,…

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…

Rajbharat Patta (Manchester) - "Subaltern Public Theology"

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

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.…

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

Tibor Reich

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

Toddler tales

10:30 - 11:15 5 May 2016
Find a cosy corner, pull up a cushion and listen to fun stories. Join in playtime, creating a storyworld of your own. Suitable for families with children 5 and under.

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…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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