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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…

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…

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…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 6 May 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Looking back and looking forward to future LGBT parenting research agendas (BSA Families and Relationships study group event)

10:30 - 16:30 6 May 2016
This study day aims to look back at 20+ years of LGBT parenting research but with the main focus on 'what next'? By the end of the day we will have worked together to identify future…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

Ad Solem

19:30 - 21:30 7 May 2016
MUMS elite chamber choir present an evening of German and English choral music spanning the generations, featuring Hugo Distler, Haydn, Britten and Pearsall. Please note: cash only for ticket sales on the door

FLS Community Open Day

10:00 - 14:00 7 May 2016
Children and adults alike will get a chance to check out what science we do, yet again this year, at our 6th annual Community Open Day. This rare opportunity to see behind the scenes…

The rise of a university: industry, engineering and science (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 7 May 2016
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the height of the industrial revolution to the white heat of 1960s scientific and technological innovation. Our guides explain the history…

After Hours: SEE-SAW presents an interactive, live drawing event at Manchester Museum

18:30 - 22:00 8 May 2016
Sound and image come together in these artist-led drawing sessions within the stunning setting of the Living Worlds gallery. Join in and see your work projected in the space alongside…

Sherman Community Lecture in Jewish Studies 2016: Dr. Yulia Egorova (Durham University) - "Jewish-Muslim Relations in the UK: History, Experience, Context"

19:30 - 21:00 8 May 2016
The annual Sherman Community Lecture

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.…

Girls Night Out: transit of Mercury

17:30 - 20:30 9 May 2016
Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre’s Girls Night Out is back with an evening of planetary wonder. This one starts earlier in the evening than usual so that we can watch live as Mercury,…

IBBMH Research Seminar Series | Professor Matthew Lambon Ralph

12:45 - 14:00 9 May 2016
Speaker: Professor Matthew Lambon Ralph Presentation title: The neural basis of semantic memory and its disorders If you are attending, please email Dr Pearl Mok pearl.mok@manchester.ac.uk…

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…

Indian Human Development Survey: Panel data analysis using STATA

10:00 - 16:30 10 May 2016
Presented by Professor Amaresh Dubey and Professor Wendy Olsen. In the morning session, Professor Dubey introduces the Indian Human Development Survey. As a large longitudinal field…

Luke Russell (Sydney): Forgiveness, Big and Small (this event is co-sponsored by MANCEPT)

15:00 - 16:30 10 May 2016
Abstract: There are two bundles of claims about forgiveness that often appear together in the philosophical literature. The Supererogation Bundle includes the claims that forgiveness…

‘“It’s All Incest and Buggery Up There”: Same-sex Desire, Northernness, and a Different Way of Living?’

16:00 - 17:00 10 May 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,…

“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…

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