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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…

After Hours: Climate Control

18:00 - 21:00 12 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…

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…

Celebration of Religions and Theology at Manchester

14:15 - 15:45 12 May 2016
You are warmly invited to join us from 2.15 - 3.45 pm on 12 May 2016 in Lecture Room D, Simon Building for a special event celebrating Religions & Theology in Manchester. Members of…

China in Britain 1760- 1860: Key note speech by Dame Helen Ghosh

15:00 - 17:00 12 May 2016
The British-Inter University China Centre (BICC) and the Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) invite you to this keynote speech-public talk with Dame Helen Ghosh, Director-General of the…

Climate Control

11 May - 18 September 2016
We hear about climate change on the news and in the newspapers. Climate change is happening all around us, but this isn’t the time to ignore it, it’s the time to get really, really,…

Decrees of the fourth-century Athenian assembly (403/2-323/2 BC): perspectives from literature

16:55 - 18:30 12 May 2016
Classics & Ancient History Work-in-Progress Seminar

Development and function of dendritic cell subsets in immunity

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

EdD Doctor of Education Information Evening

18:00 - 20:00 12 May 2016
The University of Manchester is holding an information evening for anyone interested in pursuing an EdD in Education; a qualification equivalent to a PhD in both standards and workload,…

Get A Head and Get Ahead: 'Self-help' Science of Phrenology

17:30 - 19:00 12 May 2016
The Museum and Medicine and Health, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Manchester invite students and staff as well as members of the public to the latest events…

Introduction to R / Advanced Graphics

09:00 12 - 16:30 13 May 2016
Day 1: Introduction to R Day 2: Advanced Graphics Attendees may elect to attend Day 1 or Day 1 & Day 2. Participants attending Day 2 must also attend Day 1. Introduction to R: This…

Lovell Lecture: Einstein's Relativity: Tested to the Limit (with Pulsars)

19:30 - 21:30 12 May 2016
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was published in 1915. In over a century it has not failed a single time despite hundreds of tests and experiments. One of the most extreme environments…

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 12 May - Simon Hope - University of Stirling

16:00 - 18:00 12 May 2016
ABSTRACT: This paper advances three claims. 1: The on-going debates in moral and political philosophy over idealisation and "ideal theory" vs "non-ideal theory" are ill-served…

Neon Sonnets

18:00 - 21:00 12 May 2016
As night falls, our beautiful library will be illuminated with spectacular light, music and movement as the Royal Northern College of Music performs compositions inspired by Shakespeare’s…

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…

Poet's Corner

19:00 - 22:00 12 May 2016
Chetham's Library transforms after dark as part of Manchester After Hours on Thursday 12th May. Chetham’s library, MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies and MA Arts Management, Policy and…

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

Transcriptional regulation through nuclear lipids

14:00 - 15:00 12 May 2016
This is part of the CCB Spring Seminar Series 2016. Prof. Stefan Roberts, University of Bristol, School of Cellular & Molecular Medicine Transcriptional regulation through nuclear lipids Host: Paul Shore

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: Data management basics

15:00 - 16:00 12 May 2016
This webinar is intended for anyone who want to learn about data management. Data management is essential to make sure that well organised, well documented, high quality and shareable…

Critical MASS: Postgraduate Conference

12:00 - 17:30 13 May 2016
Keynote speaker: Professor Zoe Trodd “The Antislavery Usable Past: Protest Memory and the Movement Against Contemporary Slavery” Zoe Trodd is Professor of American Literature in…

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

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