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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…

Book launch: Retrofitting the city - a discussion of the book by Stefan Bouzarovski

02:30 - 12:00 25 May 2016
Retrofitting the city - a discussion of the book by Stefan Bouzarovski

Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story - Chris Stringer FRS, Natural History Museum,

16:00 25 May 2016
Research in the last 15 years has seen tremendous advances in our understanding of early humans in Europe and in Britain, and this talk will review the major developments. These include…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Freddie Rokem: Reading Kafka/Staging Kafka

17:00 - 19:00 25 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** The lecture is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies, Drama…

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,…

Considerations in the Assessment of Child Mental Health and Wellbeing

12:00 - 13:00 25 May 2016
Research and Teaching Matters seminars series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Crafty Climate

11:00 - 13:00 25 May 2016
Drop by to Make section in The Study for a crafty morning with climate inspired crafts. Bring your own make or have a go at our climate crafts. Drop in, free, adults.

Dalton Seminar Series: ‘Radiation Damage in Materials - The Role of Disorder’

12:30 - 13:30 25 May 2016
The future of nuclear energy relies on materials being able to compensate for the extremes in radiation damage expected, in core materials, fuel, and in the case of fusion tritium breeding.…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 25 May 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

Isabelle Douncet: Counter-projects: from urban struggle to urban renewal?

12:30 25 May 2016
MARC talk

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…

Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Heritage Tour)

13:00 - 14:00 25 May 2016
This tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing discoveries. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture…

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…

SCI Seminar Series - Professor Peter Pearson- CANCELLED

16:00 - 17:30 25 May 2016
Professor Peter Pearson, Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Energy, Imperial College London, will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 25 May 2016, entitled 'Two centuries of innovation…

Sexuality Summer School: Richard Fung Double Bill: Sea in the Blood (2000) and Re:Orientations (Preview)

25 May 2016
In 1984 Richard Fung released his first documentary, Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Asians. This was the first documentary on the experiences and perspectives of diasporic queer Asians…

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…

Yoram Halevy. Vancouver School of Economics

14:00 25 May 2016
TBC

CIDRAL Symposium: Freddie Rokem: The Ludic Logic of Tragedy

10:00 - 12:00 26 May 2016
****THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED**** This symposium is part of CIDRAL's Semester 2 programme entitled Cultures and Temporalities. It is co-organised by CIDRAL, LIS, German Studies,…

Structural and genomic insights into how our genomes are organised

13:30 - 14:30 26 May 2016
This is part of the CCB Spring Seminar Series 2016. Prof. Tom Owen-Hughes FRSE, University of Dundee, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression Structural and genomic insights into…

The structural basis of Laminin:cell interactions

13:00 - 14:00 26 May 2016
"Laminins are large heterotrimeric extracellular matrix proteins essential for correct formation of basement membranes. Binding of the c-termini of laminins to cells occurs via two…

Vesicle and RNA secretion by helminths: a new mode of parasite-host communication

12:00 - 13:00 26 May 2016
MIG Seminar Series

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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