Events for prospective students

Cheshire and the Viking World - Guest Lecture

06:30 - 20:30 8 September 2016
Professor Richard Morris, OBE presents an illustrated lecture, ‘Cheshire and the Viking World’, hosted by The Tabley House Collection Trust. As an archaeologist with strong links to…

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 Manchester Anthology 2016 launch

18:30 - 20:00 8 September 2016
The Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester launches its annual anthology of new writing (fiction and poetry) from the Creative Writing MA class of 2015/16. Copies of…

Taster Evening for the PGCE School Direct

16:00 - 18:00 15 September 2016
THINKING ABOUT A CAREER IN TEACHING? PGCE School Direct Taster Evening An opportunity to find out about the structure of our 'School Direct' route into teaching and meet some of our…

Science Uncovered Manchester European Researchers Night at Manchester Museum

17:00 - 18:00 30 September 2016
A Level Social Adult, Free, Book on mcrmuseum.eventbrite.com or 0161 275 2648 after 2pm. Friday 30 September is European Researcher’s night and for the second time Manchester Museum…

Mediating the Refugee Crisis: HCRI Landmark Lecture - Professor Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE)

17:30 - 19:30 3 October 2016
This HCRI Landmark Lecture will be given by Lilie Chouliaraki: Professor of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has written extensively…

Multispectral Imaging of John Dalton’s fire damaged papers

12:00 - 12:30 4 October 2016
The John Dalton Papers held at The John Rylands Library are of fundamental importance for studies of the history of science, and in particular the development of chemistry in the early…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Yangwen Zheng, ‘Timeless China’

13:00 - 13:50 5 October 2016
History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Yangwen Zheng, ‘Timeless China’

Photographing Britain’s Black History

17:30 - 19:30 6 October 2016
Photographers Charlie Phillips (London) and Ian Johns (Manchester) show a selection of their photographs of black communities and talk about their experiences

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor V. Spike Peterson (Arizona): ‘Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities: The pleasure and pain of border crossings’

16:00 - 18:00 11 October 2016
This event is co-organised by co-organised by the School of Social Sciences (SoSS) and CIDRAL. It is part of CIDRAL's 2016/17 programme 'Possible Worlds'. In the spirit of the rallying…

The Little Careers Fair

10:00 - 16:00 12 October 2016
Aimed at Humanities students, The Little Careers Fair brings a range of employers from a wide variety of sectors, including companies that you won’t find at the majority of careers…

CO2e- the Zombie Climate Metric

16:00 - 17:30 13 October 2016
Anthropogenic greenhouse gases vary in the two dimensional space of atmospheric lifetime and radiative efficiency, but ever since the IPCC First Assessment Report, various metrics have…

History Research Seminar: Carolyn Steedman (Warwick) on “Poetry for Historians”

16:15 - 17:30 13 October 2016
History Research Seminar: Carolyn Steedman (Warwick) on “Poetry for Historians”

Interactive Schools’ Poetry Performance with: JOHN HEGLEY

13:00 - 14:00 14 October 2016
English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter Acclaimed poet John Hegley will be performing to pupils from local primary schools to celebrate National Poetry Day 2016.…

CIDRAL Public Lecture: Professor Kai von Fintel (MIT): 'If'

17:00 - 19:00 18 October 2016
This event is part of the CIDRAL programme for Winter 2016, 'Possible Worlds'. Cognition and language revolve around distinguishing between alternative ways the world might be. As…

History Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Sasha Handley, ‘Love, loss and the lifecycle: the travels of an early modern bed sheet’

13:00 - 13:50 19 October 2016
Wednesday Lunchtime Seminar: Sasha Handley, ‘Love, loss and the lifecycle: the travels of an early modern bed sheet’

Lecture 'The Dirt and the Book'

18:00 - 19:30 20 October 2016
Kathryn M. Rudy, Univ. of St Andrews, ‘The Dirt and the Book: How signs of wear reveal handling of prayer books in the Middle Ages’ - with hands-on element

Ray Costello: Black History in Liverpool & soldiers in WWI

18:00 - 19:45 25 October 2016
Ray Costello has explored the Black history of Liverpool for many years. Ray visits Manchester to talk about his work and the books he has written including Black Liverpool (2001),…

History Research Seminar: Philippa Hetherington (UCL) on ‘Imperial Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against the International “Traffic in Women,” 1880-1914’

16:15 - 17:30 27 October 2016
History Research Seminar: Philippa Hetherington (UCL, School of Slavonic and East European Studies), ‘Imperial Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against…

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