Exhibitions, Seminar

Capturing Science: Images Past and Present

22 September 2016 - 29 January 2017
A picture is worth a thousand words and captures a moment in time. Manchester is European City of Science throughout 2016 and to celebrate this, we are sharing a selection of our science…

Division of Psychology & Mental Health research seminar: Innovative treatments for people with psychosis and schizophrenia

12:45 - 14:00 3 October 2016
Professor Shôn Lewis, Professor of Adult Psychiatry at the University of Manchester, will be giving a research seminar on” Innovative treatments for people with psychosis and schizophrenia”,…

Emerging innovation policies and their impacts in Chile

13:00 - 14:00 3 October 2016
Well-recognized for its market-oriented strategies, Chile, the most socially unequal OECD country, faces the challenge of leaving behind its historical dependency on natural resources…

Lived Brutalism: Portraits at Robin Hood Gardens

3 - 21 October 2016
OPENING NIGHT: Tuesday 4 October, 7pm – 9pm. With a talk by Architects for Social Housing on estate demolition and strategies to resist it, and an introduction to the exhibition by…

Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael

30 September 2016 - 23 April 2017
This exhibition features the work of one of the radical originators and innovators of the European tradition of printmaking, Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480-c. 1534). Marcantonio was…

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…

Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground

8 September 2016 - 5 March 2017
Painter, poet, actor and sculptor, a man once described as "the only all-round genius most of us are likely to meet," Jeff Nuttall was one of the few people in the early 1960s to publish…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday 3rd October 2016 - Giulia Battaglia, Universite Sorbonne Novelle – Paris 3

16:00 - 18:00 3 October 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 3rd October 2016 Giulia Battaglia, Universite Sorbonne Novelle – Paris 3 ‘’ Processes of engagement : Documentary Cinema and Anthropology” In…

100 000 genomes update

12:30 - 13:30 4 October 2016
This is part of Genetics Medicines Seminar Series

Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop by Antoine Dechezlepretre, LSE

13:00 - 14:00 4 October 2016
Title: Do pollution offsets offset pollution? Evidence from the Clean Development Mechanism in India. Abstract: We provide the first large-scale empirical evaluation of the additionality…

Seminar with French alumnus Christopher Stone

16:00 - 17:00 4 October 2016
Seminar with French alumnus and successful businessman Christopher Stone Chris graduated in 1985 with a BA(Hons) in French Studies (First), with interests in medieval French literature…

Accounting seminar by Mary Canning, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

14:00 - 16:00 5 October 2016
The construction of materiality in sustainability assurance

Burn the Bills: Irish Responses to Austerity in Social Context

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2016
Speaker: Dr. Silke Trommer (University of Manchester) Title: Burn the Bills: Irish Responses to Austerity in Social Context

Finance seminar by Olivier Le Courtois, EmLyon Business School

14:00 - 16:00 5 October 2016
Credit Risk and Solvency Capital Requirements

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

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

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

16:00 5 October 2016
Cities and Networks: Exploring Hierarchy, Form and Function Using Complexity Science Michael Batty Bartlett Professor of Planning, UCL Cities are places where people come together…

Sociology Research Seminar: 'What, Why, When? Sociality and Female Body Modification' by Dr Abigail Tazzyman

14:00 - 15:00 5 October 2016
5th October, 2-3pm, Arthur Lewis Boardroom. Sociology Research Seminar Series: 'What, Why, When? Sociality and Female Body Modification' By Dr Abigail Tazzyman, Alliance Manchester…

Technicians Seminar Series: Prof Jonathan Green - Progress in early intervention for childhood autism

13:00 - 14:00 5 October 2016
The technician’s seminars are popular and generally well attended, covering a wide range of research topics with FBMH. This event is to promote general interest across faculty. The…

The role of universities in global innovation networks

12:00 - 13:00 5 October 2016
While most of the literature on global innovation networks has focused on the internationalization of R&D by multinational companies and their interactions with local firms in host…

"How to read a Roman portrait”? Optatian and the face of Constantine.

16:55 - 18:30 6 October 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. George Brooke (Manchester/Chester), ‘English Observations on German Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship'

14:00 - 16:00 6 October 2016
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public, with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute…

Seminar: Approaches at KAIST NICIE Lab to Quantifying Situation Awareness in Nuclear Power Plant MCRs

11:00 - 12:00 7 October 2016
Hosted by the Dalton Nuclear Institute and the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science. In this presentation, some empirical efforts which were made at the KAIST NICIE…

Social Anthropology Seminar - Zemirah Moffat – (University of Glasgow)

16:00 - 18:00 10 October 2016
Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 10thd October 2016 Zemirah Moffat - University of Glasgow ‘’ Working Visuals: capturing, prompting and enabling moments of transformation” …

Development Economics Seminar: Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol)

13:00 - 14:00 11 October 2016
Title: Internal Migration and Firm Growth: Evidence from China. Abstract: The reallocation of labour between the agricultural and the non-agricultural sector is central to the process…

Perrault syndrome, hearing loss and primary ovarian insufficiency, Single allele expression of BRCA1 in familial breast cancer

12:30 - 13:00 11 October 2016
This is part of Genetic medicine seminar series Leight Demain - Perrault syndrome, hearing loss and primary ovarian insufficiency Elke Van Veen - Single allele expression of BRCA1…

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