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…

CMIST afternoon seminar: Work of Women is Affected by Norms About Gender Roles in India and Bangladesh

16:00 - 17:30 11 October 2016
Abstract: In response to a decline in Indian rural women’s formal labour supply, this paper explores attitudes and norms about gender in northern central states of India alongside Bangladesh.…

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…

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…

People, time, place: approaches to the historic environment on HS2

18:00 11 October 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

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…

Are the kids alright? The role of schools in preventing mental health difficulties among children and young people

17:00 - 18:30 12 October 2016
The Sarah Fielden Seminar Series in the Manchester Institute of Education

Dalton Seminar Series: Interfacial Kinetic Studies of Advanced Spent Nuclear Fuel Recycle Processes

13:00 - 14:00 12 October 2016
Nuclear power is of great importance to the future of low carbon energy production and the ability to separate and recover the actinide elements from spent fuel is a key requirement…

Finance seminar by Peter Swan, UNSW Australia Business School

14:00 - 16:00 12 October 2016
Is Market Volatility Systematically Priced while Illiquidity is Only Priced on the Down-Side?

Geography Research Seminar - Dr Kye Askins (University of Glasgow): Emotional Citizenry: Making Space for Dis/Organised Intercultural Encounters

16:00 - 17:30 12 October 2016
Seminar abstract: This talk draws on emerging qualitative research with refugees, asylum seekers (R-AS) and more settled residents, in collaboration with a voluntary sector organisation…

Getting to know our new Faculty: Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment

13:00 - 14:00 12 October 2016
For the fourth of our bite-size PSS information seminars, Sali Midjek-Conway, Head of Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment, explains who’s who and gives an overview of…

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 12 October 2016
Competition and cooperation in organized criminal networks James Coutinho (University of Manchester); Johan Koskinen (University of Manchester); Andrew Wright (Calgary Police) Our talk…

Technicians Seminar Series: Dr Kathy Hentges - Using mouse mutagenesis to model human developmental disease

13:00 - 14:00 12 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…

"A new, dynamic view of cell state transitions: timing and stochasticity"

13:30 - 14:30 13 October 2016
Gene Expression, Chromatin and Signalling Group Autumn Seminar Programme Andrew Sharrocks

Ammianus Marcellinus and Roman Identity.

16:55 - 18:30 13 October 2016
Classics & Ancient History Research Seminar

CIDRAL Theory Intensive: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: Bolivian Indigenous Thought and Decolonial Praxis

12:00 - 14:00 13 October 2016
This event is part of CIDRAL's Winter 2016 programme, 'Possible Worlds'. Molly Geidel (Lecturer in American Cultural History, University of Manchester) will be speaking about preeminent…

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…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Prof. Cheryl Exum (Sheffield), ‘Biblical Art as Biblical Commentary'

14:00 - 16:00 13 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…

Is Translating Like Riding a Bike? Knowledge, knowing and translation practice Maeve Olohan, University of Manchester

14:00 - 15:30 13 October 2016
This presentation starts by considering different ways of thinking about knowledge, and the implications of treating knowledge as a product or as a process. Drawing on research by practice…

Idris Khan

14 October 2016 - 13 March 2017
British contemporary artist Idris Khan's new solo exhibition. Idris Khan draws inspiration from the history of art, music, philosophy and theology, laying and manipulating images and…

Imagining Medicine

14 October - 22 December 2016
Hammers, vacuum cleaners and duck beaks: see how 16th and 17th century surgical procedures have been reimagined through the photography of Dr Sian Bonnell. Bonnell's photographs take…

Endoplasmic Reticulum Associated Degradation (ERAD) and Protein Conformational Disease: Lessons from Model Organisms and new Therapeutic Opportunities

13:00 17 October 2016
Division of Molecular and Cellular Seminar hosted by Professor Stephen High

John Rylands Research Institute and Library

Manchester Museum

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