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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…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 28 September - 13:55 23 November 2016
1.05pm, Wednesday 28 September – Wednesday 23 November 2016 (Apart from Wed 2 Nov) This autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for…

Big data skills in the social sciences

12:00 - 16:00 14 October 2016
Many new sources of data have become available for studying individuals and society in recent years. Social media data, transaction information, administrative data, sensor data and…

Bike Registration Event

09:30 - 10:30 14 October 2016
Free Bike Marking session - To qualify for a discounted 'D' lock students and staff must register their bikes on the University scheme. LOCKS MUST BE BOUGHT THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY'S…

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…

Castlefield Manchester Sermon: Kamila Shamsie

19:00 - 20:30 14 October 2016
We are delighted that Kamila Shamsie will be giving the 7th Castlefield Manchester Sermon, reflecting on ethical issues of the day. One of our finest contemporary writers, Kamila grew…

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…

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.…

Introductory tour

15:00 - 15:30 14 October 2016
Your chance to learn about this fascinating building and some of its history. No need to book, just turn up.

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…

Mondays: Toddler Art Club – Family events at the Whitworth

10:30 18 July - 12:30 19 December 2016
Toddler Art Club – Family events at the Whitworth. Try these workshops – led by artists, dancers and musicians – and let your toddler discover, explore, create and play. Each Monday:…

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…

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.…

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

13:00 15 October 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…

The University of Manchester Baroque Orchestra

15:30 - 16:30 16 October 2016
Students from the Manchester University Baroque Orchestra give a historically informed performance of late-seventeenth-century English instrumental music, by Locke, Purcell and the…

Anne Enright

19:00 - 20:30 17 October 2016
Anne Enright is one of the leading novelists at work today. Born in Dublin, her novels include What are You Like?, The Forgotten Waltz and The Gathering (winner of the Man Booker Prize…

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

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

13:00 - 14:00 17 October 2016
Special Seminar Professor Jeff Brodsky, Avinoff Chair of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Jeff Brodsky has spent over two decades studying the fundamental mechanisms…

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