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…

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…

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…

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 - Marilyn Strathern - University of Cambridge

16:00 - 18:00 17 October 2016
Marilyn Strathern – University of Cambridge Travelling concepts: portraits and partible persons An invitation to revisit the notion of 'partible person' came the same year (2015)…

Inter-Community Feasting in Neolithic Cyprus: recent results from the Prastio Mesorotsos excavation and experimental project

18:00 18 October 2016
Archaeology Research Seminar

Recent landmark legal rulings in healthcare law

12:30 - 13:30 18 October 2016
This is part of Genetic Medicine Seminar Series Dr. Tara Clancy - Recent landmark legal rulings in healthcare law

CIDRAL Roundtable and Masterclass: Professor Kai von Fintel (MIT): 'How to do conditional things with words'

09:00 - 13:00 19 October 2016
This event is part of the CIDRAL programme for Winter 2016, 'Possible Worlds'. Roundtable Possible Worlds Round Table, 9-10:30am Participants will have the opportunity to briefly present…

Faculty Research Seminar: Neuroscience and Mental Health

12:30 - 14:00 19 October 2016
Host: Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester | About the event: Professor Rob Lucas: “An optogenetic approach to restoring vision in advanced retinal…

Finance seminar by Schmuel Baruch, University of Utah

14:00 - 16:00 19 October 2016
Strategic Foundation for the Tail Expectation in Limit Order Book Markets

Geography Research Seminar: Prof. Glenn D. Thackray (Idaho State University), Extensive glaciation preceding the "last glacial maximum" in coastal mountains of the northwestern United States

16:00 - 17:30 19 October 2016
Abstract: Maximum ice extent across many areas of the European and North American continental ice sheets dates to roughly 20,000 yr BP (the “last glacial maximum”), but mountain glaciers…

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’

Is the EU Cohesion Policy failing East-Central European countries?

14:00 - 15:00 19 October 2016
Speaker: Daniel Šitera (Leipzig University/Charles University in Prague) Title: Is the EU Cohesion Policy failing East-Central European countries?

Mitchell centre Seminar Series

16:00 19 October 2016
Jennifer Badham Centre for Public Health Queen’s University Belfast Simulating network intervention strategies: Implications for adoption of behaviour Network interventions involve…

SCI Seminar Series - Professor Harriet Bulkeley

16:00 - 17:30 19 October 2016
Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, Durham University will be giving the SCI Seminar on the 19 October 2016, entitled 'Can We Govern the Climate?'. The seminar will…

Technicians Seminar Series: Dr David Kirby - Lab Coats in Hollywood: Scientists’ Impact on Cinema, Cinema’s Influence on Science

13:00 - 14:00 19 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…

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