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Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 6 November 2017
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

Social sciences and the 'omics revolution

6 November 2017
13:00 Lunch 13:45-14:30 Interdisciplinary research and omics data: what can social scientists contribute? Professor James Nazroo, University of Manchester The use of biological data…

Chairs that stand empty: The men behind the names on the Hulme Hall First World War Memorial

17:00 - 18:00 8 November 2017
Established in 1870 as a Church of England Hall of Residence for students of Owens College, Manchester, Hulme Hall has grown and adapted to meet the changing face of university life…

Sonic Cultures Research Group: 'Increase the Pressure?: Leftist Strategies in Music After Modernism'

16:00 - 18:00 8 November 2017
What is to be done when it’s all been done before? From a socialist/leftist perspective, this question demands urgent attention because those of us who would press for social change…

The North West’s Hidden Treasure: Baguley Hall and the story of Wythenshawe

18:00 - 20:00 8 November 2017
Standing in the middle of Wythenshawe, Baguley Hall is a spectacular early 14th century hall on a site lived in since Anglo-Saxon times which was still a working farm till the 1930s…

Hip Hop, Spoken Word and the Library

17:30 - 20:00 14 November 2017
This year the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is working with the American Studies department at the University of Manchester to build a brand new library resource,…

Hip Hop, Spoken Word and the Library

Students’ Q&A with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage CBE - Part of the New Music North West Festival 2017

14:30 - 16:00 16 November 2017
A student panel made up of undergraduates and postgraduates from The University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music take the opportunity to ask renowned composer Mark…

The Unknowing Heiress: Meriel Leicester of Tabley Old Hall

14:30 - 16:00 16 November 2017
Meriel was the only, and precious, daughter of Sir Francis Leicester and the heiress of Tabley. Although she lost her mother as a little girl, she had a happy childhood with Sir Francis…

Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 20 November 2017
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

Monday Lunchtime Talk: Craftsmanship, Inheritance and Innovation in China – A filmmakers' experience documenting traditional Chinese culture

13:00 - 14:00 20 November 2017
In July 2017, two students had the opportunity to spend two weeks in China as part of the Looking China Youth Film Project 2017, aiming to capture enchanting aspects of Chinese culture.…

Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 4 December 2017
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

Manchester Museum and Henry Dresser, Victorian ornithologist

11:00 - 12:30 9 December 2017
Join Manchester Museum’s Henry McGhie as he explores the fascinating world of Henry Dresser and Victorian ornithologists. Henry will share the story from his new book a short talk…

Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 18 December 2017
This week's Collections Bites will be postponed till the new year due to illness - We do hope to see you then Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every…

Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 15 January 2018
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

In Conversation: Robot-Sapiens

18:00 - 21:00 23 January 2018
This event will take the robot debate one step further, with Professor Danielle George and Adam Rutherford discussing the rapid development of robots in recent history, and whether…

Nefertiti’s Face: The Creation of an Icon

18:00 - 19:30 25 January 2018
More than three thousand years ago a sculptor working in the royal city of Amarna carved a limestone bust of an Egyptian queen. That queen was Nefertiti, consort of the ‘heretic pharaoh’…

Collection Bites

13:30 - 14:00 29 January 2018
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

Collection Bites - Love Symbols at Manchester Museum

13:30 - 14:00 12 February 2018
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

Professor Robert Gibbs (Toronto): Ideas for renewing the research university

17:00 - 18:30 12 February 2018
Professor Robert Gibbs recently completed a 10-year term as Inaugural Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He served…

Monday Lunchtime talk: China's One-Child Policy from a wider East Asian perspective

13:00 - 14:00 19 February 2018
The so-called one-child policy, introduced in 1979 and gradually phased out since 2015, is known as one of China’s most radical population policies in recent history. It is also well…

Tiziana Terranova. The Hypersocial Diagram: Digital Media and Social Computation

17:30 - 18:30 20 February 2018
Many critiques of social media target their model of the social as being ideological in constructing a communal platform devoid of collectivity and antagonism, a pacified techno-sociality…

Collection Bites - Meteorites

13:30 - 14:00 26 February 2018
Collection Bites are half an hour talks hosted by our Visitor Team every other Monday. Our Visitor Team members are with our collections every day and so are the perfect people to give…

Sexual violence on campus

15:00 - 16:00 28 February 2018
Join Professor Alison Phipps from the University of Sussex as she discusses sexual violence on campus. The School of Physics and Astronomy and the Faculty of Science and Engineering…

FBMH International Women's Day: Accelerating Gender Parity

12:00 - 15:00 5 March 2018
Join us as Angela Saini, award winning British scientist and author, visits the University of Manchester to give a public talk, as part of our International Women’s Day celebrations.…

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