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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.…

Perseverance and pushing boundaries in modern engineering: the bloodhound story

15:30 - 17:00 7 March 2018
Come along to hear Richard Noble OBE discuss his Bloodhound Project on 7th March 2018 in Renold Building C16. This talk is open to all University staff and students and is being…

Wednesday Talks: Sonia Boyce

12:30 - 14:00 7 March 2018
Wednesday Talks invites leading artists, thinkers and curators to explore the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration within contemporary art. Sonia Boyce is an artist…

Marie Stopes Re-assessed

14:00 - 16:00 10 March 2018
Marie Stopes re-assessed: reluctant Mancunian, sexual revolutionary, birth control pioneer. Marie was controversial in her lifetime, but since the Second World she has been maligned…

Wonder Women: From Petticoats to Microscopes

13:30 - 14:00 12 March 2018
From archaeologists to academics, from the curious to the curators, there is a long history of pioneering women who have shaped Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester. This…

The Institute for Fiscal Studies Public Talk in partnership with The University of Manchester

13:00 - 15:00 23 March 2018
Institute for Fiscal Studies Public Talk on Friday 23 March 2018: How should we think about trade in the era of Brexit and “America First”? What is the value of trade? What effects…

‘Mutations in Citizenship’: Activist and translational perspectives on migration and mobility in the age of globalisation

09:00 - 17:00 23 March 2018
An interdisciplinary research symposium on the themes of migration, translation and citizenship, produced with the generous support of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies…

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