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Accomodation Tours

10:30 - 12:00 14 March 2018
Want to have a look at your potential future home? We run accommodation tours of some of our halls of residence on Wednesday mornings between November and March, from 10.30am until…

Age Friendly: Handmade

14:00 12 January - 16:00 13 July 2018
Sociable craft workshops, produced by and for older people in partnership with Age Friendly Manchester Fridays (Except during school holidays), 2pm - 4pm. Booking essential. Free …

Alison Wilding

16 February - 12 August 2018
Turner Prize nominee and Royal Academician Alison Wilding presents works spanning the past 20 years of her career. This new show at the Whitworth will comprise of three major sculptures,…

Apna: Ours Yours Everybody’s

3 February - 13 May 2018
Apna is a word used in many languages across South Asia meaning ‘ours, yours or everybody’s’. This reflects how the Whitworth shares the collection that is housed here. In the Collections…

Barbara Brown

17 March 2017 - 15 March 2018
Barbara Brown was the golden girl of Heal Fabrics in the 1960s and early 1970s. Talent-spotted as a student, her designs for furnishing fabrics are some of the most striking and unusual…

Beyond Borders

20 May 2017 - 3 June 2018
Beyond Borders, explores South Asian textiles bringing together four artists working on issues around post-colonial identity, ruptured spaces, authenticity, displacement and belonging.…

Cecily Brown: Shipwreck drawings

17 November 2017 - 15 April 2018
This is an exhibition of a extraordinary series of drawings by Cecily Brown, of wrecked ships and their passengers. Brown’s practice of painterly interrogation of an existing image,…

Cozens and Cozens

16 June 2017 - 24 June 2018
Father and son, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, were influential watercolour painters of the 18th century. Alexander was a drawing master who dedicated his career to teaching young…

English Corner

10:30 6 October 2017 - 12:00 31 May 2019
Fourth Friday of each month 10.30am–12pm Monthly conversation classes for people who are learning to speak English. Free, no need to book

Guided campus visits for Year 11 and 12 [UCAS Special]

14:00 - 15:30 14 March 2018
An opportunity to see the campus while visiting the city if your school or college is attending the Manchester UCAS Exhibition. The visit will start at 2pm and will feature a welcome…

In the Land

27 January - 4 November 2018
Rethinking the form, texture and space of the natural landscape. This exhibition looks back at a period of intense experimentation in British painting and sculpture where artists,…

John Stezaker

1 December 2017 - 24 June 2018
Using vintage photographs, old film stills, postcards and book illustrations, John Stezaker makes collages that subvert their original imagery, creating unique and compelling works…

Lime mud production: the microbial biofilm connection

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2018
Join Emeritus Reader at the University of Hull Martyn Pedley as he discusses microbial biofilms. Microbial biofilms are ubiquitous in aqueous environments and have probably been so…

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

13:00 - 14:00 14 March 2018
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…

Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2018
Moira Faul and Jordan Tchilingirian, Université de Genève Multi-stakeholder partnerships and the structuring of spaces between fields Multi- stakeholder partnerships were given…

Ordoliberalism and economic policy in the EU

14:00 - 15:00 14 March 2018
Ordoliberalism and economic policy in the EU

Phenotypes in Homeostasis: The Tissue Stiffness as a Paradigm

11:00 - 12:00 14 March 2018
Molecular circuits that allow self-regulating biological systems to maintain stability while adjusting to conditions mediate adaptation, survival and health. Thus, if homeostasis is…

Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Daniela Caselli

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2018
(EAC) Professorial Inaugural Lecture: Daniela Caselli, 'The Modernist Child' 5pm, Sam Alex Lecture Theatre

Roundtable discussion of Matthew Restall’s new book: When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

17:00 - 18:30 14 March 2018
IMPORTANT: Due to strike action, this event will take place as a private meeting outside university premises. If you were planning to attend, please email Prof Peter Wade for more details: peter.wade@manchester.ac.uk

South Asian Modernists 1953-63

30 September 2017 - 15 April 2018
South Asian Modernists 1953-63 30 September – 15 April 2018 South Asian Modernists will explore the works of Pakistani and Indian artists who worked with Victor Musgrave between 1953-63.…

Structural Equation Modelling Using Mplus

14 - 16 March 2018
Structural Equation Models (SEM) amalgamate regression analysis, path/mediation analysis and factor analysis, allowing for more richly detailed statistical models to be specified and…

UCAS Exhibition Manchester

13 - 14 March 2018
UCAS exhibitions are an opportunity for students to explore a variety of options in one setting. They're a chance to get talking with university admissions staff, find out what life's…

UCAS Exhibition West London

14 - 15 March 2018
UCAS exhibitions are an opportunity for students to explore a variety of options in one setting. They're a chance to get talking with university admissions staff, find out what life's…

Ehrhardt Seminar: Dr. Kimberley Fowler (CNRS/Aix-Marseille), "The Romans, the Temple, and the Waterpot Demons in the Testimony of Truth (NHC IX, 3"

14:00 - 16:00 15 March 2018
The Centre for Biblical Studies weekly seminar series. These seminars are free with no registration required. Seminars last 90 minutes including a 30 minute Q&A session. Tea and biscuits…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert - Piano Recital by Tom Hicks

13:10 - 14:00 15 March 2018
There’s no need to book – this concert is free and you can just turn up on the day. Prokofiev Sonata No. 8 in B flat Major, Op. 84 Janácek In the Mists University of Manchester…

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