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Ageing process in astrocytes and the progression of Alzheimer's disease like pathology

15 - 21 November 2018
As part of a British Council UK-Israel Lectureship project, Stuart Allan will be hosting Professor Dan Frenkel from Tel Aviv on Wednesday 21st November. Dan will be giving a seminar…

Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness

1 September 2018 - 24 February 2019
From the Barberini Tapestries to the Bayeux Tapestry, monumental textiles in the form of large-scale narrative embroideries, weaving and tapestries have been used to illustrate contemporary…

American Residential Energy Inequities Across Race, Class and Place

16:00 - 17:00 15 November 2018
The inability of households to afford adequate energy services is a major energy justice concern. Temporary utility bill assistance, improving residential energy efficiency, and adoption…

Annual Harry Street Lecture

17:00 - 19:00 15 November 2018
This year's Harry Street lecture will be delivered by Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central. She is an extremely active member of Parliament and served as a Shadow Education Secretary…

Ballroom and Latin for Beginners

13:05 26 September - 13:55 21 November 2018
Due to popular demand, this Autumn the Martin Harris Centre is going back to basics again! Join us for ‘Ballroom and Latin for Beginners’ in a relaxed and friendly environment. …

Bodies of Colour: Breaking With Stereotypes in the Wallpaper Collection

4 May 2018 - 28 April 2019
This latest exhibition uses the Whitworth’s extensive and significant wallpaper collection to focus on how Imperial attitudes to people are reflected in wallpaper. The wallpapers in…

CPD Course: Appraising the evidence from RCTs - RCP Accrediated

09:30 - 12:30 15 November 2018
RCP Accrediated Participants will gain an understanding of the design of a randomised controlled trial and the main sources of bias that affect randomised controlled trials, and be…

CTIS Seminar: Interpreting in the 21st Century: How the use of technologies has revolutionised the interpreting world

14:00 - 15:30 15 November 2018
Interpreting dates back from antiquity when interpreters were used as mediators between different languages and cultures. Until the mid-1970s, interpreting was occurring solely in a…

Daily: Art Hampers – resources for families at the Whitworth

10:00 31 August 2018 - 10:00 31 May 2020
Are you and your family hungry to get creative? Pick up a picnic hamper with a difference. Come to our Oxford Road or Parkside entrance and pick up one of our special hampers - free…

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

Exchanges

24 March 2018 - 2 February 2020
Exchanges sets art and artists together, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in opposition – always with insight and intention. In this evolving exhibition, art that has recently been…

Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

23 June 2018 - 3 November 2019
A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka’bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction…

GDI Annual Lecture with the Rt Hon Helen Clark: Women - Equality - Power

17:30 - 19:00 15 November 2018
The Global Development Institute is pleased to present the Rt. Hon Helen Clark, former Administrator of UNDP and former Prime Minister of New Zealand to present the Global Development…

Lee Lozano: Breakdown - Jo Applin

17:00 - 18:30 15 November 2018
As part of the Art History and Cultural Practices seminar series, Dr Jo Applin will be discussing the work of Lee Lozano. Jo Applin is a Reader in the History of Art at The Courtauld…

Manchester Museum After Hours - With One Voice

18:00 - 21:00 15 November 2018
An open mic night and international showcase of performances from poetry to dance - part of the With One Voice International Arts and Homelessness Summit & Festival 2018.

Preventing and Compensating for Missing Data in Biosocial Longitudinal Data

14:00 - 17:00 15 November 2018
We present on-going research at the University of Manchester on preventing and compensating for nonresponse in biosocial longitudinal data. Fiona Pashazadeh will open the workshop…

Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

7 July 2018 - 4 August 2019
Francesco José de Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) and William Hogarth (1647-1764) were the most remarkable artists of their times. Both were famous painters, but their most compelling works…

Sefi Roth (LSE)

13:00 - 14:15 15 November 2018
Applied Economics Seminar

Sepsis and Antimicrobial Resistance: Unrecognised health challenges, and the movement of antibiotics resistance from local to global back to local

17:30 - 19:15 15 November 2018
An Annual Symposium with two informative presentations by experts on antimicrobial resistance. Professor Paul Dark will highlight the critical importance of effective antimicrobials,…

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